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Posted: March 16, 2011
“The Past on Display: Museums, Film, Musealization” is a research project led by Professors Peter McIsaac and Gabriele Mueller, faculty affiliates of the Canadian Centre for German and European Studies at York University. This research project is concerned with questions of changing processes of knowledge production in Germany and the construction of cultural memory through visual media. For more information on the project, including its theoretical and methodological underpinnings, click here.
The project conference will take place at CCGES, York University from April 28-30, 2011.
For more information, visit the conference website at: http://conferences.apps01.yorku.ca/tpod/
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On April 28 and 29, 2011, The European Union Centre of Excellence project, housed at CCGES Yorkis pleased to present “Adversarial legalism à l’Européen”, a two-day conference which will bring together younger and more established scholars from the EU, the United States and Canada who are working on law and politics in a comparative context. This event is co-sponsored by York’s Centre for Public Policy & Law (YCPPL), the Office of the Principal, Glendon College, the Office of the Dean, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, the Office of the Vice-President Academic and Provost and the Law and Society Program in the Department of Social Science
The panels will explore the recent interest in the growth of the “American way of doing law” in different policy areas and countries in Europe and beyond.
The opening address and plenary session will take place in the afternoon of Thursday, April 28, 2011, followed by a welcoming reception and dinner. Prof. Dan Kelemen (Jean Monnet Chair and Director, Centre for European Studies at Rutgers University) has agreed to give the opening address. This will be based on his new book, Eurolegalism: The Transformation of Law and Regulation in the European Union, a recent publication of Harvard University Press. Friday, April 29, 2011 will see panels run all day.
The workshop will be held at Glendon College, York University’s bilingual (and picturesque) downtown campus.
To access the detailed conference program, please click here.
The workshop is open to the York community and the public. Please register at euce@yorku.ca
Organizer: Prof. Dagmar Soennecken, dsoennec@yorku.ca
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CCGES and the CITY Institute at York are pleased to present “Cultural Diversity and the Global City of Toronto – Dionne Brand’s “What We All Long For”, a lecture by Melanie Pooch, a Visiting Research Scholar from the University of Mannheim’s “Formations of the Global” PhD program. This will take place on Wednesday, May 4th from 12:30 to 1:30 pm in room 280A York Lanes (click here for a campus map).
In her novel, the Caribbean Canadian author Dionne Brand portrays Toronto as a space of distinguishing transcultural diversity. This paper will analyze the global city’s function as a cultural contact zone from a literary perspective. Particular emphasis will be given to the intrinsic relationship of identity and space, the significance of the urban setting as well as the different challenges of Toronto’s first-generation and second-generation immigrants.
Melanie holds a degree in English Language and Literature as well as Business Administration from the University of Mannheim. She is currently a doctoral student and scholarship recipient of the graduate program ‘Formations of the Global’, investigating processes of cultural globalization from literary perspectives. In the doctoral program, she is concentrating on the global cities of Los Angeles, New York as well as Toronto and their function as (trans)cultural nodal points.
Everyone is welcome!
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CCGES Faculty Affiliate Gottfried Paasche, an Associate Professor Emeritus of York’s Sociology Department, will speak at the Northern District of the Toronto Public Library (40 Orchard View Blvd., Room 224) on Sunday, May 8th from 2-4pm on the topic “My Grandfather, Hans Paasche: Militant Pacifist Martyr”. (CONTINUE READING)
Posted: March 14, 2011
CCGES is pleased to announce that applications are being accepted for the 2011 William D. Graf Essay Prize which is awarded by the Centre each year for the best graduate essay in German and European Studies submitted by a student enrolled in the Graduate Diploma Program at York University.
The Prize honours the memory of Professor Graf, a political scientist at the University of Guelph who was a member of the 1996 Bi-National Committee of Experts to select a Canadian Centre of Excellence in the field of German and European Studies. In addition to a monetary award, students receiving the Prize will have their essay published in the Working Papers Series of The Canadian Centre for German and European Studies.
Students enrolled in the Graduate Diploma program are eligible to apply for this award.
The deadline for applications is Friday, April 29th, 2011 at 4:30 pm.
For information on how to apply, click on: 2011 WILLIAM D GRAF PRIZE – Call for Applications
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