The Israel and Golda Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies at York University and CCGES are pleased to present an event to launch the book Nazi Germany:  Canadian Responses on Tuesday, June 5th at 7 pm on the 7th floor of the York Research Tower (building #95 on the map found here). Four authors who have contributed to this volume will be present including:

• Prof. Doris Bergen (University of Toronto)
• Prof. Richard Menkis (University of British Columbia)
• Prof. Harold Troper (University of Toronto)
• Prof. Michael Brown (York University).

The book is a project of the National Task Force on Holocaust Education, Remembrance, and Research and is published by McGill-Queen’s University Press with the support of the Government of Canada and the B’nai Brith Foundation.

All are welcome.

Diedrich Diederichsen

CCGES and the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery are pleased to present a public lecture by Diedrich Diedrichsen, one of Germany’s leading intellectuals and a professor at the Institute for Art History and Cultural Studies at Vienna’s Academy of Fine Arts, on Thursday, May 10th from 7:00 to 9:00 pm in the Debates Room at Hart House, University of Toronto. Entitled “Life on Display: How Sculpture and Its Opposite Converge”, the lecture will be the inaugural event of the international conference “Tainted Goods: Contemporary Sculpture and the Critique of Display Cultures in Germany and Europe” which has been organized by Prof. Dan Adler (Visual Arts, York University) and Barbara Fischer (Curatorial Studies,  University of Toronto).

All are welcome and the lecture will be followed by a reception.

The “Tainted Goods” conference will bring together Canadian and European scholars, theorists, and curators of contemporary art for a day of presentations and discussion at York University’s Nat Taylor Cinema on Friday, May 11, 2012. Information on the conference including the program, paper abstracts and how to register to attend, can be found on the project website: http://taintedgoods.info.yorku.ca/