Political Science Professor Heather MacRae in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies has been awarded aJean Monnet Chair in European Integration, a teaching post  a teaching post sponsored by the European Union (EU) that celebrates excellence in research and teaching on the EU throughout the world. MacRae, who is also the co-director of the Canadian Centre for German and European Studies at York, will use the funding from the award to increase the European Studies curriculum offered to York University undergraduate and graduate students.

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Holocaust Education Week 2014 Educator-in-Residence Martin Hagmayr discusses the educational and research activities of Hartheim, site of the Nazi “euthanasia” program in Austria. In 2003, Hartheim Castle opened as a place for learning and remembrance with a memorial to the victims, archive, and an exhibition titled the “Value of Life.”

Martin Hagmayr, Educator-in-Residence

2014 Holocaust Education Week Events Calendar

When? November 4, 2014, 12:00 pm

Where? Kaneff Tower 764

Symposium to launch the Graduate Diplomas in Comparative Literature and in World Literature
Please come to a Symposium organized by the Graduate Programs in English and in Humanities, to launch our new Graduate Diplomas in Comparative Literature and in World Literature. The symposium on “Trajectories in Comparative and World Literature” gathers four distinguished speakers from Georg-August-Universität Göttingen and York University, and will be followed by a reception.

Trajectories in Comparative and world Literature

We would like to invite all students interested in applying for a DAAD study or research scholarship to an information session on those funding opportunities. The session will be led by Christine Korte, York PhD student and a DAAD award recipient and John Paul Kleiner, Information Officer at DAAD German Academic Exchange Service in Toronto.

When? September 30, 2014, 2:00 pm

Where? 749 Kaneff Tower, Keele Campus

Please register by sending an e-mail to Zofia Hawranek hawranek@yorku.ca

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Andrea Bues from the Leibniz Institute for Regional Development and Structural Planning (IRS) will present her research focusing on one major gap in the literature on wind energy controversies: the role of power.

Many countries now promote the expansion of renewable energy facilities. However, especially proposals to install wind turbines are often met with forceful opposition. Her PhD project aims at investigating empirically by which mechanisms and strategies power relations manifest and potentially change in energy transitions. The focus is on local disputes on wind turbines and the research is designed as a comparative case study between cases of wind energy disputes in Ontario and the East-German federal state of Brandenburg. One aspect that will be studied study are the changes of the institutional design of renewable energy policy in Ontario and Brandenburg and how it affects power relations in decision-making processes over wind turbines. Another aspect will be the capability of anti-wind groups to influence decision-making. The major theoretical approach will be the emerging concept of depoliticisation which will be linked to concepts of power. The concept of depoliticisation offers an approach to analyse how and where specific topics are made subject of political decision-making.

When?   September 11, 2014, 3:00-4:30 pm

Where? Kaneff Tower 764, York University, Toronto