The Canadian Centre for German and European Studies is pleased to present two lectures by Thomas Buerk (Critical Geography Berlin and HU Berlin), as a part of the CCGES-DAAD Visiting Lecture Series.

Lecture One: “Help, the Tourists are Coming!”: the symbolic struggle for and against tourists and tourism in Berlin/Germany

Date: Tuesday, November 27th
Time: 10:00am-TBD
Location: Curtis Lecture Hall, H

Lecture Two: ‘Urban Cultures against Right-Wing Activism: Challenging the spatial hegemony of racism in East-German small towns
This lecture is also co-sponsored by the CITY Institute at York University. 

Date: Friday, November 30th
Time: 12:30pm-TBD
Location: York Research Tower, Room 749

(please click here for Interactive YorkU map, to each lecture location) 

Thomas Buerk holds a PhD in European Anthropology from Humboldt University Berlin, where he also currently teaches as a sessional lecturer. He has worked on the spatial conflicts around right-wing extremism in Brandenburg, on tourism and gentrification in Berlin and Spain, and has been involved in North-South activism and other social movements since the 1980s. Recent publications include articles on the production of “spaces of fear” in Germany, the symbolic politics of right-wing manifestations at World War II Memorial sites as well as critical contributions to the debates about “distinctiveness” and an “intrinsic logic” of cities.