The Future of Cities series is a series of international conversations that the Goethe-Institut Toronto and the City Institute at York University will organize in the 2011-12 season. The first of these events is entitled “Intrinsic Knowledge: Global Times, New Global Cities” and will take place on Thursday, September 22nd at 6 pm in the Urbanspace Gallery (401 Richmond Street West).
The event will take place in English, admission is free and all are welcome to attend. (CONTINUE READING)
As part of its DAAD-sponsored Transatlantic Graduate Student Conference Series, the Canadian Centre for German and European Studies is pleased to announce that on July 7 and 8, 2011, it will be hosting a workshop on “Transmedial Approaches to Space and Gender.”
The concept of “transmediality” has become a widely used framework in German Cultural Studies circles but is largely unknown in the North American context. Participants from the universities of Göttingen and Mainz will be joining York PhD students to explore the ways transmediality can inform their research.
The workshop will take place in the York Research Tower, Room 764. The program is available online.
It is open to all interested members of the York community. Attendees are asked to RSVP to Prof. Susan Ingram (pres@complit.ca).
“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/
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
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).
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!
