Dr. Andrea Strutz

On Thursday, September 16th at 4:00 pm, CCGES is pleased to present a talk by Dr Andrea Strutz (Senior Researcher, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Social and Cultural History, Graz, Austria)  entitled “Auch in Kanada blueht oesterreichisches ‘Edelweiss’: Austrian Immigration to Canada after 1945” (Room 749 York Research Tower, building #95 on map found here).

After 1945, Europe faced mass migration triggered by the forced displacement which accompanied the end of World War II. Austria functioned as an important transit country for the resettlement of Displaced Persons to other European countries and to overseas destinations such as Canada, which took in a large number of European refugees. Many Austrian citizens, however, also saw in Canada a land of opportunity in which they might improve their standard of living and left – permanently or temporarily – their home country in the post-war period. By 1970 approximately 30,000 Austrians had relocated to Canada, the majority of whom can be classified as labour migrants. (CONTINUE READING)

Hajo Schaefer, Co-Director, Achtung Berlin

The annual festival achtung berlin – new berlin film award is dedicated to presenting movies from the German capital and, in only six short years, has established itself as the city’s second-largest film festival (after the world-renowned Berlinale).  CCGES is please to welcome the festival’s co-founder, Hajo Schäfer, to the Centre for a talk on Thursday, September 23rd (3:00-4:30 pm in Room 749, York Research Tower – building #95 on the map found here) in which he’ll expound on this unique festival’s beginnings, its place in the German festival scene and how it seeks to speak to current debates in the new capital and new Germany. (CONTINUE READING)

Prof. Marc Amstutz

The European Union Centre of Excellence at York is pleased to announce that Prof. Marc Amstutz (Professor of Business Law and Legal Theory, LL.M (Harv.), University of Fribourg, Switzerland) will deliver the first lecture in the Centre’s new lecture series “EUCE Lectures in EU Law and Governance” on Wednesday, September 15th from 12:30-2:00 pm in 519 York Research Tower. Prof. Amstutz’ lecture will be entitled “Legal Reasoning in European Private Law: The Interlegality Conundrum in a Multilevel Governance Private Law System and the New Developments in the Marleasing-Doctrine of the European Court of Justice”. (CONTINUE READING)

The Istituto Italiano di Cultura in cooperation with CCGES, the European Centre of Excellence at the University of Toronto’s Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, the University of Bologna and the Canadian cluster of EUNIC (European Union National Institutes for Culture) is pleased to present a roundtable discussion entitled “Memory Studies and the Identity Problem: A Cross Reading of European and Canadian Cultural Traditions”. This event will take place on Tuesday, September 7th from 6:30-8:00 pm at the Munk Centre for International Studies (1 Devonshire Place on the downtown campus of the University of Toronto). (CONTINUE READING)

CCGES is pleased to be a co-presenter of the conference “European Visions – Small Cinemas in Transition” which is being presented by the Department of Film at the University of Western Ontario on June 29-30, 2010. This international conference will address issues which small European cinemas have encountered as a result of European unification and worldwide economic and cultural globalization. During the conference, the presenters will explore how the general concept of “small cinemas” relates to questions of geographical territory, the nation- state and post-national phenomena.

Plenary speakers are renowned scholars in the field, including Mette Hjort, author of The Cinema of Small Nations, and Randall Halle, author of Toward a Transnational Aesthetic: German Film after Germany.

For more information, please visit: www.uwo.ca/film
or email: smallcin@uwo.ca