As part of the CCGES Graduate Student Conference, “Re-Thinking the Frankfurt School”, a book launch will be held for Adorno and the Need in Thinking: New Critical Essays on Thursday, September 27 in Stong College, Room 201 at 5:15 p.m.

It is appropriate that this publication be launched in the context of the CCGES Graduate Student Conference as this volume has been edited by five students participating in the Centre’s Graduate Diploma Program:

Donald A. Burke, PhD candidate in York’s Social and Political Thought Program

Colin J. Campbell, PhD candidate in York’s Social and Political Thought Program

Kathy Kiloh, PhD candidate in York’s Social and Political Thought Program

Michael K. Palamarek, PhD candidate in York’s Social and Political Thought Program and a lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Brock University

Jonathan Short, PhD candidate in York’s Social and Political Thought Program

This collection of essays, though dealing with different topics from section to section, is unified by the idea that, at least in the English-speaking world, there are numerous facets of Theodor Adorno’s work that have been hitherto neglected in terms of critical scholarship. Adorno and the Need in Thinking addresses these forgotten nuances, whether they apply to questions of politics, language, metaphysics, aesthetics, ecology, or several of these at once. Also included for the first time in English is Adorno’s important early essay, “Theses on the Language of the Philosopher.”

At a time when Adorno scholarship is on the rise, this collection sheds light on new areas of critical research, adding another dimension to the existing literature on this most important intellectual.

Time: 5:15 p.m.
Location: Room 201, Stong College

On Monday, September 24th, the initial meeting of the 2007-08 Graduate Research Colloquium will take place at the Centre from 12:30 to 2:00 p.m. Students enrolled in the Centre’s Graduate Diploma who have not yet fulfilled this requiremed element of the program are encouraged to attend this session.

During this session, the Diploma Coordinator, Prof. Burkard Eberlein, will present the planned content for the Colloquium and offer students an opportunity to ask any questions they may have.

The second meeting of the Colloquium will take place the following Monday, October 1st at the same time and place. Regular meetings of the Colloquium will then follow at two-week intervals.

Time: 12:30 – 2:00 p.m.
Location: 230R York Lanes

CCGES is pleased to host this lecture by Prof. Heinrich August Winkler, one of Germany’s most prominent and well-respected historians. Prof. Winkler’s lecture will be based on his most recent book The Long Road West in which he seeks to answer ’the German question’, or why Germany became both a national state and a democracy much later than either Great Britain or France.

Since 1991, H. A. Winkler has been Professor of Contemporary History at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Born in Königsberg, he studied history, philosophy, public law, and political science in Münster, Heidelberg, and Tübingen. From 1972 to 1991, Prof. Winkler served as Professor for Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Freiburg. He has been a German Kennedy Memorial Fellow at Harvard University; a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C.; a fellow of Berlin’s Institute for Advanced Study (Wissenschaftskolleg), a guest of the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris, and the Institute for Advanced Historical Studies in Munich (Historisches Kolleg München).

Prof. Winkler’s lecture is part of a North American speaking tour organized and funded by the Goethe-Institut.

Time: 2:00 p.m.
Location: W132, Schulich School of Business

CCGES is pleased to host this workshop which will bring together early career researchers from Austria and York. In addition to a number of panels, this event will also feature a screening of the late Canadian-Austrian filmmaker John Cook’s highly regarded 1974 feature Langsamer Sommer.

_For more information on the workshop as well as access to the event program, please visit: http://www.yorku.ca/mrln/UV/Visibility_workshop.html

This paper will look at the internationalization of modern architecture in the interwar period (1919-1939) with a particular focus on the role played here by the Congrès Internationaux d’Architecture Moderne (CIAM), the branch’s most important professional organization. Using Poland and some of its Central European neighbours as examples, the paper will demonstrate the profound effects which CIAM, in its self-understood role as a platform for expert collaboration for finding solutions to the most pressing social, economic and even political problems of the time, had in supporting the emergence of a transnational discourse in built form.

This talk is part of the CCGES lecture series “Germany in the World: The Nation Transcended in the Age of Globalization,” which offers North American and European scholars from a variety of academic fields a platform to contribute to the ongoing discussions regarding transnationalism and globalization by presenting their current research on related topics.

Dr. Martin Kohlrausch is a Research Fellow at the German Historical Institute Warsaw. Prior to this, he was Assistant Professor at the TU Berlin’s History Department from 2003 to 2005. Among his publications are: “Doppelte Avantgarde. Urbanistische Innovation und internationale Vernetzung. Polen im europäischen Kontext (ca. 1916-1948),” in: Kulturgeschichtliches Jahrbuch Moderne 2 (2006) and Der Monarch im Skandal. Die Logik der Massenmedien und die Transformation der wilhelminischen Monarchie, Berlin 2005.

Time: 12:30 to 2:00 pm
Location: 230 York Lanes