Part of The Centre’s research mandate is to stimulate research on Germany and Europe, especially in the areas where Canadian and European interests intersect. To encourage the development of collaborative, interdisciplinary research projects, The Centre set up funding for Faculty-Graduate Student Research and Study Groups. Funding is made available through an annual competition at each Centre site (see Grants), with priority given to groups involving faculty from at least two disciplines. The short-term objective of these groups is to integrate the study and research activities of faculty and students in the activities of The Centre as well as to assure the coherence of The Centre’s lecture series, conferences and other intellectual activities. The long-term objectives of these groups is to generate research projects and obtain major Canadian research grants.
-Asian Diasporic Communities in Canada and Germany: Theorizing the Politics of Secularism Across Disciplinary Boundaries
Research Director: Professor Michael Nijhawan
– Berliner Chic: A Locational History of Berlin Fashion
Research Director: Professor Susan Ingram
– Building A New EU Citizenship: Migration and Integration in Germany and the European Union
Research Directors: Profs. Willem Maas, Dagmar Soennecken, Heather MacRae and Burkard Eberlein
– Canadian Energy Governance in Comparative Perspective
Research Director: Professor Burkard Eberlein
– Climate Change, Regulation and Business: Canada and Germany Compared
Research Directors: Profs. Burkard Eberlein and Dirk Matten
– Cosmotrash: A New Generation in European Film
Research Director: Professor Susan Ingram
– Indirect Gender Consequences of EU Policy Initiatives
Research Director: Professor Heather MacRae
– Mapping Urban Space/Mapping Transnational Space
Research Directors: Prof. Ulrich Best and Prof. Boris Michel (Institut fuer Geographie, Universitaet Erlangen)
-Nationality Law, Citizenship Policy, and Transformations of Political Community in Europe and North America
Research Director, Professor Willem Maas
– The Past on Display: Museums, Film, Memory
Research Directors: Profs. Peter McIsaac and Gabriele Mueller
– Stereotyping, Prejudice and Interculturality
Research Directors: Profs. Mark Webber and Michael Brown
Suburban identities in the global city between competition and co-operation: Toronto and Frankfurt
Principals Investigator: Prof. Ute Lehrer, Collaborators: Prof. Roger Keil (CCGES/York), Prof. Susanne Heeg and Prof. Bernd Belina (Institut fuer Humangeographie, Goethe-Universitaet, Frankfurt)
–Tainted Goods: Contemporary Sculpture and the Critique of Display Cultures
Research Directors: Prof. Dan Adler (CCGES/York) and Barbara Fischer (University of Toronto)
