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CCGES > Talk: “High-Modernism and Mass Utopia in Twentieth-Century Urban Planning”, by Dietmar Schirmer

Talk: “High-Modernism and Mass Utopia in Twentieth-Century Urban Planning”, by Dietmar Schirmer

Posted: November 12, 2012

Together with the CITY Institute at York, the Canadian Centre for German and European Studies hosted a talk by Dietmar Schirmer (DAAD visiting professor at the University of Florida Department of Political Science), focusing on the topics of Berlin and London. This talk took place on Friday, November 9th from 12:30 to 2:30 pm in room 280A York Lanes. (click here for a link to an interactive York University Map of the Keele Campus, and here for a York Lanes’ link)

Dietmar Schirmer, Ph.D. in Political Science from Free University Berlin, 1990, is a DAAD visiting professor at the University of Florida Department of Political Science. He has taught at Free University Berlin, University of Vienna (2004), at Cornell (1998-2003), and the University of British Columbia. Dietmar Schirmer was a Fellow at the German Historical Institute in Washington, D.C., from 1992-1995.

His research interests include: Comparative Politics and Historical Sociology, regional specialization in Europe. Current research agenda in state-formation, nationalism, and European integration and in the aesthetics of the state. Some of his more recent publications are:

  • The Beautiful State: Architecture and Political Authority in Europe Since the Renaissance (under review at Cornell University Press)
  • “State, Volk, and Monumental Architecture in Nazi-Era Berlin,” in: Andreas Daum and Christoph Mauch, eds.
  • Berlin – Washington, 1800 – 2000: Capital Cities, Cultural Representation, and National Identities, Cambridge, UK, and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005, 127-153
  • “Closing the Nation: Nationalism and Statism in 19th and 20th Century Germany,” in: Sima Godfrey and Frank Unger, eds.
  • The Shifting Foundations of Modern Nation States, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004, 35-58
  • Identity and Intolerance: Nationalism, Racism, and Xenophobia in Germany and the United States, Cambridge, UK, and New York: Cambridge University Press 1998 and 2002 (ed. with Norbert Finzsch)

Date: Friday November 9, 2012
Time: 12:30-2:30 pm
Location: Room 280A, York lanes, York University