Round table Discussion: The European Union in Crisis? will take place from 2 to 4pm at 305 91亚色 Lanes, Keele campus.

Right: European Union Central Bank in Frankfurt

Containing the recent economic meltdowns of the Greek and Irish economies has provided the EU with one of the greatest tests in its history. With further European economies threatening to come unhinged, the challenges facing Europe seem likely to increase in the weeks and months ahead.

The event, co-presented by the European Union Centre of Excellence at 91亚色, the and the Schulich School of Business鈥� IMBA program, is designed to offer a variety of perspectives on the current EU crisis.

The round table will include adjunct economics Professor of the Schulich School of Business, history Professor Sakis Gekas, Hellenic Heritage Foundation Chair in Modern Greek History in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, and public policy Professor of the Schulich School of Business, whose work on international governance contributes to the study of mechanisms to coordinate policy-making in fragmented, multi-level institutional settings such as the European Union. Eberlein is also coordinator of the CCGES graduate diploma.

The participants will reflect on the following:

• Is the Eurozone/European Project at a crucial turning point?
• Is it sustainable in its present form given the huge income inequalities even within the Eurozone and even more among the European Union countries?
• Is a new 鈥渟ocial contract鈥� within countries and across the Union necessary?
• Has the crisis revealed deficits of democracy and leadership in the Union? If so, how are these best addressed?
• What are the political ramifications of the crisis at the national and European levels?
• Do governments have any room to manoeuvre or are the "financial markets" calling the shots?

All are welcome to this event, but attendees are asked to pre-register at euce@yorku.ca.

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The launch of Berliner Chic will take place Wednesday, Feb. 2, from 4 to 6pm in the Senior Common Room, 010 Vanier College, Keele campus. Everyone is welcome to attend. Light refreshments will be served.

Ingram, who is affiliated with the (CCGES) and the Research Group on Translation & Transcultural Contact, co-authored the book with alumna (MA 鈥�06), who also earned a Canadian Centre for German & European Studies graduate diploma at 91亚色.

Since becoming the capital of reunited Germany, Berlin has had a dose of global money and international style added to its already impressive cultural veneer. It is now a fashion showplace that attracts the young and hip.

Left: Susan Ingram

The book looks at fashion as it developed through a series of historical eras and events, including the confusion surrounding the split and reunification of East and West Germany, an unsuccessful effort to launch a fashion museum and the debut of Berlin Fashion Week in 2007. It explores the line between fashion and photography, its presence on the silver screen, the flux of corporate luxe and the state of fashion today.

Prior to 91亚色, Ingram lectured in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Hong Kong and has taught in Germany and Poland. She is the author of (University of Toronto Press, 2003). She also co-edited a series of volumes on the mutually constitutive cross-cultural constructions of Central Europe and North America.

The launch is presented by CCGES and the Office of the Master of Vanier College.

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The panel, hosted by 91亚色鈥檚 (CCGES) and co-sponsored by the International Business Program of the Schulich School of Business, will feature Scott聽Paradise, VP marketing & business development, Magna International; Jim Stanford, economist for the Canadian Auto Workers Union and 91亚色 political science Professor Greg Chin, author of and member of the 91亚色 Centre for Asian Research.

Left: The Hyundai automobile assembly line

Panellists will focus on the state of the world鈥檚 automotive and light truck manufacturers in the wake of the global financial crisis: In the United States and Canada, governments stepped in to become majority owners of General Motors, while management of Chrysler was assumed by Italian-based automaker Fiat. In Europe, governments provided incentives to keep consumer demand up and the largest German car company, Volkswagen, began producing vehicles in North America for the first time since the 1970s. Mexico continues to increase its lead over Canada in terms of vehicle production. The same period saw China grow into the world鈥檚 largest auto market, with sales of 18 million vehicles, an increase of 32 per cent over 2009. The panel will explore these and other developments, and their ramifications for the global auto manufacturing sector.

Organized by CCGES affiliates Professor Roger Keil, director of 91亚色鈥檚 City Institute and Professor Emeritus of 91亚色鈥檚 Schulich School of Business, the series aims to shed light on major shifts in the auto industry and society鈥檚 relationship to it.

, director of CCGES, noted that the centre is well-positioned to look at this important theme from a variety of angles. 鈥淭he importance of the automotive industry to the economies of the industrialized world can鈥檛 be overestimated, but it鈥檚 clearly a mistake to view this sector and its prospects in a monolithic way. The panel will consider the situation in a variety of regions and jurisdictions so that a useful overview of the current situation and future prospects emerges,鈥� he said.

The event will run from 4:30 to 6:30pm on the seventh floor of the 91亚色 Research Tower, Keele campus.

A full report on the first panel in the series is available . Panels are open to the public. Attendees are asked to register in advance at ccges@yorku.ca. For more information, visit the website or phone ext. 40003.

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Please note applicants or nominees are expected to be members of 91亚色's full-time faculty at the level of at least associate professor.

Applications are due by Monday, January 31, 2011.

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Webber, who retired from 91亚色 in July, dedicated his career to serving聽the University and its students. Educated at Harvard and Yale universities, he was a founder of the CCGES and taught at 91亚色 for 38 years.

At the reception, Webber received a model car聽as a gift from BMW Canada to mark his retirement.

Left: Christian Feilmeier, VP finance聽& administration, BMW Canada; Professor Mark Webber; and Sabine Sparwasser, consul general of Germany in Toronto

鈥淪uch a turnout is strong testimony to the impact Mark has had not just on institutions, but also on people and their lives,鈥� said , current CCGES director. In addition to a crowd of 91亚色 faculty, the reception was attended by Sabine Sparwasser, consul general, Federal Republic of Germany and聽Marek Ciesielczuk, consul general, Republic of Poland.

In 1995, Webber was presented with the Officer鈥檚 Cross of the聽,聽the German equivalent聽to the Order of Canada, for his work in fostering German-Canadian and Jewish-Gentile understanding.

He was a key figure in creating聽the Ontario/Baden-W眉rttemberg Student Exchange Program. For nine years he served as its聽academic coordinator.聽It is聽the largest single student exchange arrangement in Canada.

His legacy includes the Mark聽& Gail Appel Program in Holocaust and Antiracism Education, which he initiated with his colleague Michael Brown. This project brings together Canadian university students and fellow students from Germany and Poland to explore how best to counter racism through teaching about the Holocaust.

Right: Mark Webber with聽Professor Michael Brown

"With Mark's departure, 91亚色 loses one of the people who care most passionately about it and who have worked to build an institution that was different from others: a place where scholarship was harnessed in the service of teaching; a place dedicated to the humanities but no less to the humane; a place where principles counted for much but never more than individuals; a place where people of all backgrounds would always feel comfortable and be eager to learn,鈥� said Brown.

Funds are now being raised to create an award in Webber鈥檚 honour. Arrangement for gifts to the fund can be made by calling the 91亚色 Foundation 补迟听416-650-8210.

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The round table will take place Tuesday, Sept. 7, from 6:30 to 8pm, at the Campbell Conference Facility in the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, 1 Devonshire Place in Toronto.

Two books will provide the jumping off point for the speakers 鈥撀�91亚色 English Professor Julia Creet, 91亚色 humanities Professor and English Professor of the聽University of Bologna in Italy 鈥� as they tackle the issue of memory in a global setting.

The first book is the forthcoming , edited by Creet and Kitzmann of the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies.

In addition to the panel discussion, the event is also the launch of Memory and Migration, which is expected out in September. This international collection of essays looks at the integral part memory plays in how individuals and societies construct identity. Memory is usually considered in the context of a stable, unchanging environment, but this collection explores the effects of immigration, forced expulsions, exile, banishment and war on individual and collective memory.

The second book is , edited by Lamberti and Vita Fortunati, also of the University of Bologna. Memories and Representations of War assesses how memories of the two World Wars have been readjusted each time in relation to the evolving international historical setting and through various mediators of memory, including cinema, literature, art and monuments. The essays help unveil a cultural panorama inhabited by contrasting memories and by divided memories and acknowledge the ethical need for a truly shared act of reconciliation.

Lamberti, who teaches American and Canadian literature, will discuss reconciliation during the round table, while Creet will talk about reconceptualizing cultural memory given the displacements and mobility of people in the 20th century. Kitzmann will present a specific case study on the expulsion of ethnic Germans after the Second World War and 91亚色 architectural history and visual culture Professor of the Faculty of Fine Arts will act as moderator.

Creet is the producer and director of MUM, a documentary drawn from her mother鈥檚 memoirs, letters and poems, and which leads to Hungary where local memory reveals the story her mother tried to forget. (See YFile, May 6, 2008.) She also teaches memory studies and literary nonfiction at 91亚色.

Kitzmann has written widely on the impact of communications technology on the construction and practice of identity, electronic communities, and the influence of new media on narrative conventions. He is the author of and , and co-editor of .

Lamberti is the author of several books, including . She is currently completing the forthcoming volume, Marshall McLuhan鈥檚 Critical Writing: Probing the Literary Origins of Media Studies.

Hornstein is the co-editor of and . She is currently completing the forthcoming book, Losing Site: Architecture, Memory and Place. Hornstein is was the recipient of the 2008-2009 Walter L. Gordon Fellowship.

Anyone wishing to attend the round table should RSVP before Sept. 4 to 416-921-3802 ext. 221 or iictoronto@esteri.it. Admission to the event is free.

The round table is presented by the聽Italian Cultural Institute in Toronto聽in collaboration with the European Union Centre of Excellence at the Centre for European, Russian & Eurasian Studies at the University of Toronto, the University of Bologna and the at 91亚色, with the support of the European Union National Institutes for Culture.

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"I am truly excited to be taking on the directorship of CCGES, which is both a privilege and a challenge,鈥� says McIsaac. 鈥淢y sense is that CCGES has begun to establish itself as a nexus of crucial research into a variety of important questions, but we have not begun to exhaust the possibilities of the 91亚色 community. While Germany retains a central place in the centre's research agenda, we need to welcome the intellectual curiosity of colleagues working on other European questions under the CCGES umbrella. The European Union Centre of Excellence project, housed at CCGES, provides a perfect example of what is possible.鈥�

Right: Peter McIsaac

McIsaac holds a PhD in Germanic languages and literatures from Harvard University and a聽bachelor of science聽in physics and German from the University of Michigan. In addition to numerous articles, book chapters and book reviews, McIsaac is the author of and has served as guest editor for the journals , and . He came to 91亚色 in 2007 from Duke University, where he was an assistant professor. During the past year, McIsaac was a visiting associate professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

fosters and disseminates critical knowledge about Germany in its European context while examining Europe as a geographical, political, social, cultural and economic entity. Promoting new research into these core lines of inquiry is at the heart of McIsaac鈥檚 plans for the centre.

McIsaac succeeds Professor Roger Keil, director of the City Institute at 91亚色 and professor in the Faculty of Environmental Studies, who has served as interim director for the past year.

"CCGES鈥� focus on European Union studies and affairs reflects the complexity and diversity of meanings attached to Europe in the modern world,鈥� says David Dewitt, associate vice-president research (social sciences & humanities). 鈥淚ts research supports 91亚色鈥檚 international focus while its student exchanges provide valuable opportunities for students from 91亚色 and European countries to enhance their student and research experience through travel.

鈥淚 commend Professor Keil for his great service over the past year and am pleased to welcome Professor McIsaac into this new role.鈥�

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Two teams led by 91亚色 University researchers have received $5 million in research funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).

Their multinational research teams, involving multiple universities and community partners in a large-scale collaboration, have each received $2.5 million to examine long-term residential healthcare and global suburbanization.

The funding is part of 鈥檚 $10-million investment in critical issues of intellectual, social, economic and cultural significance through the (MCRI) program, the largest award competition SSHRC currently runs.

The program contributes to the deeper understanding of people and society while providing graduate students with research training opportunities. Royal Galipeau, MP for Ottawa鈥揙rl茅ans, made the announcement in Ottawa this morning on behalf of Gary Goodyear, Minister of State for Science and Technology.

Pat Armstrong, professor of sociology in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies and an executive member of both the 91亚色 Institute for Health Research and the Graduate Program in Health Policy & Equity, will lead a study to identify promising practices for understanding and organizing long-term residential healthcare.

Right: Pat Armstrong

Although many of Canada鈥檚 most vulnerable citizens live in long-term residential care, it is often characterized as a last resort rather than as a positive option where both providers and residents can thrive. Armstrong鈥檚 project seeks to learn from and with other countries to understand the approaches, structures, accountability practices, and ownership arrangements that create conditions prompting respectful and dignified treatment for both residents and caregivers.

Twenty-five researchers, eight partnering institutions, and 17 universities in six countries will work across disciplines to capture and share data and best practices. Armstrong is Chair in Health Services and Nursing Research, co-funded by the (CHSRF) and the (CIHR).

Roger Keil, professor in the Faculty of Environmental Studies, director of the City Institute at 91亚色, and director of the , is working with 44 researchers at 29 universities, and 16 partners in 12 countries to better understand the challenges suburbanization poses in a globalizing world.

Right: Roger Keil

Based on the experience of Canadian suburbanization, but ranging from North America鈥檚 wealthy gated communities to Europe鈥檚 high-rise-dominated suburbs, the exploding outskirts of Indian and Chinese cities to the slums and squatter settlements of Africa and Latin America, this project is the first to systematically take stock of worldwide suburban developments while analyzing their governance models, land use, infrastructure and suburban everyday life. The project also includes collaboration with the on documentaries about life in suburban high rises.

Of the four $2.5-million grants awarded, 91亚色 was the only institution with two successful projects, building on its strong track record in leading large, interdisciplinary collaborative research projects. Prior to today鈥檚 announcement, 91亚色 researchers held nine major SSHRC collaborative grants worth a total of $13.6 million in research funding.

鈥淎s the only institution to win multiple awards in this category, 91亚色鈥檚 researchers have clearly demonstrated their national and international excellence and leadership in large-scale, SSHRC research projects,鈥� says Stan Shapson, vice-president research and innovation. 鈥淟eading major research initiatives allows us to address key social issues facing our society. As global populations expand and age, suburban research and new approaches to long-term residential healthcare are increasingly important to the well-being of Canadians and nations around the world. These projects provide unique opportunities for Pat, Roger, and their research collaborators to conduct groundbreaking research with significant impact on real-world issues.鈥�

鈥淭hese grants highlight the excellence of our country鈥檚 talented researchers and recognize the importance of fostering international collaboration to keep Canada at the forefront of research, development and innovation in the 21st century,鈥� said Chad Gaffield, president of SSHRC.

91亚色's other major SSHRC-funded interdisciplinary collaborative research projects

• 鈥淎ssets Coming Together for Youth: Linking Research, Policy and Action for Positive Youth Development鈥�, led by social work Professor Uzo Anucha in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) is developing a comprehensive youth strategy that will outline how marginalized urban communities like Toronto鈥檚 Jane-Finch neighbourhood can use their community assets to support positive youth development.
• The , led by Professor Emeritus Wesley Cragg in the Schulich School of Business, is mobilizing the University鈥檚 business expertise by bringing University researchers together in dialogue with leaders and researchers in business, government and the volunteer sector.
• The , led by Professor Stephen Gaetz in the Faculty of Education enhances the impact of research on homelessness and the housing crisis by increasing collaboration and discussion among researchers, policy-makers and community workers.
• The , led by LA&PS聽social work Professor Susan McGrath, studies refugee and forced migration issues to find solutions to the plight of refugees worldwide.
• 鈥淢onitoring the Human Rights of People with Disabilities in Canada鈥�, led by health policy & management Professor Marcia Rioux in the Faculty of Health, monitors and records human rights violations to put together an accurate picture of the daily lives of Canadians with disabilities.
• The Toronto Immigrant Employment Data Initiative, led by聽geography Professor Philip Kelly in LA&PS, assists community organizations whose mandate includes the better integration of immigrants into Toronto's labour force by providing these organizations with free access to statistical data and analysis on various aspects of immigrant labour market integration.
• 鈥淪lavery, Memory, Citizenship鈥�, led by Distinguished Research Professor Paul Lovejoy, includes a team of more than 50 Canadian and international scholars who are researching聽the global migrations of African peoples under conditions of slavery and how the resulting racism arising from the exploitation of African peoples has shaped modern societies.
• 鈥淭he University as a Civic Change Agent: Community-Based Knowledge Mobilization鈥�, led by David Phipps, director of the Office of Research Services, is developing a community-focused input model for that seeks first to identify community knowledge needs and then focus university research expertise to help fill that need by creating a self-sustaining cycle of knowledge production and its uptake for policy, practice and community capacity building.
• 鈥淲ork in a Warming World鈥�, led by social science Professor Carla Lipsig-Mumm茅 in LA&PS, studies the challenge presents to Canadian employment and workplaces by examining seven Canadian employment sectors to seek policy, training, employment and workplace solutions to effectively assist Canada鈥檚 transition to a low-emission economy.

For complete competition results, visit .

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Rochon's article quotes Roger Keil, professor in the Faculty of Environmental Studies, director of the , and director of the City Institute at 91亚色. Here's a snippet:

Itakes only 20 stops on the SkyTrain for the look of Vancouver to morph into that of Surrey. Heading east into the Fraser Valley, Vancouver鈥檚 preened and primped metrosexual face 鈥� think Pierce Brosnan crossed with Nelly Furtado 鈥� loses the chiselled jaw and phosphorescent pink it gets from all that excess skiing and spa luxuriating. By the time the train crosses over the Fraser River, the face of the commuter, exhausted from a day鈥檚 work and anxious to arrive home in one of the nation鈥檚 largest suburbs, has grown slack and winter grey.Yet even as the world鈥檚 attention is locked on Vancouver and the unfolding of the Winter , there鈥檚 a new glow spreading across the raw face of its eastern neighbour. The Olympics may deepen the divide between the rich, resort-like feel of Vancouver and the blossoming edge city, but Surrey is now officially Metro Vancouver鈥檚 second downtown core. And what was once pegged as a sleeping monster of sprawl is being transformed, slowly but surely, into an urban shire.

...

Roger Keil, director of 91亚色's City Institute, has just completed a major research project on suburbs and new forms of density. He says the enormous land mass of edge cities such as Surrey or Mississauga demands separate nodes of development, transportation links and sports and entertainment complexes.

He has witnessed some of the pressures first-hand: 鈥淵ou can see the tension building around 91亚色. What was once an empty, barren field in the 1990s turns out now to be one of the most networked places in the [Toronto area]. That means a GO [transit] station, subway, buses and Canada鈥檚 first urban national park. ... So rather than looking at it as a marginal area to which you move because you haven鈥檛 enough money to live downtown, on the contrary it is becoming a very attractive option.鈥�

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91亚色 has been awarded a grant to establish a European Union Centre of Excellence(EUCE). Recognized for the excellence, breadth and depth of its European Union (EU) studies and scholarly activities, 91亚色 will receive funding of $480,000 over three years to integrate the University鈥檚 existing research, teaching, outreach and networking activities on Europe and the European Union (EU), and introduce and facilitate new activities on the EU and EU-Canada relations.

91亚色 is recognized as a leader in European studies and has been actively building its concentration in EU studies. Over the past few years, 91亚色 has attracted numerous new European-focused faculty appointments across a variety of disciplines, including law, political science, business, public administration and humanities. The hub of this activity has been the Canadian Centre for German & European Studies (CCGES), whose affiliated faculty and staff form a natural constituency and administrative backbone for the activities planned by the new EUCE.

鈥淲e are tremendously proud of 91亚色鈥檚 leadership and research excellence in European studies,鈥� said Stan Shapson, vice-president research & innovation. 鈥淭he activities of the EUCE will promote understanding and knowledge of the European Union as a major player in the global political and economic system, and will be key in promoting the importance of the EU-Canada relationship, its political, economic, security and cultural dimensions, and the widening range of global and regional issues jointly addressed by the EU and Canada.鈥�

With this award, 91亚色 joins a network of two dozen EUCEs worldwide. 91亚色鈥檚 EUCE will be hosted by CCGES and directed by Willem Maas (right), Jean Monnet Chair in European Integration and professor of political science and public & international affairs at聽Glendon College.

The EUCE鈥檚 multidisciplinary team also includes:

• Burkard Eberlein,聽policy professor in the Schulich School of Business;
• Roger Keil, director of the聽CITY Institute and CCGES, and a professor in the Faculty of Environmental Studies;
• Heather MacRae,聽professor in the Department of Political Science, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS);
• Peter McIsaac,聽professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures & Linguistics,聽(LA&PS);
• Ian Roberge,聽professor聽of聽political science and public & international affairs at聽Glendon College;
• Karen Robson, sociology professor in the Department of Sociology, (LA&PS);
• Craig Scott, director of the聽, and聽professor in聽Osgoode Hall Law School;
• Dagmar Soennecken,聽professor in the聽School of Public Policy聽& Administration, (LA&PS);
• Leah Vosko, Canada Research Chair in Feminist Political Economy聽and聽professor in the聽Department of Political Science, (LA&PS);
• Robert Wai,聽professor in聽Osgoode Hall Law School;
• Peer Zumbansen,聽Canada Research Chair in the Transnational聽& Comparative Law of Corporate Governance and professor in Osgoode Hall Law School.

About the European Union Centres of Excellence

Established in 1998 by the European Union, the network of European Union Centres of Excellence in universities provides information and education about the European Union. In Canada, the objectives of the EU Centres are to increase awareness about the political, economic and cultural importance of the EU-Canada relationship, to promote greater understanding in Canada of the European Union and its policies, and to disseminate information and publicize EU views on issues of interest within regional communities.

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