EUCE York is pleased to announce that it is accepting nominations from York graduate students for the 2012 EUCE York Award. This year, EUCE York will present up to two awards of $2,000 each to York graduate students working on a research topic related to the European Union and/or the Canada-E.U. relationship. Details on how to apply are found in the link here: 2012 EUCE Award Call The deadline for submissions is 4:30 pm on Friday, April 13, 2012. Questions regarding the award can be submitted to Mr. John Paul Kleiner, EUCE York Coordinator, by phone at (416) 736 5695 or email ...

An information session for students interested in the 2012 European Union Study Tour and Internship Program will take place Tuesday, January 24th from 3:30 to 5:00 pm in room 749 York Research Tower. The 9th European Union Study Tour and Internship Program will run from May 6-26, 2012 and provides a unique opportunity for students in a variety of disciplines–business, economics, international European politics, international relations and social policy–to immerse them in the European Union institutions as well as other related institutions. Students will have the opportunity to have “face to face” contact and ...

Students at Canadian post-secondary institutions are invited to submit a written or recorded story about the European Union or Canada-EU relations for a chance to win a trip to Europe and meet the largest permanent press corps in Brussels, the city at the heart of the EU's decision-making machinery. Canadian students are invited to submit a composition on a current issue facing the European Union or EU-Canada relations by Friday, January 28, 2011. Compositions should be in the form of a piece that could be published or broadcast in the Canadian media. The winners will be invited on a one-week study ...

EUCE York and its partners at the Critical Research Lab in Law & Society at Osgoode Hall Law School are please to announce that they will host a syllabus design workshop for students currently enrolled in a Graduate Program at Law Schools, Political Science or Social Science Departments as well as early career instructors and senior faculty. This one-day workshop is intended to foster the development of syllabi for undergraduate and graduate courses between 9 and 12 teaching weeks and related to European Law and Governance and European Studies. Limited funding is available for workshop participants from outside the Greater ...

Dr. Alexandre Berlin, Honorary Director of the European Commission and an organizer of the EU Study Tour and Internship Program, will be on hand at the EUCE York on Tuesday, January 18th from 12:30 to 2:00 pm (749 York Research Tower) ( to answer questions about this unique chance to actively engage with the European Union and other European institutions. From May 9^th to May 27^th, 2011, tour participants will acquaint themselves with the workings of Europe's major political, economic and legal institutions with visits to Brussels, Antwerp, Bruges, Hachenburg, Frankfurt, Strasbourg, and Luxembourg. At the end of the ...

EUCE York Faculty Affiliate Dagmar Soennecken (School of Public Policy and Adminstration) has contributed an article to the winter edition of the Canadian European Union Centres of Excellence Newsletter analyzing both German Chancellor Angela Merkel's recent remarks pronouncing multiculturalism "an absolute failure" and the international response to these statments. "Merkel's Integration Rhetoric" argues that much of the reaction to German Chancellor Angela Merkel's recent statement labeling multiculturalism an "absolute failure" has failed to take the specifics of the ...

EUCE York is a co-sponsor of an appearance at York by former Spanish Prime Minister José María Aznar on Monday, November 29th at Founders Assembly Hall (building #50 on the map found here). Mr. Aznar was Prime Minister of Spain from 1996-2004 and is on campus speaking in his role as President of the Friends of Israel Initiative.

Space is limited. To RSVP please contact Emily Berg via email at emily.berg@hilleltoronto.org

EUCE York is pleased to co-present a talk by Mr. Tino Petzold, an M.A. candidate in Geography from the Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany on Tuesday, November 23, 2010 from 11 am to noon in room 764 York Research Tower. Title of this talk is “Rescaling Europe through Law – The European Project in the 1960s and 1970s”. Tino is generally interested in Marxist theories of law in relation to concepts of space. His bachelor thesis dealt with the role of law in the expulsion of the homeless from public spaces in Frankfurt am Main ...

As the second lecture in the series "EUROPEAS: EUCE Seminars in European History, Culture and Society", EUCE York is pleased to present Prof. Sakis Gekas (York History) and "Global History, Regional Integration and the Politics of Exclusion in the case of Turkey's accession to the EU" on Wednesday, November 17th from 12:30 to 2:00 pm in Room 626 York Research Tower (building #95 on the map found here). Light refreshments will be served. This lecture is open to all, but attendees are asked to ...

EUCE York is pleased to announce that Dr. Steffen Schneider (TranState Research Centre, University of Bremen, Germany) will make the next contribution to the  "EUCE Lectures in EU Law and Governance" on Wednesday, November 3rd from 1:00-2:30 pm in Ross S821. Prof. Schneider's' lecture will be entitled "Good, Bad, or Ugly? International Regimes and Narratives of Democratic Legitimacy in Academic and Public Discourses".

This lecture series aims at furthering interest in European Union Governance and Policy ...