The European Union Centre of Excellence at York, the Canadian Centre for German and European Studies  and the Schulich School of Business' IMBA program were pleased to co-present a roundtable discussion featuring York faculty which looked at the future of the European Union in light on the economic crisis currently gripping the region. This event will take place on Tuesday, March 1, 2011. Should you have been unable to attend this event, you ...

The fourth in EUCE York's series EUCE Lectures in Law and Governance will take place on March 8, 2011 under the title "Power and Legitimacy: Reconciling Europe and the Nation-State" and will be given by EUCE York Visiting Scholar Prof. Peter Lindseth (School of Law, University of Connecticut) from 12:30-2:00 pm in room 108 Osgoode Hall Law School (building #32 on the map found here). Prof. Lindseth's lecture will be ...

EUCE York is pleased to present a lecture by Morag Goodwin (Assistant Professor, Institute for Law, Technology and Society, Tilburg University, the Netherlands) on Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011 from 12:30 to 2:00 pm in room S821 Ross (building #28  on the map found here). Prof. Goodwin's lecture is entitled "Spotlight on Fundamental Rights in the EU: the deportation of Roma from France" and is the third lecture in the series "EUCE Lectures on EU Law and Governance".

This event is open to all ...

The Nathanson Centre on Transnational Human Rights, Crime and Security at the Osgoode School of Law, York University and a partner of EUCE York presented a lecture by Prof. Vlad Perju (School of Law, New York University) entitled "The Idea of Cosmopolitan Constitutionalism" on Friday, February 11, 2011. The lecture was presented as part of Nathanson's Legal Philosophy Series and is available in streaming video at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egcb3FdcpF0 Prof. Matt Grellette (McMaster University, Hamilton) acted as a respondent to Prof. Perju at this talk. All are welcome and light refreshments will be served. Date: Friday, February 11, 2011 Time: 2:30-4:30 pm Location: Ross ...

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 ...

The Nathanson Centre on Transnational Human Rights, Crime and Security at the Osgoode School of Law, York University and a partner of EUCE York presented a lecture by Prof. Mattias Kumm (School of Law, New York University) entitled "The Idea of Cosmopolitan Constitutionalism" on Friday, November 19, 2010. The lecture was presented as part of Nathanson's Legal Philosophy Series and is available in streaming video at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWLuuSqejA0 Prof. Michael Giudice (Department of Philosophy, York University) acted as a respondent to Prof. Kumm at this talk. All are welcome and light refreshments will be served. Date: Friday, November 19, 2010 Time: 2:30-4:30 pm Location: ...