Kategorie: Veranstaltungen

Deutsch-Kanadischen Gesellschaft in cooperation with Amerikahaus NRW, Osborne Clarke, Innere Kanalstraße 15, 50823 Köln, April 25, 7.30 pm

Together with the Amerika Haus NRW Deutsch-Kanadische Gesellschaft (DKG) invites you to a talk on „Changing Canadian Identities in the Shadow of the US Giant“ with Prof. Matt Sheedy in Cologne. Debating national identity is a touchy subject in any part of the world, especially during times of crisis when „enemies“ and scapegoats naturally arise. In the age of social media, however, communities that have historically been marginalized are now able to challenge the status quo in ways that were unthinkable less than a generation ago. In this lecture Matt Sheedy argues that while Canada has always defined itself against the United States (as more peaceful, more tolerant, etc.), its identity has always been more precarious than meets the eye. With special attention to the political reigns of Stephan Harper and Barak Obama, as well as the current governments of Justin Trudeau and Donald Trump, Prof. Sheedy will highlight some of the ways in which ideology and national interests have crossed borders in the age of neo-liberalism and social media, focusing on a of variety issues that intersect both countries in complex ways. These include the “war on terror” and Islamophobia, the tar sands and the construction of pipelines, as well as social movements such as Black Lives Matter and the Indigenous uprising known as Idle No More.

Prof. Matt Sheedy is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Religion at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada, and Visiting Professor in the Department of North American Studies at the University of Bonn. Prof. Sheedy’s research focuses on theories of secularism and religion, as well as representations of Christianity, atheism, Islam, and Indigenous traditions in popular and political culture in North America. He is currently working on a book that offers a critical look at Jürgen Habermas’s theory of religion in the public sphere.

Mandatory registration with the following link: goo.gl/pE37UM

Dept. of Romance Studies / courtyard 8, University of Vienna, Friday, June 15- 16, 2018
Founded in 1998, the University of Vienna’s Centre for Canadian Studies/Centre d’Études Canadiennes (Zentrum für Kanada-Studien) fosters dialogue between researchers in many fields in which Canadian Studies have found a home, from Anglophone and Francophone literary and cultural studies to German Studies, media studies, Cultural Anthropology, Indigenous, and Gender Studies. As part of our mission, we facilitate professional networks in the humanities between Canada and Austria, support teaching mobility with our renowned partner universities across Canada, and study abroad exchanges, and we are continually organizing a variety of lectures, conferences, and other academic as well as cultural events. In 2018, as part of the University’s 20th Campus Anniversary, we are celebrating our achievements in a research fest, reviewing the past and presenting current research in Canadian Studies by both Austrian and Canadian students and scholars. The Place du Canada/Canada Square in courtyard 8, connecting the Departments of English and American Studies and Romance Studies and proudly showcasing the only Inuksuk figure in Austrian public space, will become a lively site of presenting Canada as an area of research and an exciting place of cultural production in and beyond Vienna.

For more details and the programme, follow this link.

Unter dem Motto „Exploring the North! – The German—Canadian relationship“ startet die Initiative Junge Transatlantiker am 16. September 2018 einen Study Trip nach Kanada.

Weitere Informationen zu Teilnahmebedingungen und Kosten finden Sie hier.

Anmeldefrist: 18. März 2018.

February 15-25 2018

Berlinale NATIVe – A Journey into Indigenous Cinema

Tuesday, Feb 20, 15:00 – 17:30 (Doors 14:45)

Establishing Indigenous Cinema

Embassy of Canada, Leipziger Platz 17, 10117 Berlin, S/U Potsdamer Platz

In English. Free admission. Please present a valid photo-ID at the door and allow for sufficient time for Embassy security.

15:00 – 16:30 Panel Discussion: Establishing Indigenous Cinema

The panel discussion will be moderated by Jason Ryle, the artistic director of imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival in Toronto. The participants of the panel discussion are:Ciara Lacy (Director and Producer, Hawaii/USA) | Élise Labbé (Head of Festivals and Audience Development, National Film Board of Canada) | Ryan Kampe (President Visit Films, USA) | Emile Hertling Péronard (Producer and Advisor, Greenland/Denmark)

16:30 – 17:30 Screening: REEL Kanata VI – Canadian Indigenous Shorts

For the sixth time this year, the Embassy of Canada and imagineNATIVE present REEL Kanata, a selection of recent short films made by indigenous filmmakers from Canada. This year’s selection includes: Holy Angels by Jay Cardinal Villeneuve (Cree / Métis)  |  KEEWAYDAH (Let’s Go Home) by Terril Calder (Métis)  |  Thirza Cuthand Is an Indian Within the Meaning of the Indian Act by Thirza Cuthand (Plains Cree / Scottish)  |  RAE by Kawennáhere Devery Jacobs (Mohawk)  |  Nuuca (Take) by Michelle Latimer (Métis / Algonquin)  |  Creatura Dada by Caroline Monnet (Algonquin)

 

Berlinale Shorts

Notes on Cinema #68: Between Staff Pick, Market & Archive

Film Screening / Panel Discussion

Thursday, February 22, 2018, 14:00 – 16:00

Embassy of Canada, Leipziger Platz 17, 10117 Berlin, S/U Potsdamer Platz

In English. Free admission, registration required here. Please present a valid photo-ID at the door and allow for sufficient time for Embassy security.

Berlinale Shorts hosts a discussion on the longevity and visibility of films on the internet and in archives. How can we expand the film canon? How can we access films which are no longer accessible? Can digitization offer us renewed access to films that have been lost or overshadowed? Panelists Mark Toscano (Academy Film Archive), Jeffrey Bowers (Vimeo), Lauren Howes (Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre) and Jayisha Patel (filmmaker) will address these questions and more. The short films Le Tigre de Tasmanie by Vergine Keaton (Berlinale Shorts), Circle by Jayisha Patel (Berlinale Shorts) and Nuuca by Michelle Latimer (Generation) will be screened, followed by a Q&A. The panel discussion will begin at 15:00.

 

TEDDY AWARD

Diversity und Gender Equality in Beruf und Gesellschaft

Panel Discussion

Thursday, February 22, 2018, 16:30 – 18:30 (Doors open at 16:00)

Embassy of Canada, Leipziger Platz 17, 10117 Berlin, S/U Potsdamer Platz

In German. Free admission, registration required here. Please present a valid photo-ID at the door and allow for sufficient time for Embassy security.

Participants of the panel discussion : Harald Christ (Ergo-Versicherung, Postbank); Dagmar Kohnen (Siemens AG); Nina Schimkus (Axel Springer SE); Geoff Gartshore (Embassy of Canada in Berlin).

Anlässlich des Internationalen Tages der Frankophonie laden die Botschaften und Vertretungen der französischsprachigen Ländern und Regionen zur „Fête de la Francophonie 2018“ ein. Die Organisation übernehmen in diesem Jahr die Botschaft von Kanada, die Vertretung der Regierung von Québec in Berlin und die Botschaft von Benin.

In dieser fünfzehnten Ausgabe werden die Akzente der Francophonie geehrt. Lebendiger als je zuvor nimmt die französische Sprache verschiedene Formen an, je nach geographischen, kulturellen, geschichtlichen, sozialen Kontexten, wo sie gesprochen ist.

Sie verfärbt sich im Laufe der Jahre und nach der Regionen mit unterschiedlichen Intonationen, Wörtern und Ausdrücken. Es ist diese Weltsprache und ihre Nuancen, die wir zusammen um den Slogan „Nos Francophonies en fête : 1001 Akzente unter einem Dach“ am 10. März im Centre français de Berlin in der Müllerstrasse 74 ab 15 Uhr feiern wollen.