CITY and the Canadian Centre for German and European Studies present "High-Modernism and Mass Utopia in Twentieth-Century Urban Planning" with Dietmar Schirmer (Department of Political Science, University of Florida). This event will be held Friday, November 9th from 12:30 to 2:30 pm in room 280A York Lanes.
Dietmar Schirmer,(Ph.D. in Political Science from Free University Berlin) 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.
Dietmar's research interests include: comparative Politics and Historical Sociology, regional specialization in Europe , state-formation, nationalism, European integration, and the aesthetics of the state.
All are welcome, but attendees are asked to register with ccges@yorku.ca