The 2019 Toronto Conference on Germany

Chair: Randall Hansen, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy

10:00 – 10:15

Welcome

Randall Hansen, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy

Thomas E. Schultze, Consul General of Germany in Toronto

Knut Dethlefsen, Friedrich Ebert Foundation

10:15 – 10:35

E-Day: What Do the European Elections Hold in Store

for a Continent in Flux?

Wolfgang Schmidt, State Secretary, Federal Ministry of Finance

10:40 – 11:55

Session 1: Madness at the Polls: Canadian and European Elections

in an Era of Right-wing Populism

Wolfgang Schmidt, State Secretary, Federal Ministry of Finance

Nathan Cullen, Member of Canadian Parliament

Moderator: Shachi Kurl, Executive Director, Angus Reid Institute

11:55 – 13:00

Lunch break

13:00 – 14:15

Session 2: A Coalition of the Modest? Canadian and German

Leadership for a Liberal Democratic World Order

Janice Gross Stein, Founding Director, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy

John Ralston Saul, Author of The Collapse of Globalism, President Emeritus of PEN International and co-chair of both the Institute for Canadian Citizenship and 6 Degrees

Moderator: Roland Nelles, Chief US Correspondent, Der Spiegel

14:15 – 14:30

Closing remarks

This event is sponsored by the Joint Initiative in German and European Studies at the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) with funds from the German Foreign Ministry.

Please note that this is a free event and seating is provided on a first-come, first-served basis.

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