The 2019 Toronto Conference on Germany
Event Information
Description
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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