EUCANET

EUCANET
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EUCAnet (Europe Canada Network) is a scholarly platform that facilitates knowledge sharing and allows experts to offer a transatlantic perspective on contemporary issues in Europe and Canada. Through successive projects on topics ranging from migration, democracy, to memory politics, we provide a space — open both to experts and the public — where ideas can be exchanged and debates shared. EUCAnet also aims to make scholarly knowledge available and meaningful to the public in times of critical needs for evidence-based knowledge and open public debate. http://www.eucanet.org

Episodes

  1. 05/15/2024

    Teaching about the Holocaust in Uncertain Times

    In the second episode of the EUCAnet podcast series, co-sponsored by the Konrad-Adenauer Foundation in Canada, Janine Wulz talks about Holocaust education and memory politics. In the light of the global spike in Antisemitism since October 7 2023, politicians highlight once more the urgency of educating younger generations about the Holocaust in order to avoid future atrocities. The podcast explores how these words can become more than lip services and discusses with Holocaust scholars about Holocaust education mandates, teacher education and innovative formats of Holocaust education in higher education. =================================== EUCAnet (Europe Canada Network) is a hub for experts primarily located in Canada that work on European and Canadian current issues from a transatlantic perspective. These experts offer commentary and expertise and are available for media interviews and public talks. We are a public outreach platform – that makes scholarly knowledge available and meaningful to the public in times when the need for evidence based knowledge and public debate is crucial. Our goal is to foster the Canada Europe Transatlantic Dialogue with the aim of supporting the process of informing public policy making. We are also supporting the outreach activities of the European Community Studies Association in Canada (ECSA-C). Focus on : European Studies, Transatlantic Studies, Global Studies, Issues of Democracy, Populism, Memory Politics, Migration. Official Site: http://www.eucanet.org

  2. 02/06/2024

    Collective Memory, Populism, and the Future of Democracy in Europe

    In the first iteration of the EUCAnet podcast series, co-sponsored by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation Canada, Dr. Oliver Schmidtke explores the link between collective memory and democracy. The podcast explores how forms of collective memory have gained public prominence over the past years as a reaction to a sense of profound crisis in how liberal democracies are governed. Drawing on a range of leading scholars in the field, Oliver Schmidtke discusses how democracy is critically shaped by historical narratives in the public arena. He addresses different – and at times competing – ideas what democracy and popular sovereignty is in various contexts across Europe. In particular, the podcasts considers how right-wing populism has challenged the foundational ideas of liberal democracy in the name of an alternate way of representing the ‘will of the people ================================================== EUCAnet (Europe Canada Network) is a hub for experts primarily located in Canada that work on European and Canadian current issues from a transatlantic perspective. These experts offer commentary and expertise and are available for media interviews and public talks. We are a public outreach platform – that makes scholarly knowledge available and meaningful to the public in times when the need for evidence based knowledge and public debate is crucial. Our goal is to foster the Canada Europe Transatlantic Dialogue with the aim of supporting the process of informing public policy making. We are also supporting the outreach activities of the European Community Studies Association in Canada (ECSA-C). Focus on : European Studies, Transatlantic Studies, Global Studies, Issues of Democracy, Populism, Memory Politics, Migration. Official Site: http://www.eucanet.org

    Collective Memory, Populism, and the Future of Democracy in Europe
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EUCAnet (Europe Canada Network) is a scholarly platform that facilitates knowledge sharing and allows experts to offer a transatlantic perspective on contemporary issues in Europe and Canada. Through successive projects on topics ranging from migration, democracy, to memory politics, we provide a space — open both to experts and the public — where ideas can be exchanged and debates shared. EUCAnet also aims to make scholarly knowledge available and meaningful to the public in times of critical needs for evidence-based knowledge and open public debate. http://www.eucanet.org

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  • Creator
    EUCANET
  • Years Active
    2024
  • Episodes
    2
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    Clean
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    © EUCANET
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    EUCANET