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Special Lecture and Seminar : Guest Lecture on Literatures of the Global South

Posted on September 17, 2026 by bao

17/09/2026 – 18/09/2026 @ All Day – Special Lecture and Seminar: Thursday September 17th 4-6  (Guest Lecture on Literatures of the Global South) September 18th 12-2 ( Workshop on Literatures of the Global South). organized by C. James and Z. Mian, TBA

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Northrop Frye Lecture: Marianne Hirsch

Posted on April 23, 2026 by bao

23/04/2026 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm – Marianne Hirsch, 2026 Northrop Frye Professor Professor Emerita of English and Comparative Literature and the Institute for the Study of Sexuality and Gender Columbia University. Public lecture: TBA Thursday April 23, 2026,  at 4pm Emmanuel College, Room 001 75 Queen’s Park Cres E, Toronto

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Book Launch: Wanderings: An Anthology of Anglophone Nepali Diaspora Poetry

Posted on March 12, 2026 by bao

12/03/2026 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm – BOOK LAUNCH: RSVP here Wanderings: An Anthology of Anglophone Nepali Diaspora PoetryMawenzi House, 2026Co-edited by Asma Sayed and Pushparaj Acharya RSVP here  Thursday, March 12, 20264:00–5:00 pmNorthrop Frye Hall, room 113 ,  73 Queen’s Park Cres E Building 515, Toronto, ON M5S 2C3 organized by the Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Toronto

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Alberto Toscano’s lecture: Tragedy under Siege

Posted on November 28, 2025 by bao

28/11/2025 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm – The Department of Philosophy and The Centre for Comparative Literature present Alberto Toscano, Simon Fraser University Tragedy under Siege Friday, November 28, 2025, 1:00-3:00 Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto Larkin Building, room 200, 15 Devonshire Place In his 1937 text, “Nietzschean Chronicle,” published in the wake of the aerial bombing of Guernica and during […]

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Christina Sharpe’s public lecture: “A Lexicon of these Times”

Posted on November 14, 2025 by bao

14/11/2025 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm – Christina Sharpe lecture: “A Lexicon of these Times” Friday, November 14th, 2025 from 4pm – 6pm. Emmanuel College EM001 75 Queen’s Park Cres E, Toronto, ON M5S 1K5 This lecture is based on Professor Sharpe’s book, What Could a Vessel Be? which is her ongoing consideration of the vessel—what the word and concept does, what […]

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Christina Sharpe’s workshop for graduate students

Posted on November 14, 2025 by bao

14/11/2025 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm – Christina Sharpe’s workshop for graduate students Friday, November 14th, 2025 from 12-2 PM Centre for Comparative Literature Isabel Bader Theatre 93 Charles Street West, 3rd floor Workshop Description: What is the role of composition in the face of fascism? What should our marks signify, hold, or aspire toward? In this workshop, we will explore these […]

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Our Centre’s Open House

Posted on October 20, 2025 by bao

20/10/2025 @ 3:00 am – 5:00 am – The Centre for Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto is holding an open house on Monday, October 20, 2025 at 3 PM for prospective students. We are a graduate Centre that offers programs at the M.A. and Ph.D level. We would love to answer any questions students may have and provide further information about studying […]

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Professor Andreas Malm’s Public lecture

Posted on October 10, 2025 by bao

10/10/2025 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm – The Centre for Comparative Literature presents a public lecture by our Northrop Fry Professor, Andreas Malm Return of the Repressed Heat: Towards a Freudo-Marxist Theory of Geoengineering Friday, October 10th, 2025,  4pm – 6pm Emmanuel College, EM001 75 Queen’s Park Crescent, Toronto As temperatures and emissions continue to soar in tandem, solar geoengineering is rising […]

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Professor Andreas Malm’s Workshop for Graduate Students

Posted on October 10, 2025 by bao

10/10/2025 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm – Professor Andreas Malm’s Workshop for Graduate Students: “How the Cage Closed: Climate Change and the Emergence of Class Society in Egypt, c. 4000–2700 BC.” Friday, October 10th, 2025,  12-2 pm Centre for Comparative Literature Isabel Bader Theatre, 93 Charles St. West, 3rd floor. Reading materials: Please contact Bao Nguyen at baba.nguyen@utoronto.ca The Northrop Frye Professor […]

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Public Lecture: ‘Sometimes a hippopotamus is just a hippopotamus: animal tropings in Colombian culture post-2009’

Posted on September 15, 2025 by bao

15/09/2025 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm – The Centre for Comparative Literature and the Northrop Frye Centre are excited to be hosting Professor Rory O’Bryen from the University of Cambridge (UK) for a public lecture.   Title: ‘Sometimes a hippopotamus is just a hippopotamus: animal tropings in Colombian culture post-2009’ 📅 Date:       Monday September 15, 2025 ⏰ Time:       4:00 PM […]

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