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03/02/2020 – 05/02/2020 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm – The Centre for Comparative Literature presents our 2020 Northrop Frye Professor Anne Carson Poetry Reading Monday, Feb. 3, 2020, 4pm with book signing to follow Victoria College Chapel, 2nd floor, Room 213 Victoria University, 91 Charles Street West Public Lecture: “Stillness” Tuesday, February 4, 2020, 5 pm Isabel Bader Theatre, 93 Charles Street West.   […]

01/01/2020 – 31/01/2020 @ 12:00 am – Please find attached the CFP for the 2020 Conference at the Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Toronto, entitled “Fire.”  (La version française suit.) .We invite paper proposals in English or French on any aspect of literary studies centered on fire. Possible topics might include: Fire, religion, and ritual Revolutionary violence and (re)creation Petroculture and other […]

24/10/2019 @ 5:15 am – For students who want to work across languages and disciplines, and those who want to engage in critical theoretical and analytical projects, we invite you to explore the MA & PhD programs at the Centre for Comparative Literature University of Toronto complit.utoronto.ca Comparative Literature OPEN HOUSE for prospective students Thursday, Oct 24th, 2019, 5-7pm Isabel […]

08/10/2019 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm – Writing Elizabeth Bishop: A Biographer’s Journey Time: Tuesday, 5 pm, October 8, 2019 Location: Victoria College, 91 Charles St. West, Room 101 Thomas Travisano, the President of the Elizabeth Bishop Society, will speak about his forty-year-long journey across three continents that led to his new biography from Viking / Penguin, Love Unknown: The Life and Worlds […]

29/03/2019 – 30/03/2019 @ All Day – Timepieces The Centre for Comparative Literature’s 29th Annual Conference University of Toronto Victoria College 91 Charles Street West 8:30 am, 29th- 30th March, 2019 Free Registration Please register for Timepieces here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd-ehTcKJqwBmQJjkSd9PQg9m7iQm2RcLeTIn4eVIowyJHr8A/viewform Keynote Speakers: John Zilcosky, University of Toronto Adam Barrows, University of Carleton Ann Rigney, University of Utrecht Contacts: Complitconference2019@gmail.com https://complitconference2019.wordpress.com FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1203231889852983/  

26/03/2019 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm – You are cordially invited to a talk by Comparative Literature’s postdoctoral fellow Alex Moshkin. The talk will focus on contemporary Israeli poetry and visual art by the younger generation of Russian émigré artists to Israel. Moshkin explores the surprising presence of nostalgia in these works, which resist dominant Cold War-era portrayals of Jewish life in […]

15/03/2019 @ All Day – The Implications of Reading Brian Stock Friday, 15 March 2019 Rm 112 of the Victoria College Building 73 Queen’s Park Crescent East Toronto, ON M5S 2C3 Website: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-implications-of-reading-brian-stock-tickets-49156045054?aff=es2 DESCRIPTION The colloquium offers an opportunity to consider the legacy and influence of Brian Stock’s scholarship on the history of reading. REGISTRATION Conference speakers are automatically registered. […]

12/03/2019 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm – The Centre for Comparative Literature is pleased to announce a lecture by our Northrop Frye Visiting Professor: Rita Felski, “Hooked: Art and Attachment” Tuesday, Mar. 12, 5-7pm Emmanuel College, Rm 001 75 Queen’s Park Crescent, Toronto The lecture is open to the public and registration is not required.

11/03/2019 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm – Workshop with our Northrop Frye Visiting Professor Rita Felski The Rhetoric of Critique Monday, Mar. 11, 12-2pm, Goldring Student Centre, Rm. 206 for Comparative Literature students only … You are also cordially invited to attend the lecture Rita Felski, “Hooked: Art and Attachment” Tuesday, Mar. 12, 5:00-7pm Emmanuel College, Rm 001 75 Queen’s Park Crescent, […]