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21/01/2022 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vH6WwlNxek&ab_channel=BaoNguyen-Grad.AdminComparativeLiterature CAConrad’s Lecture 3-5, Friday, January 21, 2021 Lecture: “Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return: (Soma)tic Poetry Rituals” CAConrad has been working with the ancient technologies of poetry and ritual since 1975. They are the author of AMANDA PARADISE: Resurrect Extinct Vibration (Wave Books, 2021). Other titles include While Standing in Line for Death and Ecodeviance. […]

18/11/2021 @ 11:00 am – 5:00 pm – Do Art History and Comparative Literature tell truths about the world? Topic: COL & AH Writing Workshop: Close Reading, Criticism & Truth Time: Nov 18, 2021 11:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/3433792672 Meeting ID: 343 379 2672 Passcode: 877698 This question along with others will be addressed in a new […]

26/02/2020 – 17/03/2020 @ 12:00 am – EVENT CANCELLED Mitchell Merback Johns Hopkins University From Estrangement to Speculation: Pieter Bruegel and the Case of Hans Sedlmayr Friday, March  13, 2020 at 4pm Northrop Frye Hall, Room 119 73 Queen’s Park Crescent East, M5S 2C3 This lecture revisits art historian Hans Sedlmayr’s notorious 1934 essay, “Bruegel’s Macchia,” and his claim that a certain […]

14/02/2020 – 28/02/2020 @ 12:00 am – The Caribbean Studies Program & The Centre for Comparative Literature present A Lecture Series on Critical Perspectives on Caribbean Studies Friday, Feb 14, 2020, 12 noon SILVIO TORRES-SAILLANT, Syracuse University “Learning the Caribbean to Emancipate the Future” Emmanuel College, Room 119 75 Queen’s Park Cres E. Toronto Monday, Feb 24, 2020, 4 pm MYRIAM CHANCY, […]

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/