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10/09/2018 @ All Day – September 10:  Most formal graduate courses and seminars begin at U of T

05/09/2018 @ 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm – The Centre for Comparative Literature will be holding a required orientation for all new students in both the MA and PhD program on Wednesday, September 5, from 2 to 3:30pm in the seminar room at the Centre. The orientation session will be followed by a grant-writing workshop from 4:15 to 5:15pm. If you are in […]

05/04/2018 @ 10:00 am – The Centre for Comparative Literature and the Centre for Ethics are privileged to host Professor Peter Brooks, Sterling Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at Yale University, and currently Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Scholar, in the University Center for Human Values and the Department of Comparative Literature at Princeton University. Professor Brooks will be here in […]

23/03/2018 – 24/03/2018 @ All Day – “The Prague School Today: Rethinking Performance in Contemporary Context” University of Toronto,  March 23-24, 2018 Location: Victoria College, Room VC115 73 Queen Park’s Crescent , Toronto, Ont. M5S 1K7 For conference program, please click here

16/02/2018 @ 4:00 pm – The Revolutionary Time Reading Group & The Comparative Literature Course Union presents Ec(h)otechnics Naomi Waltham-Smith, University of Pennsylvania Friday February 16th 2018, 4-6 pm Victoria College, Room 323 91 Charles Street West, Toronto Naomi Waltham-Smith is Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research interests sit at the intersection of recent European philosophy and […]

23/01/2018 – 24/02/2018 @ All Day – The Centre for Comparative Literature’s 28th Annual Conference The Ocean and the Seas February 23 & 24, 2018 Victoria College Open Registration Keynotes February 23: Mary Nyquist, University of Toronto “Atlantic Crossings: Cartography, Slavery, Insurgency” February 24: Karin Amimoto Ingersoll, author of Waves of Knowing “Seascape Epistemology: An Embodied Knowledge of and Movement through the Sea” […]

24/10/2017 @ 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm – The Centre for Comparative Literature presents a public lecture by our 2017 Northrop Frye Professor Jean-Michel Rabaté Department of English, University of Pennsylvania “What can we learn from Derrida today?”  Tuesday, October 24, 2017 at 4:30 pm Emmanuel College, Room 119, near Victoria Collage 75 Queen’s Park Cres. Toronto, M5S 1K7 … Jean-Michel Rabaté is a Professor […]

03/10/2017 @ 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm – Tuesday, October 3, 2017 Common room of Burwash Dining Hall 91 Charles Street West, from 5 to 8 pm

28/09/2017 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm – “In the Beginning: The Western Imbrication  of Divine Presence, Aesthetic Judgment, and Promised Land” A Public Lecture by Professor Vincent Pecora, University of Utah Thursday,  September 28, 2017 at 4 pm Old Vic, 91 Charles Street West, Room VC 212 … Stendhal’s oft-cited quip in 1822 that “la beauté n’est que la promesse du bonheur” […]

07/09/2017 @ 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm – 4pm – 7pm Isabel Bader Theatre 93 Charles Street West, 3rd floor Toronto, ON, M5S 1K9