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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

05/09/2017 @ 12:00 pm – 10:00 pm – Tuesday, September 5th 2017 10 – 12 Isabel Bader Theatre 93 Charles Street West, 3rd floor

05/04/2017 @ 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm – The Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Toronto presents FRED MOTEN Our 2016-17 Northrop Frye Professor Poetry Reading Wednesday, April 5th, 2017, 5:30 pm George Ignatieff Theatre University of Toronto, 15 Devonshire Place, M5S 2C8 Fred Moten is author of In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition and co-author, with Stefano Harney, […]

04/04/2017 @ 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm – The Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Toronto presents FRED MOTEN Our 2016-17 Northrop Frye Professor public lecture Manic Depression:  A Poetics of Hesitant Sociology Tuesday, April 4th, 2017, 4:30 pm at George Ignatieff Theatre University of Toronto, 15 Devonshire Place, M5S 2C8 This lecture is concerned with what happens when black poetry thematizes the […]

01/12/2016 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm – Professor Stanley Corngold’s Lecture: Franz Kafka and the Poetry of Risk Insurance 1 December 2016, 4 pm. Munk School of Global Affairs, Room 208N,North Wing 1 Devonshire Place, University of Toronto Kafka’s stories allude to his culture with a fullness that is astonishing when one considers their economy of form. This work of allusion, a sort […]