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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 […]

18/11/2016 – 19/11/2016 @ 12:00 am – November 18-19 in Room 215, Victoria College The Committee on Editorial Problems at St. Michaels College and the Centre for Comparative Literature are pleased to invite you to attend a conference, Language in Motion: Editing, Adapting and Translating Medieval and Premodern Theoretical Writing on Language that will take place on November 18-19 in Room 215, […]

09/11/2016 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm – The Sex, Ethics, and Publics Research Group presents a public conversation with GARTH GREENWELL 8 pm Wednesday, November 9th, 2016 Room 213, Victoria College,  University of Toronto 93 Charles Street West, Toronto, M5S 1KS Garth Greenwell reads from his new novel, What Belongs to You, and joins John Paul Ricco in a conversation on poetry, cruising, […]

20/10/2016 @ 12:00 am – Thursday, 20 October 2016. 7:00 pm Location: Emmanuel College, Room 119 Bruce Benderson reads new work and joins John Paul Ricco in a conversation on literature, sex, writing, and the new degeneracy. Copies of Benderson’s publications will be available for purchase. Bruce Benderson. American author, translator, and critic. Author of Autobiographie érotique (2004), winner of […]

07/10/2016 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm – The Centre for Comparative Literature and The program in Literature and Critical Theory at Victoria College present a poetry reading by TREVOR JOYCE Date: Friday, October 7th, 2016, 4‐6 p.m. Location: Seminar Room, Centre for Comparative Literature Isabel Bader Theatre, 3rd floor 93 Charles Street West, Toronto Joyce will be reading from his collection Selected […]

21/09/2016 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm – “Nation, Partition, and the Linguistic Imaginary: The Curious Case of Judeo-Arabic” Time: Wednesday, September 21st at 4 p.m. Location: Room 001, Emmanuel College,  75 Queens Park Crescent E, Toronto, ON M5S 1K7 This lecture examines linguistic belonging as invented within national and colonial itineraries. More specifically, it explores the genealogy of the concept of “Judeo-Arabic language” and […]

20/09/2016 @ 1:00 pm – 3:30 pm – Professor Ella Shohat’s master class for graduate students. Petition is required. “Between Orientalism and Occidentalism: Postcolonial Cartographies of Knowledge” Time: September 20th, 2016, 1-3 pm. Address: Regents Room, Goldring Student Centre , 150 Charles Street West.