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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 […]

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, […]