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12/04/2016 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm – The Early Modern Interdisciplinary Graduate Forum (EMIGF) will be holding its sixth meeting of the academic year on Tuesday April 12, 2016. Common Room, Burwash Hall, Victoria College (89 Charles Street)   CLARA STEINHAGEN (History & Philosophy of Science and Technology) Smallpox, Female Sensitivity, and Innoculation Rhetoric in Early Modern Europe PAULA KARGER (Comparative Literature) […]

07/04/2016 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm – The Comparative Literature Course Union presents the Winter edition of the Emerging Research in Comparative Literature Series a public lecture by Professor Kate Holland “The Novel in the Longue-Durée: Veselovsky and  Bakhtin’s Competing Origin Stories” Thursday, 7th April  2016 5 p.m. Northrop Frye  Hall, Room 113 Light refreshments will be provided Alexander Veselovsky (1838-1906) was the […]

01/04/2016 @ 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm – A Roundtable Discussion of    John Paul Ricco’s The Decision Between Us: art and ethics in the time of scenes Featuring Stacey D’Erasmo (Barnard College) Jacques Khalip (Brown University) Tom McDonough (Binghamton University) David Clark (McMaster University) This is event is sponsored by the Jackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto. Copies of The Decision Between Us […]

24/03/2016 @ 4:00 pm – The Northrop Frye Centre proudly presents the first of our NFC Doctoral Fellow Lectures, Art for Art’s Sake, or Art for Life’s Sake? Aestheticism as a ‘Substitute Theology’ by Katie Fry (NFC Doctoral Fellow, 2015-2016). Join us in NFC (VC102, Old Victoria College Building, 91 Charles Street West) on Thursday, March 24th at 4:00pm as we examine both endorsements and critiques of l’art pour l’art in […]

18/03/2016 – 19/03/2016 @ 5:30 pm – The Jackman Humanities Institute and the Centre for Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies present ANIMATE ENTITIES:  OBJECTS IN PERFORMANCE March 18-19, 2016 University of Toronto http://animateentities.wix.com/ae2016 How do objects move in the space and time of live performance? What is the allure of animating ordinary or extraordinary things? How do performances transform the material world? This […]