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Complit Writing Group

18/03/2016 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm – Join the Complit Writing Group for some company (and snacks!) as you write. Graduate students at all stages are welcome; just bring some writing you need to do!

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Sianne Ngai’s Lecture: Theory of the Gimmick

17/03/2016 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm – Location: Victoria University Chapel, Room 213, 91 Charles St. W. Toronto This talk explores the gimmick as a capitalist aesthetic category: an objective form linked in a systematic way to a subjective judgment or affective speech act. Sianne Ngai specializes in American literature, literary and cultural theory, and feminist studies. Her books are Our Aesthetic […]

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Symposium: Sports: Allure and Ethics

17/03/2016 – 18/03/2016 @ All Day – Sports: Allure and Ethics University of Toronto March 17-18, 2016 Keynote speaker: Hans-Ulrich Gumbrecht Preliminary program (as January 25) is available HERE. Please check the Symposium website for the most up-to-date information. Poster

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Complit Writing Group

11/03/2016 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm – Join the Complit Writing Group for some company (and snacks!) as you write. Graduate students at all stages are welcome; just bring some writing you need to do!

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Appadurai’s public lecture ” THE MAGIC OF THINGS”

07/03/2016 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm – The Jackman Humanities Institute is pleased to present: JHI Distinguished Visiting Fellow, 2015-2016 on Things that Matter ARJUN APPADURAI Paulette Goddard Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication New York University THE MAGIC OF THINGS Tuesday 1 March, 7:00 p.m. Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Avenue …….. Ever since Marcel Mauss, we have known that things carry […]

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Complit Writing Group

04/03/2016 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm – Join the Complit Writing Group for some company (and snacks!) as you write. Graduate students at all stages are welcome; just bring some writing you need to do!

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Trans- Centre for Comparative Literature Conference

04/03/2016 – 05/03/2016 @ All Day – 26th Annual Conference of the Centre for Comparative Literature March 4-5, 2016 Alumni Hall Victoria University, 91 Charles St. West, Toronto W.J.T. Mitchell, University of Chicago “Salvaging Israel/Palestine: Art, Collaboration, and the Binational State” Linda & Michael Hutcheon, University of Toronto “Operatic Transformation: Translation, Adaptation, Transladaptation” John Paul Ricco, University of Toronto “Edging, Drawing, the Common” For […]

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Complit Writing Group

26/02/2016 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm – Join the Complit Writing Group for some company (and snacks!) as you write. Graduate students at all stages are welcome; just bring some writing you need to do!

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Complit Writing Group

19/02/2016 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm – Join the Complit Writing Group for some company (and snacks!) as you write. Graduate students at all stages are welcome; just bring some writing you need to do!

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Complit Writing Group

12/02/2016 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm – Join the Complit Writing Group for some company (and snacks!) as you write. Graduate students at all stages are welcome; just bring some writing you need to do!

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