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15/09/2025 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm – The Centre for Comparative Literature and the Northrop Frye Centre are excited to be hosting Professor Rory O’Bryen from the University of Cambridge (UK) for a public lecture.   Title: ‘Sometimes a hippopotamus is just a hippopotamus: animal tropings in Colombian culture post-2009’ 📅 Date:       Monday September 15, 2025 ⏰ Time:       4:00 PM […]

04/04/2025 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm – Due to unforeseen circumstances, the Northrop Frye lecture that was to be delivered this week, Thursday April 3rd by Professor Christina Sharpe is cancelled and will be rescheduled for next year. We are sorry for any inconvenience. Bao Nguyen Graduate Administrator Centre for Comparative Literature   Professor Christina Sharpe York University workshop for Complit graduate […]

28/03/2025 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm – Seminar in Ottoman & Turkish Studies Book Presentation: Displacing Fictions of Orhan Pamuk by Hande Gürses  FRIDAY | March 28, 2025 | 3:00-5:00 pm Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations | Bancroft Building 200B| 4 Bancroft Ave., 2nd fl. Reception to follow  Displacing Fictions of Orhan Pamuk: Beyond the Bridge studies the prevalence of the bridge […]

27/03/2025 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm – Nosotros in Canada: Situating LatinX /a /o Writing in Canada Bárbara Simoes, PhD Tania Aguila-Way, PhD “Exile and Memory in Latino-Canadian Writing” Bárbara Inês Ribeiro Simões Daibert (Bárbara Simões Daibert) Associate Professor, Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF – Brazil). Visiting Scholar, Centre of Comparative Literatures, University of Toronto. Thursday, March 27, 4-6 Centre […]

19/03/2025 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm – Lisa Siraganian’s talk March 19 at 4 to 6 pm Location: JBH 100 This event is organized by Professor Simon Stern, English Department.

14/03/2025 – 16/03/2025 @ All Day – 2025 Annual Graduate Student Conference Centre for Comparative Literature Friday, March 14th to Sunday, March 16th, 2025 Call for Papers: SIGNS OF EXIT  Dear colleagues, We are excited to announce our call for papers for our upcoming graduate student conference, “SIGNS OF EXIT,” hosted at the Centre for Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto […]

03/02/2025 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm –         Professor Karina Vernon’s Public Lecture “Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: The Black Prairies’ Multi-Species Archive” 4 pm, Monday, Feb 3, 2025 Northrop Frye Centre , VC 102 Victoria College, 91 Charles Street West This lecture follows the muscle memory of Black cowboy songs on the Canadian prairies to retrieve knowledge of the prairies’ […]

17/01/2025 @ 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm – Book launch for Alternative Temporalities: The Emancipatory Power of Narrative Join authors Teresa Valentini, Angela Weiser, and John Zilcosky for the book launch of Alternative Temporalities Friday, January 17, 3:30-5:30 pm Centre for Comparative Literature: Isabel Bader Theatre, 3rd Floor, 93 Charles St. W. Copies will be available for sale. About the Authors: Teresa Valentini is […]