Blog Archives

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 […]

12/12/2024 @ 4:00 am – 6:00 am – Dear Complit Faculty, Students and Friends, This message is to remind you about our Centre’s Holiday Party on Thursday, December 12, 2024, 4-6 pm . RSVP to Bao by December 1st, 2024 baba.nguyen@utoronto.ca 

18/11/2024 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm – Encounters Lecture Series 2024-2025 November 18th, 2024 “Humanitarian Encounters: Bessie Head, Patrick van Rensburg and the Politics of Development in Southern Africa” by Professor Matthew Hilton, Queen Mary University, London

25/10/2024 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm – Professor Zilcosky and Professor James are excited to announce that Professor Alexander Regier (Department of Modern and Classical Literatures and Cultures, RICE University) will be giving a workshop to graduate students. Title: Writing on Awkwardness Abstract: I will be discussing my current work in progress, including a book manuscript entitled Awkwardness: The History and Theory of […]

24/10/2024 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm – The Centre for Comparative Literature and the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures welcomes Professor Alexander Regier (Department of Modern and Classical Literatures and Cultures, RICE University) to UofT to give a public lecture. Awkwardness: A Poetics of Comparative Unease Thursday October 24, 2024, 4-6pm Room  B120,Student Commons Building (SU) – 230 College Street, Toronto […]

27/09/2024 @ 12:00 pm – 2:15 pm – “What is SRT? Questions and Answers for Our Troubled Times” a workshop by Professor Tithi Bhattacharya Friday September 27, 2024 at 12 noon Isabel Bader Theatre 91 Charles Street West, 3rd floor, seminar room   Questions for Discussion: Is there really a crisis of care? Is social reproduction simply care, or is it something more […]

26/09/2024 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm – Centre for Comparative Literature presents our 2024 Northrop Frye Professor Tithi Bhattacharya Purdue University Public lecture:  Social Reproduction Theory as Diagnostic, Abolition as Politics: Reimagining Anticapitalism (Audio on YouTube) Date: Thursday, September 26, 2024 from 5:00 – 7:00 PM Location: Victoria College, 91 Charles Street West, Room VC 323 Since the welcome renewal of scholarly […]

09/09/2024 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm – Encounters Lecture Series 2024-2025 4pm. September 9th, 2024 ‘Literary Diasporas and Colonial Crisis: Spain, Cuba and the United States’. by Professor Catherine Davies Institute of Modern Languages Research