Blog Archives

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

05/09/2024 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm – Dear Students, Faculty, and Friends, You are cordially invited to our Centre’s Welcome Party on Thursday, September 5, 4-6PM at our Centre at 93 Charles Street West, 3rd floor. Please R.S.V.P to Bao by Thursday, August 29. Thank you!

04/09/2024 @ 10:30 am – 1:00 pm – Orientation for All New CompLit Students Date: Wednesday September 4 Time: 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM Location: Centre for Comparative Literature – Seminar Room (3rd Floor) Please Use Back Entrance Doors

29/08/2024 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm – The School of Graduate Studies’ orientation will take place Thursday Aug 29, 2024 at 2 pm at 31 King’s College Circle. Please see the event description below for more details.