Blog Archives

06/03/2015 @ 6:00 pm – Professor Nussbaum is the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics in the Law School and Philosophy Department of the University of Chicago. She is also is known worldwide as an outstanding scholar, philosopher, and public intellectual. Professor Nussbaum’s work ranges widely across ancient philosophy, ethics, feminism, international development, theories of justice, religious […]

06/03/2015 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm – The Northrop Frye Centre presents “Archipelagos of Empire: Lampedusa and the Frontiers of Italy and Fortress Europe”, a lecture by Stephanie Malia Hom, together with the generous support of the Emilio Goggio Chair in Italian Studies.  Join us in EM119, Emmanuel College, 75 Queen’s Park Crescent, on Friday, March 6th. The lecture begins at 4:00pm. […]

05/03/2015 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm – Prof. Salvatore Bancheri Emilio Goggio Chair in Italian Studies University of Toronto cordially invites you to a public lecture by Prof. Laura Giannetti (University of Miami) Tasting the Renaissance: Food Culture and the Literary Imagination in Sixteenth-Century Italy A reception to follow. Everyone is welcome and admission is free. Please RSVP at italian.studies@utoronto.ca

26/02/2015 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm – Prof. Salvatore Bancheri Emilio Goggio Chair in Italian Studies, University of Toronto organized in collaboration with the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto cordially invites you to a public lecture by Paul Griffiths (Musicologist, Librettist, Novelist) “Myself and Marco Polo” A reception to follow.  Everyone is welcome and admission is free. Please RSVP at italian.studies@utoronto.ca

13/02/2015 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm –

05/02/2015 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm – A panel of alumni will discuss their U of T education, the value of an Arts & Science degree, and their pursuit of successful careers. Network with fellow students, alumni, faculty, and staff after the panel discussion and Q&A session. Participation in the b2B program could be listed on your Co-Curricular Record (CCR). Alumni Panelists […]

02/02/2015 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm – This lecture will address the so-called ‘post-human’ turn in contemporary cultural theory in the light of three main considerations: firstly the shifting perception and understanding of ‘the human’ at the intersection of advanced technologies, philosophies of the subject and the Life sciences and secondly, the effects of globalization as a system that functions by instilling […]

29/01/2015 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm – University of St. Michael’s College, University of Toronto Book & Media Studies Program McLuhan’s War, Here and Now Peter W. Nesselroth Peter W. Nesselroth will present the inaugural lecture in a new annual series of lectures dedicated to the theme of McLuhan and the technological imagination. Peter W. Nesselroth is Professor emeritus of French and […]

22/01/2015 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm – Prof. Salvatore Bancheri Emilio Goggio Chair in Italian Studies University of Toronto cordially invites you to a public lecture by Prof. Stefania Lucamante (Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.) “La rabbia di suicidio atomico: Of Historical Novels and the Danger of Disintegration in Elsa Morante’s Work” A reception to follow. Everyone is welcome and […]

16/01/2015 @ All Day –  Comparatists: Assert yourselves! Studies in comparative literature bring together a large community of scholars, breathing life into a discipline whose applicability continues to proliferate. Graduate students’ research projects are rich and varied, reflecting the breadth of the discipline, although lacking diffusion within the larger comparatist community. Last winter, students met to think about a possible […]