Blog Archives

24/03/2015 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm – The Jackman Humanities Institute Program for the Arts on Humour Play and Games is pleased to present Michael Cooperson University of California, Los Angeles Haunting the Secular: Language, Nation, and Religion on Maltese Television TUESDAY 24 MARCH – PUBLIC LECTURE, 3-5 PM UTM CCT2150 Since becoming a republic in 1974 and joining the European Union […]

12/03/2015 – 15/03/2015 @ All Day – For Survival Conference Schedule  please click here Our keynote speakers this year will be Christopher Fynsk, Elizabeth Rottenberg and Eric Cazdyn (titles of talks to be announced). Christopher Fynsk is a Professor of Comparative Literature and the Director of the Centre for Modern Thought at the University of Aberdeen. He has translated works by Jacques […]

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

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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 […]