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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 […]

03/12/2014 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm – Today the humanities are often forced to translate themselves in terms of quantitative measures; this allows them to be “valued.”  This is what is called “commensuration.”  This lecture covers two aspects of this phenomenon.  First, how does comparative literature deal with the fact that acts of comparison need commensurate units of analysis?  Second, how does […]

29/11/2014 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm – TORONTO SEMIOTIC CIRCLE ABSTRACT Italian political philosopher Roberto Esposito has garnered much international attention with his evolving work on themes like community, risk, immunity and the concepts of the political and the impolitical. His philosophy has had significant impact on diverse disciplines, including law, political science, sociology and literature.  As his books and essays become […]

28/11/2014 @ 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm – CRRS Friday Workshop Elizabeth Ferguson (History)

28/11/2014 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm – The U of T Canadian Studies Graduate Student Network (CSGSN) at the Canadian Studies program is pleased to announce the next in an ongoing series of CSGSN Graduate Student Workshops. Over the course of 2014, the recipients of our 2014 Graduate Student Research grant have presented on their research and had an opportunity to receive […]

28/11/2014 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm – The U of T Canadian Studies Graduate Student Network (CSGSN) at the Canadian Studies program is pleased to announce the next in an ongoing series of CSGSN Graduate Student Workshops. “‘Naked Ladies’: The Nude in Canadian Modern Painting and Photography, 1910–1950” Devon Smither Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Art, University of Toronto The nude in Canadian […]

27/11/2014 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm – A recent theoretical development within ecocriticism – the so called “material turn” – has the potential of substantially expanding its practical applications. Such a turn towards the material potentially brings ecocriticism not only “beyond nature writing”, but also “beyond nature,” namely beyond a vision associating nature by and large with human-centered concepts such as the […]

25/11/2014 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm – The Early Modern Interdisciplinary Graduate Forum (EMIGF) will be holding its third meeting of the academic year on Tuesday, November 25, 2014 Bronwyn Johnston(CRRS Fellow & English, Oxford University)”The Art of Talking Heads: Animism and Demonology in Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay” Rachel Stapleton(Comparative Literature, University of Toronto)”Fervor and Fever in the Writings of Luisa de […]

21/11/2014 @ 12:00 am – Time & Location: TBA Professor Catherine Conybeare (Bryn Mawr) will offer the O’Donnell Memorial Lecture on Friday, November 21 at the Centre for Medieval Studies., under the title “Augustine the African.” Professor Conybearee will propose to consider how Augustine’s anomalous position as simultaneously a triumphant example of imperial ideals and education and a defiantly loyal […]