Blog Archives

20/11/2014 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm – The paper discusses the cephalophore motif of beheaded martyrdom in the cultural imagination of Ottoman (and post-Ottoman) Bosnia. Associated mainly with the shrines of solitary warrior-saints of the early Ottoman period, these martyrs have brought together elements from Islamic, Byzantine, and local Slavic hagiographic and commemorative sensibilities. The role of headless martyrdom in the memory […]

14/11/2014 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm – Reneltta Arluk is of Inuvialuit, Gwich’in and Chipewyan-Cree descent originally from Fort Smith, North West Territories. Being raised in a nomadic environment gave her the skills and imagination to become the artist she is today. She will take us on the journey of a young Aboriginal Woman finding her passions with a reading from her newest book of […]

14/11/2014 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm – 2014 John Bennett Distinguished Visiting Scholar Lecture presents: “An Eccentric Approach to Augustine of Hippo” presented by Professor Catherine Conybeare, Professor of Classics, Bryn Mawr College   How might Augustine’s anomalous position as simultaneously a triumphant example of imperial education and a defiantly loyal North African affect the structure of his thought and his view of […]

13/11/2014 @ 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm – Are you a graduate student in the Humanities considering a non-academic career? The School of Graduate Studies invites you to attend our panel discussion on non-academic opportunities. Reserve online: utoronto.audienceview.net Reception to follow.    

07/11/2014 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm – Dear Friends and Colleagues, Please join us on Friday, November 7 from 6:00 – 9:00 pm at BEIT ZATOUN for the launch of: Contemporary Marxist Theory: A Reader (Bloomsbury 2014; 640 pages) (http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/contemporary-marxist-theory-9781441106285/) Paperback copies of the book will be available at a 30% discount ($35.00 + tax). BEIT ZATOUN is located at 612 Markham Street (west of Bathurst at Bloor). There will […]

07/11/2014 @ 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm – The reception of Philostrate’s Life of Appollonius of Tyana reveals a central paradox in the Early Modern “commerce with the classics.” From his first Aldus edition (1501) on, sixteenth-century scholars seem to read this strange Greek book in a very awkward way. On one hand, the fascination for the Golden Age and specifically Pythagoreanism, is […]

07/11/2014 @ 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm – “A Tricky Classic: The Life Appollonius of Tyana between History, Philosophy, and Magic.” Grégoire Holtz (French) CRRS Friday Workshop  

06/11/2014 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm – The Centre for Comparative Literature is pleased to announce that Professor Frances Dyson, professor emeritus of Cinema and Technocultural Studies at the University of California Davis and author of The Tone of Our Times: Sound, Sense, Economy, and Ecology, will be giving a talk on her new work Thursday November 6, at 3 PM in […]

01/11/2014 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm – Dr. Antonio Calcagno Associate Professor of Philosophy, King’s University College at Western University 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 […]

30/10/2014 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm – Early Modern Interdisciplinary Graduate Forum 2 Boaz Schuman (Centre for Medieval Studies) and Aaron Miedema (History, York University)