Blog Archives

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]