Blog Archives

27/10/2014 @ 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm – Since its founding in 2007, the Civilizations Choir has performed in numerous cities around the world, including New York, Washington, Berlin, and Paris. Its repertoire consists of hymns from the three Abrahamic religions in Turkish, Armenian, Hebrew, Greek, Arabic, Kurdish, English, French, and German. Nominated for the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize, the Choir aims to […]

24/10/2014 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm – Pre-circulated paper from her new book project, How the Earth Feels: Geological Fantasy in the Nineteenth Century United States. To receive a copy of the paper, please email margeaux.feldman@mail.utoronto.ca  

24/10/2014 @ 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm – What do you wish the world outside academia knew about the subjects you research and teach? In this talk, Dr. Lois Leveen, who holds degrees in history and literature from Harvard, USC, and UCLA, will discuss using fiction to disseminate academic research to general audiences. (She also promises to show the most entertaining Romeo and Juliet clip […]

24/10/2014 @ 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 […]

23/10/2014 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm – A spectre is haunting the newly re-dubbed Literature and Critical Theory program: the spectre of theory. Hushed and private dialogue among faculty comes closest to revealing the ideas that have played a decisive role in determining the program’s peculiar approach to theoretical pedagogy: theory should not be taught as a canon; one should not present […]

23/10/2014 @ 4:15 pm – 6:15 pm – Overcoming the precariousness of life through the elimination of contingencies constituted one of the core promises of socialism, and a controllable weather of moderate rain and sunshine was posed as an imminent possibility testifying to its success. In socialist literary and visual works storms did happen, but only to be vigorously fought against and culminate […]

23/10/2014 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm – University of St. Michael’s College The Annual Dante Lecture Dante’s Theology of the Future by Professor Giuseppe Mazzotta, Yale University Inaugural lecture of a new annual series of lectures on the works of Dante and the history of their reception sponsored by the Mediaeval Studies program at St. Michael’s College in the University of Toronto. […]

22/10/2014 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm – It is often stated that the sea is central, in more ways than one, to our understanding of the Mediterranean World, particularly in Antiquity. At the heart of this lie the unprecedented levels of maritime connectivity between people and cultures afforded by the sea and the ships and boats that plied the waters of the […]

22/10/2014 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm – You are invited to attend a Seminar given by Professor Thomas Burman, Department of History, University of Tennessee. This seminar is a work in progress and directions for future research.  There will be an informal reception following during which there will be an opportunity to chat further with Professor Burman.

17/10/2014 @ 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm – Ethan Matt Kavaler Interim Director, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies Professor, Department of Art How were political art works able to mediate between rival interests, to enhance the power and presence of rulers while buttressing the competing rights and privileges of their subjects? And in what ways did sculpture address these problems that painting […]