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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 […]

17/10/2014 @ 1:30 pm – 4:00 pm – The second workshop in the Second Language Teaching & Learning series entitled ‘Helping classroom learners to improve their sociolinguistic competence’, will be led by Prof. Katherine Rehner (Language Studies, UTM & the Center for Educational Research on Languages and Literacies, OISE). We will focus on what sociolinguistic competence is, why it is important for learners, and […]

17/10/2014 – 19/10/2014 @ 9:00 am – 5:00 pm – The Department of Italian Studies, University of Toronto   is proudly hosting   The 47th Annual Conference of The Italian American Studies Association   Italians Without Borders: Transnational Italian (American) Experience   University of Toronto Carr Hall – 100 St. Joseph Street, Toronto   October 17, 18, & 19, 2014 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. […]

15/10/2014 @ 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm – You are invited to the launch of Marshall McLuhan and Northrop Frye: Apocalypse and Alchemy by B.W. Powe, which we are presenting with University of Toronto Press and Pages UnBound at Victoria College, University of Toronto (73 Queen’s Park Crescent East),  on Wednesday, October 15th. Doors open at 5pm. The program begins at 5:30pm.  Space is limited. Please RSVP  here Two of Canada’s central cultural figures, Marshall McLuhan and Northrop Frye […]

14/10/2014 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm – Typologies of Urban Violence in Ottoman Aleppo, Cairo, and Tunis (1798-1864)  Nora Lafi Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, Free University, Berlin Based on archives in Aleppo, Tunis, and Cairo as well as the central Ottoman archives and French and British consular material, this presentation analyzes violence in Arab cities of the Ottoman Empire from the point […]