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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 […]

08/10/2014 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm – Session 2: Application Workshop: Crafting Effective Letters and CVs. This session will provide an opportunity to workshop your application letters and cvs in response to particular job ads. Neil and Jill will guide the process and discussion. For students in PhD 3 and above

07/10/2014 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm – Inaugural Lecture, Toronto Renaissance and Reformation Colloquium 50th Anniversary Year! Presented by Professor Sarah Rolfe Prodan Focusing on the perpetual spiritual exile of the artist’s literary persona, this talk elucidates the struggles of Michelangelo the poet to achieve spiritual and psychological freedom in a world where trial was conceived as a divine instrument, hardship could serve […]

03/10/2014 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm – Prof. Christopher Lupke of Washington State University is visiting the Department of East Asian Studies this Friday (3 Oct) and has kindly agreed to lead a seminar on translating contemporary Chinese poetry, using the poetry of Xiao Kaiyu as a case study.  (Prof. Lupke will also be giving a talk Friday on “Rekindling Filiality in […]

25/09/2014 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm – THE FORCE OF FICTION Like the air we breathe, fiction may be almost invisible to us by virtue of its ubiquity and prominence. But as accustomed as we are to engaging with fictional worlds—be it in books or on screens, large or small—it is a mistake to assume that fiction is a simple phenomenon; that […]

18/09/2014 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm – A reception to follow. Everyone is welcome and admission is free. Please RSVP at italian.studies@utoronto.ca  With wooden fragments pressed close to the picture plane and set in shallow, cloistered spaces, Giorgio de Chirico’s so-called “Metaphysical Interiors” from Ferrara (1915-18) seem resigned to confinement.  In his mid-century monograph, James Thrall Soby described the scenes as “still […]

02/09/2014 @ 10:00 am – 11:30 am – Comparative Literature Orientation for new students. The Centre for Comparative Literature will be holding a required orientation for all new students in both the MA and PhD programs on Tuesday, September  2 from 10 to 11:30 at Northrop Frye Hall, Room 332. In addition, the School of Graduate Studies offers its own orientation program for all […]