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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 […]

23/04/2014 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm – In 2011 and again in 2013, Neil Hertz lived in Ramallah, in Palestine’s West Bank and taught at Al-Quds University in Abu Dis, just outside Jerusalem.  With “Pastoral in Palestine” he offers a personal take on life in the Occupied Territories and East Jerusalem, reporting on how people on both sides of the increasingly bizarre […]

12/04/2014 @ 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm – BOOK LAUNCH Join Professor John Paul Ricco in celebrating the release of his new monograph: The Decision Between Us Art and Ethics in the Time of Scenes (University of Chicago Press) … The Decision Between Us combines an inventive reading of Jean-Luc Nancy with queer theoretical concerns to argue that while scenes of intimacy are […]

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17/03/2014 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm – “Magazines and the Visual Culture of War in Barcelona” This event is sponsored by The Department of Spanish & Portuguese, the Department of Art and The Centre for Comparative Literature.

28/02/2014 @ 3:00 pm – The Jackman Humanities Institute Program for the Arts is pleased to present: Andrea Moro, Institute for Advanced Study, University of Pavia “The Boundaries of Babel: Notes Between the Brain and Syntax” Friday 28 February at 3:00 p.m.  Reception to follow. One of the major discoveries of modern linguistics is that languages cannot vary unboundedly: every […]

27/02/2014 – 01/03/2014 @ All Day – 24th Annual Conference of the Centre for Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto February 27–March 1, 2014 Keynote Addresses/Invités d’honneur Dina Al-Kassim (University of British Columbia) Vivasvan Soni (Northwestern University) 6th Annual Linda Hutcheon and J. Edward Chamberlin Lecture in Literary Theory Veronika Ambros (University of Toronto) What is joy? What do literature, art, […]

11/02/2014 @ 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm – Prof. Judith Butler Department of Rhetoric; Comparative Literature University of California at Berkeley Public Assembly and Plural Action Abstract: How do we understand the role of public assemblies in the making of the “people”? Although one ideal of democratic life is for all of the people to be fairly and justly represented, it is also […]

05/02/2014 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm – DATE: Wednesday February 5th, 2014 TIME: 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm LOCATION: Jackman Humanities Institute, 170 St. George Street, Room JHB 100 No cost to attend / Complimentary snacks and beverages will be provided. Interested in networking with U of T alumni who studied the Humanities and used their education and passion to pursue and […]