Blog Archives

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 […]

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.