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Professor William Egginton’s Lecture: The Invention of Fiction

08/11/2013 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm – The Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese and the Centre for Comparative Literature present The Invention of Fiction A public lecture by Professor William Egginton, Andrew W Mellon Professor in the Humanities, The Johns Hopkins University. In this lecture Professor Egginton explores how what we understand as “fiction” today may not be as universal as is […]

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Backpack to Briefcase (b2B)

09/10/2013 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm – Interested in networking with U of T alumni who studied the Humanities and used their education and passion to pursue and achieve successful careers? Attend a panel discussion with alumni from Cinema Studies, Comparative Literature and English. There will be a panel discussion, Q&A, light refreshments and an opportunity for networking. PANELLISTS Sandra Moore, Investment […]

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Graduate Student Learning in the Humanities: Challenges, Best Practices, Perspectives

28/09/2013 @ 9:30 am – 5:00 pm – A workshop for faculty and graduate students Time: Saturday, September 28 – 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Organizer: Professor Martin Revermann Equally aimed at (and run by) faculty and graduate students, this workshop seeks to address, at a pragmatic and hands-on level, issues to do with the pedagogy of graduate learning in the Humanities at […]

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Jacques Rancière’s Public Lecture: The Politics of Fiction

27/09/2013 @ 5:00 pm – 5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. This event is sponsored by Victoria University. Jacques Rancière, professor emeritus at the Université de Paris (St Denis) and faculty member at the European Graduate School, is one of the most read and most influential philosophers writing today.  No scholar working in the fields of politics, aesthetics, the philosophy of […]

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A Lecture by Professor Liliane Louvel: Hunting, Investigating Excavating the Past: Effects of the Word/Image Apparatus and Photograph

27/09/2013 @ All Day – A Lecture by Professor Liliane Louvel, Université de Poitiers Friday, 27 September 2013, 9:30 am | Victoria University Professor L. Louvel is the Keynote Speaker at a one day conference “ The Word and Image Apparatus/Le Dispositif texte/image”) being held on Friday September 27, Private Dining Room, Burwash Dining Hall, 91 Charles Street West, Victoria […]

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Jacques Rancière’s public lecture: Politics of Time, Time of Politics

26/09/2013 @ 5:00 pm – 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. This event is sponsored by Victoria University. … Jacques Rancière, professor emeritus at the Université de Paris (St Denis) and faculty member at the European Graduate School, is one of the most read and most influential philosophers writing today.  No scholar working in the fields of politics, aesthetics, the philosophy […]

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American Comparative Literature Association’s 2013 Annual Conference

04/04/2013 – 07/02/2013 @ 9:00 am – 5:00 pm – For more detailed information, please visit: http://www.acla.org/acla2013/

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Jens Andermann’s Public Lecture

03/04/2013 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm – Islands, Beaches, Rivers: Latin American Modernity and the Transitional Landscape Co-sponsored by the Centre for the Study of the United States, the Latin American Studies Program, and the Centre for the Study of Comparative Literature, University of Toronto Jens Andermann is Professor of Professor of Ibero-Romance Literature, with particular emphasis on non-European literatures, at University […]

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Manuscript Workshop by Jens Andermann and Kevin Coleman

02/04/2013 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm – Jens Andermann and Kevin Coleman Manuscript Workshop Co-sponsored by the Centre for the Study of the United States, the Latin American Studies Program, and the Centre for the Study of Comparative Literature, University of Toronto Jens Andermann is Professor of Professor of Ibero-Romance Literature, with particular emphasis on non-European literatures, at University of Zurich, Switzerland. […]

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Professor Rita Felski’s talk: “An Inspector Calls”

14/03/2013 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm – An Inspector Calls” Thurs., March 14, 2013, 4pm – 6pm Room 119, Emmanuel College (75 Queen’s Park) A chapter from a book in progress on critique and the hermeneutics of suspicion. For related publications, see: “Suspicious  Minds,” Poetics Today 32 (2011): 215-34; “Critique and the Hermeneutics of Suspicion,” M/C Journal 15 (2012) Co-sponsored by the […]

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