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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 […]

05/02/2014 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm – Please join the Literature & Critical Theory Student Union for Acting Director Dr. Eva-Lynn Jagoe’s talk, “Holding the Edge: Psychoanalysis, Dialectics, Love,” on her recent experimental, critical and interdisciplinary work. Refreshments & ample time for discussion will be provided. This event is organized by Literature & Critical Theory Program, Victoria University.

29/11/2013 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm – Please join a discussion, led by members of the Literature and Critical Theory community, on the topic of how to fit our seemingly ‘extracurricular’ passions and commitments into academic work and life.   It is strange that the interests initially that lead us to university studies can often be the very things that most embarrass us […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]