Blog Archives

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]