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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 […]
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/
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
Professor Cathy Caruth’s Public Lecture: “Disappearing History: Scenes of Trauma in the Theater of Human Rights.”
05/03/2013 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm – Professor Cathy Caruth’s Public Lecture “Disappearing History: Scenes of Trauma in the Theater of Human Rights.” A Reading of Ariel Dorfman’s play, Death and the Maiden Cathy Caruth is Frank H. T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters at Cornell University and is appointed in the departments of English and Comparative Literature. She received her Ph.D. […]
Lauren Berlant’s Public Lecture
31/01/2013 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm – The Centre for Comparative Literature presents A public lecture by Our 2012 Northrop Frye Professor LAUREN BERLANT Sex in the Event of Happiness Lauren Berlant is the George M. Pullman Professor of English at the University of Chicago, and the author of The Anatomy of National Fantasy (Chicago, 1991); The Queen of America Goes to […]
Wagner and Adaptation
31/01/2013 – 02/02/2013 @ 3:00 pm – 2:00 pm – Organzied by The Opera Exchange. For more information, please click here
Writing the Life of Ona Šimaitė, Vilna Ghetto Rescuer: an evening with Author Julija Šukys
03/11/2012 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm – Saturday, November 3, 2012, 7:30pm Writing the Life of Ona Šimaitė, Vilna Ghetto Rescuer: an evening with Author Julija Šukys First Narayever Congregation, in partnership with the Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Toronto. In Epistolophilia: Writing the Life of Ona Šimaitė, Julija Šukys follows the letters and journals—the “life-writing”— of Ona Šimaitė (1894–1970). A […]
The Perfect Unravelling of the Spirit
25/10/2012 @ 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm – Please join us for the launch of The Perfect Unravelling of the Spirit poems Irene Marques Admission is free reading and book signing About the Book: The Perfect Unravelling of the Spirit is about memory of being, being in body, spirit and speculation. It unravels the remembrances and cognitions forged in the mind as it […]