Blog Archives

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. […]

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 […]

31/01/2013 – 02/02/2013 @ 3:00 pm – 2:00 pm – Organzied by The Opera Exchange. For more information, please click here

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 […]

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 […]

24/10/2012 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm – CENTRE FOR COMPARATIVE LITARATURE University of Toronto Open House & Information Session for potential applicants to MA and PhD programs Are you interested in studying literature across languages? Are you interested in studying literature alongside other disciplines like film, philosophy, anthropology? If you are, then consider the MA & PhD programs at the premier centre […]

18/10/2012 @ 12:00 pm – The Yiddish literary critic Baal Makhshoves famously declared that Yiddish and Hebrew literature represent “one literature in two languages.” As this remark suggests, the bilingual roots of Hebrew and Yiddish burgeoned into a diasporic literary culture that transcended territorial boundaries. Yet the assumed parting of ways of Hebrew and Yiddish letters during the twentieth century […]

18/10/2012 – 18/09/2012 @ 9:00 am – 6:00 pm – The Yiddish literary critic Baal Makhshoves famously declared that Yiddish and Hebrew literature represent “one literature in two languages.” As this remark suggests, the bilingual roots of Hebrew and Yiddish burgeoned into a diasporic literary culture that transcended territorial boundaries. Yet the assumed parting of ways of Hebrew and Yiddish letters during the twentieth century […]

03/10/2012 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm – The Centre for Comparative Literature & The Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies present a public lecture by Professor Debjani Ganguly Director of Humanities Research Centre Australian National University Hypermediated Deathworlds: New Wars, the World Novel and Exorbitant Witnessing Date: Wednesday October 3rd, 2012 Time:  4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Location:  Room JH – 100A Jackman […]

27/09/2012 @ 4:00 am – 5:30 pm –  The Centre for South Asian Studies is proud to present BACK FROM THE FIELD and ARCHIVES: CSAS GRADUATE STUDENTS ON THEIR RESEARCH Friday, September 28, 2012 4:00-5:30 PM 208N, North House Munk School of Global Affairs, 1 Devonshire Place FEATURING OUR GRADUATE STUDENTS  Victoria Sheldon, Department of Anthropology “A Study of the Linguistic Basis and […]