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18/09/2012 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm – A lecture by Stefan Bird-Pollan (University of Kentucky, Department of Philosophy) Admission is free, and all are welcome     Abstract: In this paper I use Freud’s theory of the Oedipus complex to illuminate Fanon’s diagnosis of the widespread breakdown of intersubjective relations in the French colonies of the Antilles. I argue that the Oedipal […]

13/09/2012 @ 9:00 am – 6:00 pm – An exhibition of contemporary art on the theme of Food, featuring works by Iain Baxter&, Ron Benner, Carole Condé and Karl Beveridge, Christian Jankowski, and Cole Swanson. Exhibition Opening: Thursday 13 September, 4:00—6:00 p.m.  Produced by the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, the project is financially supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario […]

09/05/2012 – 11/05/2012 @ 9:55 am – 5:30 pm – Ce site présente les informations associées au colloque international Magritte: perspectives nouvelles, nouveaux regards (Toronto, mai 2012), soit celles touchant (1) l’orientation du colloque ; (2) le programme ; (3) les résumés des communications ; (4) les actes en livre du colloque (à venir) ; (5) la base de données Magritte, au coeur du colloque […]

17/04/2012 @ 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm – The Centre for Comparative Literature presents a public lecture by Professor John Paul Ricco John Paul Ricco’s work on social-sexual ethics lies at the intersection of art history, continental philosophy, queer theory, and architecture. He is the author of The Logic of the Lure (University of Chicago Press, 2002) and The Decision Between Us: art […]

09/03/2012 – 11/03/2012 @ 12:00 am – Keynote Addresses by J. Hillis Miller (University of California, Irvine) and Rebecca Comay (University of Toronto)  The 23rd annual conference of the Centre for Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto will be held from March 8-10, 2012, and will focus on the concept of “Absence”: the aesthetics, ethics, and politics of that which is […]

07/03/2012 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm – The Centre for Comparative Literature is pleased to present a special opportunity for graduate students at the University of Toronto Master Class with J. Hillis Miller Professor J. Hillis Miller is Distinguished Research Professor of Comparative Literature and English at the University of California-Irvine.  Hillis Miller holds honorary degrees as Doctor of Letters from the […]

13/02/2012 @ 12:00 pm – University of Toronto The Centre for Comparative Literature presents a public lecture by Professor Veronica Hollinger Cultural Studies, Trent University Technologies of Enchantment In Science Fiction Professor Veronica Hollinger (Cultural Studies, Trent University) is the author of numerous publications dealing with the theoretical implications of postmodernism and posthumanism for science fiction as a popular genre, […]

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26/11/2011 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm – TORONTO SEMIOTIC CIRCLE Please join us on Saturday, November 26th, 2011 Victoria College, 73 Queen’s Park Circle, Toronto NF205 (Northrop Frye Hall) 10am – 12noon For “Fictive States and the State of Fiction in the Decolonizing World” Prof. Dr. Neil ten Kortenaar Director for the Centre for Comparative Literature University of Toronto Abstract: Pseudonymous settings […]

25/11/2011 – 26/11/2011 @ 8:00 pm – The Graduate Centre for Study of Drama presents Two by Pirandello: An Evening of One-Act Plays, marking the 75th anniversary of the passing of Luigi Pirandello, a Nobel Prize winning dramatist, novelist and short-story writer. Sicilian Limes – Lumíe de Sicilia and The Man with the Flower in his Mouth – L’uomo dal Fiore in […]