Blog Archives

22/11/2011 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm – Canada and the Caribbean: Empire and Decolonization presents Jenny Burman Associate Professor, Department of Art History and Communication Studies, McGill University “Grief, Violence, and Love: Thinking Feeling in Caribbeanized Toronto” with comments from Rinaldo Walcott Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology and Equity Studies, OISE / University of Toronto sponsored by  The Department of […]

18/11/2011 @ 2:15 pm – 4:00 pm – A lecture by Professor Nina Berman (The Ohio State University) presented by Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures  and Joint Initiative for German and European Studies  co-sponsored by:           Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations / Centre for Medieval Studies / Centre for Comparative Literature/ Department of History

17/11/2011 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm – Prof. Salvatore Bancheri, Chair of Italian Studies, and Prof. Emeritus Rocco Capozzi would like to invite you to an informal talk with the novelist, essayist and literary critic, Umberto Eco, on his latest publication, The Prague Cemetery.  It will take place on  Thursday, November 17th, 2-4 pm in Madden Auditorium, Carr Hall, 1st floor, 100 […]

15/11/2011 @ 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm – Upcoming Workshop for Graduate Students (who are non-native speakers of English) : This workshop on grammatical correctness will focus on three issues that cause particular difficulties for non-native speakers of English: articles, pronoun reference, and punctuation. Throughout, we will look at the principles of sound writing, focusing on representative example sentences. Instructor:  Dr. Rachael Cayley […]

12/11/2011 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm – Centre for Comparative Literature OPEN HOUSE for  prospective  students 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 premiere centre for the study of Comparative Literature in Canada. Check out our […]

12/11/2011 @ 12:00 pm – 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 premiere centre for the study of Comparative Literature in Canada. Check out our website at: https://complit.utoronto.ca and come to our Open House.

21/10/2011 – 22/10/2011 @ 8:00 pm – presented by The Graduate Centre for Study of Drama in association with Ars Mechanica    “Come here…I want to see you”   Show and Tell Alexander Bell is a post-dramatic homage to Alexander Graham Bell’s 1876 invention and a quizzical tribute to the robotic contraptions that followed in its wake.  Inspired by a desire to […]

19/10/2011 @ 9:00 am – 5:00 pm –

14/10/2011 @ 6:30 pm – 9:30 am – (at Spadina, one block south of Harbord & Spadina) Free admission, no tickets required  In The Amerindians, Tracy Assing explores her identity as a member of the Santa Rosa Carib Community based in Arima, Trinidad. The Community celebrates the Santa Rosa festival annually, and its queen, Valentina Medina, is Assing’s great aunt.  The Community may soon have […]

04/10/2011 @ 12:00 am –