Blog Archives

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 –

26/09/2011 @ 4:00 pm – The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and The Centre for Comparative Literature present A public lecture by Piotr Sommer Where American Poetry Ended Up and How Polish Poetry Started Again Piotr Sommer, editor of the Warsaw-based journal Literature in the World (Literatura na Swiecie) , divides his time between writing poetry, writing about poetry, […]

15/09/2011 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm –

14/09/2011 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm – The Centre for Comparative Literature presents  A Public Lecture by the Northrop Frye Professor of Literary Theory Franco Moretti  and  Ryan Heuser  A New Space for Literary Study? Projects from the Stanford Literary Lab How does a structure modeled on the natural science laboratory transform the study of literature? Franco Moretti and Ryan Heuser report on […]

10/06/2011 @ 11:00 am – 3:00 pm – By Dr. Martin Zeilinger for Comparative Literature Students only.

06/05/2011 – 07/05/2011 @ 9:00 am – 5:00 am – Annual Colloquium | Department of Italian Studies GSAIS ORGANISING COMMITTEE Pamela Arancibia Valentina Fulginiti Kathleen Gaudet Joanne Granata Leila Ouji Sarah Rolfe Prodan Wanda Santini Anne-Marie Sorrenti  

30/04/2011 @ 9:00 am – 5:00 pm –   On April 30th the third annual Canada Chaucer Seminar will be held at the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto.  This one-day seminar provides a yearly occasion for scholars working on Chaucer and on Middle English literature more generally to gather together and showcase current work.   This year’s CCS includes […]

29/04/2011 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm – The Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, Department of History, the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Centre for Comparative Literature, Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies, and the University of Toronto Faculty Association present    an open public discussion on    Global Humanities for the 21st Century:  a conversation With Azar Nafisi  the […]

26/04/2011 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm – You are cordially invited to greet with us the publication of “Maturations et mutations: 1520-60”, a volume just published by John Benjamins (Amsterdam and Philadelphia). It is part of the Renaissance sub-series of the Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages, a major project of the International Comparative Literature Association. The editor of this collaborative […]