Blog Archives

01/04/2011 – 01/04/2010 @ 5:00 pm – Transverse, the Comparative Literature graduate student journal at the University of Toronto is very pleased to announce a call for submissions for our Spring/Summer 2011 issue, “What’s Queer about Queer Theory?” We are interested in original academic articles, poetry, artwork and fiction.  Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (1950-2009) was one of the great theorists of queer theory. […]

25/03/2011 – 26/03/2011 @ 12:00 pm – Diaspora studies can be fixated on the past.  Themes such as nostalgia, memory, loss, and longing loom large in the field.  What changes as we turn our attention to the future? This two-day conference is dedicated to exploring the futures of diaspora; of the nation-state (and other defined territories); of the people located within, without, […]

24/03/2011 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm – A Public Lecture by Professor Martin Revermann . …. Martin Revermann is a professor of Classics and Drama at the University of Toronto. He has published extensively on Greek comedy and tragedy and their implications for genre in later literature. This event is organized by the Centre for Comparative Literature.

17/03/2011 – 19/03/2011 @ 9:00 am – 5:00 pm – Taking place from March 17-19, 2011, Iconoclasm is the 22nd annual international conference organized by the graduate students of the Centre for Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto. More info…

11/03/2011 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm – Imagining Corruption in Chinese Primetime Television   Ruoyun Bai Assistant Professor of Media Studies Department of Humanities Comparative Literature Cinema Studies Institute University of Toronto Co-sponsored by the Asian Institute  As the market reform deepened in the post-1992 years, official corruption in China has undergone an exponential growth and become a top source of dissatisfaction for […]

10/03/2011 @ 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm – Second Lecture, Thursday March 10, 5:30, Jackman Humanities Centre, Room 100:“Blue is a Color Where it is Hard to Find Anything Missing: the Aran Islands, Venice, the Cyanotype and Agnes Varda’s Le Bonheur.” It might be easier To fail–with Land in Sight– Than gain–My Blue Peninsula– To perish–of Delight– Emily Dickinson, c. 1862 Through the […]

10/03/2011 @ 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm – It might be easier To fail–with Land in Sight– Than gain–My Blue Peninsula– To perish–of Delight– Emily Dickinson, c. 1862 Through the landscape of the island (whether it be geographical or conceptual, like More’s Utopia), this blue lecture will focus on the Aran Islands, Fortuny’s Venice (a city of 117 islands), Mann’s Death in Venice, […]

09/03/2011 @ 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm – First Lecture, Wednesday March 9, 5:30, Jackman Humanities Centre, Room 100:“Blue is the Color of Impossible Mourning: a Bower, a Sweet and a Crystal” Through the “Kernel” of psychoanalyst Nicolas Abraham, this blue lecture will focus on Proust’s La Prisonnière, Akerman’s La Captive, the Australian Bowerbird, Kieslowski’s Bleu and Hiorn’s Seizure. The lecture will be […]

04/03/2011 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm – ELEANOR KAUFMAN, UCLA This paper will examine the fraught dynamics of the party and the group in Sartre’s Critique of Dialectical Reason alongside some of his earlier dramatic works and in juxtaposition with Brecht’s “learning plays” or Lehrstücke.  Despite the differences between Sartre’s self-reflexive and emotively developed characters and Brecht’s express emphasis on the didactic […]

17/02/2011 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm –  Public lecture by Prof. Mae Smethurst (University of Pittsburgh) Prof. Smethurst is an internationally recognized expert on Noh theatre, especially from a comparatist perspective. Since she is also a trained classicist, Prof. Smethurst brings a unique perspective to the analysis of Japanese theatre. The fruits of this unusual combination of expertise are, among other things, […]