Blog Archives

20/01/2011 @ 4:15 pm – 6:15 am – Professor  Ann Komaromi (University of Toronto) This talk will explore a new approach to the uncensored Soviet press known as “Samizdat” on the basis of its material texts. Samizdat has been a highly mythologized phenomenon, defined by various groups on the basis of its content. Newer approaches to Samizdat and alternative textual culture challenge conventional […]

15/01/2011 @ 5:00 pm – Deadline to submit on-line application for 2011-2012

10/01/2011 @ 9:00 am – 5:00 pm – Spring term classes begin. COL courses start this week.

03/12/2010 @ 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm – Christmast Party/Pot luck Organized by the graduate student union.

02/12/2010 @ 6:30 pm – Why Look at Animals? A film series at the Jackman Humanities Institute This series takes as its starting point the title of John Berger’s 1980 essay, “Why Look at Animals?” and asks, quite simply, why we so frequently look at animals on film. As a way into this question, the series places films with divergent […]

01/12/2010 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm – On Wednesday, December 1, the Collaborative Program in Book History and Print Culture will celebrate its annual Librorum in the Upper Library at Massey College from 5:00 to 7:00.  Librorum is our chance to hear about the research of some of our doctoral students and to celebrate the end of term together.  This year we […]

01/12/2010 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm – Policy Committee Meeting

01/12/2010 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm – Professor Kortenaar’s meeting with Complit students.

29/11/2010 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am – Professor Suha Kudsieh of the English Department at CUNY Staten Island and a recent graduate of the Centre (PhD 2009) will be conducting a workshop for Complit students on how to negotiate the job market.  She will talk about her recent experiences with job applications and interviews and, hopefully, reveal the secret of how she […]

27/11/2010 @ 1:00 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 and PhD programs at the premier centre for the study of Comparative Literature in Canada.  Check out our website at https://complit.utoronto.ca and come to our Open House […]