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A film series at the Jackman Humanities Institute

25/11/2010 @ 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 […]

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Contemporary German Theatre: A Playwright’s Perspective

25/11/2010 @ 2:15 pm – 12:00 pm – (in German) Moritz Rinke Talk is followed by a wine and cheese reception. Please reply to Monika Lang <mlang@chass.utoronto.ca>

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Having Fun With History: Confessions of a Young German Novelist

24/11/2010 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm – Moritz Rinke Moderator: Dr. Wolfram Eilenberger Reading and Discussion in English A humorous novel from Germany? Written by a German? On German History? Never heard of such a thing? Yet, it does exist! Moritz Rinke, one of Germany’s finest young playwrights and novelists, will discuss the perils and possibilities of having fun with history and […]

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The Sea is History: Derek Walcott

23/11/2010 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 am – A conversation with the Nobel-Prize-winning poet. Tickets required.  Tickets available free at Hart House.

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SSHRC deadline

17/11/2010 @ 12:00 am – Departmental deadline for COL students to submit their SSHRC applications.

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Thank You Party

12/11/2010 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm – A Beginning of the Future Party to celebrate the survival of the Centre at 5 p.m.

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Humanities and the Dream of America

11/11/2010 @ 4:00 pm – 4:00 am – Humanities and the Dream of America Special Guest Lecture, Professor Geoffrey Harpham, National Humanities Centre

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Talk by Alice Kuzniar (University of Waterloo)

11/11/2010 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm – Alice Kuzniar is Professor of German and Chair in Croatian Studies at the University of Waterloo. A scholar in cinema, literary and cultural theory, and women and gender studies, Professor Kuzniar has published extensively on topics ranging from German Romanticism to German film. Among her most recent monographs are “Melancholia?s Dog: Reflections on Our Animal […]

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“A Bridge over ‘the Abyss of Negatives’? Reading Utopia Dialectically between Vertov and James”

11/11/2010 @ 5:15 am – 7:00 pm – Ryan Culpepper will be presenting “A Bridge over ‘the Abyss of Negatives’? Reading Utopia Dialectically between Vertov and James” tomorrow (Thursday) at 5:15 in the basement of Victoria College. Lukasz Wodzynski will be responding, and there will be snacks! This paper attempts to negotiate competing utopian discourses of the early 20th century by isolating and discussing two […]

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Transverse Meeting

08/11/2010 @ 5:00 pm – 12:00 am – in The Carrels.

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