Blog Archives

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 […]

27/11/2010 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 am – by Dr. Kane X. Faucher, Faculty of Information and Media Studies, University of Western OntarioTORONTO SEMIOTIC CIRCLE Victoria College, 73 Queen’s Park Circle, Toronto NF205 (Northrop Frye Hall) 10am – 12noon For “RELATIO ESSENDI: GROUNDING ESSENTIAL ONTOLOGICAL RELATIONS IN SEMIOSIS” Dr. Kane X. Faucher Faculty of Information and Media Studies, University of Western Ontario  

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 […]

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>

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 […]

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.

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

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.

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