Blog Archives

03/02/2023 @ 12:00 am – 3:00 pm – Friday, February 3, 12-2pm “Transmission, Reception, and Literary Form” Mary Nyquist, Talia Isaacson, Rob Twiss All sessions will take place at our Centre at 93 Charles Street West, 3rd floor.

02/12/2022 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm – Bárbara Simões’ lecture: ‘Patriarchy and Racism in Brazilian literature” Time: 3pm Friday, December 2nd, 2022 Location: Room VC101, Victoria College, U of T This lecture focuses on three books of Brazilian literature that revolve around two of the main issues of Brazilian national identity: miscigenation and patriarchy. I will discuss how these books present heroines […]

02/12/2022 @ 12:00 am – 2:00 pm – Friday, December 2, 12-2pm “Modernist Encounters” Haytham Bahoora, Ben Bandosz, Teresa Valentini Lecture room, 93 Charles Street West, 3rd floor

21/11/2022 – 01/04/2023 @ 12:00 am – Centre for Comparative Literature Student & Faculty Research Colloquium Monday, November 21, 3-5 pm “Art/Literature and the State” Ann Komaromi, Anastasia Lachine, Lily Tarba Friday, December 2, 12-2pm “Modernist Encounters” Haytham Bahoora, Ben Bandosz, Teresa Valentini Friday, February 3, 12-2pm “Transmission, Reception, and Literary Form” Mary Nyquist, Talia Isaacson, Rob Twiss Monday, March 27, 3 […]

14/11/2022 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm –                 Catherine Malabou’s public lecture When signifiers do not float, or the end of a hermeneutical hegemony Monday, November 14, 2022 at 3 pm, Toronto time. Join Zoom Meeting https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/8038890352 Meeting ID: 803 889 0352 Join by Skype for Business https://utoronto.zoom.us/skype/8038890352 “Floating signifier” : this famous denomination, coined […]

02/11/2022 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm –                 Catherine Malabou, The European Graduate School / EGS The European Graduate School/EGS WORKSHOP Wednesday, November 2, 2022 , 3-5pm Toronto time Zoom: https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/8038890352 Meeting ID: 803 889 0352 We’ll read Levi-Strauss’ Introduction to the Work of Marcel Mauss, analyze the concept of floating signifier and thematize its […]

17/10/2022 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm – Joel Rodgers,  Professional Development for Grad Students at FAS will  deliver a workshop on non-academic employment for Comparative Literature. Time: Monday, October 17, 2022 at 12 noon. Location: Regent’s Room, Goldring Centre, 150 Charles St W, Toronto, ON M5S 1K9. Registration required

14/10/2022 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm – Nelson Maldonado Torres’ Public Lecture: “Towards a Fanonian Combative Decoloniality: Decolonial Epoché/Despojo decolonial, Resignation, and Realignment” Time: Friday October 14, 2022. 3 pm, Location: EM119 (in Emmanuel College) On December 6, 2021, sixty years after the passing of the major Afro-Caribbean thinker and revolutionary Frantz Fanon, the Frantz Fanon Foundation launched a call for reflections […]

22/09/2022 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm – Orientation for students from Vic’s Literature and Critical Theory Thursday, Sept. 22,  4-6pm Speaker: Prof. Komaromi, Prof. Dowling Room: NF008

11/02/2022 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm – Denise Ferreira da Silva’s Lecture: Unpayable Debt: A black feminist reading of the scenes of value February 11, from 3-5 on Zoom Please click here to register:  https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/81559765873 Unpayable Debt: A black feminist reading of the scenes of value In this talk, Dr. Ferreira da Silva discusses Unpayable Debt. She focuses on what it does […]