Blog Archives

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 […]

25/01/2022 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm – CA Conrad’s Workshop: (Soma)tic Poetry Rituals & Strengths of the Everyday Tuesday, January 25, 2022, 1 pm Eastern Time Location: Zoom, 25 person limit, please click here to register Please join us to explore how (Soma)tic Poetry Rituals can help us see the creative viability in everything around us. CAConrad has created writing rituals using […]

21/01/2022 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vH6WwlNxek&ab_channel=BaoNguyen-Grad.AdminComparativeLiterature CAConrad’s Lecture 3-5, Friday, January 21, 2021 Lecture: “Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return: (Soma)tic Poetry Rituals” CAConrad has been working with the ancient technologies of poetry and ritual since 1975. They are the author of AMANDA PARADISE: Resurrect Extinct Vibration (Wave Books, 2021). Other titles include While Standing in Line for Death and Ecodeviance. […]

18/11/2021 @ 11:00 am – 5:00 pm – Do Art History and Comparative Literature tell truths about the world? Topic: COL & AH Writing Workshop: Close Reading, Criticism & Truth Time: Nov 18, 2021 11:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/3433792672 Meeting ID: 343 379 2672 Passcode: 877698 This question along with others will be addressed in a new […]

26/02/2020 – 17/03/2020 @ 12:00 am – EVENT CANCELLED Mitchell Merback Johns Hopkins University From Estrangement to Speculation: Pieter Bruegel and the Case of Hans Sedlmayr Friday, March  13, 2020 at 4pm Northrop Frye Hall, Room 119 73 Queen’s Park Crescent East, M5S 2C3 This lecture revisits art historian Hans Sedlmayr’s notorious 1934 essay, “Bruegel’s Macchia,” and his claim that a certain […]

14/02/2020 – 28/02/2020 @ 12:00 am – The Caribbean Studies Program & The Centre for Comparative Literature present A Lecture Series on Critical Perspectives on Caribbean Studies Friday, Feb 14, 2020, 12 noon SILVIO TORRES-SAILLANT, Syracuse University “Learning the Caribbean to Emancipate the Future” Emmanuel College, Room 119 75 Queen’s Park Cres E. Toronto Monday, Feb 24, 2020, 4 pm MYRIAM CHANCY, […]