Blog Archives

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 […]

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 […]