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TRB Podcast: Deidre Lynch on the Culture of Scrap-books in the Georgian Period
Listen here: [audio: May2012/lynch.mp3] On March 22, Professor Deidre Lynch delivered a lecture as part of the Book History and Print Culture Lecture Series at the University of Toronto. Following is an excerpt from the U of T press release on Dr. Lynch’s talk, titled “Recycled Paper: Readers’ Scrap-books in Late Georgian Literary Culture.” Enjoy!…
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TRB Podcast: Matthew Kirschenbaum on the Literary History of Word Processing
Listen here: [audio:May2012/kirschenbaum.mp3] On March 1, Dr. Matthew Kirschenbaum spoke at the University of Toronto’s iSchool Colloquium. Dr. Kirschenbaum’s lecture, titled “Track Changes: The Literary History of Word Processing” examines the past and continued influence that word processing technology has had on the craft of literary composition. Listen and enjoy! The U of T press…
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TRB Podcast: Ruth Panofsky on The Literary Legacy of the Macmillan Company of Canada
Listen here: [audio: May2012/panofsky.mp3] On March 19, Ryerson University hosted an interview and launch for Ruth Panofsky’s new book, The Literary Legacy of the Macmillan Company of Canada: Making Books and Mapping Culture, at the Modern Literature and Culture Research Centre. This event featured the author in conversation with Steven W. Beattie (book review editor, Quill and…
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TRB Podcast: Carolina Cambre on Che Guevara’s Image in East Timor
Listen here: [audio:May2012/cambre.mp3] On February 25, Dr. Carolina Cambre was invited to speak at the Toronto Semiotic Circle as part of their monthly lecture series. Her lecture, titled “The Semiotics of Artifice in the Case of Che Guevara’s Face in East Timor,” explores the appropriation of the famous South American revolutionary for use in the…
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TRB Podcast: Peta-Gaye Nash kicks off Jamaica 50 at TPL
Listen here: [audio:May2012/nash.mp3] Peta-Gaye Nash started the Jamaica 50 series at the Toronto Public Library with readings from her short story collection, I Too Hear the Drums. She is a short-story and children’s book author born and raised in Jamaica; she now lives in Mississauga. In this podcast, recorded at the Maria A. Shchuka library branch…
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TRB Podcast: Veronica Hollinger on “Technologies of Enchantment in Science Fiction”
Listen here:[audio:hollinger.mp3] On February 13, the Centre for Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto hosted a lecture by Dr. Veronica Hollinger (Cultural Studies, Trent University). The title of Dr. Hollinger’s lecture, “Technologies of Enchantment in Science Fiction,” refers not only to the role played by technology within literary science fiction, but also posits the…
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TRB Podcast: Diana Taylor on “Taking to the Streets: Mass Mobilization Online and Off”
On January 18th, the Distinguished Lecture Series, sponsored by the TransCanada Institute / School of English and Theatre Studies (University of Guelph), presented Dr. Diana Taylor’s lecture entitled “Taking to the Streets: Mass Mobilization Online and Off.” Listen here:[audio:taylor.mp3] As Taylor asks in the abstract for her talk, “What options for political and economic justice…
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TRB Podcast: Allan Hepburn on Elizabeth Bowen’s Autobiographies
Professor Allan Hepburn, a noted scholar of literary modernism and head of English at McGill, spoke to the University of Toronto’s Department of English on Elizabeth Bowen’s Autobiographies last December. His talk was entitled, “A Young Writer Grown Old: Elizabeth Bowen’s Autobiographies.” Listen here: [audio:hepburn.mp3] Professor Hepburn included the following abstract for his talk: Autobiography…
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TRB Podcast: The Master Critic and the Review – Robert Cushman at York University
On October 18, 2011, renowned critic Robert Cushman spoke on “The Master Critic and the Review” at York University: the TRB is delighted to be able to bring you his lecture. [audio:cushman.mp3] Cushman’s bio on the York event page is as follows: Born in London and educated at Cambridge University, worked for the BBC’s radio…
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TRB Podcast: Mike Carey at the 2nd Annual Toronto SpecFic Colloquium
As part of the Toronto SpecFic Colloquium on October 15, 2011, and sponsored by The Beguiling, comic-writer Mike Carey presented a talk entitled “Speak of the Dazzling Wings”: Myth, Language, and Modern Fantasy.” Listen, and enjoy. [audio:carey.mp3] From the SpecFic site: MIKE CAREY was born in 1959 in Liverpool, England, where both his parents worked…
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TRB Podcast: Umberto Eco at the Toronto Reference Library
On November 16, the CBC’s Michael Enright interviewed Umberto Eco on his latest novel, The Prague Cemetery, at the Toronto Reference Library.* [audio:UmbertoEco.mp3] Unfortunately, our file is a little quiet—so you may prefer to watch the TPL’s video of the event. Meanwhile, see here for Talia Zajac’s TRB review of Eco’s new book. *Though we…
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TRB Podcast: Polar Imprints: Book Historian Hester Blum at the University of Toronto
[audio:Hester.mp3] On November 17 as part of the Toronto Centre for the Book lecture series, and in Association with the Centre for the Study of the United States, Hester Blum (Penn State University) spoke on “Polar Imprints”: Narratives of polar voyages enjoyed wide circulation in Anglo-American cultural and political spheres during the long nineteenth century.…