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Category: Podcast

  • TRB Podcast: Stephen Mitchell’s Iliad for the 21st Century

    TRB Podcast: Stephen Mitchell’s Iliad for the 21st Century

      [audio:mitchell.mp3] On October 13 at the University of Toronto’s Hart House, Stephen Mitchell spoke about his new translation of The Iliad, described in promotional material as the first translation based on the work of the preeminent Homeric scholar Martin L. West, whose edition of the original Greek identifies many passages that were added after…

  • TRB Podcast: Issue One Author Podcasts Now Up!

    TRB Podcast: Issue One Author Podcasts Now Up!

    Thanks to our marvelous podcast producer Allegra Young, we’ve posted recordings of our authors reading their first-issue pieces! If you like, listen here, on the Issue One article pages themselves (linked below), or subscribe to our podcast in iTunes. Review Essays: Anna Karenina, her Android, the Aliens and the Train By Tim Ormond [audio:firstissue/ormond.mp3]  …

  • TRB Podcast: The Beginnings of Poetry, Virginia Jackson at the University of Toronto

    TRB Podcast: The Beginnings of Poetry, Virginia Jackson at the University of Toronto

    On Friday, October 21, the UC Irvine Chair of Rhetoric and Communication Professor Virginia Jackson spoke at the University of Toronto on “The Beginnings of Poetry.” As the organizers of this fascinating talk said, Professor Jackson is one of the most exciting and innovative people writing about poetry in any field today. Prof. Jackson is…

  • TRB Podcast: Elizabeth K. Meyer at the UofT

    TRB Podcast: Elizabeth K. Meyer at the UofT

    On October 11, 2011, Elizabeth K. Meyer, faculty member at the University of Virginia School of Architecture and registered landscape architect, presented “Sustaining Beauties 2.0: Aesthetics as an Ecosystem Service” at the Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design at the University of Toronto, the second talk in the Daniels 2011-2012 Public Lectures. Considered one…

  • TRB Podcast: Bill Sherman at the University of Toronto

    TRB Podcast: Bill Sherman at the University of Toronto

    On September 23, 2011, Bill Sherman, Professor of English and Director of the Centre for Renaissance & Early Modern Studies at the University of York, spoke at the Toronto Centre for the Book lecture series. His talk was entitled “The Reader’s Eye: Between Annotation and Illustration.” Listen here! [audio:Shermanlecture.mp3] Or read his abstract: The margins…

  • Samizdat: Material Texts and Extra-Gutenberg Publics

    Samizdat: Material Texts and Extra-Gutenberg Publics

    On January 20, 2011, University of Toronto Professor Ann Komaromi spoke in the Toronto Centre for the Book lecture series on “Samizdat: Material Texts and Extra-Gutenberg Publics.” (Samizdat is a form of grassroots and DIY publishing that circulated dissenting texts in Soviet Europe.) [audio:annkomaromi.mp3]

  • Klausen on the Danish Cartoons

    Klausen on the Danish Cartoons

    On February 11, 2011, Brandeis Professor Jytte Klausen gave a retrospective on “Al Qaeda’s War on the Danish Cartoons” at the University of Toronto Political Science Department. [audio:klausen.mp3]

  • Joe Sacco on Comics as Journalism

    Joe Sacco on Comics as Journalism

    On March 17, 2011, renowned comic artist and author Joe Sacco spoke in the University of Toronto Arts Council 2011 Speakers in the Arts Series on “Comics as Journalism.” [audio:joesacco.mp3]

  • Cary Wolfe in Toronto

    Cary Wolfe in Toronto

    On February 2, 2011, Rice University Professor Cary Wolfe lectured in the Bulthaup Spring 2011 series at the University of Toronto John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design on “Biopolitics, Biopower, and the (Nonhuman) Animal Body.”   [audio:carywolfe.mp3]

  • David Lurie on Early Japanese Books

    David Lurie on Early Japanese Books

    On March 18, 2011, Columbia University Professor David Lurie spoke in the Toronto Centre for the Book lecture series at the University of Toronto on “Titles of the Current Realm: Script, Language, and the Earliest Japanese Bibliographies.” [audio:davidlurie.mp3]

  • Larson on Conversation

    Larson on Conversation

    University of Toronto English Professor Katherine R. Larson speaks in the Trinity Alumni Lecture Series on April 20th, 2011. Her talk is entitled “Conversation: A Declining Art?” [audio:http://www.torontoreviewofbooks.com/podcasts/klarson.mp3]