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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.…
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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…
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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] …
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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]
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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]