On November 16, the CBC’s Michael Enright interviewed Umberto Eco on his latest novel, The Prague Cemetery, at the Toronto Reference Library.* Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. Unfortunately, our file is a little quiet—so you may prefer to watch...
Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. 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...
Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. 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...
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 the author of Dickinson’s Misery: A...
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 of the leading...
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 clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip...
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 clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the...
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.
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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.”
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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 clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You...
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 clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have...
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?”
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