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Tag: public talks

  • 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]