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The TransCanada Institute Reading Series Presents:
Newly Appointed Poet Laureate of Canada
Fred Wah
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Poetry Reading – 11:30-12:30pm
TransCanada Institute, 9 University Ave. E. Guelph
(Light luncheon served, please register at transcan@uoguelph.ca)
ENG 3680 – 1:00-2:20pm, Room LA 204 (Landscape Architect)
Fred will give a reading and talk about his work.
All welcome.
Winner of the Governor General’s Award for poetry for his book Waiting for Saskatchewan (1986) and of the Gabrielle Roy Prize for Canadian Criticism for his essays Faking It: Poetics and Hybridity (2000), Fred Wah is one of the premier poets of Canada. He has published numerous books of poetry, as well as the best-selling Diamond Grill, a biofiction about hybridity and growing up in a small-town Chinese-Canadian café, winner of the Howard O’Hagan Award for Short Fiction (1996). An avid supporter of small, grass-roots magazines and presses, he also served as President of the Writers Union of Canada (2001-02). A recent selection of his poetry, The False Laws of Narrative, edited by Louis Cabri, was published by Wilfrid Laurier University Press. He was elected Parliamentary Poet Laureate of Canada in December 2011.
For more information, visit www.transcanadas.ca
Sponsored by the TransCanada Institute, School of English and Theatre Studies and Canada Council for the Arts.
U of T Launch Pad for Emerging Talent in the Arts
OPEN CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Deadline: March 26, 2012 @ 12 p.m. (Noon)
The University of Toronto Arts Council is pleased to announce an open call for an initiative in support of University of Toronto graduating students in the arts.
The call is for an arts-related event that focuses public attention on the graduate and undergraduate programs in the arts on all three campuses.The Launch Pad Program specifically supports projects by students from undergraduate and graduate programs who are in their final/graduating year. These projects would be designed to demonstrate or enable students to launch their professional lives within the arts sector through events that are open to the public and the broader arts community in Toronto and beyond.
Eligibility:
Proposals will be sought from the programs in all arts disciplines and also from the professional galleries on campus for activities that concentrate on the work of graduating students. Only proposals that feature the work of graduating students as their primary focus and in the context of a public presentation will be considered to be eligible to apply to this fund.
Submission Requirements:
Proposals should be made jointly by the faculty (and/or member of the faculty) and the student(s). The submission will include:
i. an outline of the project (500 word maximum)
ii. a marketing and publicity plan
iii. a budget
iv. CVs of the students involved in the project
v. Final report from student on the success of the Launch Pad activity submitted ASAP following the event.
Submissions would come from Program Directors and Chairs (or their designates) or curators (of the University of Toronto galleries).
Additional details available at: www.arts.utoronto.ca/about_artszone/arts_council/launchpad
Submissions should be sent to:
Arts Council – Launch Pad
Office of the Vice-Provost, Students
Room 221, Simcoe Hall
27 King’s College Circle, M5S 1A1
Or electronically to: ovps.students@utoronto.ca
Nomination information is also attached to this email.
Questions regarding Launch Pad can be sent to Joan Griffin, Special Projects Officer at
e: joan.griffin@utoronto.ca or p: 416-946-8522.
ELL010H1F
The English Language Learning (ELL) Program will offer an 8-day non-credit course, ELL010H1F, Intensive Academic English, from May 2 to May 11, 2012.
The course is specially designed for multilingual students who want to improve their critical reading, academic writing, speaking, oral presentation, and listening skills. This course includes interactive lectures, small group activities, and individual feedback on students' writing and oral presentations. Register for ELL along with your summer courses in April. For more information, visit: http://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/current/undergraduate/ell
Free Screening: Payback
Based on Margaret Atwood’s Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth.
Q&A follows with acclaimed director Jennifer Baichwal.
Thursday, March 15, 2012
6:30 pm (doors open at 6:00 pm)
Town Hall, Innis College, 2 Sussex Ave
Please RSVP to rsvp.innis@utoronto.ca
For more information on Innis College upcoming events please visit our events page.
Symposium on Law and Film
This event is free and open to the public. Registration is required.
To register for this event, please go to: http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/Events.aspx
Friday, March 2, 2pm – 5pm
Room 208N, North House
Munk School of Global Affairs, 1 Devonshire Place
Co-Sponsored by the: Faculty of Law, Centre for the Study of the United States, Department of English, Cinema Studies Institute, Centre for Comparative Literature, and Centre for Innovation & Law Policy, University of Toronto.
2:00 – 3:30 pm
Stefan Andriopoulos (Depts. of German and Comparative Literature, Columbia University)
“The Terror of Reproduction: Early Cinema's Ghostly Doubles and the Right to One's Own Image”
Respondent: James Cahill, French and Cinema Studies, University of Toronto
Stefan Andriopoulos is chair of the Department of Germanic Languages at Columbia University. He is the author of Possessed: Hypnotic Crimes, Corporate Fiction, and the Invention of Cinema (University of Chicago Press, 2008; German version: Fink, 2000), which won the SLSA Michelle Kendrick award for best academic book on literature, science, and the arts. His new publication provisionally titled Ghostly Apparitions: German Idealism, the Gothic Novel, and Optical Media, is under contract with Zone Books. His previous work, published in German, includes a monograph on Accident and Crime: Configurations between Literary and Legal Discourse around 1900 (Centaurus, 1996).
James Leo Cahill teaches in the French Department and the Cinema Studies Institute at the University of Toronto. His research focuses on early French cinema, documentary and experimental media, and critical theory, with a special interest in the relationships between scientific uses of cinema, cinematic uses of science, and film pedagogy. Cahill is also a co-editor of Discourse: Journal of Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture.
3:30 – 5:00 pm
Peter Decherney (Dept. of English and Cinema Studies, University of Pennsylvania)
“Auteurism on Trial: Moral Rights and Films on Television”
Respondent: Simon Stern, Faculty of Law and Dept. of English
Peter Decherney is Associate Professor of Cinema Studies, English, and Communication and the Director of the Cinema Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Hollywood’s Copyright Wars: from Edison to the Internet (Columbia, 2012) and Hollywood and the Culture Elite: How the Movies Became American (Columbia, 2005). He regularly testifies before the Copyright Office of the United States, and in 2011, he filed an amicus brief in the Supreme Court Case of Golan v. Holder. Prof. Decherney has been an Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Scholar and a fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies.
Simon Stern is Assistant Professor of Law & English at the University of Toronto. His research interests include the history of copyright law; legal, literary, and intellectual history in the 18th and 19th centuries; and methodology in interdisciplinary work involving law and the humanities. His work has been published, or is forthcoming, in the Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities, Law & Literature, Law & Social Inquiry, the Yale Law Journal, and ELH.
Invitation to a Reading
Michael Winter, Jack McClelland Writer-in-Residence 2012
Tuesday 24 January 2012 4:15 p.m.
Massey College
Upper Library
Reception hosted by the Department of English to follow in Massey College Common Room
ALL WELCOME
The University of Toronto is committed to providing an accessible, equitable, and inclusive environment. If you have a specific accessibility issue or accommodation need, please contact Marguerite Perry 416-946-3026 or marguerite.perry@utoronto.ca
Jack McClelland Writer-in-Residence, Michael Winter
This year's Jack McClelland Writer-in-Residence, Michael Winter, will be on campus during the spring term.
Michael Winter is the author of two collections of short stories and four novels, the most recent of which, The Death of Donna Whalen (Penguin, 2010), was a finalist for both the the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. A full bio is at http://www.english.utoronto.ca/facultystaff/facultyalpha/winterm.htm.
Michael will be conducting a non-credit creative writing seminar in the "S" term on Wednesdays, 6-8 pm. The focus will be on fiction. The course is by application. Interested students should submit a print copy of a two-page sample of fiction with a return .utoronto email address to myself at the address below. No cover letter necessary. Enrollment is limited to 15 students. The deadline is Friday, Dec. 2.
Nick Mount
Associate Professor and Associate Chair
Department of English
Jackman Humanities Building
University of Toronto
170 St. George Street
Toronto, ON M5R 2M8
nick.mount@utoronto.ca
Call for Submissions: The 2012 Metcalf-Rooke Award
Attention fiction-writers:
Biblioasis is now accepting submissions for the 2012 Metcalf-Rooke Award. Please see the attached .pdf for eligibility requirements and submission guidelines.
The winner of the Metcalf-Rooke Award receives:
- a book publishing contract with Biblioasis
- a $1,500 cash prize
- a leatherbound copy of the winning book
- a regional book tour
- a profile in The New Quarterly
SUBMISSIONS must be postmarked no later than December 31st, 2011. An electronic rtf or pdf submission must also be sent to metcalf.rooke@gmail.com by December 31st, 2011.
To learn more about the press you can visit www.biblioasis.com, and if you have any questions please don't hesitate to get in touch.
Making a Difference: Supporting Students
A generous gift of $20,000 from longtime friend and supporter of Innis College, Mrs. Terry G. Harris, will provide support for two key projects.
A portion of Mrs. Harris’ donation will be used to fund the development of the Writing and Rhetoric program’s Fine Writing Website. The website will assist university students who already write well, and will serve as a resource to help students explore the rhetorical features of fine writing.
“Writing, rhetoric, and critical thinking are increasingly popular areas of study for today’s university students. The Writing and Rhetoric program at Innis College offers students a powerful educational tool designed to complement specialist and major programs as well as help students excel in their careers. Mrs. Harris recognizes the importance of the skills and knowledge our students are acquiring in the program, and we are deeply grateful for her generous support,” says Professor Cynthia Messenger, Director, Writing and Rhetoric Program.
Mrs. Harris’ gift has also been directed to the Innis College Excellence Fund which will support enhancements and upgrades to the student study space in and around the Innis Library. The purchase of new furniture and equipment will allow the College to respond to the increased needs and demands of its students. Commuter students, in particular, are in need of more space to study, reflect, and connect with their peers.
“Thanks to the generosity of alumni and friends like Mrs. Harris, we can continue to offer our students very good facilities, excellent resources, and strong support for our programs,” says Principal Janet Paterson. She continues, “Mrs. Harris’ most recent gift will impact students for years to come.”
Mrs. Harris is a published writer and poet originally from Brazil. She studied at the University of Sao Paulo, York University, and the University of Toronto (M.Ed 1981). She was a university professor in Sao Paulo, and was on the teaching staff of Toronto’s Metropolitan Separate School Board.
Mrs. Harris’ late husband Professor Robin Harris was appointed the first Principal of Innis College in 1964, and served until 1971. After Professor Harris’ death in 2000, Innis College honoured the great leader by establishing The Robin S. Harris Memorial Scholarship, which is awarded annually to an outstanding student in the Humanities.