November 2020
W.J. Alexander Lecture in English Literature
A Conversation with Folger Director Michael Witmore on the Future of Research Libraries and the Humanities Tuesday, November 24, 2020 at 6:00-7:30 p.m. This is a virtual event. Zoom details provided with registration confirmation: https://www.uc.utoronto.ca/alexander2020 Faculty, students, staff, and the public are cordially invited. Please RSVP by Friday, November 20, 2020: https://www.uc.utoronto.ca/alexander2020 Moderator: Lynne Magnusson Professor of English at the University of Toronto Panelists: Urvashi Chakravarty Assistant Professor of English at the University of Toronto Misha Teramura Assistant Professor of…
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Building Better Book Feminisms
Recent years have seen a surge of interest in feminist bibliography, sparked primarily by work by Kate Ozment and Sarah Werner, drawing on a 1998 piece by Leslie Howsam in SHARP News. In this roundtable, the question of how to expand the field of feminist book studies takes precedence. What does feminist theory and methodology offer to all walks of material text studies? With participants coming from the fields of book history, bibliography, libraries and archives, the conversation will open with position statements about…
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