March 2021
Digital Archive and Canon
Registration is now open for the workshop "Digital Archive and Canon" https://www.digitales-archiv-und-kanon.de/ The canon debate of the 1970s asked the fundamental question of which authors’ works are published, reviewed, and thus available for canonisation. Today this question needs to be rephrased to ask which author’s works and which objects are digitised in what form, the “canon question 2.0”. On the 10.3.21 the 2nd Maximillian-Bickhoff-Kolloquium will take place regarding the topic “Digital Archive and Canon”. The virtual workshop sees itself as…
Find out more »James Joyce’s Dublin: The City Made and Unmade
S.J. Stubbs Lecture in English Literature Colm Tóibín - Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities, Columbia University Joyce's 'Ulysses', although set in Dublin, was written in three other cities, Trieste, Zurich and Paris. In each of these cities, Joyce imagined his own city. During the composition of the book, the very center of the city where it was set was destroyed in the 1916 Rebellion, just as the First World War radically changed the Europe in which…
Find out more »April 2021
Written, Painted, and Inscribed by Hand
Written, Painted, and Inscribed by Hand: Past, Present and Future of Manuscript Studies in Toronto Jackman Humanities Institute Colloquium April 9th, 2021 If conditions allow, the colloquium will be held at the Jackman Humanities building at 170 St. George, Rm 100A, otherwise we will convene via Zoom
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