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24Oct2016
Voltaire

Distinguished Lecture: Voltaire And The Radical Enlightenment

Speaker: Nicholas Cronk, Director, Voltaire Foundation; Professor Of French Literature, Oxford University

Nicholas Cronk is a leading scholar of French Enlightenment thought. As director of the Voltaire Foundation (Oxford) and a a General Editor of the Com...

Location: Alumni Hall, Old Victoria College (Room 112), 73 Queen Park's Crescent #106, Toronto, ON M5S 1K7

26Oct2016
Image of the Sequoyah Nuclear Power Plant featuring reactors emitting smoke into the sky.

From Nuclear Sovereignty to Algorithmic Governance

Speaker: Prof. Sonja M. Amadae, Senior Research Fellow, Academy Of Finland Center Of Excellence In The Philosophy Of The Social Sciences (TINT), Dept. Of Political And Economic Studies, University Of Helsinki

In Prisoners of Reason I argue that the felt imperatives of nuclear security transformed our understanding of individual and collective action. Indivi...

Location: Room 215, Old Victoria College, 73 Queen Park's Crescent #106, Toronto, ON M5S 1K7

26Oct2016
Vietnam

A New History Of Vietnam? Questions Of Colonialism, Collaboration, And Periodization

Speaker: Christopher Goscha, Associate Professor, Université Du Québec à Montréal

It has never been easy to write the history of Vietnam. This small country’s role in one of the most violent wars of decolonization of the 20th cent...

Location: Room 108N, North House, Munk School of Global Affairs, 1 Devonshire Pl, Toronto, ON M5S 3K7

27Oct2016
Jaffna journalism students

Re-Settling Jaffna: Ethnic and Caste Relations in Post-War Sri Lanka

Speaker: Prof. Sharika Thiranagama, Stanford University

For exact location of the event on campus, please follow this link: http://map.utoronto.ca/utsc/building/204 ...

Location: 160, Arts and Administration Building, University of Toronto Scarborough, 1265 Military Trail, Scarborough, ON, Canada M1C 1A4

28Oct2016
Vichy regime

How Free France Mattered to Africans, 1940-1943

Speaker: Professor Eric Jennings, Department Of History

Location: Room 2053, Willson Hall, New College, 40 Willcocks St, Toronto, ON M5S 1C6

31Oct2016
Quebec and the Making of Canada

Quebec and the making of Canada

Part of the Seminar Series on the History of Canadian Confederation A roundtable discussion featuring: Magda Fahrni, Université du Québec à Montré...

Location: Room 335, Instructional Centre, University of Toronto Mississauga, 1599 Outer Circle, Mississauga, ON L5L 1C6

01Nov2016
Québec

Does Quebec Matter?

A Roundtable Discussion on History, Historians, and Place. Speakers: Magda Fahrni (UQAM) Jarrett Rudy (McGill) Nicolas Kenny (SFU) Magda Fahrni teache...

Location: Natalie Zemon Davis Room, Sidney Smith 2098, 100 St. George Street, Toronto, ON, M5S 3G3

02Nov2016
Solomon Hailemariam Erba

How literacy has in historical terms distinguished Ethiopia from all other regions of sub-Saharan Africa

Speaker: Solomon Hailemariam Erba, President Of PEN Ethiopia, 2008-2015

Location: Room 363, Bladen Wing, 1265 Military Trail, Toronto, ON M1C 1A4

02Nov2016
Kim Scheppele

Cecil A. Wright Memorial Lecture - "The End of the End of History"

Speaker: Kim Lane Scheppele, Laurence S. Rockefeller Professor Of Sociology And International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School And University Center For Human Values, Princeton University

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Francis Fukuyama pronounced the “end of history” when it seemed that the world was moving toward a consens...

Location: Room J140, Jackman Law Building, 78 Queens Park, Toronto, ON M5S 2C5

03Nov2016
Experimental Tamil theatre

Acting Up: Gender and Activist Theatre in India

Speaker: A. Mangai

A conversation with A. Mangai led by Nandi Bhatia. Mangai is a Feminist Theatre Director and Professor of English, Stella Maris College, Chennai, Indi...

Location: Room 160, Arts and Administration Building, 1265 Military Trail, Scarborough, ON M1C 1A4

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