EVENTS LISTINGS

NOVEMBER

Thursday, November 15, 12:00-2:00pm. New North Building (NE 5128) - WGS Feminist Lunch Series: #METOO with Professor Beverly Bain

Monday, November 12, 7:00pm. MiST Theatre (CCT Building 150) - CSAC presents: The Poetry of Amazement, An Evening with Vikram Chandra. To reserve your admission free seat, please register here.

Tuesday, November 6, 5:30-8:00pm. New North Building (NE 4207) - CSAC Urdu Film Series: Nikaah (in Urdu with English subtitles) - All are welcome!

OCTOBER

Classics and the World Today 3 (CaWT3):

Thursday, October 25, 5:15pm, Instructional Centre (IB 120) - Classics and the World Today (CaWT): Local Identities, Movement, and Global Connections in Antiquity. In this public event, Prof. Elena Isayev (University of Exeter) and Prof. Miguel John Versluys (Leiden University) will present their work to ask to what extent discussing the world of the Ancient Greek and Roman Mediterranean can contribute to our current society. This event is geared towards encouraging discussions between undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, alumni and the broader public. A reception will follow. To view the poster, please click here.

Friday, October 26, 10am-4:30pm, New North Building (NE 4107) - Classics and the World Today (CaWT): A Workshop in Methodologies. Prof. Elena Isayev (University of Exeter) and Prof. Miguel John Versluys (Leiden University) will lead a workshop in methodologies for investigating identities and global connections in antiquity. To view the poster and for information on how to register, please click here.

Tuesday, October 23, 12:00-1:00pm. New North Building (NE 5128) - WGS Feminist Lunch Hour: Fleshy Politics: Vaccines, Suspicion and Felt Protection with Prof. Nicole Charles

Tuesday, October 16, 5:30-8:00pm. New North Building (NE 4207) - CSAC Urdu Film Series: The Chess Player (In Urdu with English subtitles)

Saturday, October 6, 7pm, MiST Theatre - Film & Concert - Hari OM Tatsat - Tickets are $20 for Adults and $10 for Students

The Many Lives of Aurangzeb Workshop: 

Thursday, October 4, 9:00am - 4:30pm, New North Building (NE 4207) - Graduate Workshop on Reading, Writing, and Teaching Religious ‘Controversy’ in South Asian Religious History

Friday, October 5, 9:00am - 12:30pm, Jackman Humanities Building (UTSG) - Student Presentations

Friday, October 5, 4:00 - 6:00pm, Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, 5 Bancroft Street (UTSG) - Muzaffar Alam, Persian in the Age of Mughal Decline: A Reevaluation

SEPTEMBER

Sunday, September 30, 2:30pm, Davis Building (UTM Room - DV3140) - On the Yoga Sutras of Patañjali - lecture given by visiting pandit H.V. Nagaraja Rao - This lecture will be followed with a tribute to the late Professor Tuppil Venkatacharya (In 2017, the Professor Tuppil Venkatacharya Trust was established at the University of Toronto to support the preservation, dissemination and study of Sanskrit and South Asian heritage and culture, making events like this possible.) - Please Register Here

Thursday, September 20, 3pm, North Building (NE4207) - The Spirit of the Sepoy Host - free talk given by Priyamvada Gopal (Reader in Anglophone and Related Literature at the University of Cambridge)

Monday, September 17, 6pm, Mist Theatre - REASON, a film by Anand Patwardhan - free screening and discussion with the film maker - Please Register Here