The Urdu ghazal, famously understood as a form comprised of disparate couplets, has hitherto been discussed as either a unity or a site of pure difference. This talk seeks to advance this debate to locate how the ghazal, both in form and content, reconciles fragmentation and totality, in-line with Sufi conceptions of the 'oneness of Being'.

A talk by Brennan McCracken, PhD Candidate in English, Concordia University

Concluding his course on Lacan’s 11th seminar, Haider Ali offers a synthetic lecture on Lacanian metapsychology and a presentation of Lacan’s graph of desire.

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A talk by Matthias Domingo Mushinski, Film and Moving Image Studies, Concordia University

Please join us for a lecture by Pietro Bianchi on the politics of the unconscious in the work of Jacques Lacan

Join us on Friday October 11 for a talk by CEP collaborator Petar Milat, of MaMa Multimedia Insitute in Zagreb.

Join us for two talks by Daniel Sacilotto on Latin American Marxism and the epistemology of respresentation

A bi-weekly series of informal workshop talks by graduate students and faculty, each focusing on an exemplary problem or object of study in their research

A public lecture and seminar with Eugenie Brinkema, Professor of Contemporary Literature and Media at MIT

The Centre for Expanded Poetics invites you to an online book presentation by Greg Ellermann, Lecturer at Yale University and author of Thought’s Wilderness: Romanticism and the Apprehension of Nature (Stanford University Press, 2022).

Join us on April 29th at 2PM for the final installment of this semester’s Occasional Talks series, featuring Cordelia Belton, on “Value's Judgments and Communist Practical Reason.”

On Thursday, April 27th, at 1PM, the Centre for Expanded Poetics at Concordia University will host a reading by the Palestinian poet Olivia Elias for the launch the English translation of her recent book Chaos, Crossing. This event will be facilitated by Montréal-based artists and writers Hoda Adra and Alexei Perry Cox, who will introduce and open a conversation on her work.

On Monday, April 17th, at 5PM, the Centre for Expanded Poetics at Concordia University will host a reading by the American poet, essayist and playwright Carla Harryman, in collaboration with Montréal-based author Gail Scott, who will introduce and open a conversation on her work.

Precarities, Pastorals and Poetics is a creative-writing workshop which asks how precarity can queer our relationship with the natural world, crafting new understandings of pastoral poetry. We draw together a range of pastoral traditions: 18th &19th century labouring class poets, urban pastorals of precariously employed workers, and the necropastoral which binds together technology, death and the anthropocene. 

Please join us for two talks drawn from the current book project of Ronald Mendoza-de Jesús, Catastrophic Historicism: Reading Julia de Burgos Dangerously.

Join us at the Centre for Expanded Poetics for a launch of David Swartz’s translation of Orpheu Literary Quarterly and a screening of his film based on Pessoa’s The Seafarer.

Please join us for a presentation of CEP Affiliate Megan Stein’s MFA Graduating Thesis, titled Tending, showcasing book works, stone lithography, letterpress / moveable type, handmade paper, screen printing, and soundscapes of field recordings and words translated as tone.

Please join us in 4th Space for a talk by S. Pearl Brilmyer on her recent book, The Science of Character: Human Objecthood and Victorian Realism

Please join us for a book talk by Rachel Zolf, moderated by CEP Co-Director Stephen Ross

Please join us for a book launch to celebrate the publication of CEP Director Nathan Brown’s Rationalist Empiricism: A Theory of Speculative Critique (Fordham University Press, 2021). The event will be hosted by Professor Stephen Ross, with a lecture by Nathan Brown and questions from respondent Professor Manish Sharma, followed by a general Q&A.

Canadian Launch for Ariel Resnikoff’s Unnatural Bird Migrator

A poetry reading and discussion of translingual Jewish poetics with Adeena Karasick, introduced and moderated by Charles Bernstein

This workshop seeks to provide a forum to discuss the challenges and possibilities of incorporating the global turn in modernist studies into college-level courses on modernism, at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.

Poetry, Translation, and the Circulation of Global Modernism: A Roundtable and Reading with Emily Drumsta, Klara Du Plessis, Ariel Resnikoff, and Sho Sugita

Moderated by Alys Moody and Stephen Ross

This roundtable showcases the methods and findings of Global Modernists on Modernism (Bloomsbury, 2020), a new anthology of source texts for global modernism. The book gathers texts by practitioners (writers, artists, critics, etc.) that reflect on the theory and practice of modernism around the world.

Join us at the Centre for Expanded Poetics for a workshop with Amanda Holmes on Lacan’s Graph of Desire. The workshop will consist of two talks, each followed by discussion. The first talk with situate the graph in its intellectual-historical context, in relation to both Freud’s psychoanalytic topology and French structuralism. The second talk will work through the graph step-by-step, elaborating the elements and relationships it maps.

Amanda Holmes is a Doctoral student in the Philosophy Department at Villanova University. Her work is situated at the intersection of ontology and psychoanalysis. She is currently living in Vienna, Austria and writing her dissertation, which is titled "Erotology: Desire and Being in Lacan's Return to Freud."