Innovation Academy sees itself as part of a global movement that aims to contribute to societal transformation through education about sustainable development. Educational goals include promoting environmental awareness and information about environmental problems and solutions, exchanging experiences, and inspiring action... Read More »
aiforia is committed to promoting the responsible use of resources and sustainable practices. We develop, coordinate and implement a variety of local and international projects and organize seminars and educational programs. As an official partner of “Green City Freiburg”... Read More »
MotionLab began with the simple idea to build a bicycle. What emerged was Europe’s first prototyping space for hardware in mobility... Read More »
MotionLab began with the simple idea to build a bicycle. What emerged was Europe’s first prototyping space for hardware in mobility... Read More »
Innovation Academy sees itself as part of a global movement that aims to contribute to societal transformation through education about sustainable development. Educational goals include promoting environmental awareness and information about environmental problems and solutions, exchanging experiences, and inspiring action... Read More »
The iPRAKTIKUM team is pleased to announce yet another great opportunity with “Yiddish in the City”, this time with the Montessori Jewish Day School... Read More »
Find out if teaching is your thing! The iPRAKTIKUM team is pleased to announce the 4th edition of the ‘German in the City School Partnership’, an internship program that sends qualified U of T students to German programs at GTA schools... Read More »
Find out if teaching is your thing! The iPRAKTIKUM team is pleased to announce the third edition of the ‘German in the City School Partnership’, an internship program that sends qualified U of T students to German programs at GTA schools... Read More »
October 1, 2020, 4-6 pm The reading group Ekphrasis in conjunction with the Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures is happy to announce the following guest lecture by Dr. David E. Wellbery (University of Chicago). David E. Wellbery will join the reading group on Thursday October 1st, 2020 from 4-6pm to discuss passages from Lessing’s Laokoon oder über die Grenzen der Mahlerey und Poesie (1766) with reference to the overarching theme of ekphrasis. Lessing’s Laokoon has outlived most of its contemporaries in 18th-century criticism and the reason for its abiding influence may well be that it gets to the core conceptual issues with incomparable clarity. Lessing’s Laokoon appears to be foremost an analysis of ekphrastic passages from Vergil in order to critique Horaz’ ut pictura poesis as well as Winckelmann’s idealization of Ancient sculptures and art. What strikes us nowadays about Laokoon is the self-referentiality envisioned in the use of ekphrasis as a critique of an approach intermingling between description/depiction in terms of spatiality and the temporality of narration. As if the critique as genre is to stand apart from aesthetic categories and, thus, would allow for a naïve use of ekphrasis; quite ironic to some extent. In addition, Lessing’s writing as ... Read More »
The way knowledge is produced, managed, applied and disseminated on a global scale today is damaging to the environment and to social relations... Read More »
Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures University of Toronto