Professor Holger Syme explains the enduring allure of the Bard
This article was originally published on June 10, 2009. As the summer season of Ontario’s Stratford festival gears up, we turned to Professor Holger Syme of English and Drama at the University of Toronto at Mississauga to help us understand why the Bard endures four centuries after his death. Why does Shakespeare endure? There are [...]
For Daniel Bender, the excitement of research and teaching is found in places where different disciplines overlap.
International award recognizes U of T two years in a row
Natalie Zemon Davis, an emeritus professor from Princeton University and now a history scholar at U of T whose books have reached a wide audience, has won one of the world’s top academic prizes. The Holberg International Memorial Prize – established by the Norwegian parliament in 2003 and worth $700,500 US – is awarded for [...]
U of T professors, Jeffrey Kopstein of political science, and director of the Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, and Piotr Wrobel the Konstanty Reynert chair of Polish History and of the Department of History’s Ethnic, Immigration, and Pluralism Studies Collaborative Program along with other expert panelists debate the fall of the Berlin Wall. [...]
Professor Holger Syme explains the enduring allure of the Bard
As the summer season of Ontario’s Stratford festival gears up, we turned to Professor Holger Syme of English and Drama at the University of Toronto at Mississauga to help us understand why the Bard endures four centuries after his death. Why does Shakespeare endure? There are two almost completely different answers depending on what you [...]
History professor examines the sexual revolution
Common wisdom says that sex sells, but have you ever wondered why? Research conducted by Professor Paul Rutherford of history has provided some answers that may make you do a double-take the next time you see a Madonna video or a Barbie doll. continue
Historian Yonatan Eyal on the pageantry and meaning of the presidential swearing-in
Q. When was the last time the presidential inauguration attracted so much interest and excitement? Moments of crisis or transition naturally come to mind: Thomas Jefferson as the first successful opposition candidate in 1801, Andrew Jackson as the first westerner in 1829, John Tyler as the first to succeed a fallen president in 1841, as [...]
