Calendar of Events: October 2025
This calendar lists all Institute events, including meetings of the Interdisciplinary Research Seminar, and lectures of interest to fellows, staff, and visitors at the Institute. It includes, where possible, events sponsored by the Centre for Medieval Studies (CMS), the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies (CRRS), and St Michael’s College (USMC). All dates and times are accurate at time of posting. For further information on Institute events, please contact Semira Abdella, Institute secretary (phone 416 926 7142).
The University of Toronto maintains a comprehensive listing of local events. Visitors to the Institute may also wish to consult the calendars posted on the Faculty of Music, the Department of Fine Art, and Hart House websites. To locate venues and individual buildings use the map of the St George Campus.
Presentation: “Preachers in Formation: New Approaches to the Early Dominicans”
Donald S. Prudlo (University of Tulsa)
Lecture: “Premodern Fictionality: Aristotle, Ibn Rushd, Chaucer”
Marion Turner (University of Oxford)
Meeting of Open Council
Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
Friends of the Library Lecture: “Chaucer and the Blessed Virgin Mary”
David Wallace (University of Pennsylvania)
Theory After Practice Conference
Lecture: “Ahmar in the Maghrib: Landscape, Identity, and Color in the Islamic West”
Abbey Stockstill (University of Virginia)
Lecture: “Woodblocks and Worlds: Egypt’s Medieval Printing Legacy and the Birth of European Print”
Kristina Richardson (University of Virginia)
CMS Convivium: “Gaelic Ireland: Revising the Narrative with Archaeology and Digital Humanities”
Thomas J. Finan (Saint Louis University)