Authorship, Readership
Third International Seminar on Critical Approaches to Dante
Father Madden Hall, Carr Hall, 100 St Joseph Street
Calendar of Events: 2018
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 Jonathan Clemens, 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.
Seminar: “St Gallen as a Hub of Carolingian Isidorian Studies?”
Evina Steinovà (Mellon Fellow, PIMS)
Seminar Room A, PIMS
Lecture: “Epitaphs, Amulets, and Letters from Heaven - Texts within Texts as Poetological Devices in Medieval Courtly Literature”
Astrid Lembke (Freie Universität Berlin)
Room 323, Odette Hall, 50 St Joseph Street
Roman de la rose: A Symposium on Fisher MS 07012
Centre for Medieval Studies
Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, 120 St George Street
Lecture: “Holy Alchemy: Religious Metaphor, Chymical Processes, and the Alchemical Defense of Christendom”
Lawrence M. Principe (Johns Hopkins University)
Room 400, Muzzo Family Alumni Hall, 121 St Joseph Street
Lecture: “The Battle for Chastity: Angels, Demons, and Saints”
Jacqueline Murray (University of Guelph)
Seminar Room A, PIMS
Concert: “Music for a Royal Convent: The Las Huelgas Codex”
Sine nomine
Trinity College Chapel, 6 Hoskin Avenue
Robert and Thomas Wakefield and the Study of Hebrew in England in the Sixteenth Century
A Symposium
Laurence K. Shook Common Room, PIMS
The 2018 Etienne Gilson Lecture: “'Silent Teachers': Christian Hebrew Learning in Medieval England”
Judith Olszowy-Schlanger (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris)
Room 400, Alumni Hall, 121 St Joseph Street
Lecture: “The Index expurgatorius in Sixteenth Century Italy and Spain: A Counterproductive Tool against Heretics and Jews”
Piet Van Boxel (University of Oxford)
Room 318, Jackman Humanities Building, 170 St George Street
2018 Toronto Old English Colloquium
University of Toronto
Room 301, Lillian Massey Building, 125 Queen's Park
XXIe Congrès international de la Société Rencesvals
University of Toronto
Victoria College and St Michael's College
Colloquium in Medieval Philosophy 2018
University of Toronto
Room 100, Jackman Humanities Building, 170 St George Street
Lecture: “From Spanish Inquisition to Spanish Louisiana: Irish clerics and their overseas entanglements 1558–1829”
Thomas O’Connor (National University of Ireland Maynooth)
[CANCELLED] Senior Common Room, St Michael’s College
Lecture: “Italian Renaissance Frescoes as Casualties of World War Two”
Cathleen Hoeniger (Queen’s University)
Senior Common Room, Victoria College (rear of 93 Charles Street West), University of Toronto
Lecture: “America and Reform in Renaissance Italy”
David Quint (Yale University)
Room 119, Emmanuel College, 75 Queen's Park Crescent
Lecture: “Creation's Chorus: Sound, Voice, and Articulation in the Exeter Book Riddles”
Robert Stanton (Boston College)
Room 310, Lillian Massey Building, 125 Queen's Park
Lecture: “The Hand of Ralph of Coggeshall: Chronicle-Making in the Reign of King John”
James Willoughby (University of Oxford)
Room 400, Muzzo Family Alumni Hall, 121 St Joseph Street