Lecture: “What is the Point of the Drunken Sailor? Michelangelo’s Noah on the Sistine Chapel Ceiling”
Michael O'Connor (St Michael's College)
Fr Madden Auditorium, Carr Hall, 100 St Joseph Street
Calendar of Events: 2023
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.
Research Presentation: “Going Out in Style: From Deathbed Profession to Burial in Religious Habits, ca. 1000–1400”
Kirsty Schut (University of King's College)
3rd floor, Lillian Massey Building, 125 Queens Park
Proseminar: “Souls on Fire: A Brief Philosophical History of Hellfire”
Pasquale Porro (University of Turin)
Room 301, Lillian Massey Building, 125 Queen’s Park
Seminar: “A Different Visitation Mystery: Introducing Fourteenth Century Accounts of the Virgin Mary on Mount Carmel”
Fr. Simon Mary (LMS Candidate, PIMS)
Laurence K. Shook Common Room, PIMS
Research Presentation: “Through the Lens of Faith: Optics and Preaching in Dante’s Tuscany”
Francesca Galli (Universität Zürich, Università della Svizzera italiana)
3rd floor, Lillian Massey Building, 125 Queens Park
Seminar: “Educational and Poetic Ideals of the Late-Ninth and Early-Tenth Century”
Paul Vinhage (Mellon Fellow, PIMS)
Laurence K. Shook Common Room, PIMS
CRRS Workshop: “Frames that Speak: An Introduction to Cartographic Cartouches”
Chet Van Duzer (Lazarus Project, University of Rochester)
Victoria University Common Room, 89 Charles Street West
Research Presentation: “Translations in the Making: Studies in Medieval Latin Versions of Greek Texts and Their Manuscripts”
Riccardo Macchioro (Università degli Studi di Milano)
3rd floor, Lillian Massey Building, 125 Queens Park
PIMS Christmas Tea and Raffle
Hosted by the Friends of the Library
Laurence K. Shook Common Room, PIMS
Lecture: “Do We Really Have a Natural Desire to Know God? Philosophy, Theology, and Faith, 1270–1320”
Pasquale Porro (University of Turin)
Room 400, Muzzo Family Alumni Hall, 121 St Joseph Street