PIMSPontifical Institute
of
Mediaeval Studies

Thursday 29 September (Great Hall, Centre for Medieval Studies)

2:00 pm Welcome: Suzanne Akbari, Director, CMS; Mark McGowan, Senior Academic Advisor to the Dean of Arts and Science, International

2:30-3:45 Session 1
Chair: Susanne Wittekind
Kathrin Borgers: ‘Seeing Through the Artist’s Eyes: The Creative Act of Painting Monsters’
Commentator: Matt Kavaler

4:00-5:15 Session 2
Chair: Jesse Billett
Maria Parousia Clemens: ‘Consecratio duplex: The Relationship between the liturgical Rites of Consecration of Virgins and monastic Profession for Nuns in the Central Middle Ages’
Commentator: Susanne Wittekind

5:30-6:45 Session 3
Chair: Sabine von Heusinger
Eva-Maria Cersovsky: ‘Who Cares? Gender and Health Care in Late Medieval Strasbourg’
Commentator: Nicholas Terpstra

7:30 Dinner

Friday 30 September (Great Hall, Centre for Medieval Studies)

9:00-10:15 Session 4
Chair: Suzanne Akbari
Bogdan Smarandache: ‘Border Warriors and Border Agreements: The Study of the Latin East as a Frontier’
Commentator: Andreas Speer

10:30-11:45 Session 5
Chair: Peter Orth
Kim Alings: ‘Semantic Accesses to the Keyword auctoritas in Primary Sources from the Second to the Ninth Century’
Commentator: Nicholas Everett

12:00-1:15 Session 6
Chair: Nicholas Everett
Jacob Goldowitz: ‘Renovation and Resurgence: Salernitan Medicine’s late-antique and early-medieval Heritage’
Commentator: Peter Orth

Lunch

2:15-3:30 Session 7
Chair: Monika Schausten
Fabian Scheidel: ‘Turning and Transforming: Body Concepts and binary Oppositions in the Allegory of ‘Frau Welt‘ (‘Lady World’)’
Commentator: Shami Ghosh

3:45-5:00 Session 8
Chair: Shami Ghosh
Walker Horsfall: ‘Frauenlob’s catechistic Imperative: Form and Function in the Kreuzleich’
Commentator: Monika Schausten

5:15-6:30 Session 9
Chair: Andreas Speer
Lars Reuke: ‘Many Lives: Vegetal, Animal, and Human Life in Albertus Magnus’
Commentator: Peter King

Dinner-Students’ night

Saturday 1 October (Great Hall, Centre for Medieval Studies)

9:00-10:15 Session 10
Chair: Lawrin Armstrong
Jason Brown: ‘The Composition of St Antoninus’ Summa’
Commentator: Sabine von Heusinger

10:30-11:45 Session 11
Chair: Guy Guldentops
Francesca Bonini: ‘The Manuscript Tradition of the Lectura Thomasina’
Commentator: Martin Pickavé

12:00-1:15 Session 12
Chair: Martin Pickavé
Boaz Schuman: ‘Quid est veritas? John Buridan on What Makes a Proposition True’
Commentator: Guy Guldentops

Concluding comments

Lunch

Tour: The medieval manuscripts of PIMS Library

Concluding dinner

Speakers, commentators, chairs:

Suzanne Akbari (director.medieval@utoronto.ca / s.akbari@utoronto.ca)
Kim Alings (kim.alings@gmx.de)
Lawrin Armstrong (lawrin.armstrong@utoronto.ca)
Jesse Billett (jesse.billett@utoronto.ca)
Francesca Bonini (francesca.bonini89@gmail.com)
Kathrin Borgers (kathrin.borgers@uni-koeln.de)
Jason Brown (jasonaaron.brown@mail.utoronto.ca)
Eva-Maria Cersovsky (cersovse@uni-koeln.de)
Maria Parousia Clemens (parousia.clemens@mail.utoronto.ca)
Nicholas Everett (n.everett@utoronto.ca)
Shami Ghosh (shami.ghosh@utoronto.ca)
Jacob Goldowitz (jacobgoldowitz@icloud.com)
Guy Guldentops (guy.guldentops@uni-koeln.de)
Sabine von Heusinger (s.vonheusinger@uni-koeln.de)
Walker Horsfall (walker.horsfall@mail.utoronto.ca)
Matt.Kavaler@utoronto.ca
Peter King (peter.king@utoronto.ca)
Peter Orth (porth@uni-koeln.de)
Martin Pickave (martin.pickave@utoronto.ca)
Lars Reuke (lars.reuke@gmail.com)
Monika Schausten (schausten.monika@uni-koeln.de)
Fabian Scheidel (fabian_scheidel@yahoo.de)
Boaz Schuman (boazfs@gmail.com)
Bogdan Smarandache (bogdan.smarandache@mail.utoronto.ca)
Andreas Speer (andreas.speer@uni-koeln.de)
Nicholas Terpstra (nicholas.terpstra@utoronto.ca)
Susanne Wittekind (susanne.wittekind@uni-koeln.de)