Seminar: “Driving the Demons Away: The Motif of Idol Destruction in Byzantine Art”
Giovanni Gasbarri (Mellon Fellow, PIMS)
Seminar Room A, PIMS
Calendar of Events: March 2017
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.
Seminar: “Theatricalities: Voicing, Embodiment, and the Ecbasis Captivi”
Monika Otter (Dartmouth College)
Room 310, Lillian Massey Building, 125 Queen's Park
Lecture: “The Early Cult of Thomas Aquinas in Southern Italy”
M. Michèle Mulchahey (PIMS)
Room 404, Carr Hall, 100 St Joseph Street
Lecture: “Magnum iocum dare: Literature as Play in the Eleventh Century”
Monika Otter (Dartmouth College)
Room 310, Lillian Massey Building, 125 Queen's Park
Seminar: “Publishing Hildegard: The Creation and Circulation of the Pentachronon in the Thirteenth Century”
Magda Hayton (Mellon Fellow, PIMS)
Seminar Room A, PIMS
The Secret Arts and the Art of Secrets: Exploring the Conjunction of Art and Esotericism
4th Annual Wollesen Memorial Graduate Symposium
East Common Room, Hart House, 7 Hart House Circle
Medieval Ethiopia: A Colloquium
Sponsors: Centre for Medieval Studies, Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, Italian Cultural Institute, University of St Michael's College
Alumni Hall and Centre for Medieval Studies
Seminar: “Vox diabolica est: A Polemical Attack on the Speculum Simplicium Animarum from a Fifteenth-Century Codex”
Justine Trombley (Mellon Fellow, PIMS)
Seminar Room A, PIMS
Seminar: “The Contribution of the Phoenicians to Medieval and Renaissance Medicine”
Charles Burnett (Warburg Institute, University of London)
Room 310, Lillian Massey Building, 125 Queen's Park
Seminar: “The Textual Tradition of Boethius' First 'Perihermeneias' Commentary: From Cassiodorus to Alcuin”
John Magee (University of Toronto)
Room 220, Lillian Massey Building, 125 Queen's Park
The 38th Canadian Conference of Medieval Art Historians
Presented by the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies of Brock University
Brock University, St Catharines, Ontario
Seminar: “Monastic Reform and Statute in the Late Middle Ages: The Celestine Constitutions and the Minim Rule”
Robert Shaw (Mellon Fellow, PIMS)
Seminar Room A, PIMS
Affective Piety: A Symposium on the Engagement of Pre-Modern Emotions
Presented by the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies
Room 119, Emmanuel College, 75 Queen's Park Crescent
Lecture: “Liberty and Grace: A Dialogue between St. Augustine and Dante”
Giuseppe Mazzotta (Yale University)
Room 406, Carr Hall, 100 St Joseph Street