The Etienne Gilson Lecture: “God and the One: A Critical Tribute to Etienne Gilson”
Bernard McGinn (University of Chicago)
Father Madden Hall, Carr Hall, 100 St Joseph Street
Calendar of Events: April 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 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.
ISCAD5: Emotions & Communities
International Seminar on Critical Approaches to Dante
Room 400, Muzzo Family Alumni Hall, 121 St Joseph Street, and online
Seminar: “Could It Have Been Otherwise? Some Remarks on Hervaeus Natalis’s Reaction to Determinism”
Francesco Binotto (Mellon Fellow, PIMS)
Laurence K. Shook Common Room, PIMS
Lecture: “Humanist Compassions: A Literary History of an Emotion”
Gur Zak (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Great Hall, 3rd floor, Lillian Massey Building, 125 Queens Park, and online
Lecture: “Reflexives in the Historical Language Contact Situation between French and English”
Achim Stein (University of Stuttgart) and Carola Trips (University of Mannheim)
Room 560A, Sidney Smith Hall, 100 St George Street
Seminar: “Lay Death and Burial in Religious Habits in the Central and Later Middle Ages: Continuity, Change, and Controversy”
Kirsten Schut (Mellon Fellow, PIMS)
Laurence K. Shook Common Room, PIMS, and online
Lecture: “Origen Issues: The Reception of a Renegade Greek Theologian in Early Medieval Europe”
Scott Bruce (Fordham University)
Great Hall, 3rd floor, Lillian Massey Building, 125 Queens Park, and online
Lecture: “What Problems does the Great Mongol Shahnama Pose?”
Robert Hillenbrand (University of Edinburgh)
LI301, Lillian Massey Building, 125 Queen’s Park, 3rd floor
Meeting of Open Council
Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
Laurence K. Shook Common Room, PIMS