Lecture: “How Literacy Has in Historical Terms Distinguished Ethiopia from All Other Regions of Sub-Saharan Africa”
Solomon Hailemariam Erba (President of PEN Ethiopia, 2008-2015)
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.
Solomon Hailemariam Erba (President of PEN Ethiopia, 2008-2015)
Magda Hayton (Mellon Fellow, PIMS)
Robert Shaw (Mellon Fellow, PIMS)
Nancy Partner (McGill University)
Five Centuries of Reading Ariosto
Albert Russell Ascoli (University of California, Berkeley)
Lectures by Barbara Baert & Franciszek Skibiński
Netherlandish Sixteenth-Century Sculpture and its Social Resonance
Editing, Translating and Adapting Medieval and Early Modern Theoretical Writing on Language
George Saliba (Columbia University)
Helen Solterer (Duke University)