The 2017 Etienne Gilson Lecture: “Etienne Gilson: Formation and Achievement”
Richard J. Fafara (Fellow of the Adler-Aquinas Institute)
Room 400, Alumni Hall, 121 St Joseph Street
Calendar of Events: 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.
2017 Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America
Hosted by the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto and the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
Toronto
Seminar: “Thomas Chaundler's Libellus de laudibus duarum civitatum: Disputation or Drama?”
Elza C. Tiner (Lynchburg College)
Seminar Room A, PIMS
The 2017 Canada Chaucer Seminar
Ninth Annual Meeting
Centre for Medieval Studies, 3rd floor, Lillian Massey Building, 125 Queen's Park
Toronto Old English Colloquium 2017
Department of English | Centre for Medieval Studies
Room 310, Lillian Massey Building, 125 Queen's Park
The Canada Milton Seminar XII
University of Toronto
Alumni Hall, Old Victoria College, 93 Charles Street West
Seminar: Medieval Language Studies in Germany Today
Dictionary of Old English Special Seminar
DOE Seminar Room, Robarts Library, 14th floor
Lecture: “Debt and Payment in the Middle English Charters of Christ”
Anne Schuurman (University of Western Ontario)
Room 100A, Jackman Humanities Building, 170 St George Street
Colloquium in Mediaeval Philosophy 2017
University of Toronto
Room 100, Jackman Humanities Building, 170 St George Street
Workshop: “Less romantically, from the library of Speyer”: The transmission of some ‘rhetores Latini minores’, 1421-1521
Jarrett Welsh (University of Toronto)
Room 205, Lillian Massey Building, 125 Queen's Park
Global Reformations 2017
Transforming Early Modern Religions, Societies, and Cultures
Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, Victoria University in the University of Toronto
Seminar: “Of Fools and Dreams: Visionary Narratives in the Byzantine Tradition of Holy Foolishness”
Svitlana Kobets (Visiting Scholar, PIMS)
Seminar Room A, PIMS
Seminar: “Nature in Giles of Rome's On Ecclesiastical Power”
Peter Adamson (Ludwig-Maximilans-Universität München)
Common Room, PIMS
Seminar: “The Thought-Experimental Method: Avicenna's Flying Man Argument”
Peter Adamson (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
Room 418, Jackman Humanities Building, 170 St George Street
Lecture: “Alexander and Averroes on the Uses of Dialectic”
Peter Adamson (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
Room 220, Lillian Massey Building, 125 Queen's Park
Lecture: “Who Will Save Us? The Spread of Muslim Millenarian Identities in the Early Modern Mediterranean”
Abdullah Farooqi (University of Toronto)
Room 403, Carr Hall, 100 St Joseph Street
Seminar: “Loving your Life at the Turn of the Fifteenth Century”
Fiona Somerset (University of Connecticut)
Room 616, Jackman Humanities Building, 170 St George Street
Lecture: “Disability in the Roman Digest”
Peter Toohey (University of Calgary)
Room 205, Lillian Massey Building, 125 Queen's Park