CMS Alumni Lecture: “Listening Otherwise in Classical Persian Literature”
Andrew Hicks (Cornell University)
3rd floor, Lillian Massey Building, 125 Queens Park
Calendar of Events: 2024
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: “‘Tis optophone which ontophanes’: The Network of the Liberal Arts and Poetic Production in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries”
Paul Vinhage (Mellon Fellow, PIMS)
Laurence K. Shook Common Room, PIMS
O’Donnell Lecture: “Petrus Alfonsi, A 12th-Century Spanish Polymath and Christian Convert: An Intellectual Profile”
Carmen Cardelle de Hartmann (University of Zurich)
3rd floor, Lillian Massey Building, 125 Queens Park
Lecture: “What Can Hagiography Tell Us about the Exchange of Information between Medieval Wales, Cornwall, and Brittany”
Karen Jankulak (Aberystwyth University)
Senior Common Room, 2nd Floor of Brennan Hall, 81 St Mary Street (please use east entrance)
Lecture: “The Divinely Abundant End: Aquinas on the Beatific Vision of the Father, through the Son, in the Holy Spirit”
Fr. Bryan Kromholtz, O.P. (Visiting Scholar, PIMS)
Laurence K. Shook Common Room, PIMS
Meeting of Open Council
Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
Laurence K. Shook Common Room, PIMS
Medieval Undergrounds
The 16th Annual Toronto German Studies Symposium 2024
Paul Cadario Conference Centre at Croft Chapter House, University College, University of Toronto
Lecture: “Forging Intellectual Bonds: Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Encounters in the Middle Ages”
Alan Verskin (University of Toronto)
Room 100, Jackman Humanities Building, 170 St George Street
Christine de Pizan: Publishing, Politics, and Reception in Premodern Europe
Conference
Jackman Humanities Building / Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
2024 Toronto Colloquium in Medieval Philosophy
JHI 100, Jackman Humanities Building, 170 St George Street
Communities of Print: Authors, Readers, and Printers in the Early Modern World
Toronto Renaissance & Reformation Colloquium
University of Toronto
Lecture: “Robert Bellarmine and the ‘Multiplicity of Scripture’”
Piet van Boxel (University of Oxford)
Laurence K. Shook Common Room, PIMS
Witnesses to a Controversial Pontificate: Texts and Manuscripts Associated with Pope John XXII
Papers inspired by the 2023 Rome Seminar of the Leonard E. Boyle Toronto-Rome Diploma Programme in Manuscript Studies
Laurence K. Shook Common Room, PIMS
Meeting: “Debunk the Myth of the Black Death: Cairo’s Urban Expansion and Population Density”
Hend Elsayed (Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Art History)
Lecture: “The Forms and Functions of Black Knighthood in German and Dutch Arthurian Romance”
Sophie Jordan (PhD candidate, Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures)
Room 323, Odette Hall, 50 St Joseph Street
EMIGF II: “Reflections on Re-Sounding the Early English Metrical Psalms” and “Daughter of a Sultan or Virgin Martyr Saint? Interwoven Identities as a Portrait of Early Modern Venice”
Jacqueline Wylde (St Francis Xavier University) and Jaiya Gray (University of Victoria)
Victoria University Common Room, 91 Charles Street West
Meeting of Open Council
Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
Laurence K. Shook Common Room, PIMS
2024 Langan Lecture: “Jesuit Missionaries & Mandarins in Ming and Qing China: Faith, Science, and the Arts”
M. Antoni J. Ucerler, S.J., D.Phil. (Oxon)
Fr. Madden Hall, 100 St Joseph Street
Lecture: “Anselm the Fool: Meditation and the Joy of Unbelief in the Proslogion”
Jim Ginther (St Mike’s / CMS)
Centre for Medieval Studies, 3rd Floor, Lillian Massey Building, 125 Queen's Park