Lecture: “Dante's Constitutional Miracles”
Justin Steinberg (University of Chicago)
Room 406, Carr Hall, 100 St Joseph Street
Calendar of Events: 2016
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.
Lecture: “The Sights of Rome: The Einsiedeln Itinerary and the Eighth Century City”
Carol Merriam and Anton Jansen (Brock University)
Room 404, Carr Hall, 100 St Joseph Street
Colloquium in Mediaeval Philosophy 2016
University of Toronto
Room 100, Jackman Humanities Building, 170 St George Street
Cologne-Toronto Graduate Student Colloquium 2016
University of Toronto
Great Hall, Centre for Medieval Studies
From Corrupt Sinners to Contagious Strangers: Plague in Late Medieval Valencia
Abigail Agresta (Queen’s University)
Room 310, Lillian Massey Building, 125 Queen's Park
Lecture: “Mimesis on Trial: Realism and Inquest in Boccaccio's Decameron”
Justin Steinberg (University of Chicago)
Room 406, Carr Hall, 100 St Joseph Street
Making (Theoretical) Sense of Philippe de Vitry’s Tuba/In arboris
Anna Zayaruznaya (Yale University)
Room 130, Edward Johnson Building, 80 Queen's Park
Seminar: “The Afterlife of Marguerite Porete's Mirror of Simple Souls and its Latin Manuscript Tradition”
Justine Trombley (Mellon Fellow, PIMS)
Seminar Room A, PIMS
Lecture: “Wretched Girls, Wretched Boys, and the Medieval Origins of the European Marriage Pattern”
Judith Bennett (University of Southern California)
Room 310, Lillian Massey Building, 125 Queen’s Park
Seminar: “They have mouths, and speak not”: The Depiction of Pagan Idols in Byzantine Art
Giovanni Gasbarri (Mellon Fellow, PIMS)
Seminar Room A, PIMS
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)
Room BV363, Bladen Wing, University of Toronto Scarborough, 1265 Military Trail, Toronto
Seminar: “Cistercians, Mendicants and Secular Masters: Hildegardian Apocalypticism in the Thirteenth Century”
Magda Hayton (Mellon Fellow, PIMS)
Seminar Room A, PIMS
Seminar: “The Development of 'Observant' Religious Reform in the Late Medieval Francophone West: The French Celestines and their World c. 1350-1450”
Robert Shaw (Mellon Fellow, PIMS)
Seminar Room A, PIMS
Lecture: “Tell Me Where is Fancy Bred?” History of Emotions and Medieval Emotions
Nancy Partner (McGill University)
Room 310, Lillian Massey Building, 125 Queen’s Park
The Orlando Furioso from Print to Digital
Five Centuries of Reading Ariosto
Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, Victoria University in the University of Toronto
Lecture: “The Nature of 'Arte': Cavalcanti and Giotto between Dante and Boccaccio”
Albert Russell Ascoli (University of California, Berkeley)
Father Madden Hall in Carr Hall, 100 St Joseph Street
New Trends in Early Modern Studies
Lectures by Barbara Baert & Franciszek Skibiński
Room 205, Northrop Frye Hall, 73 Queen's Park East
Wood, Stone, Flesh
Netherlandish Sixteenth-Century Sculpture and its Social Resonance
Room 119, Emmanuel College, 75 Queen's Park East
Language in Motion
Editing, Translating and Adapting Medieval and Early Modern Theoretical Writing on Language
Room 215, Victoria College
Lecture: “The Reception and Transformation of Greek Astronomy in Islamic Civilization”
George Saliba (Columbia University)
The Ismaili Centre, 49 Wynford Drive, North York