Lecture: “Fire, Siege, and the Jews: Real and Imagined Threats to Water Supply in the Late Medieval City”
Sabine von Heusinger (Distinguished Visiting Scholar, PIMS)
Room 100, 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.
Seminar: “Exemplary Intercessors: Benedictine Women Religious in Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman England”
Katie Bugyis (Mellon Fellow, PIMS)
Seminar Room A, PIMS
Seminar: “Many Stories, Almost All Bad: Narrative, Text, and the Translations of Constantine the African”
Brian Long (Mellon Fellow, PIMS)
Seminar Room A, PIMS
Editing Medieval Medical Texts, Latin and Middle English
52nd Conference on Editorial Problems
Great Hall (Room 312), Centre for Medieval Studies, 3rd Floor, Lillian Massey Building, 125 Queen's Park
Lecture: “The Late Medieval Book of Hours and the Idea of the Literary”
Jessica Brantley (Yale University)
Room VC 213, Victoria College Chapel, 91 Charles Street W
Workshop on Medieval Women Writers
Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
Laurence K. Shook Common Room, PIMS
Seminar: “Isidorus artigraphus: Isidore of Seville as an Author of a Carolingian Grammatical Handbook”
Evina Steinová (Mellon Fellow, PIMS)
Seminar Room A, PIMS
Lecture: “Generation and Fetal Ensoulment: The Interconnectedness of Arabic Medical, Philosophical and Religious Discourses in the Mamluk Era (1250–1517)”
Nahyan Fancy (DePauw University)
Room 2098, Sidney Smith Building, 100 St George Street
Lecture: “New Worlds, Indigenous Technologies, and European Cabinets of Curiosities”
Surekha Davies (Western Connecticut State University)
Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse, 79 St George Street
Seminar: “Following the Steps of Our Father: Reading Master Jordan of Saxony's Libellus de initio ordinis as Religious Pedagogy”
Steven Watts (Mellon Fellow, PIMS)
Seminar Room A, PIMS
Lecture: “John Duns Scotus’s Parisian Lectures on the Sentences of Peter Lombard: A Mystery Solved”
Stephen Dumont (University of Notre Dame)
Room 310, Lillian Massey Building, 125 Queen's Park
The USMC Annual Dante Lecture: “Seeing Dante Reading”
Henrike Lange (University of California, Berkeley)
Room 100, Alumni Hall, 121 St Joseph Street
Lecture: “Adolph Goldschmidt and Arthur Kingsley Porter: Comparative 'Corpus' Production in Scholarship on Medieval Art before 1933”
Kathryn Brush (Western University)
Room 100, Alumni Hall, 121 St Joseph St
Lecture: “The Cistercian Monastery of Zaraka: The Brief Life of a Monastic Community in Thirteenth-Century Greece”
Sheila Campbell (Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies)
Paul Martin Centre, Wilfrid Laurier University
Concert: “Begotten of Light”
St Michael's Schola Cantorum directed by Michael O'Connor
St Basil's Church, 50 St Joseph Street
Concert: “A Medieval Nunnery Christmas”
Sine Nomine
Trinity College Chapel, 6 Hoskin Avenue
The Towneley Second Shepherds' Play
Poculi Ludique Societas
Luella Massey Studio Theatre, 4 Glen Morris Street