Calendar of Events: 2019
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: “Angry Words, Then and Now”
Barbara H. Rosenwein (Loyola University)
Room 310, Centre for Medieval Studies, Lillian Massey Building, 125 Queen's Park
The Lord is my Light: A Concert for Michaelmas
Saint Michael's Schola Cantorum and Consort
St Basil's Church, 50 St Joseph Street
The Erasmus Lecture: “Jacob Burckhardt and the Economic Historians of Renaissance Florence: A Missed Encounter”
Francesca Trivellato (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
Alumni Hall, Victoria College, 91 Charles St. W
Goggio Lecture: “Il bacio di Francesca: Dante e romanzi d’amore francesi”
Giuseppina Brunetti (Alma Mater Studiorum‐University of Bologna)
Room 403, Carr Hall, 100 St Joseph Street
Conference: “Commenting and Commentary: The Historical Emergence of a Global Interpretive Mode”
Centre for Medieval Studies
Room 312, Lillian Massey Building, 125 Queen's Park
Lecture: “The Modern Myth of Medieval ‘Chivalry’”
Jonathan Boulton (Visiting Scholar, PIMS)
Seminar Room A, PIMS
Seminar: “Boethius’ De arithmetica in the Early Middle Ages (9th–12th Century): An Introduction”
Clelia Crialesi (Mellon Fellow, PIMS)
Seminar Room A, PIMS
Lecture: “Working with Islamic Manuscripts: From a Western Perspective to a Neutral Stance, and a Vocabulary to Reflect This”
Karin Scheper (Leiden University)
Room 301, Lillian Massey Building, 125 Queen's Park
The 2019 Annual Dante Lecture: Dante and Wonder
Piero Boitani (Sapienza University of Rome)
Room 100, Alumni Hall, 121 St Joseph Street
Seminar: “Protecting Peasants from Punishment? A Preliminary Picture of Sanctuary in England, 1218–1294”
Kenneth Duggan (Mellon Fellow, PIMS)
Seminar Room A, PIMS
Lecture: “The Travail of Political Visionary Writing: Christine de Pizan, Edith Thomas, and Other Humanists at Work”
Helen Solterer (Duke University)
Room 301, Centre for Medieval Studies, 125 Queen's Park
Omnia disce: A Celebration of Father Leonard E. Boyle, OP on the Twentieth Anniversary of His Death
PIMS
Father Madden Hall, in Carr Hall, 100 St Joseph Street
Lecture: “Demons, Blood, a Headless Man and Fancy Boots: How Canterbury’s Glaziers Began the Story of Thomas Becket’s Miracles”
Rachel Koopmans (York University)
Room 100, Alumni Hall, 121 St Joseph Street
Seminar: “Holy Women on the Home Front: The Construction of Female Sanctity in the Context of Thirteenth-Century Crusading Propaganda”
Lydia Walker (Mellon Fellow, PIMS)
Seminar Room A, PIMS
Seminar: “The Ideology of Royal Artistic Patronage in Barcelona at the End of the Twelfth Century: Painting, Poetry and Political Hierarchies”
Shannon Wearing (Mellon Fellow, PIMS)
Seminar Room A, PIMS
Seminar: “The Remaking of the Roman Sacramentaries in the Frankish Realms, c.750–900”
Arthur Westwell (Mellon Fellow, PIMS)
Seminar Room A, PIMS
Lecture: “Ovid and Dante in Boccaccio’s Tale of Nastagio degli Onesti (Decameron 5.8)”
Warren Ginsberg (University of Oregon)
Room 406, Carr Hall, 100 St Joseph Street
Lecture: “Kings and Cripples: The Absent Monarch in the Lancelot Prose Cycle”
Christopher Baswell (Columbia)
Alumni Hall, 91 Charles St West