Lecture: “Whose Aquinas? Which Dante? Étienne Gilson and Pierre Mandonnet on Thomism and Dante Studies in the 1920s and 1930s”
George Corbett (University of St Andrews)
Laurence K. Shook Common Room, PIMS
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: “Over my Dead Body: Formula and Poetry in Late Medieval Tomb Inscriptions”
Bard Swallow (Centre for Medieval Studies)
Northrop Frye Centre (Victoria College 102), 91 Charles Street West
2024 Annual Dante Lecture: “Dante & Beatrice”
George Corbett (University of St Andrews)
Room 400, Muzzo Family Alumni Hall, 121 St Joseph Street
Lecture: “Poets as Critics in the Early Middle Ages”
Cillian O’Hogan (Centre for Medieval Studies)
Room 400, Muzzo Family Alumni Hall, 121 St Joseph Street
Lecture: “Commenting on Commentaries: The History, Development, and Diversity of the Chinese Commentarial Tradition”
James Robson (Harvard University)
Centre for Medieval Studies, 3rd Floor, Lillian Massey Building, 125 Queen's Park, and online
Seminar: “A Cloth for the Eucharist: From Material Presence to Pictorial Representation (Fifteenth-Century Western Europe)”
Julie Glodt (Mellon Fellow, PIMS)
Laurence K. Shook Common Room, PIMS
Seminar: “Demons from the Outside: Topography of the Devil in Caesarius of Heisterbach’s Dialogus Miraculorum”
František Novotný (Mellon Fellow, PIMS)
Laurence K. Shook Common Room, PIMS
Lecture: “Listening to Women in Medieval Irish Literature”
Joanne Findon (Trent University)
Charbonnel Lounge, Elmsley Hall, USMC, 81 St Mary Street
Seminar: “‘Won’t You Be My Neighbor?’: Property Mapping as Social History”
Katherine Pierpont (Mellon Fellow, PIMS)
Laurence K. Shook Common Room, PIMS
Lecture: “Editing Ordo Romanus Primus: Who Wrote It? Who Read It?”
Peter Jeffery (University of Notre Dame)
Laurence K. Shook Common Room, PIMS
Lecture: “Franciscan Theology & Scientific Innovation in the Middle Ages”
Lawrence Principe (Johns Hopkins University)
Room 400, Muzzo Family Alumni Hall, 121 St Joseph Street
Lecture: “The Poor Clares of Villingen: Music, Liturgy and Art in an Enclosed Convent”
Margot Fassler (University of Notre Dame)
Room 400, Muzzo Family Alumni Hall, 121 St Joseph Street, and online