Lecture: “The Coming of the Book in Islam, 7th-8th Centuries”
Houari Touati (EHESS)
Room 2098, Sidney Smith Hall, 100 St George Street
Calendar of Events: 2015
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 Lives of the Great Languages: Latin and Arabic in the Medieval Mediterranean”
Karla Mallette (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
Room 310, Lillian Massey Building, 125 Queen’s Park
Seminar: “Scripture Performed: Liturgical Manuscript Covers and Intervisual Narrative in Ottonian Germany”
Susannah Fisher
Room A, PIMS
The Mary Play Symposium
THE CENTRE FOR PERFORMANCE STUDIES IN EARLY THEATRE / POCULI LUDIQUE SOCIETAS
Room 310, Lillian Massey Building, 125 Queen's Park
Lecture: “Tolkien’s Beowulf and Lessons from History”
Andy Orchard (University of Oxford)
Charbonnel Lounge, 81 St Mary Street
Lecture: “The Making of the Historia scholastica, 1150-1200”
Mark J. Clark (Catholic University of America)
Great Hall, Centre for Medieval Studies, 125 Queen's Park
Seminar by Mark J. Clark
Mark J. Clark (Catholic University of America)
Great Hall, Centre for Medieval Studies, 125 Queen's Park
Lecture: “Moses Maimonides: Why a Medieval Mediterranean Thinker Matters”
James A. Diamond (University of Waterloo)
Room 107, Alumni Hall, 121 St Joseph Street
Seminar: “Cult, Kingdom and Polyphony: Liturgical Music in Thirteenth-Century St Andrews”
Katherine Steiner
Room A, PIMS
A Celebration of Early Modern Studies 2015
Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies
Alumni Hall, Victoria College
Lecture: “Consent and Choice Reconsidered: Marriage in Medieval Ashkenaz”
Elisheva Baumgarten (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Room 100, Jackman Humanities Building, 170 St. George Street
Seminar: “Anglo-Latin vs Byzantine Anthologies of Occasional Poetry: The Project”
Foteini Spingou
Room A, PIMS
Lecture: “The Fifth-Century Patristic Page: The Implications of Space, Symbols and Numeration for the History of Reading”
Paul Saenger (The Newberry Library)
Room 400, Alumni Hall, 121 St Joseph Street
Lecture: “Toxic Cures: Poisons and Medicines in Medieval China”
Yan Liu (Jackman Humanities Institute)
Room 310, Centre for Medieval Studies, 3rd floor, 125 Queen's Park
The Brian Merrilees Lecture: “The Ethical Turn in Literary Criticism: A Brilliant New Approach or an Assault on the Humanities?”
William Calin (University of Florida)
Alumni Hall, 91 Charles St. W.
Concert: “Handel's Foundling Hospital Anthem and Other Baroque Music”
The Musicians In Ordinary and St. Michael’s Schola Cantorum
St Basil’s Church, 50 St Joseph Street
A Medieval Christmas: This is a Marvellous Hearing!
Poculi Ludique Societas
St Thomas’ Anglican Church, 383 Huron Street
Concert: “In presepio: Medieval Songs for the Christ-child”
Sine Nomine
Saint Thomas’s Anglican Church, 383 Huron Street