Lecture: “Art, Liturgy, and the Five Senses in the Middle Ages”
Eric Palazzo (Université de Poitiers)
Room 301, Centre for Medieval Studies, 125 Queen's Park
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.
Seminar: “A Woman in the University: The Scholastic Education of Marguerite Porete”
Stephen Metzger
PIMS Room A
Seminar: “Mapping the Edge of the World: The Place of the Far East in World Maps (13th-14th centuries)”
Annalia Marchisio
PIMS Room A
Lecture: “A Poisoned Past: Telling Tales from Microhistory, Archives, and the Academy”
Steven Bednarski (St Jerome’s University in the University of Waterloo)
Room 301, 125 Queen's Park
Concert: “Ad mortem festinamus: Reflections on Mortality”
Sine Nomine
Saint Thomas’s Anglican Church, 383 Huron Street
Lecture: “Warts and All: Surgery and the Problem of 'Too Much Body' (12th-14th c.)”
Faith Wallis (McGill University)
Room 310, 125 Queen's Park
Lecture: “Maimonides and the False Prophet: The Epistemology of Prophecy and the Maimonidean Circle”
Josef Stern (University of Chicago)
Room 418, 170 St George Street
Lecture: “'Pathopoeia' from Bouts to Rembrandt: How to Work the Believers' Emotions through the Senses”
Herman Roodenburg (VU University Amsterdam & Meertens Institute)
Victoria Chapel, Old Victoria College
Lecture: “The Exegetical Imagination: The Visual Representation of the Creation and Expulsion Narratives, 359–1550”
Brenda Deen Schildgen (University of California, Davis)
Charbonnel Lounge, 81 St Mary Street
The Fiftieth Conference on Editorial Problems - Day 1
Legal Texts and the New Philology
Room FA3, Falconer House, Faculty of Law, 84 Queen's Park
The Fiftieth Conference on Editorial Problems - Day 2
Legal Texts and the New Philology
Room FA3, Falconer House, Faculty of Law, 84 Queen's Park
Lecture: “Getting it Wrong: Poetry and Narrative in Ninth Century Baghdad”
Michael Cooperson (UCLA)
Room 100, 170 St George Street
Symposium: “Games, Play, and Sports: After Suits”
Jackman Humanities Institute
Room 1040, 170 St George Street
Book History and Print Culture Graduate Colloquium 2015
On the Fringe (and in the Margins)
Massey College Upper Library
The 2015 Gilson Lecture: “How Could We Become Equal to the Angels? Late Thirteenth-Century Debates about Human and Angelic Capacities”
Bonnie Kent (University of California, Irvine)
Room 400, Alumni Hall, 121 St Joseph Street
Memorial Service for Roger Reynolds
Senior Fellow Emeritus of the Institute
Saint Basil’s Collegiate Church, 50 St Joseph Street (at Bay Street)
Seventh Annual Canada Chaucer Seminar
Centre for Medieval Studies
3rd floor, 125 Queen's Park
The 2015 Leonard E. Boyle Lecture: “Inside a Philosopher's Workshop: Science, Philosophy, and Theology in Roger Bacon's Circle”
Jeremiah Hackett (University of South Carolina)
Room 100, Alumni Hall, 121 St Joseph Street