Lecture: “Language in Limbo”
Paul Schaffner (University of Michigan)
Room 301, Lillian Massey Building, 125 Queen's Park
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 Jonathan Clemens, 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.
Medieval Women Workshop II: Writers and Subjects
Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies & University of St Michael's College
Laurence K. Shook Common Room, PIMS
Practices of Commentary: An Interdisciplinary Workshop
Sponsored by the JHI Working Group on Practices of Commentary
Laurence K. Shook Common Room, PIMS
Early Modern Songscapes 2019
Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies
Victoria College, University of Toronto
Lecture: “Plutarch's Prism: Vernacular Translations of Plutarch and Political Thought in Renaissance France and England”
Rebecca Kingston (University of Toronto)
Senior Common Room, Victoria College (rear of 91 Charles St West)
Lecture: “Clara in natura, clarior in fama, clarissima in gratia: Clare of Assisi and Feminine Holiness in Later Medieval Europe”
Alison More (University of St Michael's College)
Room 404, Carr Hall, 100 St Joseph Street
Lecture: “‘Unless I Believe, I Shall Not Understand’: Anselmʼs Proslogion and the First Biblical Lectures at the University of Vienna as Anti-Philosophical Undertaking”
Edit Anna Lukács (CNRS, Paris)
Seminar Room A, PIMS
Lecture: “A World Without Letters: Fulgentius and his De aetatibus mundi et hominis”
Gregory Hays (University of Virginia)
Room 301, Lillian Massey Building, 125 Queen's Park
Seminar: “Orders Without Borders: Circulating the Writings of the Augustinian Canons at Oxford and Cirencester”
Andrew Dunning (Mellon Fellow, PIMS)
Seminar Room A, PIMS
Lecture: “The Praiseworthy One: Devotional Images of the Prophet Muhammad in Islamic Traditions”
Christiane Gruber (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
Room 310, Lillian Massey Building, 125 Queen's Park
Seminar: “Changing Stakeholders and the Church’s Approach to Accountability in Assistive Institutions in Thirteenth-Century Western Europe”
Anna Peterson (Mellon Fellow, PIMS)
Seminar Room A, PIMS
The Implications of Reading Brian Stock
Colloquium
Room 112 (Alumni Hall) of the Victoria College Building, 73 Queen's Park Crescent East
“In the Midst of Life”: A Concert for Lent
St Michael's College Schola Cantorum and Consort led by Chris Verrette and directed by Michael O'Connor
St Basil's Church, 50 St Joseph Street
Guest Lecture: “Heterodox Traditions and Social Control Policies in the Mediterranean Area in the Later Middle Ages”
Fabrizio Titone (Universidad del Pais Vasco)
Seminar Room A, PIMS
Guest Lecture: “Faustus Redeemed? Medieval Continuities within Post-Reformation English Drama”
Alison Shell (University College London)
Seminar Room A, PIMS
Seminar: “A Conquest that Changed an Empire: The Ottoman Military in Syria”
Linda Darling (Annemarie Schimmel Kolleg, Üniversität Bonn and University of Arizona)
Natalie Zemon Davis Room (SS2098), 100 St George Street
The 18th Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies
Great Hall, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto
Lillian Massey Building, 125 Queen's Park
The 2019 Boyle Lecture: “From the Blessed Hand: Papal Provisions and the University of Paris in the Fourteenth Century”
William Courtenay (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Room 100, Alumni Hall, 121 St Joseph Street
Seminar: “Professional Ethics in the Middle Ages? Scholastic Reflections on the Role of Judges”
Simona Vucu (Mellon Fellow, PIMS)
Seminar Room A, PIMS
Lecture: “Fool for Christ as Visionary and Prophet: The Case of St Andrew the Fool of Constantinople”
Svitlana Kobets (Visiting Scholar, PIMS)
Seminar Room A, PIMS