Medieval Women Workshop V: Works About, By and For Women
Laurence K. Shook Common Room, PIMS
Calendar of Events: 2023
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: “Curiosity (Almost) Killed the Monk: Epistemic Emotions in Early Medieval England”
Nicole Discenza (University of South Florida, Visiting)
LI301 and online, Lillian Massey Building, 125 Queen’s Park, 3rd floor
Lecture: “Translatio medicinae: Mediterranean Sources in an English Climate”
Renée R. Trilling (University of Illinois, Visiting)
LI301 and online, Lillian Massey Building, 125 Queen’s Park, 3rd floor
Ritual Life in the Medieval Dominican Order
Liturgical Expressions
The Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
Sacred Book and Sacred Page in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Traditions
The Alway Symposium 2023
Fr. Madden Hall, Carr Hall, 100 St Joseph Street
Seminar: “The Bishop and the Harlot Saint: Manuscripts, Intertexts and Readers of Marbod of Rennes’ Life of Thais”
Alicia Smith (Mellon Fellow, PIMS)
Laurence K. Shook Common Room, PIMS
Seminar: “Reassessing the Writing of Universal History in Twelfth-Century England: Geoffrey of Ufford’s Scutum Bedae in London, British Library, Stowe 57”
Gabriele Passabì (Mellon Fellow, PIMS)
Laurence K. Shook Common Room, PIMS
The Etienne Gilson Lecture: “God and the One: A Critical Tribute to Etienne Gilson”
Bernard McGinn (University of Chicago)
Father Madden Hall, Carr Hall, 100 St Joseph Street
ISCAD5: Emotions & Communities
International Seminar on Critical Approaches to Dante
Room 400, Muzzo Family Alumni Hall, 121 St Joseph Street, and online
Seminar: “Could It Have Been Otherwise? Some Remarks on Hervaeus Natalis’s Reaction to Determinism”
Francesco Binotto (Mellon Fellow, PIMS)
Laurence K. Shook Common Room, PIMS
Lecture: “Humanist Compassions: A Literary History of an Emotion”
Gur Zak (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Great Hall, 3rd floor, Lillian Massey Building, 125 Queens Park, and online
Lecture: “Reflexives in the Historical Language Contact Situation between French and English”
Achim Stein (University of Stuttgart) and Carola Trips (University of Mannheim)
Room 560A, Sidney Smith Hall, 100 St George Street
Seminar: “Lay Death and Burial in Religious Habits in the Central and Later Middle Ages: Continuity, Change, and Controversy”
Kirsten Schut (Mellon Fellow, PIMS)
Laurence K. Shook Common Room, PIMS, and online
Lecture: “Origen Issues: The Reception of a Renegade Greek Theologian in Early Medieval Europe”
Scott Bruce (Fordham University)
Great Hall, 3rd floor, Lillian Massey Building, 125 Queens Park, and online
Lecture: “What Problems does the Great Mongol Shahnama Pose?”
Robert Hillenbrand (University of Edinburgh)
LI301, Lillian Massey Building, 125 Queen’s Park, 3rd floor
Meeting of Open Council
Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
Laurence K. Shook Common Room, PIMS
Lecture: “The Jewish Historian Flavius Josephus and His Significance for Medieval Christianity”
Greti Dinkova-Bruun (PIMS)
University of Vienna (Hörsaal 21, Unihauptgebäude, Universitätsring 1, 1010 Wien), and online
The Other Sister: New Research on Non-Cloistered Religious Women (1100–1800)
International Conference
University of Toronto
Worlds of Conflict: Violence in the Early Modern Period
Interdisciplinary Conference
University of Toronto
2023 Toronto Colloquium in Medieval Philosophy
Room 100, Jackman Humanities Building, 170 St George Street