CMS Convivium: “Christine de Pizan’s Queen’s Manuscript (BL, Harley 4431) as the High Point of Her Career”
Lori Walters (Visiting Scholar, Centre for Medieval Studies)
3rd floor, Lillian Massey Building, 125 Queens Park
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 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.
Lecture: “The Normannenteppich: The Bayeux Tapestry, the Nazis, and the Viking Myth”
Shirley Ann Brown (York University)
Room 400, Muzzo Family Alumni Hall, 121 St Joseph Street
CMS Convivium: “Hang Time: Thinking About the Future in the Medieval Mediterranean”
Karla Mallette (University of Michigan)
3rd floor, Lillian Massey Building, 125 Queens Park
The 2024 Etienne Gilson Lecture: “Theology of the Trinity and the Nature of the University”
Fr. Thomas Joseph White, O.P. (Rector Magnificus, Pontifical University of St Thomas Aquinas, Rome)
Fr Madden Hall, 100 St Joseph Street
CMS Convivium: Postdoctoral Fellows Tommaso De Robertis and Noam Sienna
3rd floor, Lillian Massey Building, 125 Queens Park
Memorial Mass in honour of Father James McConica, CSB
St Basil's Collegiate Church, 50 St Joseph Street
Lecture: “‘No’ing That You Don’t Know: Ibn Sīnā on Meno’s Paradox and Its implications for the Sciences”
Jon McGinnis (University of Missouri, St. Louis)
Great Hall, 3rd floor, Lillian Massey Building, 125 Queens Park, and online
Lecture: “Re-composing Biblical Time with Images in Carolingian Bibles”
Anne-Orange Poilpré (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University)
The Faculty Club, 41 Willcocks Street
CMS Convivium: “Puzzling over Parzival, or How to be Good in a Bad, Bad World”
Shami Ghosh (Centre for Medieval Studies)
3rd floor, Lillian Massey Building, 125 Queens Park
Lecture: “Recalibrating the Scale of Logic: Avicenna on the Canon of Scientific Reasoning”
Riccardo Strobino (Tufts University)
Great Hall, 3rd floor, Lillian Massey Building, 125 Queens Park, and online
Philosophy in Early Christian Texts (ATWAP 2024)
Great Hall, 3rd floor, Lillian Massey Building, 125 Queens Park
Lecture: “Ṭūsī on the Form and Matter of Perfection”
Reza Hadisi (University of Toronto)
BF200B, Bancroft Building, 4 Bancroft Avenue
CMS Convivium: PhD Candidates Ariana Sider and Bard Swallow
3rd floor, Lillian Massey Building, 125 Queens Park
Lecture: “Being and Non-Being: Motifs of Avicenna’s Ontology”
Olga Lizzini (Université Aix-Marseille)
Great Hall, 3rd floor, Lillian Massey Building, 125 Queens Park
Seminar: “Habituating Knowledge in Late-Medieval Representations of Musical Time”
Philippa Ovenden (Mellon Fellow, PIMS)
Laurence K. Shook Common Room, PIMS
CMS Convivium: “Preaching as Literature: (Mendicant) ‘Popularisation’ of Theology and the Bible around 1300”
Hans-Jochen Schiewer (Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg)
3rd floor, Lillian Massey Building, 125 Queens Park
Seminar: “Communications and Power: Pope Gregory VII’s Correspondence with Queens and Countesses”
Daniel Armstrong (Mellon Fellow, PIMS)
Laurence K. Shook Common Room, PIMS
Seminar: “Rhyming Connections: The Aurality of Tenth-Century Anglo-Latin Literature”
Tristan Major (LMS Candidate, PIMS)
Laurence K. Shook Common Room, PIMS