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 Barbara North, Institute secretary (phone 416 926 7142).

The University of Toronto maintains a comprehensive listing of local events that is updated frequently and is searchable by date or week. For additional information on events, click on the links provided below, or search the list of university websites. 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.

For local events around the city, use the links in the section on the City of Toronto in “Orientations: A Guide for Visiting Fellows” elsewhere on this site.

January 2010  |  February 2010  |  March 2010  |  April 2010  

January 2010

Thurssday, 14 January

4:00 pm • Room 312 (Great Hall) • Centre for Medieval Studies

Dan Smail (Harvard University): "Violence and Predation in Medieval Europe." Lecture sponsored by the Centre for Medieval Studies.

Friday, 15 January

10:00 am • Room 310 • Centre for Medieval Studies

Dan Smail (Harvard University): "Goods and Debts in Medieval Mediterranean Europe." Seminar sponsored by the Centre for Medieval Studies. Reading material available on request.

Monday, 25 January

4:00 pm • Room 312 (Great Hall) • Centre for Medieval Studies

Peter Landau (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität and Stephan Kuttner Institute of Medieval Canon Law, Munich): "Identifying the Archpoet: Canon Law and Latin Poetry in Twelfth-Century Cologne." Lectures sponsored by the Centre for Medieval Studies, the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, and St Michael's College..

Wednesday, 20 January

5:00 pm • Room 318 • Jackman Humnities Building • University of Toronto

Barry Levy (McGill University): "Jewish Masters of the Sacred Page." Lecture sponsored by the Centre For Jewish Studies..

Thursday, 21 January

5:00 pm • Room 318 • Jackman Humnities Building • University of Toronto

Barry Levy (McGill University): "The History of the Rabbinic Bible." Lecture sponsored by the Centre For Jewish Studies..

Friday, 29 January

4:00 pm • Senior Common Room • Burwash Hall • Victoria College • University of Toronto

Antonio Ricci (York University): "Making a Classic: Printers and Editors of Orlando Furioso in Renaissance Venice." Lecture sponsored by the Toronto Renaissance and Reformation Colloquium and the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies.

February 2010

Monday, 1 February

4:30 pm • Room 312 (Great Hall) • Centre for Medieval Studies

David Nirenberg (University of Chicago): "The Unbearable Judaism of Christian Aesthetics." Lecture sponsored by the Centre for Medieval Studies..

Tuesday, 2 February

4:00 pm • Alumni Hall • Victoria College • University of Toronto

Patricia Demers (University of Alberta): "Found in Translation." A lecture by the 2009 Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies.

Thursday, 4 February

4:00 pm • Alumni Hall • Victoria College • University of Toronto

Patricia Demers (University of Alberta): "Renaissance Firsts." A lecture by the 2009 Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies.

Wednesday, 10 February

4:00 pm • Room 318 • Jackman Humnities Building • University of Toronto

Jean Baumgarten (Centre de Recherches Historiques, Paris): "The Seyfer Minhogim by Shimon ben Yehuda Halevi Guenzburg and the Tradition of the Jewish Books of Customs in the Ashkenazi Society." The Israel and Sala Disenhouse Memorial Lecture lecture sponsored by the Centre For Jewish Studies.

Friday, 19 February

8:00 pm • St Thomas's Anglican Church • 383 Huron Street

"Vanitas et corruptio: Medieval songs of parody and satire." Concert by the Institute's ensemble in residence, Sine nomine.

Tuesday, 23 February

3:00–5:00 pm • Room A • PIMS

Interdisciplinary Research Seminar: Stephanie Hayes-Healy

March 2010

Tuesday, 2 March

3:00–5:00 pm • Room A • PIMS

Interdisciplinary Research Seminar: Helen Birkett

Tuesday, 9 March

3:00–5:00 pm • Room A • PIMS

Interdisciplinary Research Seminar: Jonathan Seiling

Thursday, 11 March

4:00 pm • Room 400 • Alumni Hall • St Michael's College

Timothy B. Noone (Catholic University of America): "Of Angels and Men: Sketches from High Medieval Epistemology." The annual Etienne Gilson Lecture sponsored by the Institute.

Tuesday, 16 March

3:00–5:00 pm • Room A • PIMS

Interdisciplinary Research Seminar: Aden Kumler

Tuesday, 23 March

3:00–5:00 pm • Room A • PIMS

Interdisciplinary Research Seminar: Robert Getz

Tuesday, 30 March

4:00 pm • Room A • PIMS

"The Letters of St Boniface: Monacensis Revisted." A special lecture by Alain Stoclet

Friday, 26 March – Saturday, 27 March

9:00 am • Room 519, Research Tower • York University, Keele Campus

Landscapes and Societies in Ancient and Medieval Europe East of the Elbe: Interactions between Environmental Settings and Cultural Transformations. An international conference including speakers from Canada, the US, Germany, and Poland. Keynote addresses will be delivered by Piotr Górecki (University of California Riverside), and Jüri Kivimäe (University of Toronto). A complete programme and abstracts of papers are available.

Tuesday, 30 March

4:00 pm • Room A • PIMS

"The Letters of St Boniface: Monacensis Revisted." A special lecture by Alain Stoclet

April 2010

Tuesday, 6 April

4:00 pm • Room A • PIMS

A special lecture by Kevin Vaughan

Thursday, 8 April

4:30 pm • Laurence K. Shook Common Room • PIMS

Meeting of Open Council.

Friday, 23 April

8:00 pm • St Thomas's Anglican Church • 383 Huron Street

"Fort oultrageuse et desraisonable depense: Music for medieval feasts and occasions." Concert by the Institute's ensemble in residence, Sine nomine.