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 2013 | February 2013 | March 2013 | April 2013 | May 2013

January 2013

Thursday, 24 January

4:15 pm • Room 140 • University College

Christopher Wood (Yale University): "The Uninvited," a lecture sponsored by the Department of Art, University of Toronto.

February 2013

Wednesday, 13 February

3:10 pm • Room A • PIMS

Interdisciplinary Research Seminar: Bernhard Hollick

Friday, 22 February

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

"Music of medieval Spain": A concert by Sine nomine, the Institute's ensemble in residence.

Wednesday, 27 February

3:10 pm • Room A • PIMS

Interdisciplinary Research Seminar: Alexander Russell

March 2013

Wednesday, 6 March

3:10 pm • Room A • PIMS

Interdisciplinary Research Seminar: Adam Hoose

Friday, 8 March

4:00 pm • Alumni Hall, Room 100 • 121 St. Joseph St.

Stella Panayotova (University of Cambridge): "Illuminated Manuscripts: Science and Art"

Wednesday, 13 March

3:10 pm • Room A • PIMS

Interdisciplinary Research Seminar: John Geck

Wednesday, 20 March

4:10 pm • Centre for Medieval Studies, Room 310 • 125 Queen's Park

Noelle Phillips (SSHRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow, CMS): "Family Trees and Tall Tales: Tracing and Placing Lydgate's 'Verses on the Kings of England'."

Friday, 22 March

4:10 pm • Alumni Hall, Room 100 • 121 St. Joseph St.

Faith Wallis (McGill University) will deliver the 2013 Etienne Gilson Lecture, "Medicine and the Renaissance of the 12th Century." Reception to follow in the Laurence K. Shook Common Room.

Wednesday, 27 March

4:10 pm • Room A • PIMS

Interdisciplinary Research Seminar: Steven E. Baldner

April 2013

Wednesday, 10 April – Thursday, 11 April

3:00 pm Wednesday to 3:00 pm Thursday • Room 100a • 170 St. George St.

Placing Sacrality in Medieval and Early Modern Culture: a two-day workshop featuring Thomas Lentes (University of Munster), presented by the Jackman Humanities Institute's Working Group on Sacrality and Space.

Thursday, 11 April (Postponed; new date to be arranged)

4:30 pm • UTAC Art Lounge • 15 King's College Circle

Sheila Campbell (Former Malcove Curator, and Professor emerita at PIMS) will deliver an Art With Insight Malcove Collection Lecture presented by the University of Toronto Art Centre.

Wednesday, 17 April

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

Meeting of Open Council.

Thursday, 25 April

4:15 pm • Room 400, Alumni Hall • 121 St Joseph Street

James P. Carley (York University and PIMS) will deliver the Friends of the Library Leonard E. Boyle Lecture: "Forgery or Imitation or Neither: The Mystery of the Pierpont Morgan Golden Gospels." For further details please consult the poster.

Friday, 26 April

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

"A meeting of Eastern and Western European musical cultures": A concert by Sine nomine, the Institute's ensemble in residence.

Saturday, 27 April

9:00 am to 7:30 pm • Centre for Medieval Studies, Room 310 • 125 Queen's Park

Canada Chaucer Seminar.

Tuesday, 30 April

4:00 pm • Room 206, Alumni Hall • 121 St Joseph Street

Neil Harris (University of Udine, Italy) will deliver a lecture, "The Elephant in the Room, or the Survival of Renaissance Books," for the Toronto Renaissance and Reformation Colloquium.

May 2013

Friday, 3 May

9:30 am to 5:30 pm • Centre for Medieval Studies, Room 310 • 125 Queen's Park

Toronto Old English Colloquium.

Tuesday, 7 May

4:00 pm • Centre for Medieval Studies, Room 301 • 125 Queen's Park

Anthony Bale (Birkbeck College, University of London): "Translating Mandeville, Translating Jerusalem," a lecture sponsored by the Jackman Humanities Institute, The Department of English, and the Centre for Medieval Studies.