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 2012 | February 2012 | March 2012 | April 2012

January 2012

Thursday, 19 January

4:15 pm • Room 728, Bissell Building • Faculty of Information • 140 St George Street

Yvan Lamonde (McGill University): "Book History, Cultural History and Beyond." Lecture sponsored by the Toronto Centre for the Book and the Collaborative Program in Book History and Print Culture.

Thursday, 19 January

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

Mitchell Merback (Johns Hopkins University): "From Icon to Mirror of the Soul: Therapeutic Exchanges with the Man of Sorrows in Medieval and Renaissance Art." Lecture sponsored by the Centre for Medieval Studies.

Thursday, 26 January

4:00 pm • Senior Common Room, Burwash Hall • Victoria College

Amy Graves (University of Buffalo): "The Pamphlet as Event: Polemical Strategies and Print Culture during the French Wars of Religion." A lecture sponsored by the by the Toronto Renaissance and Reformation Colloquium and the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies.

Wednesday, 25 January

3:00 pm • Room A • PIMS

William Duba (Université de Fribourg): "Destroying the Text: Theologians on the Theological Constitutiones during the Avignon Period." A special seminar.

Friday, 27 January

4:30 pm • Room 400 • Alumni Hall • St Michael's College

Henrietta Leyser (St Peter's College, Oxford; Distinguished Visiting Scholar 2012): "Why Arthur is Never Enough: Identity Myths and Crises in the English Middle Ages." A lecture introduced by Richard Ovenden, Deputy Librarian of the Bodleian Library and hosted by the Canadian Friends of the Bodleian. Please RSVP by Wednesday, 18 January.

February 2012

Thursday, 9 February

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

Henrietta Leyser (St Peter's College, Oxford; Distinguished Visiting Scholar 2012): "England after the Conquest: A Heartless Land." The first of a two lectures devoted to "Mapping Piety," sponsored by the Centre for Medieval Studies and the Institute.

Wednesday, 15 February

3:00–5:00 pm • Room A • PIMS

Interdisciplinary Research Seminar: Elma Brenner

Wednesday, 29 February

3:00–5:00 pm • Room A • PIMS

Interdisciplinary Research Seminar: Fortunato Trione

March 2012

Wednesday, 7 March

3:00–5:00 pm • Room A • PIMS

Interdisciplinary Research Seminar: Andrew Albin

Friday, 9 March

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

Henrietta Leyser (St Peter's College, Oxford; Distinguished Visiting Scholar 2012): "England after the Conquest: Part of the Continent, after All." The second of a two lectures devoted to "Mapping Piety," sponsored by the Centre for Medieval Studies and the Institute.

Wednesday, 14 March

3:00–5:00 pm • Room A • PIMS

Interdisciplinary Research Seminar: Savvas Neocleous

April 2012

Wednesday, 14 April

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

Meeting of Open Council.