Each academic year the Institute has invited a senior medievalist to give the annual Etienne Gilson Lecture, established in honour of the Institute’s founder. Among the distinguished contributors to the series are fellows of the Institute, past and present, such as Leonard E. Boyle, Jocelyn Hillgarth, Donald Logan, James K. McConica, Karl F. Morrison, Joseph Owens, James P. Reilly, and Brian Stock, as well as scholars from Canada, Europe, and the United States, including Marcia Colish, Giles Constable, Édouard Jeauneau, John North, Kenneth Schmitz, and John Wippel.

Recent and Forthcoming Lectures

The 2009 Gilson Lecture was delivered by Jacqueline Hamesse, Emerite de l' Université de Louvain (Louvain-la-neuve). Her title was "The Medieval Philosopher's Reference Tools: Essential Aids to Scholastic Formation." Forthcoming lectures will be listed in the Calendar of Events. For further details, contact Barbara North, Institute secretary (phone 416 926 7142).

Lectures in Print

Many (although not all) of the Gilson lectures are published as part of the Etienne Gilson Series (EGS), a collection of works by and about the Institute founder. Complimentary copies of those still currently in print are available on request; copies of some of the lectures are available in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format (see below). Please email or write to the Department of Publications, 59 Queen’s Park Crescent East, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 2C4. The following lectures are currently in print:

• 1987: Kenneth L. Schmitz. What Has Clio to Do with Athena? Etienne Gilson: Historian and Philosopher. EGS 10. 1987. 24 pp. ISBN 978–0–88844–710–4
• 2000: Marcia L. Colish. Remapping Scholasticism. EGS 21. 2000. 21 pp. ISBN 978–0–88844–721–0 Also available in a PDF version
• 2002: Francis Oakley. Omnipotence and Promise: The Legacy of the Scholastic Distinction of Powers. EGS 23. 2002. 28 pp. ISBN 978–0–88844–723–4 Also available in a PDF version
• 2003: John D. North. Time and the Scholastic Universe. EGS 25. 2003. 32 pp. ISBN 978–0–88844–725–8
• 2004: Karl F. Morrison. The Male Gaze and Other Reasons for the Hypothetical End of Christian Art in the West. EGS 26. 2005. 36 pp. ISBN 978–0–88844–726–5 Also available in a PDF version
• 2005: F. Donald Logan. The Medieval Historian and the Quest for Certitude. EGS 27. 2005. 17 pp. ISBN 978–0–88844–727–2
• 2006: Paul Edward Dutton. The Mystery of the Missing Heresy Trial of William of Conches. EGS 28. 2006. 48 pp. ISBN 978–0–88844–728–9
• 2007: William Courtenay. Changing Approaches to Fourteenth-Century Thought. EGS 29. 2007. 40 pp. ISBN 978–0–88844–729–6
• 2008: M. Michèle Mulchahey. "The use of philosophy, especially by the Preachers ...": Albert the Great, the Studium at Cologne, and the Dominican Curriculum. EGS 32. 2009. 38 pp. ISBN 978–0–88844–732–6

• Related Lecture: Anthony J. Celano. From Priam to the Good Thief. The Significance of a Single Event in Greek Ethics and Medieval Moral Teaching. EGS 22; Studies in Medieval Moral Teaching 2. 2001. 24 pp. ISBN 978–0–88844–722–7 Also available in a PDF version