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SUMMARY:Hunting the Little Poor Man of Assisi: Or\, Why after 100 Years of Research I Still Had to Write Yet Another Life of St. Francis of Assisi
DESCRIPTION:Augustine Thompson\, O.P.\, Praeses\, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies\n\n \n  \nSince the 1890s\, Franciscan and non-Franciscan scholars have been searching for new sources for the life of St. Francis and subjecting them to intensive study and analysis. We now know more about the evidence for this beloved saint than ever before\, but there was\, until this biography\, virtually no attempt to use all this information to reconstruct the “Historical Francis.” This lecture will explain the difficulties of interpreting this evidence and why those most involved in its study have avoided using it to create a new biography. It will then explain the speaker’s own approach and how it produced a very different picture of St. Francis from that popularly received. \n\n\nIn February 2022 Father Augustine Thompson was appointed Praeses (President / Director) of the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies at the University of Toronto.  He is currently on leave from the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology and the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley\, California.  He is the author of Francis of Assisi: A New Biography (Cornell University Press\, 2012).  He joined the Order of Preachers (the Dominicans) in 1977\, and was ordained a priest in 1985. \nZoom link: https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/89906353712 \nCo-sponsored by: the Dominican Institute of Toronto\, the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies\, the University of Toronto Department of Italian Studies\, and the Istituto Italiano di Cultura (Toronto).
URL:https://www.mediterraneanstudies.ca/lecture/hunting-the-little-poor-man-of-assisi/
LOCATION:Online with Zoom
CATEGORIES:Toronto Chapter
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20221201T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20221201T200000
DTSTAMP:20240428T085258
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SUMMARY:Italy's Urban Boom in the Late Roman Republic
DESCRIPTION:Drew Davis\, Crake Doctoral Fellow in Classics\, Mount Allison University \n \nA significant urbanization phenomenon swept through the Italian peninsula in the second and first centuries BCE. Communities across Italy invested considerable amounts of labour and financial capital into monumentalizing their urban spaces\, a process which coincided with one of the most transformative periods in the region’s history. This lecture will explore how this commitment to public construction in turn (re)created and constructed communities and forged local identities. \nDrew Davis is Crake Doctoral Fellow in Classics at Mount Allison University for 2022-2023.  He is completing his doctoral dissertation at the University of Toronto.  It focuses on the larger socio-economic history of the public building phenomenon which swept through Italy in the last two centuries of the Roman Republic. It assesses how communities afforded such projects\, and how this construction fit into the wider political shifts of the period. \nZoom link: https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/86581981946 \nCo-sponsored by the University of Toronto Department of Italian Studies and the University of Toronto Department of Classics. \n     
URL:https://www.mediterraneanstudies.ca/lecture/italys-urban-boom-in-the-late-roman-republic/
LOCATION:Online with Zoom
CATEGORIES:Toronto Chapter
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230112T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230112T200000
DTSTAMP:20240428T085258
CREATED:20220325T004027Z
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SUMMARY:The Smith and the State: Relationships between Metallurgical Production and Mycenaean Palaces in Late Bronze Age Greece
DESCRIPTION:Taylor Stark\, PhD candidate\, University of Toronto (Classics) \nIt is generally thought that the Mycenaean palaces in Late Bronze Age Greece (ca. 1600 – 1150 BCE) held near-universal control over specialized crafting industries\, including metal production. This view is derived from the textual evidence of the Linear B tablets. However\, a comparison of various archaeological metal production assemblages reveals that smiths interacted with political authorities in far more complex ways than has been assumed. As such\, this talk presents a more nuanced understanding of the diverse relationships that existed between craft production and the palaces\, which in turn has broader implications for our view of Mycenaean states as definable entities which are universally comparable in their function and interests. \nZoom link: https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/82140037593 \n.Co-sponsored by the University of Toronto Department of Classics. \n    
URL:https://www.mediterraneanstudies.ca/lecture/the-smith-and-the-state/
LOCATION:Online with Zoom
CATEGORIES:Toronto Chapter
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230209T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230209T200000
DTSTAMP:20240428T085258
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SUMMARY:Relics of Roman Identity: Re-Collecting the Lost Palazzo del Bufalo\, Rome (c. 1450-1600)
DESCRIPTION:Matthew Coleman\, PhD candidate\, University of Toronto (Art History) \n \nThe antiquities collection of the del Bufalo family was one of the largest and most influential in Rome\, c. 1450-1600. Unfortunately\, unlike richer contemporary collections (e.g.\, of the Medici or d’ Este)\, neither the Bufali artifacts nor their home exist today. This talk explores both the bookish and globetrotting methodologies used to reconstruct Renaissance antiquities collections which have been lost to time\, in an effort to restore their extraordinary cultural legacies for future study. \nZoom link: https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/86310345964 \n  \n  \nCo-sponsored by the Istituto Italiano di Cultura Toronto\, the University of Toronto Department of Italian Studies\, the University of Toronto Department of Classics\, the University of Toronto Department of Art History\, and the University of Toronto Archaeology Centre.
URL:https://www.mediterraneanstudies.ca/lecture/relics-of-roman-identity/
LOCATION:Online with Zoom
CATEGORIES:Toronto Chapter
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230330T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230330T200000
DTSTAMP:20240428T085258
CREATED:20220907T012220Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230323T135857Z
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SUMMARY:Visualizing Voice: The Myth of Echo and Narcissus in Ovid’s Metamorphoses and Pompeiian Wall Paintings
DESCRIPTION:Mariapia Pietropaolo\, McMaster University \n \nOne of the most popular stories from ancient Greek and Roman mythology is the story of Narcissus in love with his own watery image. In the Metamorphoses\, the Roman poet Ovid also includes the story of the nymph Echo’s unrequited love for Narcissus. Rejected by him\, she begins to fade away until she exists only as a disembodied voice. The myth was also a popular subject of wall paintings in and around Pompeii. In this paper\, I discuss the relationship between the textual and figurative representations of Echo’s voice\, and I explore the aesthetic problem of painting a voice. \n  \nZoom link: https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/86786144716 \nCo-sponsored by the Istituto Italiano di Cultura and the University of Toronto Department of Art History. \n   
URL:https://www.mediterraneanstudies.ca/lecture/visualizing-voice/
LOCATION:Online with Zoom
CATEGORIES:Toronto Chapter
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230420T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230420T200000
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SUMMARY:Manifesting Miracles: Image Cults in Late Medieval Southern Italy
DESCRIPTION:Claire Jensen\, PhD Candidate\, Department of Art History\, University of Toronto \n \nIn late medieval southern Italy\,  it was not uncommon for a painting to grant miracles. From resolving legal trouble to protecting people from plague and natural disasters\, public images frequently inspired active cults of devotion. This talk will introduce several miraculous artworks in and around Naples and discuss how they challenge the traditional canon of art history. \nZoom link: https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/82725763927 \n  \nCo-sponsored by the Istituto Italiano di Cultura\, the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies\, the University of Toronto Department of Italian Studies\, and the University of Toronto Department of Art History.. \n     \n.
URL:https://www.mediterraneanstudies.ca/lecture/manifesting-miracles/
LOCATION:Online with Zoom
CATEGORIES:Toronto Chapter
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20231026T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20231026T200000
DTSTAMP:20240428T085258
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LAST-MODIFIED:20231020T021043Z
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SUMMARY:The Mediterranean Noir: Notes on a Spatial Theory
DESCRIPTION:Alberto Zambenedetti\, University of Toronto \nIn 1998\, the late Jean-Claude Izzo published an essay titled ‘Le bleu et le noir’ in the weekly news magazine Le Nouvel Observateur. The piece opened with the following words: ‘In the beginning is the Book. And that moment in which Cain kills his brother Abel. In the blood of thisfratricide\, the Mediterranean gives us the first noir novel’ (Izzo\, 2013). With this statement\, the author suggested a powerful hermeneutical possibility: the recasting of the noir discourse (as an intertextual and transartistic practice) in a fashion that would include an expanded genealogy and an extended geography\, well beyond its known Anglofone paths. In the last decade\, film scholars have embarked in a profound reevaluation of the anglocentrism of the noir canon in a fashion that is consonant with Izzo’s position (Spicer 2007\, Fay and Nieland\, 2010\, Pettey and Palmer 2014a and 2014b)\, going so far as to postulate the existence of a contemporary ‘global noir’ arising from ‘transnational filmmaking\, cross-cultural influences\, and the idea of global culture.’ (Desser\, 2012\, 628). This lecture proposes a theory of space that sheds light on the cultural specificity of the Mediterranean noir\, and that addresses the submerged\, repressed histories of the lands touched\, and thereby linked\, by this complicated sea. \nOnline with Zoom: https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/89863355866. \nCo-sponsored by the University of Toronto Department of Italian Studies. \n   
URL:https://www.mediterraneanstudies.ca/lecture/the-mediterranean-noir-notes-on-a-spatial-theory/
LOCATION:Online with Zoom
CATEGORIES:Toronto Chapter
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20231116T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20231116T200000
DTSTAMP:20240428T085258
CREATED:20230731T145610Z
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SUMMARY:‘The Jew Who Made Me’: The Catalan Atlas and the Concept of the "Port Jew"
DESCRIPTION:Amalya Feldman\, PhD candidate\, Department of Art History University of Toronto \n \n  \nThe Catalan Atlas was a world map created around 1375 by a Jew living on the island of Mallorca in the western Mediterranean. By analyzing the features of the atlas\, we can begin to understand the culture of the Jewish community in the medieval Mediterranean port city of Palma di Mallorca as an example of the diverse communities in which “Port Jews” lived.  \n  \nZoom link: https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/87165229604 \n 
URL:https://www.mediterraneanstudies.ca/lecture/the-jew-who-made-me-the-catalan-atlas/
LOCATION:Online with Zoom
CATEGORIES:Toronto Chapter
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240118T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240118T200000
DTSTAMP:20240428T085258
CREATED:20230830T183555Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240111T020348Z
UID:1147-1705604400-1705608000@www.mediterraneanstudies.ca
SUMMARY:Confessors\, Lapsi\, and Pax Deorum: Third Century Christian Responses to Required Sacrifices
DESCRIPTION:  \n \nAlyssa Lynn Elliot\, Emory University \nThe religious practices of the people of Rome were a necessary part of maintaining pax deorum (the peace of the gods)\, which in turn maintained order\, peace\, and prosperity in the empire. In the wake of the crises of the third and fourth centuries CE\, emperors issued edicts and instituted religious reforms requiring citizens to make sacrifices to the gods. This lecture explores the Christian responses to these required sacrifices\, particularly the confessors and lapsi\, and the disposition of other Christians toward them after the time of crisis had ended. \n  \n  \nZoom link:  https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/84589472510
URL:https://www.mediterraneanstudies.ca/lecture/confessors-lapsi-and-pax-deorum/
LOCATION:Online with Zoom
CATEGORIES:Toronto Chapter
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240208T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240208T200000
DTSTAMP:20240428T085258
CREATED:20230825T143003Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230913T221738Z
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SUMMARY:Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in Egypt
DESCRIPTION:Clifford Goldfarb\, Chairman of the Friends of the Arthur Conan Doyle Collection at the Toronto Reference Library \nThis presentation has a theme: everything about Arthur Conan Doyle\, author of the Sherlock Holmes mysteries\, and Egypt. That is Arthur Conan Doyle in Egypt\, Arthur Conan Doyle writing about Egypt\, his works with an Egyptian element\, and things in Arthur Conan Doyle‘s life and career that are connected to Egypt. This will include – but not be limited to – some or all of Napoleonic connections\, Lord Kitchener and Omdurman\, Dervishes\, camels\, Nile cruises\, foreign correspondents\, undead mummies and their curses\, Coptic monasteries\, archaeology and colonialism. \nZoom link to be added. \n  \nCo-sponsored by the Toronto Chapter of the Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities. \n  
URL:https://www.mediterraneanstudies.ca/lecture/sir-arthur-conan-doyle-in-egypt/
LOCATION:Online with Zoom
CATEGORIES:Toronto Chapter
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240307T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240307T200000
DTSTAMP:20240428T085258
CREATED:20230825T141931Z
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SUMMARY:The End of the Hasmonean Dynasty and its Effects on Judea and Judaism
DESCRIPTION:Nadav Sharon\, Jewish Studies Librarian\, University of Toronto \nThe end of the Hasmonean dynasty and the beginning of Roman domination of Judea\, in the middle part of the first century BCE\,  is a relatively neglected but momentous period in Judean history.  Beyond a historical reconstruction this lecture will explore the impact of the Roman conquest on the authors of the Dead Sea Scrolls\, enhance the understanding of later Judean-Roman relations and the roots of the Great Revolt\, and examine how this early period of Roman domination had an impact on later developments in Judean society and religion. \nZoom link to be added.
URL:https://www.mediterraneanstudies.ca/lecture/the-end-of-the-hasmonean-dynasty-and-its-effects-on-judea-and-judaism/
LOCATION:Online with Zoom
CATEGORIES:Toronto Chapter
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