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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:20230214T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230214T200000
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SUMMARY:Sappho As Imagined: From Plato's Pillow Book to Lesbian Icon
DESCRIPTION:Shane Hawkins\, Carleton University \nThere are few names from antiquity as widely recognized as Sappho\, and few poets whose work has been so consumed with controversy. Her poetry was revered in antiquity\, though reading and appreciating it had already become difficult and the putative details of her private life—and often the outlandish tales about her that may derive from Greek comedy—threatened to overshadow the beauty of her verse even then. This talk explores the long history of (re)imagining Sappho from antiquity until today. As sublime poet\, schoolmistress\, music teacher\, jilted and doomed lover\, feminist heroine and gay role model\, Sappho has been continually re-read and mis-read from the archaic period up to the recent sensational discoveries of new poems and the tabloid-worthy scandals surrounding them. The fragmentary state of her poetry and its powerful emotional content have haunted the imagination of readers for over two and a half millennia. \nin person at Dominion-Chalmers Cultural Centre\, 355 Cooper Street\, Ottawa \nShane Hawkins is Associate Professor of Greek and Roman Studies and Director of the College of Humanities at Carleton University. His research is on ancient Greek literature and historical linguistics. He has published on Homer\, Hesiod\, the Greek lyric poets\, Aristophanes\, and on the ancient Greek language. He is currently writing a commentary on Ancient Greek Iambic Poetry. \nCo-sponsored by the Parnassos Hellenic Cultural Society of Ottawa. \n  
URL:https://www.mediterraneanstudies.ca/lecture/sappho-as-imagined-from-platos-pillow-book-to-lesbian-icon/
LOCATION:Dominion Chalmers\, 355 Cooper Street
CATEGORIES:Ottawa Chapter
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230305T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230305T150000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20230117T004012Z
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SUMMARY:The Improbable Heroine: Lela Karayanni and the British Secret Services in World War II Greece
DESCRIPTION:Stylianos Perrakis\, Concordia University \nLela Karayanni was a Greek resistance fighter during World War II. A wife and mother of seven children\, she had no previous experience in politics or military affairs.  Working with British intelligence\, she built a local organization which engaged in espionage\, sabotaged German targets\, and assisted in the escape of Allied prisoners-of-war.   Professor Stylianos Perrakis will give a presentation about his 2022 book titled The Improbable Heroine: Lela Karayanni and the British Secret Services in World War II Greece (DeGruyter\, 2022).\n \nIn person at Carleton University\, Paterson Hall 303\nand\non Zoom: https://carleton-ca.zoom.us/j/93748749961
URL:https://www.mediterraneanstudies.ca/lecture/the-improbable-heroine-lela-karayanni-and-the-british-secret-services-in-world-war-ii-greece/
LOCATION:In person at Carleton University and online with Zoom
CATEGORIES:Ottawa Chapter
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20230330T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230330T200000
DTSTAMP:20240518T151359
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
DTSTAMP:20240518T151359
CREATED:20220329T123558Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230130T222837Z
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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:20230920T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20230920T200000
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SUMMARY:Tarpeia\, Warrior and Hero
DESCRIPTION:Jaclyn Neel\, Carleton University \nTarpeia is best known as the eponym of the Tarpeian hill and rock\, which is popularly understood as a place from which traitors were executed. This method of execution is explained by the identification of Tarpeia as an archetypal traitor. Looking beyond the ‘canonical’ narratives of Livy and Plutarch\, however\, we see glimpses of a different Tarpeia tradition: one in which Tarpeia did not betray Rome\, but in fact tried to save it. This talk discusses the fragmentary history of this other Tarpeia\, who may have fought in Rome’s earliest army and who appeared to receive cultic worship well into the Roman Republic. \nJaclyn Neel is an Assistant Professor in the Greek and Roman Studies program at Carleton. She received a BA in Classics from Columbia University in 2005 and a combined MA/PhD in Classics and Ancient History from the Collaborative Program in Ancient History at the University of Toronto in 2012. During that time\, she also received a TESL-Canada diploma (2011). Her research centres on Roman mythology and political discourse\, and she is also interested in the afterlife of antiquity. \n300 Paterson Hall\, Carleton University and online with Zoom: https://carleton-ca.zoom.us/j/92978185371
URL:https://www.mediterraneanstudies.ca/lecture/tarpeia-warrior-and-hero/
LOCATION:In person at Carleton University and online with Zoom
CATEGORIES:Ottawa Chapter
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20231026T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20231026T200000
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CREATED:20230920T175031Z
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:20231105T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20231105T150000
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UID:1131-1699192800-1699196400@www.mediterraneanstudies.ca
SUMMARY:A Blessing and a Curse: The Power of Heroic Bones in Ancient Greece
DESCRIPTION:Chandra Giroux \nOrganised by Parnassos\, Hellenic Cultural Society of Ottawa.  Co-sponsored by CIMS Ottawa. \nHellenic Center Ottawa\, Church lower level
URL:https://www.mediterraneanstudies.ca/lecture/a-blessing-and-a-curse-the-power-of-heroic-bones-in-ancient-greece/
LOCATION:Parnassos Hellenic Cultural Centre
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20231116T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20231116T200000
DTSTAMP:20240518T151359
CREATED:20230731T145610Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231026T171150Z
UID:1109-1700161200-1700164800@www.mediterraneanstudies.ca
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:20231119T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20231119T150000
DTSTAMP:20240518T151359
CREATED:20230830T175309Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230830T175309Z
UID:1134-1700402400-1700406000@www.mediterraneanstudies.ca
SUMMARY:Rome: Urbs Pensilis: A Hanging City and its Hanging Gardens
DESCRIPTION:Lynne Lancaster\, University of Cincinnati \nOrganized by Archaeological Institute of America-Ottawa. Co-sponsored by CIMS-Ottawa. \n303 Paterson Hall
URL:https://www.mediterraneanstudies.ca/lecture/rome-urbs-pensilis-a-hanging-city-and-its-hanging-gardens/
LOCATION:In person at Carleton University
CATEGORIES:Ottawa Chapter
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240101
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240102
DTSTAMP:20240518T151359
CREATED:20230830T040006Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230830T180541Z
UID:1140-1704067200-1704153599@www.mediterraneanstudies.ca
SUMMARY:The Beirut Explosion - DATE TO BE ANNOUNCED
DESCRIPTION:Joe Kallas\, University of Pennsylvania
URL:https://www.mediterraneanstudies.ca/lecture/the-beirut-explosion-date-to-be-announced/
CATEGORIES:Ottawa Chapter
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240101
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240102
DTSTAMP:20240518T151359
CREATED:20230830T180141Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230830T180204Z
UID:1142-1704067200-1704153599@www.mediterraneanstudies.ca
SUMMARY:Mediterranean Foodways / Theatre and Catharsis - DATE TO BE ANNOUNCED
DESCRIPTION:Recipients of this year’s CIMS – Carleton Study Abroad Award for Academic Excellence.
URL:https://www.mediterraneanstudies.ca/lecture/mediterranean-foodways-theatre-and-catharsis/
CATEGORIES:Ottawa Chapter
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240101
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240102
DTSTAMP:20240518T151359
CREATED:20230830T175525Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230830T175749Z
UID:1136-1704067200-1704153599@www.mediterraneanstudies.ca
SUMMARY:Origins of the Chariot - DATE TO BE ANNOUNCED
DESCRIPTION:Laura Gagne\, Carleton University
URL:https://www.mediterraneanstudies.ca/lecture/origins-of-the-chariot/
CATEGORIES:Ottawa Chapter
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240118T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240118T200000
DTSTAMP:20240518T151359
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:20240123T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240123T193000
DTSTAMP:20240518T151359
CREATED:20240115T233409Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240115T233818Z
UID:1201-1706034600-1706038200@www.mediterraneanstudies.ca
SUMMARY:Theatre and Catharsis as a Tool for Healing; and Foodways of Israel\, Greece\, and Italy
DESCRIPTION:Bianca McKeown and Declan O’Meara\, Carleton University \nTwo mini-lectures given by the winner and the runner-up of the 2023 CIMS-Carleton Study Abroad Award. \nPatterson 303\, Carleton University \nCo-sponsored with Carleton College of the Humanities
URL:https://www.mediterraneanstudies.ca/lecture/theatre-and-catharsis-as-a-tool-for-healing-and-foodways-of-israel-greece-and-italy/
CATEGORIES:Ottawa Chapter
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240206T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240206T200000
DTSTAMP:20240518T151359
CREATED:20240115T233712Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240115T234249Z
UID:1203-1707246000-1707249600@www.mediterraneanstudies.ca
SUMMARY:Byzantine Music and the Greek Language
DESCRIPTION:Alexandros Grammatikopoulos \nTo celebrate International Greek Language Day. \nCarleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre (355 Cooper Street) \nCo-sponsored with Parnassos Ottawa and Carleton College of the Humanities.
URL:https://www.mediterraneanstudies.ca/lecture/byzantine-music-and-the-greek-language/
CATEGORIES:Ottawa Chapter
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240208T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240208T200000
DTSTAMP:20240518T151359
CREATED:20230825T143003Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230913T221738Z
UID:1121-1707418800-1707422400@www.mediterraneanstudies.ca
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:20240228T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240228T190000
DTSTAMP:20240518T151359
CREATED:20240115T234034Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240115T234340Z
UID:1206-1709143200-1709146800@www.mediterraneanstudies.ca
SUMMARY:Heritage Conservation before and after the Beirut Explosion in 2020
DESCRIPTION:Joe Kallas\, Pennsylvania State University \nAzrieli 101\, Carleton University \nCo-sponsored with Carleton College of the Humanities\, Carleton Architecture\, and Carleton Immersive Media Studio
URL:https://www.mediterraneanstudies.ca/lecture/heritage-conservation-before-and-after-the-beirut-explosion-in-2020/
CATEGORIES:Ottawa Chapter
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240307T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240307T200000
DTSTAMP:20240518T151359
CREATED:20230825T141931Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230825T143133Z
UID:1116-1709838000-1709841600@www.mediterraneanstudies.ca
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240310T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20240310T150000
DTSTAMP:20240518T151359
CREATED:20240115T234204Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240115T234204Z
UID:1208-1710079200-1710082800@www.mediterraneanstudies.ca
SUMMARY:Who Is Buried in the Royal Macedonian Tombs at Vergina?  Skeletal Evidence for Tombs I and II
DESCRIPTION:Maria Liston\, Waterloo University
URL:https://www.mediterraneanstudies.ca/lecture/who-is-buried-in-the-royal-macedonian-tombs-at-vergina-skeletal-evidence-for-tombs-i-and-ii/
CATEGORIES:Ottawa Chapter
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