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  • October 2020

  • Sun 4

    Exhibiting Nubia in Today’s World

    Sunday, October 4, 2020 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EDT

    Rita Freed, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

  • Thu 15

    Going Somewhere? Migration and Economic Mobility in the Roman West

    Thursday, October 15, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm EDT
    Online with Zoom

    Jeffrey Easton, Lecturer, Department of Classics, University of Toronto

  • November 2020

  • Sun 8

    Creativity in Aegean Bronze Art

    Sunday, November 8, 2020 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EST

    Carl Knappett, Department of Art, University of Toronto

  • Sun 15

    New Sappho and Digital Forensics: Technology in the Service of Scholarly Integrity

    Sunday, November 15, 2020 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EST

    C. Michael Sampson, University of Manitoba

  • Wed 18

    Portraits of a Forgotten Kingdom: Tayanat Sculptures and Other Recent Discoveries on the Plain of Antioch in Southeastern Turkey

    Wednesday, November 18, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm EST
    Online with Zoom

    Timothy Harrison, Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto

  • December 2020

  • Thu 10

    Ancient Synagogues in the Galilee and Golan Heights

    Thursday, December 10, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm EST
    Online with Zoom

    Amit Rozenblum, Site Conservator, Israel Antiquities Authority

  • January 2021

  • Thu 14

    The Yahweh of the South: The Site of Kuntillet ‘Ajrud and its Controversial Connection with the Northern Kingdom of Israel

    Thursday, January 14, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm EST
    Online with Zoom

    Cristiana Conti, York University

  • February 2021

  • Thu 11

    Unholy Texts: Reading Biblical Rape Narratives

    Thursday, February 11, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm EST
    Online with Zoom

    Carl Ehrlich, York University

  • Sun 21

    The Beauty and Enigma of Roman Crete

    Sunday, February 21, 2021 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EST

    George W. M. Harrison, Carleton University

  • March 2021

  • Sun 7

    Renaissance Readers and Their Books: Representations of a Fugitive Act

    Sunday, March 7, 2021 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EST
    Online with Zoom

    Antonio Ricci, York University
    Generously funded by Joe Di Geso. Presented jointly by CIMS Ottawa and CIMS Toronto.

  • Sun 21

    Anatomy as Religion: The Body in Ancient Italian Votive Practice

    Sunday, March 21, 2021 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EDT
    Online with Zoom

    Rebecca Flemming, Jesus College, Cambridge University

  • April 2021

  • Sun 18

    Digging Homer: The Mycenaean Palace at Iklaina and the Birth of Greek Epic Poetry

    Sunday, April 18, 2021 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EDT

    Michael B. Cosmopoulos, Hellenic Government-Karakas Family Foundation Professor of Archaeology and Chair of the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Missouri-St. Louis

  • Thu 29

    Who Created Florence? Making a Renaissance City

    Thursday, April 29, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm EDT
    Online with Zoom

    Nicholas Terpstra, University of Toronto
    Generously funded by Joe Di Geso. Presented jointly by CIMS Ottawa and CIMS Toronto.

  • September 2021

  • Tue 14

    Dante and Theology in Vico’s Philosophy of History

    Tuesday, September 14, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm EDT
    Online with Zoom

    Domenico Pietropaolo, Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto

  • October 2021

  • Thu 7

    King Sized Controversy: Evaluating the Extent of David’s Kingdom

    Thursday, October 7, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm EDT
    Online with Zoom

    Rachel Urowitz, Lecturer, University of Toronto

  • Sun 24

    Unpicking Dido’s Weaving: Aeneas’ Carthaginian Cloak

    Sunday, October 24, 2021 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EDT
    Online with Zoom

    Aven McMaster, Professor Emerita of Thorneloe University and Instructor at Saint Mary's University in Halifax.

  • November 2021

  • Thu 4

    The Life and Death of Tombs: The Excavation of the Mycenaean Cemetery at Ayia Sotira in the Nemea Valley, Greece

    Thursday, November 4, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm EDT
    Online with Zoom

    R. Angus K. Smith, Brock University
    Presented jointly by the Ottawa and Toronto Chapters

  • Sun 7

    Heroes on the Move: Greek Heroes in the Hellenistic World

    Sunday, November 7, 2021 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EST
    Online with Zoom

    Amanda Herring, Department of Art and Art History, Loyola Marymount University
    Co-sponsored by the Ottawa Society of the Archaeological Institute of America and by the University of Ottawa.

  • December 2021

  • Thu 9

    Judging the Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel

    Thursday, December 9, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm EST
    Online with Zoom

    Michael O'Connor, St. Michael's College, University of Toronto

  • January 2022

  • Thu 13

    From the Mary of History to the Theotokos of Faith

    Thursday, January 13, 2022 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm EST
    Online with Zoom

    Brian Butcher, McGill University

  • Sun 16

    Incense and the Nativity Cycle on the Sion Treasure Censer

    Sunday, January 16, 2022 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EST
    Online with Zoom

    John Osborne, Distinguished Research Professor and Dean emeritus, Carleton University

  • February 2022

  • Thu 3

    Understanding Jerusalem: The Holy City and Why it Matters

    Thursday, February 3, 2022 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm EST

    Erin Darby, University of Tennessee

  • Mon 7

    Tombstones, Times of Death, and Horoscopes in the Roman Empire

    Monday, February 7, 2022 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm EST

    Simeon D. Ehrlich, Stanford University

  • Thu 10

    Jews in the Roman Army: Cultures in Conflict

    Thursday, February 10, 2022 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm EST
    Online with Zoom

    Christopher Zeichmann, Emmanuel College, University of Toronto

  • Sun 20

    The Kingdom of Kadmos: Research at Ancient Eleon in Central Greece

    Sunday, February 20, 2022 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EST
    Online with Zoom

    Brendan Burke, Andrew W. Mellon Professor, American School of Classical Studies at Athens; Professor Greek and Roman Studies, University of Victoria

  • March 2022

  • Thu 10

    The Origins of the God of Israel

    Thursday, March 10, 2022 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm EST
    Online with Zoom

    Aleksander Krogevoll, University of St. Michael's College

  • April 2022

  • Thu 7

    Behind the Tophet: Theologies of Infanticide

    Thursday, April 7, 2022 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm EDT
    Online with Zoom

    Baruch Halpern, University of Georgia

  • Sun 24

    Getting Blood from a Stone: Excavations at a Paleolithic Oasis in Azraq, Northwest Jordan

    Sunday, April 24, 2022 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EDT
    Online with Zoom

    r April Nowell, University of Victoria

  • September 2022

  • Thu 15

    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

    Thursday, September 15, 2022 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm EDT
    Online with Zoom

    Augustine Thompson, O.P., Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies

  • Sun 25

    Ancient Bronzes at the Uffizi in Florence: From the Collection of the Grand Dukes to the First Public Museum

    Sunday, September 25, 2022 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EDT
    In person at Dominion-Chalmers Cultural Centre and online with Zoom

    Cristiana Zaccagnino, Queen's University

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