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  • September 2020

  • Sun 27
    Sunday, September 27, 2020 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EDT

    Imagining the Sights and Sounds of Ancient Ritual at the Yale University Art Gallery

    Carolyn Laferrière, Yale University Art Gallery

  • October 2020

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

    Exhibiting Nubia in Today’s World

    Rita Freed, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

  • Thu 15
    Thursday, October 15, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm EDT

    Going Somewhere? Migration and Economic Mobility in the Roman West

    Online with Zoom

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

  • November 2020

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

    Creativity in Aegean Bronze Art

    Carl Knappett, Department of Art, University of Toronto

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

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

    C. Michael Sampson, University of Manitoba

  • Wed 18
    Wednesday, November 18, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm EST

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

    Online with Zoom

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

  • December 2020

  • Thu 10
    Thursday, December 10, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm EST

    Ancient Synagogues in the Galilee and Golan Heights

    Online with Zoom

    Amit Rozenblum, Site Conservator, Israel Antiquities Authority

  • January 2021

  • Thu 14
    Thursday, January 14, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm EST

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

    Online with Zoom

    Cristiana Conti, York University

  • February 2021

  • Thu 11
    Thursday, February 11, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm EST

    Unholy Texts: Reading Biblical Rape Narratives

    Online with Zoom

    Carl Ehrlich, York University

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

    The Beauty and Enigma of Roman Crete

    George W. M. Harrison, Carleton University

  • March 2021

  • Sun 7
    Sunday, March 7, 2021 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EST

    Renaissance Readers and Their Books: Representations of a Fugitive Act

    Online with Zoom

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

  • Sun 21
    Sunday, March 21, 2021 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EDT

    Anatomy as Religion: The Body in Ancient Italian Votive Practice

    Online with Zoom

    Rebecca Flemming, Jesus College, Cambridge University

  • April 2021

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

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

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

    Who Created Florence? Making a Renaissance City

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

    Dante and Theology in Vico’s Philosophy of History

    Online with Zoom

    Domenico Pietropaolo, Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto

  • October 2021

  • Thu 7
    Thursday, October 7, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm EDT

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

    Online with Zoom

    Rachel Urowitz, Lecturer, University of Toronto

  • Sun 24
    Sunday, October 24, 2021 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EDT

    Unpicking Dido’s Weaving: Aeneas’ Carthaginian Cloak

    Online with Zoom

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

  • November 2021

  • Thu 4
    Thursday, November 4, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm EDT

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

    Online with Zoom

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

  • Sun 7
    Sunday, November 7, 2021 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EST

    Heroes on the Move: Greek Heroes in the Hellenistic World

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

    Judging the Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel

    Online with Zoom

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

  • January 2022

  • Thu 13
    Thursday, January 13, 2022 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm EST

    From the Mary of History to the Theotokos of Faith

    Online with Zoom

    Brian Butcher, McGill University

  • Sun 16
    Sunday, January 16, 2022 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EST

    Incense and the Nativity Cycle on the Sion Treasure Censer

    Online with Zoom

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

  • February 2022

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

    Understanding Jerusalem: The Holy City and Why it Matters

    Erin Darby, University of Tennessee

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

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

    Simeon D. Ehrlich, Stanford University

  • Thu 10
    Thursday, February 10, 2022 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm EST

    Jews in the Roman Army: Cultures in Conflict

    Online with Zoom

    Christopher Zeichmann, Emmanuel College, University of Toronto

  • Sun 20
    Sunday, February 20, 2022 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EST

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

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

    The Origins of the God of Israel

    Online with Zoom

    Aleksander Krogevoll, University of St. Michael's College

  • April 2022

  • Thu 7
    Thursday, April 7, 2022 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm EDT

    Behind the Tophet: Theologies of Infanticide

    Online with Zoom

    Baruch Halpern, University of Georgia

  • Sun 24
    Sunday, April 24, 2022 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EDT

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

    Online with Zoom

    r April Nowell, University of Victoria

  • September 2022

  • Thu 15
    Thursday, September 15, 2022 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm EDT

    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

    Online with Zoom

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

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