Posts In: Literature

The Philology of Fraudulence and the Gospel of Barnabas in Renaissance Italy

Thursday, March 12, 2026

Domenico Pietropaolo, Professor Emeritus, Department of Italian Studies and Centre for Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies, and Senior Fellow of Massey College, University of Toronto

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Transatlantic Intellectual Networks: Leonardo Sciascia and the Sciascia Archive Project

Wednesday, February 25, 2026

Online with Zoom.

Eloisa Morra, Department of Italian Studies, University of Toronto

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Sappho As Imagined: From Plato’s Pillow Book to Lesbian Icon

Monday, January 16, 2023 0

Shane Hawkins, Carleton University

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Visualizing Voice: The Myth of Echo and Narcissus in Ovid’s Metamorphoses and Pompeiian Wall Paintings

Tuesday, September 6, 2022 0

Mariapia Pietropaolo, McMaster University

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Violence in the Ancient Jewish Novellas: Judith and Aseneth as Models of Response towards Violence

Monday, February 7, 2022 0

Andrew Knight-Messenger, Adjunct Professor, King's University College

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The Garden of the World: Victorian Visions of Italy

Tuesday, November 2, 2021 0

Stephen Tardif, University of St. Michael’s College

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Unpicking Dido’s Weaving: Aeneas’ Carthaginian Cloak

Saturday, September 18, 2021 0

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

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Dante and Theology in Vico’s Philosophy of History

Saturday, September 18, 2021 0

Domenico Pietropaolo, Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto

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

Tuesday, June 22, 2021 0

C. Michael Sampson, University of Manitoba

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Renaissance Readers and Their Books: Representations of a Fugitive Act

Tuesday, June 22, 2021 0

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

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Unholy Texts: Reading Biblical Rape Narratives

Tuesday, June 22, 2021 0

Carl Ehrlich, York University

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

Wednesday, May 19, 2021

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

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