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January
Preventing Regulatory Capture: Special Interest Influence and How to Limit it
Jan 14th, 4:00 pm       15 Devonshire Place, Room 200, Larkin Building
Lecture by David Moss
The Unremarkable Re-election of Barack Obama
Jan 17th, 2:00 pm       1 Devonshire Place, Room 208N, Munk School of Global Affairs,
Lecture by Professor Simon Jackson
Baghdad, Byzantium, and Beyond: A Corpus of Medieval Dietetic Literature and its Reception in 15th c. Bavaria
Jan 17th, 4:00 pm       170 St. George St. rm 100a
Lecture by Melitta Weiss Adamson, Professor of German and Comparative Literature, and History of Medicine, University of Western Ontario
Call For Papers: “Theory and Practice: The Limits of Ethics for Guiding Action”
Jan 18th, 9:30 am       Centre for Ethics, 15 Devonshire Place
A call for papers for upcoming conference “Theory and Practice: The Limits of Ethics for Guiding Action”
God in Gotham? Apocalypse and Resurrection in the Capital of American Secularism, 1880-1920
Jan 18th, 2:00 pm       1 Devonshire Place, Room 208N, Munk School of Global Affairs,
Lecture by Jon Butler
Persian Poetics and Linguistics
Jan 18th, 4:00 pm       Bancroft Hall 200B, 4 Bancroft Avenue Toronto, Ontario
Lecture by Azita H. Taleghani. Part of the Winter/Spring 2013 Iranian Studies Seminar Series
Translating for the Stage: Demands, Challenges, and Rewards
Jan 24th, 1:15 pm       Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies, 214 College Street, 3rd Floor
Part of Thursday Colloquium at the Drama Centre; lecture by Birgit Schreyer Duarte & Laura Lucci
Harold Innis, Information Management, and the Topographic Revolution in Communication
Jan 24th, 4:15 pm       140 St. George St., Bissell 728
Lecture by John Bonnett, Brock University
The Univited
Jan 24th, 4:15 pm       University College, room 140
2013 Brieger Lecture by Christopher S. Wood, Yale University
Illuminated Manuscripts: Science and Art
Jan 25th, 10:00 am       Alumni Hall, 121 St. Joseph St., Room 100
Lecture by Dr. Stella Panayotova
Governing the Transition to Renewable Energies: Towards a New Global Regulatory Framework for Key Resources, with Insights from the Lithium Project in the Chilean Atacama
Jan 25th, 12:00 pm       Claude Bissell Building, room BL205
Lecture by Alonso Barros
Devouring Images
Jan 25th, 1:00 pm       170 St. George St., room 100a
Symposium about visual images of eating and devouring.
“Swimming”: JFK, Thomas Eakins, and November 22, 1963
Jan 25th, 2:00 pm       1 Devonshire Place, Room 208N, Munk School of Global Affairs,
Lecture by Professor Alexander Nemerov
African Multiethnic Identity in Iran
Jan 25th, 4:00 pm       Bancroft Hall 200B, 4 Bancroft Avenue Toronto, Ontario
Lecture by Behnaz Mirzai, as part of the Winter/Spring 2013 Iranian Studies Seminar Series
The Festival of Original Theatre (FOOT) Festival 2013
Jan 26th, 1:00 pm       The Robert Gill Theatre, 214 College Street - 3rd Floor
Theatre Festival + Workshops, February 1-3 2013 (Workshop #1: Jan. 26-27, 1 - 5pm; Workshop #2: Jan. 27, 10am - 12pm)
But Could They Build? Secessionists and the Civil War
Jan 28th, 2:00 pm       1 Devonshire Place, Room 208N, Munk School of Global Affairs,
Lecture by Eric Walther
Freedom of Complex Associations
Jan 28th, 3:00 pm       Room 200, Larkin Building 15 Devonshire Place
Lecture by Professor Jacob Levy
After Caliban
Jan 31st, 1:00 pm       170 St. George St., room 100
Lecture by Erica James, Yale University
Wagner and Adaptation
Jan 31st, 3:30 pm       80 Queens Park, Walter Hall
Symposium featuring Michael Steinberg (Brown University) and Mary Ann Smart, UC-Berkeley
Sex in the Event of Happiness
Jan 31st, 4:00 pm       George Ignatieff Theatre Trinity College, 6 Hoskin Ave
Lecture by 2012 Northrop Frye Professor Lauren Berlant

February
Translating Shi'ism: The Role of Reliquary ‘Alams in Articulating Hyderabadi Religious Identity
Feb 1st, 4:00 pm       Bancroft Hall 200B, 4 Bancroft Avenue Toronto, Ontario
Lecture by Karen Ruffle, University of Toronto
The Progression of the Fork: From Diabolical to Divine
Feb 4th, 6:30 pm       170 St. George St. rm 100a
Public lecture by Darra Goldstein, JHI Distinguished Visiting Fellow
Out of Site / In Plain View: on the Origins and Modernity of the Architecture Exhibition
Feb 5th, 4:30 pm       15 Kings College CIrcle UC 140
Annual Teetzel Lecture by Barry Bergdoll, Architecture & Design, MOMA and Art History & Archaeology, Columbia
Bread and Salt: Russia, the Land, and its Food
Feb 6th, 12:00 pm       UTM Council Chambers
Csillag Seminar at UTM Department of Geography by JHI Distinguished Visiting Fellow Darra Goldstein
What to do about sex: Christian attempts at answers over two thousand years
Feb 6th, 8:00 pm       Walter Hall, Faculty of Music, 80 Queen's Park
Lecture by Sir Diarmaid MacCulloch
Deconstructive and Reconstructive Readings of Mishnah
Feb 7th, 2:00 pm       Jackman Humanities Building, room 100 B (170 St. George Street)
A lecture by Dr. Avraham Walfish
34th Annual ROM Research Colloquium
Feb 8th, 9:15 am       Signy & Cléophée Eaton Theatre
All-day research colloquium
Call for Papers: MEDUSA: University of Toronto Anthropology Graduate Students' Union Colloquium Deadline: February 8, 2013
Feb 8th, 9:39 am       19 Russell Street, The Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto
Call for papers to participate in upcoming conference
Reconsidering Mossadeq
Feb 8th, 12:00 pm       4 Bancroft Avenue, room 200 B
A lecture by Ervand Abrahamian; part of Iranian Studies Seminar Series
“The Paradox of Choice: Neoliberal Urbanism and the 1990s Reform Movement in Iran”
Feb 8th, 4:00 pm       4 Bancroft Avenue, room 200 B
Lecture by Azam Khatam; Part of the Iranian Studies Seminar Series
Three Farces from Three Lands
Feb 8th, 8:00 pm       4 Glen Morris Street
An evening of three short, funny Renaissance plays
The Mantle Site: Economic Planning and Foreign Affairs in a Sixteenth Century Community
Feb 11th, 5:30 pm       Bahen Centre, room 1160 (40 St. George Street)
Lecture and book launch by Dr. Ronald Williamson
The Future of the Past: The History of Religions and Cognitive Historiography
Feb 13th, 4:00 pm       Combination Room, Trinity College, 6 Hoskin Avenue
Lecture by Professor Luther H. Martin
The Past on Display: A Curatorial Perspective
Feb 13th, 5:15 pm       Sidney Smith Hall, room 2135 (100 St. George Street)
Lecture by Dr. Catherine Lucinda Cooper
The Seleucids in Babylonia
Feb 13th, 8:00 pm       Earth Science Auditorium, room B142 (5 Bancroft Avenue)
Lecture by Dr. Paul Kosmin
Bite Me: Rude Food and the Anglo-Saxon Riddle Tradition
Feb 14th, 4:00 pm       170 St. George St. rm 100a
Lecture by Andy Orchard, Provost and Vice-Chancellor of Trinity College, and Professor of English and Medieval Studies
Is the 'Early' in 'Early Modern' the Same as the 'Early' in 'Early Colonial'?
Feb 14th, 4:30 pm       15 King's College Circle, UC140
Alexander Lecture by Ania Loomba, English, University of Pennsylvania
The Firecrosser ( director Mykhailo Illienko, 2012)
Feb 14th, 6:00 pm       Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Ave, Toronto, ON M5S1J5
Film screening; part of Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Ukrainian Cinema since Independence
The Trouble with Third Powers: German-Iranian Relations to 1941
Feb 15th, 4:00 pm       Bancroft Hall 200B, 4 Bancroft Avenue Toronto, Ontario
Lecture by Jennifer Jenkins, University of Toronto
The Trouble with Third Powers: German-Iranian Relations to 1941
Feb 15th, 4:00 pm       4 Bancroft Avenue, room 200B
As part of Iranian Studies Seminar Series, lecture by Jennifer Jenkins
"Soviet Film and Stalin's War of Peasants, 1920-1930"
Feb 15th, 6:00 pm       Room 108, North Building, Munk School of Global Affairs (1 Devonshire Place)
Lecture by Yuri Shevchuk, as part of Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Ukrainian Cinema since Independence
Debating Political Secularism
Feb 18th, 3:00 pm       Room 200, Larkin Building 15 Devonshire Place
Seminar by Jocelyn Maclure Department of Philosophy Université Laval
Ancient Egypt’s Encounters with the West: The Meshwesh
Feb 22nd, 7:00 pm       Room 142, 5 Bancroft Ave
Lecture by Dr. Liam Cooney, National Archives of Canada
Rights Forfeiture and Procedural Rights
Feb 25th, 3:00 pm       Room 200, Larkin Building
Lecture by Professor Christopher Heath Wellman
The Case of the Disappearing Latinos: the Consequences of (Non) Ethnic Identification for Understanding Latino Political Participation in the United States
Feb 27th, 2:00 pm       Room 108N, Munk School of Global Affairs, 1 Devonshire Place
Lecture by Professor David Leal
Ordinary Endurance: the Aesthetics of Settling in Gertrude Stein’s “Three Lives”
Feb 27th, 4:00 pm       Room 208N, Munk School of Global Affairs 1 Devonshire Place
Lecture by Alexander Eastwood
The Global Popular
Feb 28th, 11:00 am       Media Commons Room 1, Robarts Library, U of T
A public talk with prominent visual media scholars Bishnupriya Ghosh and Bhaskar Sarkar (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Cuisine, Colonialism and the (Cold) War: A Fresh Perspective on the Modern History of East Asia
Feb 28th, 2:00 pm       1 Devonshire Place, room 108N
lecture by Katarzyna Cweirtka, Professor and Chair of Modern Japan Studies, Leiden University
On the Origins of the 'Mexican Race'
Feb 28th, 4:00 pm       170 St. George St. rm 100a
Lecture by Claudio Lomnitz, Columbia University
Agent of Diplomacy: Archaeology as an Element of the Foreign Relations Toolkit
Feb 28th, 4:00 pm       Munk School of Global Affairs, room 208N (1 Devonshire Place)
Lecture by Dr. Morag Kersel (DePaul University, Chicago)

March
A Celebration of Early Modern Studies
Mar 1st, 9:40 am       91 Charles Street West, Alumni Hall
Symposium
A Seminar on network theory with Bishnupriya Ghosh and Bhaskar Sarkar
Mar 1st, 12:00 pm       Room 3000, CCT Bldg, UTM
Seminar with two professors from University of California, Santa Barbara
Nietzche’s Types and Typologies: Method and Prescription in Der Antichrist
Mar 1st, 2:00 pm       Room 200, Larkin Building 15 Devonshire Place
Political theory workshop with Tom Meredith.
The Alzheimer Enigma Amidst Global Aging
Mar 1st, 3:00 pm       Room 616, 6th floor of the Jackman Humanities Building, 170 St. George Street
Lecture & discussion by Professor Margaret Lock.
Thinking About Dinner
Mar 1st, 3:30 pm       170 St. George Street, room 100
Workshop on sensory appreciation of taste and new techniques in cuisine.
Dehyphenate and Detheorize My Voice: “I act, therefore, I am.”
Mar 1st, 4:00 pm       Bancroft Hall 200B, 4 Bancroft Avenue Toronto, Ontario
Lecture by Minoo Derayeh
Disappearing History: Scenes of Trauma in the Theatre of Human Rights
Mar 5th, 4:00 pm       93 Charles St., room 213 (Vic Chapel)
Lecture by Cathy Caruth
The Stacks School of Typography: The Role of Libraries and Archives in the Development of Gaspereau Press
Mar 5th, 8:00 pm       120 St. George St., Thomas Fisher Library
Lecture by Andrew Steeves, proprietor of Gaspereau Press
Getting the Trolley Problem Back on Track
Mar 6th, 12:00 pm       Room 200, Larkin Building 15 Devonshire Place
Ethics at Noon event
Textual Tastes: Cookbook Marketing in Early Modern France
Mar 7th, 4:00 pm       170 St. George St. rm 100a
Lecture by Timothy Tomasik, Professor of French, Valparaiso University
Margins of Authority: Precedence and Citation in Early Legal Treatises
Mar 7th, 4:15 pm       4 Devonshire Place, Upper Library Massey College
Lecture by Simon Stern, Law, University of Toronto
Personal Matters: Intimacy and Exclusion in Africa and Europe
Mar 8th, 10:30 am       UTSC, Room MW110
Lecture and lunch event with Professor Henrietta L. Moore
Celtiberic Pottery in the Spanish Central Plateau: The case of Los Rodiles (Cubillejo de la Sierra, Guadalajara)
Mar 8th, 12:00 pm       Archaeology Centre Boardroom, room 140, 19 Russell Street
Lecture by Álvaro Sánchez Climent
The Rise and Demise of Women’s Studies in Iran
Mar 8th, 4:00 pm       Bancroft Hall 200B, 4 Bancroft Avenue Toronto, Ontario
Lecture by Shahrzad Mojab
Re-Imagining Scholarly Communication
Mar 11th, 12:00 pm       UTSC Council Chamber AA160
Meeting and Discussion with Kathleen Fitzpatrick and Stefan Sinclair
Ethical Drones?
Mar 13th, 12:00 pm       Room 200, Larkin Building 15 Devonshire Place
Ethics at Noon event
Bon Appétit!
Mar 13th, 4:00 pm       170 St. George St. room 100a
Discussion of Parallax 66 journal issue on food with Lindsay Kelley, guest editor.
Towards a Shared Contemporary Applied Ethics: An Islamic Perspective
Mar 13th, 7:30 pm        Northrop Frye Hall 003, Victoria College
Lecture by Prof. Tariq Ramadan
Should a Muslim Drink Coffee and Smoke? Law and Poetry in Early Modern Ottoman Bosnia
Mar 14th, 4:00 pm       89 Charles St. W, Burwash Senior Common Room
Lecture by Selma Zecevic, Humanities, York University
An Inspector Calls
Mar 14th, 4:00 pm       75 Queens Park, Emmanuel 119
Discussion of book in progress with Rita Felski
Unique Multiples: Picturing the Inuit in Elizabethan England
Mar 14th, 4:30 pm       15 King's College Circle, UC Senior Common Room
Lecture by Nicole Blackwood, SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Art
"New Methods | New Media: Digital Historiography and Einstein on the Beach"
Mar 15th, 11:00 am       Upper Library, Massey College (4 Devonshire Place, Toronto)
Lecture by Sarah Bay-Cheng, on behalf of the Performance Studies (Canada) Speaker Series in March.
Stadium of the Mind: Nation, Narrative and Immediacy in Early Japanese Sports Broadcasting
Mar 15th, 2:00 pm       130 St. George Street, ROBA 14th floor purple lounge
Lecture by Kerim Yasar, Notre Dame University
Transnational Tropes & Diasporic Nostalgia: The Popular Iconography of the ‘Green Woman’
Mar 15th, 4:00 pm       Bancroft Hall 200B, 4 Bancroft Avenue Toronto, Ontario
Lecture by Victoria Tahmasebi
The Contemporary Urgencies of Audre Lorde's Legacy
Mar 15th, 6:30 pm       William Doo Auditorium 45 Willcocks Street
Film screening of “Audre Lorde: The Berlin Years 1984-1992” and discussion with Dagmar Schultz, Marion Kraft, Gloria Wekker, M. Jacqui Alexander, Carol Allain, Farrah Khan
"What Makes Shakespeare So Inspiring?"
Mar 19th, 4:00 pm       Chapel of Old Victoria College, 91 Charles St. West, 2nd floor.
First of 2 lectures by Bruce Ray Smith, Dean's Professor of English, University of Southern California
The Rise and Fall of the Global Drug Prohibition Regime
Mar 19th, 5:00 pm       Room 208N, Munk School for Global Affairs 1 Devonshire Place
Lecture by Ethan Nadelmann
The Representation of Madness in Western Art Music
Mar 20th, 12:00 pm       14th Floor Classroom Mount Sinai Hospital
A Health, Arts & Humanities Program lunch-and-learn with Professor Andrew Hughes.
Malignant Accountability
Mar 20th, 7:00 pm       Auditorium 1180 Bahen Centre 40 St. George St
Public Lecture with Professor Yael Tamir
Religion and the (de)criminalization of drugs
Mar 21st, 9:00 am       170 St George Street
RPS Community Research Workshop with various speakers, including Paul Christopher Webster and Daniel Werb
Making The Scene
Mar 21st, 4:00 pm       Chapel of Old Victoria College, 91 Charles St. West, 2nd floor
The second of two lectures by Bruce Ray Smith, Dean's Professor of English, University of Southern California
Shared Memory Spaces: The Destruction of the Germanic Hall in the Medieval and Modern Cultural Imagination
Mar 21st, 4:10 pm       Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures 50 St. Joseph Street, Odette Hall 323
Lecture by Scott Pincikowski, Hood College
Death Clowns in Guantánamo Bay
Mar 21st, 8:00 pm       Studio Theatre, 4 Glen Morris Street
Running March 21-24, a play by graduate students at the Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies
Friday Chat Series: Sarah Polley
Mar 22nd, 2:00 pm       Robert Gill Theatre 214 College Street, St. George entrance, 3rd floor
The Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies’ Friday Chat Series with Sarah Polley (Moderated by Professor Charlie Keil, Director, Cinema Studies Institute)
Freud's Other Legacy
Mar 22nd, 3:00 pm       73 Queens Park Cr E, NF006
Lecture by Elizabeth Rottenberg, DePaul University, Chicago
Crafting Theatrical (and Editorial) Effect in Heywood's A Woman Killed with Kindness
Mar 22nd, 4:00 pm       170 St. George St. rm 100a
CANCELLED due to illness. Lecture by Margaret Jane Kidnie, English, University of Western Ontario
Title TBA
Mar 22nd, 4:00 pm       Room 200, Larkin Building 15 Devonshire Place
Lecture by Russ Shafer-Landau, Department of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin
Medicine and the Renaissance of the 12th Century
Mar 22nd, 4:10 pm       121 St. Joseph Street, room 100
2013 Etinne Gilson Lecture by Faith Wallis, McGill University
Idle No More Comedy Night
Mar 22nd, 8:00 pm       Harvest Noon Cafe (16 Bancroft Ave, 2nd Floor)
A night of political comedy featuring Drew Hayden Taylor, Lee Maracle, Tonto's Nephews
Majorities and Minarets (TBC)
Mar 25th, 3:00 pm       Seeley Hall Trinity College 6 Hoskin Avenue
Lecture by David Miller Professor of Political Theory Nuffield College Oxford
Majorities and Minarets: Religious Freedom and Public Space
Mar 25th, 3:00 pm       Seeley Hall Trinity College 6 Hoskin Avenue
Lecture by David Miller, Oxford
The Rise and Fall of the Global Drug Prohibition Regime
Mar 27th, 4:00 pm       Room 208N, Munk School for Global Affairs 1 Devonshire Place
Lecture by Ethan Nadelmann
Hiding in Plain Sight: Spatial Practices of Penal Isolation in the Era of Mass Incarceration
Mar 27th, 4:00 pm       Room 208N, Munk School for Global Affairs 1 Devonshire Place
Lecture by Brett Storey
Albertus Magnus: Matter, Motion, and the Heavens
Mar 27th, 4:10 pm       Seminar Room A 59 Queen's Park Crescent East
A PIMS Visiting Fellow Lecture with Professor Steven Baldner
All in the Papal Family: The Building of Renaissance Rome
Mar 27th, 7:00 pm       Alumni Hall, Old Victoria College (Museum Subway)
An illustrated lecture by Professor Kenneth R. Bartlett
Shakespeare Association of America
Mar 28th, 9:30 am       TBA
41st Annual Meeting
Revise and Publish Your Dissertation
Mar 28th, 2:00 pm       170 St. George Street, room 100
Publishing workshop with Professor Edward Dimendberg, UC-Irvine
In the Absence of Reliable Ghosts: Sexuality, Historiography, South Asia
Mar 28th, 2:00 pm       Room 108N, Munk School of Global Affairs 1 Devonshire Place
Lecture by Anjali Arondekar
Disney Derives the Future: Cognitive Capitalism and Brand Realism
Mar 28th, 5:00 pm       Room 616, Jackman Humanities Institute 170 St. George Street
Lecture by Jerome Christensen
The ‘Arab Spring’ and the illusive gender democracy in the Middle East
Mar 29th, 4:00 pm       Bancroft Hall 200B, 4 Bancroft Avenue Toronto, Ontario
Lecture by Haideh Moghissi, York University

April
The Owl of Minerva Flies Only at Dusk But Where is it Going?
Apr 1st, 3:00 pm       Room 200, Larkin Building 15 Devonshire Place
Lecture by Professor Lea Ypi, London School of Economics and Political Science.
Endless Buffets: a Creative-Critical Reflection on the Meaning of Food in Indian Country
Apr 2nd, 3:00 pm       170 St. George St. room 100a
Talk by author Stephen Graham Jones
Amy Lowell: Adventures in Collecting in Turn-of-the-Century Boston
Apr 2nd, 8:00 pm       120 St. George St., Thomas Fisher Library
Lecture by Leslie Morris, Curator of Modern Books and Manuscripts, Houghton Library, Harvard University
Different and Unequal: Thinking Beyond Equality in Intimate Relationships
Apr 3rd, 12:00 pm       Room 200, Larkin Building 15 Devonshire Place
Ethics at noon event with Lauren Bialystok.
Haute Cuisine to Haute Food: Meals and Meaning in Today's Food World
Apr 4th, 4:00 pm       100 St. George Street room 2098
Lecture by Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson, Sociology, Columbia University
Christian States
Apr 5th, 12:30 pm       19 Russell Street, Room AP246
Lecture by Professor Gil Anidjar, Religion, Columbia University
Women in Soghdian Paradocuments
Apr 5th, 4:00 pm       Bancroft Hall 200B, 4 Bancroft Avenue Toronto, Ontario
Lecture by Parisa Derakhshan, Azad Islamic University, Tehran
The Art of Life and Death: Everyday Adventures in Contingency and Destiny
Apr 10th, 4:00 pm        Joseph G. Green Theatre, Centre for Film and Theatre, York University
Lecture by Andrew Irving, on behalf of the Performance Studies (Canada) Speaker Series in March
Placing Sacrality in Medieval and Early Modern Culture
Apr 11th, 9:30 am       170 St. George St. room 100a
One-day workshop about sacrality and place.
A 16th Century Italo-Byzantine Cross
Apr 11th, 4:30 pm       UTAC art lounge, 15 King's College Circle, Toronto, ON M5S 3H7
POSTPONED. A Lecture by Dr. Sheila Campbell, Former Malcove Curator, and Professor Emerita at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto
You should have been there: The competition between print and performance
Apr 11th, 8:00 pm       George Ignatieff Theatre Trinity College, 6 Hoskin Ave
Lecture with J. Edward Chamberlin, Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature
Birth of the Zoroastrian Apocalypses
Apr 12th, 4:00 pm       Bancroft Hall 200B, 4 Bancroft Avenue Toronto, Ontario
Lecture by Enrico Raffaelli, University of Toronto
Between Buddhism and Science, Between Mind and Body
Apr 12th, 5:30 pm       Instructional Centre (IC) Building, University of Toronto Scarborough, 1095 Military Trail
Lecture with Professor Geoffrey Samuel, 2012-13 TLKY Visiting Professor
Between Mind and Body
Apr 12th, 5:30 pm       1265 Military Trail Scarborough, IC Building
Lecture by Geoffrey Samuel, Cardiff University
Law’s Relations: A Relational Theory of Self, Autonomy, and Law
Apr 15th, 3:00 pm       Room 200, Larkin Building 15 Devonshire Place
Centre for Ethics Graduate Associates: an "Author meets Critics" event with Professor Jennifer Nedelsky
The Undergraduate Mediaeval Studies Colloquium
Apr 15th, 4:00 pm       Laurence K. Shook Common Room of the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
A colloquium in which various students present their thesis work
Picturing Health and Medicine
Apr 17th, 1:00 pm       Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, Victoria College, Room 323, University of Toronto, 91 Charles St. West, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1K7
An all-day workshop with various experts in the field of History and Philosophy of Science and Technology
Political Uses of Utopia
Apr 18th, 9:00 am       Founders College, Rm 303 (Brian Cragg Room), York University
An international workshop April 18th-19th 2013, hosted by York University
Pop-ups, Wheels, Tabs and Flaps: Bringing Motion to Books
Apr 18th, 8:00 pm       Thursday April 18, at 8 p.m., the community room, Lillian H. Smith branch, 239 College Street (at Huron)
A free illustrated lecture on the history of pop-ups and movable books with Ann Montanaro Staples
Contemporary (Re)Mediations or Race and Ethnicity in German Visual Cultures
Apr 19th, 9:00 am       Munk School for Global Affairs, Room 208N, 1 Devonshire Place, Toronto
6th Annual German Studies Symposium (April 19-20).
Theatre at Work: Towards a Theory of Theatre Rehearsal Practice
Apr 19th, 1:00 pm       Robert Gill Theatre 214 College Street, St. George entrance, 3rd floor
Lecture with Annemarie Matzke, University of Hildesheim
Iran’s 2013 Presidential Election
Apr 19th, 4:00 pm       Bancroft Hall 200B, 4 Bancroft Avenue Toronto, Ontario
Lecture by Alireza Haghighi, University of Toronto
The Landscape of Affordances & the Potential of Vacancy
Apr 22nd, 10:00 am       230 College Street, PCL room
Lecture by Eric Rietveld, University of Amsterdam
Follow the Family? The Cultural Politics of Neo- Liberalism in Scott Walker’s Wisconsin
Apr 24th, 4:00 pm       Room 208N, Munk School of Global Affairs 1 Devonshire Place
Lecture by David K. Seitz
Forgery or Imitation or Neither The Mystery of the Pierpont Morgan Golden Gospels
Apr 25th, 4:15 pm       Room 400, Alumni Hall 121 St Joseph Street St Michael’s College
2013 Boyle Lecture
Using a Historical Toolbox to Think Out-of-the-Box for the Future
Apr 26th, 9:30 am       Room 207, Accolade East Building, York University
Lecture/conversation with Jan Cohen-Cruz and Morgan Jenness, on behalf of Performance Studies (Canada) Speaker Series in March
Seeds, Sprouts & Scriptures: The Jewish-Muslim Youth Planting Project
Apr 28th, 10:00 am       Multi-Faith Centre, 569 Spadina Ave
Shari Golberg, Asma Ali & Sabrina Malach present an afternoon of indoor planting, text-study, and interfaith exchange
The Elephant in the Room, or the Survival of Renaissance Books.
Apr 30th, 4:00 pm       Muzzo Family Alumni Hall, Room 206, St Michael’s College (121 St Joseph Street)
Final Talk of the Forty-Eighth Season of the Toronto Renaissance and Reformation Colloquium

May
Toronto Old English Colloquium
May 3rd, 9:30 am       Centre for Medieval Studies, Room 310 3rd Floor, Lillian Massey Building 125 Queen’s Park, Toronto
All-Day event featuring numerous Old English scholars.
inFORMing Content: Presentations
May 3rd, 7:00 pm       45 Willcocks St., William Doo Auditorium
Collaboration with Volcano Theatre: Part One, Scholarly presentations
inFORMing Content: Performances
May 5th, 3:00 pm       170 St. George Street
Collaboration between Volcano Theatre and the Jackman Humanities Institute
Repetition and Difference: The Dissemination of Photography
May 8th, 5:00 pm       170 St. George St., room 100a
Lecture by Geoffrey Batchen, Victoria University of Wellington
Mediated Music: Robotic Operas, Guitar Hero, Collaborative Symphonies and Beyond
May 9th, 5:00 pm       15 Kings College Circle, UC 179
talk by Tod Machover, MIT
Black Diaspora Conversations: Gender Sexuality and Queer Thought: A Symposium
May 10th, 9:00 am       OISE, 12th Floor North, 252 Bloor Street West
One-day symposium with Scholars from Northwestern University and Indiana University
English Spring Reunion with George Elliott Clarke
May 30th, 5:00 pm       Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100 (main Floor) 170 St. George St. (Bloor and St. George intersection)
Toronto Poet Laureate, George Elliott Clarke, will be reading selections of his poetry for the Department of English Spring Reunion

June
What's Will Got to do with it? A Skeleton, Science, and Shakespeare's 'Bunch-Back'd Toad'
Jun 13th, 7:00 pm       170 St. George Street, rrom 100
Student Symposium featuring keynote by Kate Taylor, Globe & Mail

July
JHI Summer Teachers' Institute
Jul 8th, 10:00 am       170 St. George Street, room 1040
One-week seminar for Ontario secondary school teachers on the theme of Translation & Languages