Convivium

The Conferences, Lectures, and Visitors Committee introduced its lecture series, the Convivium in January 2023. The Convivium offers a space to learn about in-progress research and works, showcase faculty, alumni, and community accomplishments, provide an arena for advanced PhD students to present their research topics, and host joint events and lectures by visiting scholars.

The name “convivium,” or banquet, echoes the long-lasting analogy between physical and spiritual nourishment, as well as the rituals traditionally interweaving the two.

A bi-weekly hybrid event, the Convivium typically takes place Fridays at 2:30 pm in person and via Zoom, October through December and January to April each year. A light lunch at 1:00 pm precedes all meetings which students and faculty are warmly invited to attend. Visit www.medieval.utoronto.ca/events for full details and to RSVP.

 

UPCOMING CONVIVIA

2024-2025

REGISTER NOW - December 6

  • January 10 - Jack McCart (CMS PhD Candidate), The Patronage of John de Pulteney (d. 1349): Commerce, Commemoration, and Corruption in Fourteenth-Century London / Matthew Reid (CMS PhD Candidate), A Dialogic Approach to an Old English Boethian Metre

REGISTER NOW - January 10

  • January 24 - Landon Reitz (Faculty of Arts & Science Postdoctoral Fellow), ‘Wer hât mich guoter ûf getân?’ Imagining the Reader in German Medieval Literature

REGISTER NOW - January 24

  • February 7 - Chris Nighman (CMS / Wilfrid Laurier), Digital addenda/corrigenda for printed critical editions of Latin texts: Auxiliary resources for the Electronic ‘Manipulus florum’ Project
  • March 7 - Jane Tylus (Yale University), CRRS / CMS Joint Lecture, title TBA
  • March 21 - Rebecca Stephenson (University College, Dublin), The End of the World or merely another Viking raid? Vikings, the Apocalypse, and Byrhtferth’s Scientific Writing around the year 1000

REGISTER NOW - March 21

  • March 28 - Sarah Bowden (King's College London), Voicing Sin: The Textuality of the Confessional Voice in Twelfth-Century Germany
  • April 4 - Annual Alumni Lecture, Anna Wilson (Harvard), title TBA
  • April 11 - Annual O'Donnell Lecture hosted by Greti Dinkova-Bruun: Stella Panayotova (University of Cambridge) Latin Texts as Image Generators, Tenth-Sixteenth Century 
  • April 17 - Old English Colloquium, Janet Ericksen (University of Minnesota-Morris), title TBA

PAST CONVIVIA

2024 / 2025

2023 / 2024

 

2022 / 2023