The Cologne-Toronto Graduate Student Colloquium will be held in Toronto from Thursday 29 September to Saturday 1 October 2016. This interdisciplinary colloquium is sponsored by the a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities at the University of Cologne and by the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto with assistance from the Germany/Europe fund of the University of Toronto.
Thursday 29 September (Great Hall, Centre for Medieval Studies)
2:00 pm Welcome: Suzanne Akbari, Director, CMS; Mark McGowan, Senior Academic Advisor to the Dean of Arts and Science, International
2:30-3:45 Session 1
Chair: Susanne Wittekind
Kathrin Borgers: ‘Seeing Through the Artist’s Eyes: The Creative Act of Painting Monsters’
Commentator: Matt Kavaler
4:00-5:15 Session 2
Chair: Jesse Billett
Maria Parousia Clemens: ‘Consecratio duplex: The Relationship between the liturgical Rites of Consecration of Virgins and monastic Profession for Nuns in the Central Middle Ages’
Commentator: Susanne Wittekind
5:30-6:45 Session 3
Chair: Sabine von Heusinger
Eva-Maria Cersovsky: ‘Who Cares? Gender and Health Care in Late Medieval Strasbourg’
Commentator: Nicholas Terpstra
7:30 Dinner
Friday 30 September (Great Hall, Centre for Medieval Studies)
9:00-10:15 Session 4
Chair: Suzanne Akbari
Bogdan Smarandache: ‘Border Warriors and Border Agreements: The Study of the Latin East as a Frontier’
Commentator: Andreas Speer
10:30-11:45 Session 5
Chair: Peter Orth
Kim Alings: ‘Semantic Accesses to the Keyword auctoritas in Primary Sources from the Second to the Ninth Century’
Commentator: Nicholas Everett
12:00-1:15 Session 6
Chair: Nicholas Everett
Jacob Goldowitz: ‘Renovation and Resurgence: Salernitan Medicine’s late-antique and early-medieval Heritage’
Commentator: Peter Orth
Lunch
2:15-3:30 Session 7
Chair: Monika Schausten
Fabian Scheidel: ‘Turning and Transforming: Body Concepts and binary Oppositions in the Allegory of ‘Frau Welt‘ (‘Lady World’)’
Commentator: Shami Ghosh
3:45-5:00 Session 8
Chair: Shami Ghosh
Walker Horsfall: ‘Frauenlob’s catechistic Imperative: Form and Function in the Kreuzleich’
Commentator: Monika Schausten
5:15-6:30 Session 9
Chair: Andreas Speer
Lars Reuke: ‘Many Lives: Vegetal, Animal, and Human Life in Albertus Magnus’
Commentator: Peter King
Dinner-Students’ night
Saturday 1 October (Great Hall, Centre for Medieval Studies)
9:00-10:15 Session 10
Chair: Lawrin Armstrong
Jason Brown: ‘The Composition of St Antoninus’ Summa’
Commentator: Sabine von Heusinger
10:30-11:45 Session 11
Chair: Guy Guldentops
Francesca Bonini: ‘The Manuscript Tradition of the Lectura Thomasina’
Commentator: Martin Pickavé
12:00-1:15 Session 12
Chair: Martin Pickavé
Boaz Schuman: ‘Quid est veritas? John Buridan on What Makes a Proposition True’
Commentator: Guy Guldentops
Concluding comments
Lunch
Tour: The medieval manuscripts of PIMS Library
Concluding dinner