Calendar of Events 2006-2007
September 2006
15 September, 4-6PM – Special Events
Welcome Back Reception
Location: Senior Common Room, Burwash Hall
Please join us for a drink to usher in the 2006-07 year!
18 September, 4:30 (tea 4:15) – Special Events
Francesco Tiradritti, “The Myth of Egypt in Early Modern Italy”
Location: Alumni Hall, Old Vic
Sponsored by the Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Toronto.
Free and open to the general public.
19 September, 4:15PM (4:00 tea) – 42nd Annual Erasmus Lecture
Richard Rex, “Rhetoric and Reformation”
Location: Alumni Hall, Victoria College
20 September, 4PM – Non-CRRS Event
Richard Rex, “Lollardy and Orthodoxy in Late Medieval England”
Location: Common Room, Pontifical Institute for Medieval Studies
29 September, 3:30-5:00PM – CRRS Friday Workshop Series
Jess Paehlke, “Vives’s Commentary on Augustine’s De civitate dei”
Location: Room 205, Northrop Frye Hall
Participants are welcome to join our weekly Stammtisch table at the Foxes Den on Bay Street (south of Charles Street), from 5:00.
6-7 October – CRRS Sponsored Conference
Renaissance Medievalisms
Plenary lectures:
October 6: Alexander Nagel, “When Medieval is Not Medieval: Alternative Antiquities in the Renaissance”
October 7: Paul F. Grendler, “Continuity and Change in Italian Universities, 1400–1600″
Registration is $50 CAD (half price for students).
12 October, 4-6PM – Non-CRRS Event
Early Modern Studies Seminar: October Meeting
Location: 7 King’s College Circle, Room 2001
Papers:
Piers Brown, “The Calm Before the Storm: Donne, Natural Philosophy, and Epistemological Disjunction”
Jan Purnis, “‘England’s Excrements’: Bodily Functions and Seventeenth-Century Colonialism”
Darryl Domingo, “‘DEFICIENCIES or EXCRESCENCIES in NATURE’: or, The EXHIBITION of STRANGE-SIGHTS & Textual MONSTROSITY in ‘Augustan’ ENGLAND”
13 October, 3:30-5:00PM – CRRS Friday Workshop Series
David Randall, “Epistolary Rhetoric, the Newspaper, and the Public Sphere in Early Modern England”
Location: Room 205, Northrop Frye Hall
Participants are welcome to join our weekly Stammtisch table at the Foxes Den on Bay Street (south of Charles Street), from 5:00.
16 October, 4:15 (tea 4:00) – Special Events
Yves-Marie Bercé, “Did Henri IV Believe in Ghosts?”
Location: Burwash Hall, Senior Common Room
Sponsored by the Toronto Renaissance and Reformation Colloquium, the Department of History, and the CRRS.
Free and open to the general public.
19 October, 4:15 (tea 4:00), TRRC
Christopher Warley, “Specters of Horatio”
Location: Victoria College Chapel, Old Vic
A lecture sponsored by the Toronto Renaissance and Reformation Colloquium (TRRC) and the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies (CRRS).
Information: e-mail Dr. Kim Yates
Tea & coffee will be served at 4:00 p.m.; the talk will begin at 4:15 p.m
26 October – Non-CRRS Event
Krista de Jonge, “Rediscovering the Netherlandish Renaissance: The Lost Architecture from the Age of Charles V and Philip II”
Location: University College 179
Presented by the Graduate Department of the History of Art.
26-29 October – Non-CRRS Event
Shakespeare and the Queen’s Men
Location: Victoria College
From October 26-29, 2006, scholars and theatre artists will gather at Victoria College, University of Toronto, to combine research and practical expertise in our international conference on Shakespeare and the theatre of his times.
The conference will feature keynote addresses by Roslyn Knutson (University of Arkansas at Little Rock), Tiffany Stern (Oxford University) and Martin White (Bristol University). The addresses will be followed by thematically organized seminars on the Queen’s Men and their theatrical contemporaries, including questions of repertory, acting styles, and touring, and ensemble and casting issues.
Participants will have the rare opportunity to see three Queen’s Men plays (King Leir, Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay, and The Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth) in different venues in Toronto and Hamilton reflecting the range of playing spaces available to Elizabethan touring companies.
Conference proceedings will conclude with a round-table discussion of the Shakespeare and the Queen’s Men experimental performances.
November 2006
3 November, 3:30-5:00 – CRRS Friday Workshop Series
Joëlle Guidini-Raybaud, “The Late Medieval Workshops of Stained Glass Artisans in Provence”
Location: Room 205, Northrop Frye Hall
Participants are welcome to join our weekly Stammtisch table at the Foxes Den on Bay Street (south of Charles Street), from 5:00
4 November, 10AM-12PM – TRRC
TRRC Mini-Conference: “Ritual in Renaissance Rome”
Location: Burwash Hall Senior Common Room
Nerida Newbigin (University of Sydney): “Lorenzo’s Fat and Other Relics: Giuliano Dati and the Stations of Rome”
Jennifer Mara De Silva (University of Toronto): “The Papal Master of Ceremonies Paris de’ Grassi and the Transformative Power of the Red-hat”
Barbara Wisch (SUNY-Cortland): “Something Borrowed, Something Blue: Staging Marriage in Renaissance Rome”
Elizabeth Cohen and Tom Cohen (York University): “In/visibility: Masquerade Off-stage in Early Modern Rome”
9-11 November – CRRS Sponsored Conference
Renaissance Drama in Action
Location: University of Toronto
The University of Toronto Graduate Centre for Study of Drama will host an international performance studies conference, Renaissance Drama in Action, November 9-11. The conference is meant to give scholars interested in the study of renaissance drama in performance the opportunity to grapple, in a hands-on way, with the practical realities of moving between page and stage. The conference will feature keynote presentations by three well-known performance scholars (Ralph Cohen of the American Shakespeare Center, Paul Yachnin of McGill University, and Helen Ostovich of McMaster University) as well as a number of workshops in which conference participants work toward staging one or more scenes that exemplify some of the particular problems, rewards, and/or pleasures of English renaissance drama in performance. The conference will conclude with the first full-scale theatrical production of Ben Jonson’s EVERY MAN OUT OF HIS HUMOUR since the sixteenth century-featuring a star studded cast that includes a number of English department faculty and grad students.
Registration is $50, though U of T faculty may register for individual conference dates at a lower rate. Registration is free for U of T graduate and undergraduate students. For a schedule of conference events, registration forms, and any other information, please contact Jeremy Lopez.
Sponsorship for this conference is provided by the GDC, the Department of English, the UTM Department of English, the Faculty of A&S, SGS, the Centre for Medieval Studies, the Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies, and the Canada Research Chairs Program.
9 November, 4:15PM (tea 4:00) – Special Events
Nerida Newbigin, “No Imperial Majesty: Frederick III’s Visits to Florence in 1452″
Location: Burwash Hall, Senior Common Room
Nerida Newbigin
Location: Burwash Hall, Senior Common Room
“No Imperial Majesty: Frederick III’s Visits to Florence in 1452″
Sponsored by the CRRS. Free and open to the general public.
9-11 November, 7:30PM – Non-CRRS Event
Toronto Masque Theatre: Venus and Adonis
Location: Winchester Street Theatre (Cabbagetown)
A unique double bill celebrating Ovid’s famous tale. First, a dramatic presentation of William Shakespeare’s erotic masterpiece. The same story is then set to music a century later by John Blow, in a ‘masque entertainment’ full of beautiful tunes, charming dances, and poignant dramatic situations.
With actor Derek Boyes, sopranos Michele DeBoer and Rachel Harwood-Jones, dancer Marie-Nathalie Lacoursière, bass Andrew Mahon, and a period instrument band directed from the violin by Larry Beckwith.
We invite you to join us for pre-show chats with members of the company 45 minutes before each performance.
9 November, 7-9PM – Special Events
Emily Winerock, Introduction to French Branles
Location: Room 323, Victoria College
Emily Winerock (CRRS Robson Research Assistant) will be hosting two dance workshops this month to launch the beginning of the new monthly Renaissance dance workshop series!
Each workshop will include an hour of instruction in new dances, followed by a review of and a chance to practice dances learned earlier. These workshops are open to all, so please pass on the details to anyone and everyone who might be interested. No experience or partner is required.
10 November, 3:30-5:00PM – CRRS Friday Workshop Series
Mark Crane, “Unlearned Lutherans: A Paris Doctor’s Defense of Universities Against Luther, 1532″
Location: Room 205, Northrop Frye Hall
Participants are welcome to join our weekly Stammtisch table at the Foxes Den on Bay Street (south of Charles Street), from 5:00
16 November, 4:10PM – Non-CRRS Event
Edward Pechter, “Crisis in Editing? Crisis in the Humanities?”
Location: Room 161, University College
Sponsored by the Department of English and the Canada Research Chair, Renaissance. Free and open to the public.
17 November, 3:30-5:00 – CRRS Friday Workshop Series
Sean Armstrong, “Witch-Hunting in Stalin’s Russia: Comparing the Renaissance with the 20th Century”
Location: Room 205, Northrop Frye Hall
Participants are welcome to join our weekly Stammtisch table at the Foxes Den on Bay Street (south of Charles Street), from 5:00
24 November, 3:30-5:00 – CRRS Friday Workshop Series
Katie Larson, “The Language of Friendship and Conversation: Conversational Strategies and Female Alliance in the writing of Lady Jane Cavendish and Lady Elizabeth Brackley”
Location: Room 205, Northrop Frye Hall
Participants are welcome to join our weekly Stammtisch table at the Foxes Den on Bay Street (south of Charles Street), from 5:00
30 November, 4:15PM (tea 4:00) – TRRC
Deanne Williams, “Girls Own Shakespeare”
Location: Alumni Hall, Victoria College (VC112)
A lecture sponsored by the Toronto Renaissance and Reformation Colloquium (TRRC) and the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies (CRRS).
Information: e-mail Dr. Kim Yates
Tea & coffee will be served at 4:00 p.m.; the talk will begin at 4:15 p.m
30 November, 4PM – Non-CRRS Event
Ruggero Pierantoni, “The Architecture of the Heavens: From Galileo to Tomasi di Lampedusa”
*A reception will follow.* Everyone is welcome and admission is free.
30 November, 7-9PM – Special Events
Emily Winerock, “Introduction to English Processional Dances”
Location: Room 323, Victoria College
The second in a monthly series of Renaissance Dance Worskhops hosted by Emily Winerock (CRRS Robson Research Assistant).
Each workshop will include an hour of instruction in new dances, followed by a review of and a chance to practice dances learned earlier. These workshops are open to all, so please pass on the details to anyone and everyone who might be interested. No experience or partner is required.
Contact Emily Winerock for further information.
December 2006
1 December, 3:30-5:00 – CRRS Friday Workshop Series
Philip Slavin, “Why it is Important to Have a Friend in Oxford: Working in Libraries and Archives Containing Medieval Manuscripts”
Location: Room 205, Northrop Frye Hall
Participants are welcome to join our weekly Stammtisch table at the Foxes Den on Bay Street (south of Charles Street), from 5:00
January 2007
11 January, 7-9PM – Special Events
Emily Winerock
The third in a monthly series of Renaissance Dance Worskhops hosted by Emily Winerock (CRRS Robson Research Assistant).
Each workshop will include an hour of instruction in new dances, followed by a review of and a chance to practice dances learned earlier. These workshops are open to all, so please pass on the details to anyone and everyone who might be interested. No experience or partner is required.
Contact Emily Winerock for further information.
12 January, 3:30-5:00PM – CRRS Friday Workshop Series
Rebekah Carson, “Andrea Riccio’s Della Torre Tomb Monument and the genres of Mourning and Consolation”
Location: Room 205, Northrop Frye Hall
Participants are welcome to join our weekly Stammtisch table at the Foxes Den on Bay Street (south of Charles Street), from 5:00.
18 January, 5-6PM – Non-CRRS Event
Emily Winerock, “Hypothesizing a Chorea Speculativa: Renaissance Dance in Theory and Practice”
Location:Sidney Smith 2098
A presentation in the Pre-Modern Discussion group, whose mandate is “to give graduates the space to present and receive feedback on their current research and to mingle with graduates and faculty working in medieval and early modern history.”
19 January, 3:30-5:00 – CRRS Friday Workshop Series
Peter Latka, “Defamiliarization Through Comic Deflation and Four False Departures: Experiencing Emotional Paradox and Interpretive Frustrations in Shakespeare’s Venus and Adonis”
Location: Room 205, Northrop Frye Hall
Participants are welcome to join our weekly Stammtisch table at the Foxes Den on Bay Street (south of Charles Street), from 5:00.
26 January, 3:30-5:00PM – CRRS Friday Workshop Series
Caroline Prud’Homme, “Early Modern Reading Practices: the Case of Jean Froissart”
Location: Room 205, Northrop Frye Hall
Participants are welcome to join our weekly Stammtisch table at the Foxes Den on Bay Street (south of Charles Street), from 5:00
February 2007
1 February, 7-9PM – Special Events
Emily Winerock
The fourth in a monthly series of Renaissance Dance Worskhops hosted by Emily Winerock (CRRS Robson Research Assistant).
Each workshop will include an hour of instruction in new dances, followed by a review of and a chance to practice dances learned earlier. These workshops are open to all, so please pass on the details to anyone and everyone who might be interested. No experience or partner is required.
Contact Emily Winerock for further information.
2 February, 2PM – Non-CRRS Event
Irena Makaryk (University of Ottawa), “Shakespeare and the Taliban”
Location: UC 175
7-10 February, 8PM – Non-CRRS Event
Toronto Masque Theatre: Through the Eyes of a Child
Location: Winchester Street Theatre (Cabbagetown)
A brand-new masque of music and remembrance. Composers as diverse as Dufay, Bach, Mozart, Berlioz, Irving Berlin, and Bruce Cockburn provide the soundtrack for a gifted cast including one of Canada’s major thespians. Also featuring singer and violinist Larry Beckwith, dancer Marie-Nathalie Lacoursière, recorder player Avery MacLean, lutenist Terry McKenna, and singer and dancer Cavell Wood.
We invite you to join us for pre-show chats with members of the company 45 minutes before each performance.
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8 February, 4:15 (tea 4:00) – TRRC
Matt Kavaler, “Renaissance Gothic: The Distinctive Architecture of Northern Europe ca. 1500″
Location: Senior Common Room, Burwash Hall
A lecture sponsored by the Toronto Renaissance and Reformation Colloquium (TRRC) and the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies (CRRS).
Information: e-mail Dr. Kim Yates
Tea & coffee will be served at 4:00 p.m.; the talk will begin at 4:15 p.m
9 February, 3:30-5:00PM – CRRS Friday Workshop Series
Rob Carson, “Digesting the Third in King Lear”
Location: Room 205, Northrop Frye Hall
Participants are welcome to join our weekly Stammtisch table at the Foxes Den on Bay Street (south of Charles Street), from 5:00
15 February, 5-6PM – Non-CRRS Event
John Christopoulos, “Stars and authority in Marsilio Ficino’s De vita libri tres”
Location:Sidney Smith 2098
16 February, 3:30-5:00PM – CRRS Friday Workshop Series
Scott Schofield, “Marks of Ownership in Early English Printed Books: Selections from the CRRS Collection”
Location: Room 304, Pratt Library
Participants are welcome to join our weekly Stammtisch table at the Foxes Den on Bay Street (south of Charles Street), from 5:00.
23 February, 3:30-5:00 – CRRS Friday Workshop Series
Dylan Reid, “The Renaissance in Rouen”
Location: Room 205, Northrop Frye Hall
Participants are welcome to join our weekly Stammtisch table at the Foxes Den on Bay Street (south of Charles Street), from 5:00.
March 2007
8-10 March – CRRS Co-Sponsored Conference
Alexander the Great in Medieval and Early Modern Culture
Location: University of Toronto
Sponsored by the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto, together with the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies.
Keynote speakers at the conference are Christopher Baswell (UCLA), Christine Chism (Rutgers), and Klaus Grubmüller (University of Göttingen).
View the conference website.
9 March, 3:30-5:00PM – CRRS Friday Workshop Series
Philippa Sheppard, “Sweet Smoke of Rhetoric: Propaganda and the Other in the Recent Films of Henry V and The Merchent of Venice”
Location: Room 205, Northrop Frye Hall
Participants are welcome to join our weekly Stammtisch table at the Foxes Den on Bay Street (south of Charles Street), from 5:00.
15 March, 4:15 (tea 4:00) – TRRC
Megan Armstrong, “A Material World: The Holy Land in Franciscan and Jesuit Correspondence, 1600-1700″
Location: Senior Common Room, Burwash Hall
A lecture sponsored by the Toronto Renaissance and Reformation Colloquium (TRRC) and the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies (CRRS).
Information: e-mail Dr. Kim Yates
Tea & coffee will be served at 4:00 p.m.; the talk will begin at 4:15 p.m
15 March, 5-6PM – Non-CRRS Event
Jenn De Silva, “The Visitation: Papal Ritual and Hierarchy on the Streets of Rome”
Location:Sidney Smith 1080
16 March, 7-9PM – Special Events
Musicians in Ordinary: L’ingrato e Crudo Amore: Italian Songs of the Sixteenth Century — Music of Lassus, Verdelot, Cara, Tromboncino and others
Location: Victoria College Chapel, (VC 215)
The First Annual William R. Bowen Early Music Concert
Please join us in a celebration of the work of Professor William R. Bowen as Director of the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies from 2000-2005.
A reception will follow the concert.
We are grateful for the sponsorship of the Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Toronto at this event.
16 March, 3:30-5:00PM – CRRS Friday Workshop Series
Virginia Strain, “Assertion and Desertion in Measure for Measure and the Court of Assize”
Location: Room 205, Northrop Frye Hall
Participants are welcome to join our weekly Stammtisch table at the Foxes Den on Bay Street (south of Charles Street), from 5:00.
22 March, 7-9PM – Special Events
Emily Winerock
Location: Room 323, Victoria College
The fifth in a monthly series of Renaissance Dance Worskhops hosted by Emily Winerock (CRRS Robson Research Assistant).
Each workshop will include an hour of instruction in new dances, followed by a review of and a chance to practice dances learned earlier. These workshops are open to all, so please pass on the details to anyone and everyone who might be interested. No experience or partner is required.
Contact Emily Winerock for further information.
22 March, 4PM – Non-CRRS Event
Germaine Warkentin, “Petrarch and the Writing Life: An Exploration of the Canzoniere in Facsimile”
Location: Madden Auditorium, Carr Hall, St. Michael’s College
The Goggio Lecture
Domenico Pietropaolo, Emilio Goggio Chair in Italian Studies, University of Toronto, cordially invites you to this public lecture. A reception will follow.
RSVP (acceptances only) to 416-926-2345, or email: italian.studies@utoronto.ca.
Everyone is welcome and admission is free.
26-29 March, 4:30PM – Non-CRRS Event
Alexander Leggatt, “Theatrical Tragedy, 1580-1642: Acting, Staging and Storytelling in the Plays of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries”
Location: University College
The 2007 Alexander Lectures
Monday, 26 March: “Enter an Actor”
Tuesday, 27 March: “Rebuilding a Character”
Wednesday, 28 March: “Stage Time and Stage Space”
Thursday, 29 March: “Retelling the Story”
Monday-Wednesday lectures in University College, Room 140.
Thursday lecture in University College, West Hall.
27 March, 3:15 (Reception 3:00) – Non-CRRS Event
CSI: Florence: “Medici Bones”
Location: Victoria College 212
Presented by the Renaissance Students Association and the History Students’ Association.
Konrad Eisenbichler, “The Boss and His Family”
Gabrielle Langdon, “The Boss, His Mother, and His Wife”
Martin Evison and Noel McAuliffe, “The Family’s Graves and Bones”
28 March, 7:30-8:30PM – Non-CRRS Event
Tom Cohen (York University), “Fieldwork with the Dead: Anthropology in my Mountain Village in 16th-Century Italy”
Location: Carr Hall Rm. 404, St. Michael’s College
Normally, anthropologists ask questions of the living. But old Italian courts kept verbatim records of what suspects and witnesses told a judge, so we historians can dig deep into the beliefs and habits of Italians from five hundred years ago. A series of trials from Rocca Sinibalda, a mountain village near Rieti, bring it to vibrant life: The local friar procures abortions for the village priest and uses the convent to help fence for the local grain dealer, who organizes a ring of wives to filch wheat from their husbands. The friar also fences stolen horses and roams the village with a musket up his cassock, hoping to shoot the governor of the castle. As for the peasant bandits themselves, Prof. Cohen will explain how to organize up-country marauding. These trials not only offer dramatic stories; they also let us go deep into village culture.
A lecture presented by the Canadian Institute for Mediterranean Studies.
30 March, 3:30-5:00PM – CRRS Friday Workshop Series
Michael Ullyot, “Biographies in the Seventeenth Century”
Location: Room 205, Northrop Frye Hall
Participants are welcome to join our weekly Stammtisch table at the Foxes Den on Bay Street (south of Charles Street), from 5:00.
30-31 March – CRRS Sponsored Conference
Augustine’s Confessions Conference
Location: St. Michael’s College, University of Toronto
Featured Speakers:
Sara Byers, Ave Maria University
Catherine Conybeare, Bryn Mawr College
James Farell, University of New Hampshire
Meredith J. Gill, University of Maryland
Peter King, University of Toronto
Scott MacDonald, Cornell University
Gareth B. Matthews, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Stephen Menn, McGill University
Oliver O’Donovan, University of Edinburgh
Mark Vessey, University of British Columbia
To find out more and register, please visit: http://www.utoronto.ca/stmikes/msus-conference, or email us at: msus.registration@utoronto.ca.
Sponsored by: St. Michael’s College (SMC), The Centre for Mediaeval Studies (CMS), The Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies (PIMS), The Social Sciences and Humanities Resource Council (SSHRC), Wycliffe College, The University of Toronto Philosophy Department, The St. Michael’s College Student Union (SMCSU), The Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies (CRRS), The Newman Centre for Catholic Youth, The Students’ Administrative Council (SAC), and SMC Alumni Affairs.
April 2007
4 April, 4:15 (tea 4:00) – TRRC
Natalie Rothman, “Levantines: Genealogies of an Early Modern Category of Otherness”
Location: Senior Common Room, Burwash Hall
A lecture sponsored by the Toronto Renaissance and Reformation Colloquium (TRRC) and the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies (CRRS).
Information: e-mail Dr. Kim Yates
Tea & coffee will be served at 4:00 p.m.; the talk will begin at 4:15 p.m
13 April, 3:30-5:00PM – CRRS Friday Workshop Series
Emily Winerock, “Hypothesizing a Chorea Speculativa: Renaissance Dance in Theory and Practice”
Location: Room 205, Northrop Frye Hall
Participants are welcome to join our weekly Stammtisch table at the Foxes Den on Bay Street (south of Charles Street), from 5:00
13-14 April – Non-CRRS Event
Medieval Academy of America: Annual Meeting
Location: Victoria College
19 April, 7-9PM – Special Events
Emily Winerock
Location: Room 323, Victoria College
The sixth in a monthly series of Renaissance Dance Worskhops hosted by Emily Winerock (CRRS Robson Research Assistant).
Each workshop will include an hour of instruction in new dances, followed by a review of and a chance to practice dances learned earlier. These workshops are open to all, so please pass on the details to anyone and everyone who might be interested. No experience or partner is required.
Contact Emily Winerock for further information.
20 April, 3:30-5:00PM – CRRS Friday Workshop Series
James Thomas, “Total Dependence on the Grace of God in Descartes’s Theory of Error”
Location: Room 205, Northrop Frye Hall
Participants are welcome to join our weekly Stammtisch table at the Foxes Den on Bay Street (south of Charles Street), from 5:00.
25 and 27 April, 8 PM; 28 April 3 PM – Non-CRRS Event
Toronto Masque Theatre: Dido and Aeneas
Location: Michael Young Theatre (Distillery District)
TMT continues its ongoing cycle of the major music theatre works of Henry Purcell. Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas is paired with our latest world premiere commission, Aeneas and Dido, a contemporary treatment of the same subject by the Canadian creative team of composer James Rolfe and librettist André Alexis, who gave us their wonderful take on the Orpheus legend in 2004.
With baritone Alexander Dobson, soprano Teri Dunn, dancer Marie-Nathalie Lacoursière, mezzo-soprano Vicki St. Pierre, soprano Monica Whicher, the Exultate Chamber Singers, and a period instrument band directed from the violin by Larry Beckwith.
We invite you to join us for pre-show chats with members of the company 45 minutes before each performance.
27 April, 3:30-5:00PM – CRRS Friday Workshop Series
Laura Prelipcean, “Ludovicho Domenichi’s First Collection of Women’s Poetry in Italian Literature”
Location: Room 205, Northrop Frye Hall
Participants are welcome to join our weekly Stammtisch table at the Foxes Den on Bay Street (south of Charles Street), from 5:00
May 2007
4-6 May – Renaissance Spring Festival
Conference: “Écrire des récits de voyuage (XVI-XVIII siècles): esquisse d’une poétique en gestation”
Location: University of Toronto
5 May – CRRS Sponsored Conference
Third Annual Canada Milton Seminar
Location: Alumni Hall, University of Toronto
Sponsored by the Department of English at the University of Toronto, the Canada Research Chair Program, and the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, Victoria University at the University of Toronto. This year’s program features Barbara Lewalski (Harvard), David Loewenstein (Wisconsin), and John Leonard (Western), plus a panel on “Milton and Education” (chaired by Elizabeth Hanson) and an open panel (chaired by Elizabeth Sauer).
7 May, 4:15 (tea 4:00) – CRRS Distinguished Visiting Scholar
John Najemy, Lecture I: “‘Slipping Into Their Contraries’: Structural Instabilities in the Discourses on Livy”
Location: Alumni Hall, Victoria College (VC112)
7-11 May, 10-12 each day – Renaissance Spring Festival
Konrad Eisenbichler, Paleography Seminar: “Reading Early Modern Italian Hands”
Location: Room 205, Northrop Frye Hall
The fee for the class is $100 (except for CRRS staff, CRRS fellows, and ITER fellows, for whom it is $50).
8 May, 4:15 (tea 4:00) – CRRS Distinguished Visiting Scholar
John Najemy, Lecture II: “Social Classes and Political Conflict in the Discourses and the Florentine Histories”
Location: Alumni Hall, Victoria College (VC112)
14-18 May, 10-12 each day – Renaissance Spring Festival
Alexandra Johnston, Abigail Young, and
Location: Room 304, Pratt Library
The fee for the class is $100 (except for CRRS staff, CRRS fellows, and ITER fellows, for whom it is $50).
17 May, 12 PM – Renaissance Spring Festival
Toronto Consort: “Music of Renaissance England”
Location: Richard Bradshaw Ampitheatre, COC Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts
From engaging country dances to rollicking ballads, from elegant lute songs to spirited fantasias, this repertoire presents music familiar to Shakespeare yet appealing to modern listeners. Free and open to the public.
22 May, 12 PM – Renaissance Spring Festival
Toronto Masque Theatre, “The Masque: An Introduction”
Location: Richard Bradshaw Ampitheatre, COC Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts
Masques included music, dance, and spoken word, woven around a theme or celebration. This presentation offers a historical introduction to the masque, followed by a group-inspired creation of a new masque. Free and open to the public.
24 May, 4PM – Renaissance Spring Festival
First Light: Tuscany and the Dawn of the Renaissance (documentary series): Episode 2: “Money”
Location: Room 206, Victoria College
In the 13th and 14th centuries, a new form of spiritual understanding emerged. This four-part series reveals the revolutionary changes in religion, art, commerce, and cities that altered the course of civilization.
24 May, 6:30PM – Special Events
Emily Winerock, “Court and Country Dances of the Renaissance”
Location: Room 323, Victoria College
For this performance-workshop, Toronto Coranto Renaissance Dance Ensemble will be performing a program of Italian, French, and English dances from the 15th and 16th centuries, and Artistic Director Emily Winerock will teach an introductory workshop of courtly and country dances such as the pavane, branle, hay, and galliard. Live accompaniment will be provided by Mike Franklin on period instruments. All are welcome to this free event, and no partner nor prior dance experience is needed.
25 May, 7:30-9:30 (doors at 7:00) – Non-CRRS Event
Musicians in Ordinary: “In the Shoes of an Elizabethan Lady: The Passions and Scandals of Frances Walsingham”
The daughter of Queen Elizabeth I’s spymaster, Frances Walsingham was no stranger to danger: she first married the possessive Queen’s most sparkling courtier and her second marriage was to the Queen’s lover, the Earl of Essex, whom the Queen later beheaded. Frances lived an intriguing and scandalous life which could only have been conducted in spectacular costume and to the tune of evocative, passionate music. Get to know her life and times with a curator’s talk, period music from The Musicians In Ordinary, and a treasured pair of her shoes which have been in the family of her last husband since the 1600′s.
Named after the singers and lutenists that performed in the Stuart kings’ private chambers and chapel royal, The Musicians In Ordinary (Hallie Fishel, soprano and John Edwards, lute) specialise in bringing the music of this period to life and putting it into context.
TICKET PRICES: free for Bata Shoe Museum members; $10 seniors and students; $15 adults
BOX OFFICE: Pre-registration required: call 416.979.7799 x242
WEB PAGE: www.batashoemuseum.ca
CONTACT PERSON and PHONE NUMBER: Liz Edwards, 416.979.7799 x226
29 May, 4PM – Renaissance Spring Festival
First Light: Tuscany and the Dawn of the Renaissance (documentary series): Episode 3: “Cities”
Location: Room 235, Northrop Frye Hall
In the 13th and 14th centuries, a new form of spiritual understanding emerged. This four-part series reveals the revolutionary changes in religion, art, commerce, and cities that altered the course of civilization.
30 May, 6PM – Renaissance Spring Festival
Toronto Chamber Choir, “The Madrigal”
Location: Richard Bradshaw Ampitheatre, COC Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts
The madrigal is a musical form that experimented with form and text-rendering during the 16th and 17th centuries. This repertoire features music by Verdelot, da Rore, Monteverdi, Morley, LeJune, and Scheidt. Free and open to the public.
31 May, 4PM – Renaissance Spring Festival
Nicholas Terpstra, “The Art of Executing Well: Execution Rituals in Renaissance Italy”
Location: Room 302, Emmanuel College
Authorities used executions to demonstrate justice and educate onlookers (hoping the reluctant main character wouldn’t spoil the ritual). To enhance the effect, art and music were employed.
31 May, 12PM – Renaissance Spring Festival
Toronto Masque Theatre: “Dido and Aeneas: A Masque”
Location: Richard Bradshaw Ampitheatre, COC Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts
Artistic director Larry Beckwith hosts an introduction to Purcell’s masterpiece opera. He is assisted by choreographer and baroque dancer Marie-Nathalie Lacoursiere, lutenist Terry McKenna, and a choral ensemble. Free and open to the public.
June 2007
1 June, 4 PM – Renaissance Spring Festival
First Light: Tuscany and the Dawn of the Renaissance (documentary series): Episode 4: “Cataclysm”
Location: Room 235, Northrop Frye Hall
In the 13th and 14th centuries, a new form of spiritual understanding emerged. This four-part series reveals the revolutionary changes in religion, art, commerce, and cities that altered the course of civilization.
4 June, 4 PM – Renaissance Spring Festival
Alexander Nagel, “Christ as Idol in Renaissance Italy”
Location: Senior Common Room, Burwash Hall
Statues of Christ in the antique style became something of a vogue in the period around 1500. These works offered insistently Christian content but adopted a form — the marble or bronze statue in the round — that smacked heavily of pagan idolatry. A manifestation of the paganizing Renaissance? A closer look suggests instead that they were the fruit of an effort to reinstate a presumed archaic (i.e. antique) image of Christ, an effort informed by humanist antiquarian interests. But was it possible to separate the form from the content? Did the form itself carry irrepressive pagan associations? These questions — addressed by, among others, Lorenzo Valla, Michelangelo, and Erasmus — take us into some of the deepest cultural conflicts of the period.
9 Jun, 10AM – 4PM – Renaissance Spring Festival
Jennifer Roberts-Smith, “Richard III Performance Workshop”
Location: Alumni Hall, Victoria College
PLS, in collaboration with Shakespeare and the Queen’s Men, presents a performance workshop of Richard III directed by Jennifer Roberts-Smith. Participants will explore Shakespeare’s play in relation to its source in the repertoire of Elizabeth I’s all-star theatre company. No previous acting experience required. The emphasis is on fun and exploration.
12 Jun, 12 PM – Renaissance Spring Festival
Musicians in Ordinary, “A More Softe Harmonye: Music from the Court of Isabella D’Esté”
Location: Richard Bradshaw Ampitheatre, COC Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts
Isabella d’Esté, Marchioness of Mantua, was patroness of artists like Leonardo da Vinci and Titian. Also a patroness of music, she is celebrated here with music originally performed for her court. Free and open to the public.
13 Jun, 6 PM – Renaissance Spring Festival
Timothy McGee, “Singing Poetry”
Location: Senior Common Room, Burwash Hall
This lecture focuses on the cantastorie, the widely popular singers of poetry in late Medieval and Renaissance Italy. Their repertory included moral songs, verses composed by contemporary poets, and improvised political commentary, and their performances were viewed by private and public audiences alike.
19 Jun, 12 PM – Renaissance Spring Festival
Musicians in Ordinary, “Not One Lady Failed to Shed a Tear: The Birth of Opera”
Location: Richard Bradshaw Ampitheatre, COC Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts
The new style of Baroque music, the affective style, was known to both entrance and enthral audiences. Composers presented here include Monteverdi, Giulio and Francesca Caccini, Landi, and Picininni. Free and open to the public.
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