The CRRS Workshops are a recurring speaker series held approximately once a month during the academic year, and feature both local and visiting scholars presenting their recent work in a seminar-style format.

Friday, September 25, 2026
4:00 PM
Emmanuel Hall 119
75 Queen’s Park Cres E

Randall McLeod (University of Toronto)
“An Analytical-Bibliographic Tour of Robert Estienne’s 1535 Printing of Guillaume Budé’s De transitu Hellenismi ad Christianismum”

Wednesday, October 7, 2026
4:00 PM
Goldring Student Centre, Regents Room (206)
150 Charles Street West

Madeline Bassnett (Western University)
“Cooking in the “Frozen Zone”: Creativity and Survival in England’s Little Ice Age”
(Presented in co-operation with the Toronto Renaissance and Reformation Colloquium)

Tuesday, November 10, 2026
4:00 PM
Victoria University Common Room
91 Charles Street West

Mathilde Alazraki (Université de Rouen Normandie)
“An Amazon from the Persian Harem in England: Reading Teresa Sampsonia Sherley’s English Firearm Portrait within the Context of Anglo-Eastern Diplomacy (1624–7)”

Tuesday, February 23, 2027
4:00 PM
Victoria University Common Room
91 Charles Street West

Randall Martin (University of New Brunswick)
Title TBA

Thursday, March 4, 2027
4:00 PM
Victoria University Common Room
91 Charles Street West

Alexandre Pelegrino (University of Toronto)
Title TBA