Past CRRS Workshop Series Events
Events for 2025-2026
Thursday, 20 November, 2025
4:00 PM
Emmanuel College, Room 119
75 Queen’s Park Cres E
Felipe E. Ruan (Brock University)
“Indigenous Mestizo, & African-descended Petitioners in Sixteenth-Century Habsburg Madrid”
Thursday, 22 January, 2026
4:00 PM
Victoria University Common Room
91 Charles Street West
Holger Syme (University of Toronto)
“Shakespeare in the Archives of Modernity: Negotiating Information Overload”
Thursday, 5 March, 2026
4:00 PM
Victoria University Common Room
91 Charles Street West
Amila Buturović (York University)
“Ecumenical Magic of Ottoman Bosnia”
Thursday, 19 March, 2026
4:00 PM
Victoria University Common Room
91 Charles Street West
Alexandra Guerson (University of Toronto) and Dana Wessell Lightfoot (University of Northern British Columbia)
“Gendered Conversions: Community Preservation and Family Identity in Fifteenth-Century Girona” (Presented in co-operation with the Toronto Renaissance and Reformation Colloquium)
Tuesday, 7 April, 2026
4:00 PM
Victoria University Common Room
91 Charles Street West
Bernice Mittertreiner Neal (York University) and Giulio Leghissa (University of Toronto)
“Wanton Mermaids … Flinging in Favours”: Props in Dido, Queen of Carthage” and “Was Indo-Roman Trade Beneficial to the Romans? Pliny the Elder, Montesquieu, and the Luxury Debate in Enlightenment France”
Events for 2024-2025
Thursday, 19 September, 2024
4:00 PM
Victoria University Common Room
91 Charles Street West
Jennifer DeSilva
“The Census, the Sex-Worker, and Social Geography”
Thursday, 28 November, 2024
4:00 PM
Victoria University Common Room
91 Charles Street West
Lucia Dacome
“’One of the Best Medicaments’: Opium, Slavery, and Medicine in Early Modern Italy”
Friday, 28 February, 2025
3:00 PM
Victoria University Common Room
91 Charles Street West
Lee Emrich
“Wearable Techne: Dressing Knowledge in Early Modern England”
Monday, March 10, 2025
4:00 PM
Victoria University Common Room
91 Charles Street West
Timothy Harrison
“Negation and Anthropology in John Milton’s Paradise Lost.”
Events for 2023-2024
19 Oct 2023
4:00 PM
Victoria University Common Room
Burwash Hall, 89 Charles St. W.
Constance de Font-Réaulx
“Toward a Comprehension of WaterScarcity in Early Modern Paris”
16 Nov 2023
5:15 PM
Emmanuel College Room 119
75 Queen’s Park Cres.
Paul Vandenbroeck
“Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights: Against Nature and Humanity”
30 Nov 2023
4:00 PM
Victoria University Common Room
Burwash Hall, 89 Charles St. W.
Chet Van Duzer
“Frames that Speak: An Introduction to Cartographic Cartouches”
27 Feb 2024
3:30-5:00 PM
Victoria University Common Room
Burwash Hall, 89 Charles St. W.
Leslie Korrick
“Claiming Metadisciplinarity in Sixteenth-Century Italy: The Arts and the Missing Paragone”
15 Feb 2024
4:00 PM
Victoria University Common Room
Burwash Hall, 89 Charles St. W.
Ethan Matt Kavaler
“The Central European Tombs Race: Gender and its Discontents”
Events for 2022-2023
28 Oct 2022
3:30 PM
Victoria University Common Room
Burwash Hall, 89 Charles St. W.
Sebastian Sobecki
“The Invention of Colonialism: Richard Hakluyt and Medieval Travel Writing”
18 Nov 2022
3:30 PM
Victoria University Common Room
Burwash Hall, 89 Charles St. W.
Brian Baigrie
“Through a Glass Darkly: Johannes Kepler and the Camera Obscura”
27 Jan 2023
3:30 PM
Victoria University Common Room
Burwash Hall, 89 Charles St. W.
Laura Ingallinella
“The Fraudulent Muse: Forgeries of Female Petrarchism in Renaissance Italy”
3 Mar 2023
3:30 PM
Victoria University Common Room
Burwash Hall, 89 Charles St. W.
John Rogers
“Milton’s Brazilian Eve and the Edenic Experiment in Religious Freedom”
Events for 2021-2022
21 Jan 2022
3:30 PM
Online
Jason Nguyen
“Vulcan’s Ornament”
11 Feb 2022
3:30 PM
Online
Neil Kenny
“Problems of Representing Peasants: The Case of Noël Du Fail”
4 Mar 2022
3:30 PM
Online
Andrea Walkden
“Lyric Margins and the Early Modern Shore”
Events for 2019-2020
27 Sep 2019
3:30 PM
Victoria University Common Room
Burwash Hall, 89 Charles St. W
Tamara Walker
“‘Their eating was a spectacle’: Cultures of Food and Consumption in the Southern Pacific”
18 Oct 2019
3:30 PM
Victoria University Common Room
Burwash Hall, 89 Charles St. W
Erin Campbell
“Space, Place, and Devotion in the Early Modern Domestic Interior: Ludovico Carracci’s Portraits of Widows”
31 Jan 2020
3:30 PM
Victoria University Common Room
Burwash Hall, 89 Charles St. W
Ernesto Virgulti
“From Text to Bronze: Rodin’s Visualization of Dante’s Inferno“
28 Feb 2020
3:30 PM
Victoria University Common Room
Burwash Hall, 89 Charles St. W
Urvashi Chakravarty
“Dark Futures: Race, Slavery and Succession in the Early Modern British Atlantic World”
Events for 2018-2019
2 Nov 2018
3:30 PM
Victoria University Common Room
Burwash Hall, 89 Charles St. W
Misha Teramura
“The End of More: Dilation and Constraint in the Sir Thomas More Manuscript”
16 Nov 2018
3:30 PM
Victoria University Common Room
Burwash Hall, 89 Charles St. W
Una Roman D’Elia
“The Painted Flesh of Quattrocento Sculpture”
25 Jan 2019
3:30 PM
Victoria University Common Room
Burwash Hall, 89 Charles St. W
Paul Stevens
“Henry V: Political Theology and the Pleasures of War”
1 Feb 2019
3:30 PM
Victoria University Common Room
Burwash Hall, 89 Charles St. W
Stephen Rupp
“The Land and its Learning: Cervantes and Vergil’s Georgics”
29 Mar 2019
3:30 PM
Victoria University Common Room
Burwash Hall, 89 Charles St. W
Ellen Konowitz
“Intermediality: Stained Glass and its Sister Arts in the Sixteenth-Century Netherlands”
29 Mar 2019
3:30 PM
Victoria University Common Room
Burwash Hall, 89 Charles St. W
Isabelle Lecocq
“Luminous propaganda : Bernard Van Orley’s stained-glass windows of Brussels Cathedral”
Events for 2017-2018
26 Jan 2018
3:30 PM
Northrop Frye, Room 205
73 Queen’s Park Crescent East
Lisa Mansfield
“The Ethical Artist: Erasmian Humanism and Affective Identity in Jan va Scorel’s Portraits”
16 Feb 2018
3:30 PM
Victoria University Common Room
Burwash Hall, 89 Charles St. W
Musicians in Ordinary
“‘Pleasures Might Cause Her Read’: Sonnet and Songs by Sir Philip Sidney”
Events for 2016-2017
30 Sep 2016
3:30 PM
Northrop Frye, Room 205
73 Queen’s Park Crescent East
James W. Nelson Novoa
“New Leases on Lives: Portuguese Converso Art and Cultural Patronage in Italy
14 Oct 2016
3:30 PM
Northrop Frye, Room 205
73 Queen’s Park Crescent East
31 Jan 2020
3:30 PM
Northrop Frye, Room 205
73 Queen’s Park Crescent East
Chris Nighman
“Digitizing the Golden Mouth: Transmitting Patristic Authority from the Middle Ages to Today”
3 Mar 2017
3:30 PM
Emmanuel College Chapel
75 Queen’s Park Cres
The Musicians in Ordinary
“A Nocturnall on S. Lucies Day”
Events for 2015-2016
2 Oct 2015
3:30 PM
Daniel Schwartz
“The Ethics of Electoral Bribing in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century: Francisco Suárez and Other Late Scholastics”
6 Nov 2015
3:30 PM
Ken Bartlett
“Venice and Padua after Agnadello: Aldus, Vesalius and the Recovery of the Body Politic”
25 Nov 2015
3:30 PM
Jason Dyck
“The Myth of the White Spiritual Conquistador”
5 Feb 2016
3:30 PM
Andreas Motsch
“Images of America and its people in Early Modern Print”
4 Mar 2016
3:30 PM
Paul Cohen
“The Social History of a Linguistic Learning Curve: French Missionaries and Amerindian Languages in New France.”
Events for 2014-2015
17 Oct, 2014
3:30 PM
Ethan Matt Kavaler
“Power and Performance: the Bruges Mantelpiece to Charles V”
7 Nov 2014
3:30 PM
Gregoire Holtz
“A tricky classic: The Life Appollonius of Tyana between history, philosophy and magic”
28 Nov 2014
3:30 PM
Elizabeth Ferguson
“Beyond Devotion: Printed Texts and the Religious Politics of the English Catholic Community”
16 Jan 2015
3:30 PM
Northrop Frye Room 205
73 Queen’s Park Crescent East
Joseph Hammond
“The Many Faces of Venice: Portraits in the Maggior Consiglio”
6 Feb 2015
3:30 PM
David Lawrence
“Martial Performance in Early Stuart London: Merchant-Soldiers and the Lord Mayor’s Show”
6 Mar 2015
3:30 PM
Northrop Frye Room 205
73 Queen’s Park Crescent East
Mark Meyerson
“Living with Fear: Christians and Muslims in the Kingdom of Valencia”
24 April 2015
1:30 PM
Paul Stevens
“Raphael’s Condescension: Paradise Lost, Jane Austen, and the Metamorphosis of Grace.”
Events for 2013-2014
18 Oct, 2013
3:30 PM
Mark Jurdjevic
“Writing History in a Ruined World:
Machiavelli, Vettori, and Guicciardini on History and Republicanism”
15 Nov 2013
3:30 PM
Olga Pugliese
“Why We Still Read The Prince: Machiavelli’s Language of the Senses”
29 Nov 2013
3:30 PM
Northrop Frye Building Room 113
73 Queen’s Park Crescent East
Ryan Balot
“Machiavelli’s Military Advice”
10 Jan 2014
3:30 PM
Rolf Strom-Olsen
“Constructing Political Narratives at the Burgundian Court: The Example of the Feast of the Pheasant (1454)”
31 Jan 2014
3:30 PM
Daniel Lee
“The Historical Institutionalism of Jean Bodin”
7 Mar 2014
3:30 PM
Liza Blake
“Shaping Poetry: Arthur Golding’s Metamorphic Physics”
