Jump to the next event on our calendar!
Join faculty and fellow students at UTM Historical Studies events this year! Details for events — including date, time, location, and link to register — will be posted on this page when available. Follow our Twitter, Instagram and Bluesky accounts for updates.
Take a look at what's happening in the Department of Historical Studies News!
September 2025
Sept. 3, 10am-12pm, MN 4207 - Greek and Latin Orientation & Open House - Register
Sept. 3, 5–7pm - Welcome Back: Humanities Academic Garden Party - Sign up
Sept. 17, 4-6pm, MN 3230 (CDRS) - Feminist Lunch Series - Book Talk: Got Blood to Give: Anti-Black Homophobia in Blood Donation - Register
Sept. 18, 11am-1pm, MN 6128 - Historical Studies Society: Student & Professor Meet and Greet
Sept. 19, 11am-1pm, MN 4207 - WGSS Undergraduate Research Lunch - Register by Sept. 15th
Sept. 24, 7-9pm, DV CC 3130 - CSACH - Oliver Husain, Artist-in-Residence: "Tiger Legion: Practice Round, 1942" - Registration required
October 2025
Oct. 1, 12-2pm, MN 4207 - History of Religions: Fall Bites & Board Games student event - Register
Oct. 2, 5:15pm, Kaneff Rotunda - Classics and the World Today 8 - Connecting Places in Greek and Roman Antiquity: The Role of Empires: A Public Lecture with Prof. Carlos Noreña (UC Berkeley) and Prof. Kathryn Stevens (University of Oxford) - *Reception to follow in MN Grand Hall (6:30-8pm)
Oct. 3, 9:30am-4:30pm, MN 3230 (CDRS) - Classics and the World Today 8 - Connecting Places in Greek and Roman Antiquity: The Role of Empires: A Graduate Workshop - Register
Oct. 4 - 7pm-7am, Stackt Market, Toronto - Nuit Blanche: Where There Is No Room For Fiction - Tong Lam
Oct. 9, 6pm, MN North Reception - CSACH Exhibition: In the Quiet of Everyday Life: Indian and Pakistani Diaspora Lives in the GTA - Exhibition on view through Oct. 17, 2025
Oct. 16, 5:30pm, MN North Reception - CSACH - Haroon Siddiqui: "Keeping your Identity in Rambunctious, Multicultural Canada"
Oct. 21, 5-7pm, MN 3230 - CSACH - Dilip Menon: "Thinking from the Global South: Concepts for a renewed social science"
Oct. 22, 1-3pm, IB 140, UTM - Stolen Photo Screening followed by a conversation with Lina Britto, Fidel Peña, and Kevin Coleman - Register
Oct. 23 - 12:30-2:30pm - MN 4207 - Student Halloweek Party!
Oct. 23, 7-9pm, Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Avenue Innis College (IN 112), Toronto - Stolen Photo Screening followed by a conversation with Lina Britto, Fidel Peña, and Kevin Coleman - Register
November 2025
Nov. 12, 3-6pm, MN 5128 (UTM) + live via Zoom - 2025-26 UTM Annual Classics Seminar - Patrick Baker (Université Laval): “Revisiting an Inscription from Xanthos: A Critical Reappraisal"
Nov. 17, 12-1pm, MN 4207 (hybrid) - Feminist Lunch Series - Going to Law School - Register
Nov. 18, 1-3pm, MN 2110 - Film Screening and Discussion: No Other Land - Register
Nov. 18, 5-7pm, MN 5128 - HSS Historical Paint Night
Nov. 24, 10-11am, MN 3230 (CDRS) - Summer Opportunities in Classics Information Session
Nov. 26, 12-2pm, MN 4207 - Student event: Holiday Crafts & Board Games - Register to be notified of future events
Nov. 28, 3-6pm, MN 3230 (CDRS, UTM) + live via Zoom - 2025-26 UTM Annual Classics Seminar - Aldo Tagliabue (University of Notre Dame): “The Conflict between the Avenging Venus and the Providential Cupid: A Religious Reading of Apuleius’ Cupid and Psyche”
December 2025
Dec. 2, 11am-1pm, MN 4207 - CSACH - Ahona Panda: "The Gazi and the Zamindar: Land and Language in the Bengal Delta, 1793-1905" - Register
January 2026
Jan. 23, 11am-2pm, MN 3230 (CDRS, UTM) - Classics Convivium - Lunch & Learn with Grace Funsten
Jan. 23, 3-6pm, MN 3230 (CDRS, UTM) + live via Zoom - 2025-26 UTM Annual Classics Seminar - Grace Funsten (University of Pittsburgh): Title TBA
March 2026
Mar. 20, 11am-2pm, MN 3230 (CDRS, UTM) - Caitlin Mostoway Parker - Colonization, Imperialism and the Hudson’s Bay Company: The Consequence of Classics on the Indigenous People of North America: A workshop for students
For a list of events from prior academic years, visit our Past Events page.
