Events — 2023-24

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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 and Instagram accounts for updates.


Additional details for the following event series:


September 2023

Sept. 6, 10am-12pm, MN 4207 - Greek and Latin Orientation Open House - Register (virtual)

Sept. 14, 9:30am-3:30pm, MN 3230 (CDRS, UTM) - Visualizing the Americas Launch - Register (in person) or Register (virtual)

Sept. 22, 1-4pm, MN 3230 (CDRS, UTM) + live via Zoom - 2023-24 UTM Annual Classics Seminar - Eric Csapo (Cambridge): Rivalry between Centre and Periphery in the Theatre Industry of the Fourth Century BC


October 2023

Oct. 3, 1-3pm, MN 3230 (CDRS, UTM) - Afro-Latinidad in Literature and Visual Culture - Register

Oct. 3, 12-1:30pm, MN 4207 - WGSS Feminist Lunch Series - WGSS Open House and Welcome with Beverly Bain, Victoria Tahmesebi-Birgani, and Gary Lee Pelleteir

Oct. 3, 1:45-3:45pm, MN 4207 - Historical Studies Society (HSS) Annual Student & Professor Meet & Greet

Oct. 3, 7-8:15pm, Virtual Library - WebX, Lecture Me! a Series with Professor Ken Derry: “We Are Our Stories”: Healing and Indigenous FilmsRegister

Oct. 5, 4:30-6pm, MN 3230 (CDRS, UTM) - Muslim Materialities Lecture Series - Adam Bursi: Prophetic Pieces and Places: Relics and Sacred Spaces in Early Islam - Register

Oct. 12-14 - Humboldt Translation Workshop Series - by invitation only (please contact m.revermann@utoronto.ca)

Oct. 19, 12-1:30pm - WGSS Feminist Lunch Series co-sponsored with the Centre for South Asian Critical Humanities - Shireen Hassim, Carlton University Professor and Canada 150 Research Chair in Gender and African Studies: "Reclaiming hope as radical lexicon: Some experiments from African feminist political campaigns"

Oct. 20, 1-4pm, MN 3230 (CDRS, UTM) + live via Zoom - 2023-24 UTM Annual Classics Seminar - Sailakshmi Ramgopal (Columbia University): Romans as Others: Mobility, Status, and Power Abroad

Oct. 24, 4:30-6pm, MN 3230 (CDRS, UTM) - Muslim Materialities Lecture Series - Akbar Zaidi: Publish and Perish: Denial and Refutation on Tabarra-bazi in Nineteenth Century North India

Oct. 27, 1-4pm, MN 3230 (CDRS, UTM) + live via Zoom - 2023-24 UTM Annual Classics Seminar - Cliff Ando (University of Chicago): Topic TBA

Oct. 28, 9:30am-4pm, MN 3230 (CDRS, UTM) - Teaching Greek and Latin: A Conversation w/ Prof. Lorenza Bennardo - Register


November 2023

Nov. 2, 4:30-6pm, MN 3230 (CDRS, UTM) - Muslim Materialities Lecture Series - Shenila Khoja-Moolji: Culinary Placemaking: Cookbooks as an Artifact of Displaced Shia Ismaili Muslim Women’s Lives

Nov. 16, 4:30-6pm, MN 3230 (CDRS, UTM) - Muslim Materialities Lecture Series - Tim Cooper: Live Mourning: Azadari Networks and the Twelver Shi’i Present

Nov. 16, 12-1:30pm - WGSS Feminist Lunch Series - Asim Hussain (artist based in Mississauga)


December 2023

Dec. 1, 1-4pm, MN 3230 (CDRS, UTM) + live via Zoom - 2023-24 UTM Annual Classics Seminar - Katherine Harloe (Institute of Classical Studies, London): The Beyond Notability Project: Re-evaluating Women's Work in Archaeology, History and Heritage, 1870-1950


January 2024

Jan. 26, 1-4pm, MN 3230 (CDRS, UTM) + live via Zoom - 2023-24 UTM Annual Classics Seminar - Dominik Maschek (University of Trier): The Dynamics of Violence in the Late Roman Republic: From the Periphery to the Centre, and Back Again


February 2024

Feb. 2, 1-4pm, Zoom (virtual) - 2023-24 UTM Annual Classics Seminar - Carrie Murray (Brock University): Religious Worship and Mobility at the Lago di Venere Sanctuary, Pantelleria


March 2024

Mar. 1, 1-4pm, MN 3230 (CDRS, UTM) + live via Zoom - 2023-24 UTM Annual Classics Seminar - Tyler Franconi (Brown University): Whose Periphery? The Edges of the Roman Empire in a Global Context

Mar. 15, 1-4pm, MN 3230 (CDRS, UTM) + live via Zoom - 2023-24 UTM Annual Classics Seminar - Concluding Session: Martin Revermann

Mar. 21-22 - Classics and the World Today - details TBA


April 2024

TBA