Toronto Chapter
Chapitre Toronto
Page updated February 27, 2012







Public Lecture Program Fall-Winter 2011-12


All lectures are open to the public and free of charge


Location: Carr Hall, Room 403, 100 St. Joseph Street, in the campus of St. Michael's College University in the University of Toronto. (First street north of Wellesley; parking lot is opposite Carr Hall; use Museum subway stop). CR on map:


October 6

7:15 p.m.
Hugh Elton, Trent University
Into the Mountains:
The Göksu Archaeological Project in Turkey, 2002-2007

October 27

7:15 p.m.
Geoffrey Clarfield, Archeologist and author
The Conquest of Canaan -- Evidence from Africa

NOTE LOCATION: Teefy Hall, Room 200

November 24

7:15 p.m.
Reimer Faber, University of Waterloo
Multiculturalism in the Mediterranean World
of the Hellenistic Era 

January 19

7:15 p.m.
Room 404
Michael Chazan, Archaeology Centre, University of Toronto
The Birth of a Project: The 2011 Excavation at Huqoq, Israel  

February 15

7:00 p.m.
Linda Safran, Visiting Fellow, Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies.
University of Toronto
Orthodox Baptism: Sites and Scenes  

Organized by the Malcove Collection of the U of T Art Centre, co-sponsored by CIMS Location: UTAC art lounge 15 King's College Circle
RSVP: 416-978-1838 or by mailto:utac.rsvp@utoronto.ca  
UTAC is set back on the South Side of Hoskin Avenue between Queen's Park and St. George Street. Look for UTAC's two vertical blue banners on the facade. Enter the door nearest the banners and follow directions from there.

March 15

7:15 p.m.
Judith Cohen, York University
The bride has come out from the sea –
Sephardic songs around the Mediterranean


Olive Oil Culture in the Mediterranean - November 11, 2011
Proceedings to be published in a future volume of our journal,  Scripta Mediterranea 

For more information on CIMS see http://www.utoronto.ca/cims/  or contact the Toronto chapter president, Prof. Antonio Ricci