Events — 2024–25

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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.


September 2024

Sep. 10, 10am-12pm, MN 4207 - Greek and Latin Orientation Open House 

October 2024

Oct. 2, 9, 16, and 23, 1–2 pm, MN 4207 - UTM History Book Club - Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Baring Strait, Bathsheba 

Oct. 3, 11am–1pm, CDRS (MN3230) - WGSS Feminist Lunch Series - Critical Approaches to Gender Equity, Diversity and Inclusion: Gender and Housing Rights - Register

Oct. 17, 3–5pm - CDRS (MN3230) - Muslim Materialities Series - Murad Mumtaz Khan, "Squirrels in a Plane Tree? Mughal Painting and Islamic Ontology" - Register 

Oct. 18, 3–6 pm, CDRS (MN 3230) - Classics Seminar Series - Cillian O’Hogan, University of Toronto, "Martial’s books and the novelty of the codex"

Oct. 24, 4pm, CDRS (MN3230) - Past Sense Series - Rachel Wagner, "13 Ways of Looking at a Gun" - Register 

Oct 25, 4–6 pm, Wilson Hall 2053, New College, 40 Willcocks Street - WGSS Book Launch - Ozlem Ezer, Drinking, Fasting, and Tattoos: Syrian Women’s Lived Islam - Register 

November 2024

Nov. 22, 3–6 pm, Online  (Zoom) - Classics Seminar Series - Fabio Colivicchi, Queens University, “The gift of Clepsina: a water feature at Caere and the formation of Roman Etruria” - Register on Zoom

Nov. 28, 12–2 pm, Hybrid CDRS (MN3230) and Zoom - WGSS Feminist Lunch Series - Panel discussion, "Insights from Art, Activism, and Scholarship" - Register on Zoom

January 2025

Jan. 10, 3–6 pm, CDRS (MN3230) - Classics Seminar Series - Tyler Franconi, Brown University (title TBA)

Jan. 16, 12:30–2:30, Online (Zoom) - Muslim Materialities Series - Timur Hammond, "Fluid Geographies: Water, Mediation, and Infrastructure in an Istanbul Shrine" - Register

Jan. 31, 3–6 pm, CDRS (MN3230) - Classics Seminar Series - Moshe Blidstein, University of Haifa (title TBA)

February 2025 

Feb. 6, 3–5 pm, Online (Zoom) - Muslim Materialities Series - Anya King 

Feb. 27, 3–5 pm, CDRS (MN3230) - Muslim Materialities Series - Seema Golestaneh, "Unknowing of Memory: Sufi Thought and Building Amnesia in Iran"

Feb. 28, 3–6 pm, CDRS - Classics Seminar Series, Roger Beck Workshop 

March 2025

Mar. 6, 3–5 pm, Online (Zoom) - Muslim Materialities Series - Eyad Abuali 

Mar. 13–14, Classics and the World Today 7 (details to follow) 

Mar. 20. 3–5 pm, Online (Zoom) - Muslim Materialities Series - Anna Bigelow, Material Encounters and the Aesthetics of Muslim Belonging" 

Mar. 28, 3–6 pm, CDRS (MN3230) - Classics Seminar Series - Aara Suksi, University of Western Ontario (title TBA)


For a list of events from prior academic years, visit our Past Events page.