CRRS

The Toronto Renaissance and Reformation Colloquium (TRRC) is a not-for-profit organization of scholars interested in the period. TRRC organizes a series of professional lectures every year, and assists in the publication of the journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme. The current president is Franco Pierno from the Department of Italian, University of Toronto.

Letter from the chair

Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of the executive committee of the Toronto Renaissance and Reformation Colloquium, I invite you to become a TRRC member and to participate in our rich calendar of activities for the 2011-2012 academic year.
We have already enjoyed two excellent talks by Mark Jurdjevich and Megan Armstrong this fall, and have an exciting program of early modern events slated for the spring semester:

January 26th, 2012: Professor Amy Graves (SUNY at Buffalo): The Pamphlet as Event: Polemical Strategies and Print Culture during the French Wars of Religion.

February 13th, 2012 : Professor Renée-Claude Breitenstein (Brock University): Conflict in the Age of Print: the Construction of Publics in Collections in Praise of Women in the French Renaissance.

March 8th, 2012 : Professor Robert Tittler (Concordia University) : Portraiture and Memory amongst the Middling Elites in post-Reformation England.

April 17th, Professor Stephen Clucas (University of London): The calculations of Hobbes’s natural philosophy.

As always, the TRRC seeks to host a variety of outstanding international and local scholars working in a wide range of geographical zones and disciplinary perspectives of interest to Toronto’s rich community of early modernists.
In keeping with the Colloquium’s longstanding tradition of marrying scholarly presentations with collegial discussion and lively sociability, the TRRC meets in the late afternoon in the pleasant surroundings of Victoria College at the University of Toronto. All talks are preceded by informal conversation over coffee, tea and refreshments. Lectures are followed by discussion, during which our speakers entertain questions from the audience, and the evening closes with lively and stimulating conversation on the topic of the day.
If you have been a member in the past but have not renewed your membership lately, we warmly invite to you rejoin the TRRC. If you are joining us for the first time, we extend a warm welcome to you.
We count on you and your membership support to be able to continue offering our lectures to the community of Renaissance and Reformation scholars in the greater Toronto area. We invite you to encourage your colleagues, especially those who are new to the Toronto area, as well as your graduate students, to join the Colloquium and to participate in our activities.

We look forward to seeing you at upcoming TRRC events! See you on January 26th!

Sincerely,

Franco Pierno, TRRC Chair
Assistant Professor, Department of Italian
University of Toronto

Past presidents

Grégoire Holtz (2009-2010)

Paul Cohen (2008-2009)

Tom Cohen (2007-2008)