The Bagnani Lectures celebrate the legacy of Gilbert and Stewart Bagnani. After a career at Toronto, where his students included Tom Symons, the founding president of Trent, Gilbert taught at Trent in the 1960s and 1970s, with interests in literature and archaeology. Since 2018 this lecture series has focused on the ancient Mediterranean and the environment, consciously “crossing the river” to unite different ways of thinking about the world.
2024 FALL: Dr. Cam Grey (University of Pennsylvania) - An Earthquake that Shook the World: Localizing the Crete Mega-Earthquake of 365 CE
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2024 WINTER: Dr. Seth Bernard (University of Toronto) - A Tiber Valley Town in Its Landscape over the Longue Durée
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2019: Dr. Tim Newfield (Georgetown University) - Just Another Day or Volcanic Apocalypse? The 536 Event, Climate Cooling, and the Fall of Rome
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2018: Dr. John Haldon (Princeton University) - St. Theodore, Euchaita and Anatolia c.500-1000 CE: Landscape, Climate and the Survival of an Empire
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