Lectures & workshops
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Upcoming events
Crosstalk Series 2025-26
Sep 22, 2025 - Mar 9, 2026 | 11:00AM- 12:00PM EST
A weekly speaker series where faculty discuss their current research, look for common themes and answer questions from the audience.
Location:
Online and in-person (Claude Bissell Building)
Presented by:
Faculty of Information
On Demand: The New Pope, and the Role of Women in the Church. What’s Next?
Nov 11, 2025 - Apr 30, 2026
View AI4W's latest series to explore how Pope Leo is fulfilling to carry forward the tenets of the Synod on Synodality – particularly the role of women in the Church.
Location:
Online
Presented by:
St. Michael’s College
On Demand: Exploring Hamnet
Jan 21 - Feb 27, 2026
Join Dr. Phillipa Sheppard as she discusses her review of the Maggie O'Farrell novel, Hamnet, on which a new movie was based which was screened at this year’s TIFF.
Location:
On Demand
Presented by:
Victoria College
FOOT34: Encountering the Threshold
Feb 5-6, 2026 | 9:00AM - 5:30PM EST
“Encountering the Threshold” invites scholars, practitioners, and artists to reflect on moments of passage, suspension, and transformation.
Location:
Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse
Presented by:
University College | Faculty of Arts & Science
The Romance vs Reality of Entrepreneurship: A Workshop with Jean Chow
Thu Feb 5, 2026 | 5:00PM
Join us and step into the Entrepreneur’s Journey with Jean Chow in this workshop that reveals both the romance and the reality of entrepreneurship
Location:
Centre for Entrepreneurship, Ideation Studio (6th Floor), Schwartz Reisman Innovation Campus
Pop-Up Cinematheque Season 2: Zéro de conduite (1933) on 16mm!
Mon Feb 9, 2026 | 6:00PM - 10:00PM EDT
Don't miss our last screening of Season 2!
Location:
Robarts Theatre (RM 3025)
Presented by:
University of Toronto Libraries
Alumni Career Series: Show Up with Confidence
Tue Feb 10, 2026 | 5:30PM - 8:00PM ET (doors open 5:00PM)
Discover strategies to build presence, ease nerves and communicate with impact in this performance skills workshop for professionals.
Location:
Manulife Headquarters
Paolo Granata on “Generative Knowledge: Think, Learn and Create with AI"
Wed Feb 11, 2026 | 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM EST
Generative AI is changing how we think, learn, and create. Join the conversation with Paolo Granata, an award-winning educator and media scholar, on what this shift means for knowledge and creativity.
Location:
Online and in-person (Rotman School of Management)
Presented by:
Rotman School of Management
Undisciplined: Conversations across architectural knowledge domains
Thu Feb 12, 2026 | 6:30PM - 8:30PM EST
Examining the theme of interdisciplinarity doctoral research at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design
Location:
Main Hall, Daniels Building
Presented by:
John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design
Struggling to finish what you start? Learn how with Chris Bailey.
Wed Feb 18, 2026 | 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM EDT
Why do some goals stick while others fade? Join bestselling author and productivity expert Chris Bailey as he shares research-based strategies from his new book.
Location:
Online and in-person (Rotman School of Management)
Presented by:
Rotman School of Management
Work, Labour and Class Struggle Approaches to Information, Media and Critical Computing
Mon Feb 23, 2026 | 11:00AM - 12:00PM EST
A 2025-2026 Crosstalk Series Session
Location:
Online
Presented by:
Faculty of Information
Where Artificial Intelligence and Fiction Meet
Mon Feb 23, 2026 | 6:00PM - 8:00PM EST
2026 Wiegand Memorial Foundation Lecture, delivered by Teresa Heffernan, professor of English language and literature at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax.
Location:
Campbell Conference Facility
Beyond the Pitch: The Social Costs of Hosting the 2026 FIFA World Cup
Tue Feb 24, 2026 | 6:30PM - 8:00PM EST
What can we expect when the 2026 FIFA World Cup tournament finally arrives in Toronto? Join us on February 24 for the third annual Peter Donnelly Lecture in Sport Policy Studies.
Location:
Online and in-person (Innis Town Hall)
Presented by:
Faculty of Kinesiology & Physical Education
Aimée Zito Lema
Wed Feb 25, 2026 | 6:30PM - 8:30PM EST
A Visual Studies Public Lecture
Location:
Main Hall, Daniels Building
Presented by:
John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design
Unruly Intelligences: Body, Tools, AI
Thu Feb 26, 2026 | 6:30PM - 8:30PM EST
Lecture and exhibition explores experiments using interactive design technologies and architectural tools of design
Location:
Main Hall, Daniels Building
Presented by:
John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design
Five Years of AI in Medicine
Fri Feb 27, 2026 | 12:00PM - 12:45PM ET
Join us for a discussion on five years of AI advancements in health care at the University of Toronto's Temerty Centre for AI Research and Education in Medicine.
Location:
Online and On Demand
Presented by:
Temerty Faculty of Medicine
Depending on Strangers: Love, Fear, and the Making of the Modern World
Tue Mar 3, 2026 | 7:00PM - 8:30PM EST
Professor Jeremy Adelman (BA '84) will explore how history can help us make sense of a moment when people across the globe rely on each other more than ever, even as trust breaks down.
Location:
Innis Town Hall
Presented by:
Innis College
Workshop: ‘The Ontological Drama of Translation: Félix Guattari and the Ancients’
Thu Mar 5, 2026 | 3:00PM - 5:00PM EST
Explore philosophical, translational, and ontological stakes of engaging Guattari’s text in dialogue with ancient thought.
Location:
Isabel Bader Theatre (3rd Floor Seminar Room)
Presented by:
Faculty of Arts & Science | School of Graduate Studies
Unravelling a colonial legacy: Grounding landscape architecture
Thu Mar 5, 2026 | 6:30PM - 8:30PM EST
Dr. Jala Makhzoumi reflects on overcoming landscape architecture’s colonial legacy by advancing ecology‑based, community‑rooted design in the Arab world
Location:
Main Hall, Daniels Building
Presented by:
John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design
Taking Stock: Voices of Women in Architecture Across Canada Symposium
Mar 6-7, 2026 | 9:00AM - 5:00PM EST
Two‑day symposium for women in architecture
Location:
Toronto Metropolitan University
Presented by:
John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design
Lucy Raven
Tue Mar 10, 2026 | 6:30PM - 8:00PM EDT
A Visual Studies Public Lecture in partnership with The Vega Foundation and The Power Plant
Location:
Main Hall, Daniels Building
Presented by:
John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces
Thu Mar 12, 2026 | 6:30PM - 8:30PM EDT
A free screening of Whyte’s classic film and a panel discussion that reimagines Toronto’s public spaces through insights from leading designers, planners and community builders
Location:
Main Hall, Daniels Building
Presented by:
John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design
The Casino Shift: Stories from an ER on the Edge
Thu Mar 12, 2026 | 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM EST
What really happens inside a Canadian emergency room during today’s healthcare crisis? Join Dr. Brian Goldman for a compelling conversation inspired by his new book
Location:
Online and in- person (Rotman School of Management)
Presented by:
Rotman School of Management
Leveraging evolutionary trade-offs in the development of phage therapy
Thu Mar 19, 2026 | 6:30 PM EST
Explores novel approaches to target and kill bacterial pathogens and one of the most pressing issues in modern medicine – antibiotic resistance.
Location:
Innis Town Hall
Presented by:
Faculty of Arts & Science
Land narratives & protopian futures: From fictions to the just city
Thu Mar 19, 2026 | 6:30PM - 8:00PM EDT
Uncovering layered land histories strengthens our understanding of place, enabling communities to reshape incomplete narratives and design more just, restorative futures.
Location:
Main Hall, Daniels Building
Presented by:
John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design
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