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DESCRIPTION:\nWhen and Where: \nFriday, March 27, 2026 10:00 am to 11:30 
 am \n Great Hall (3rd Floor, Room 312) \n Lillian Massey Building \n 125 
 Queen's Park, Toronto, ON, M5S 2C7 \n\nSpeakers \nKristina Sessa \n\nDe
 scription: \nKristina Sessa, Professor of History at The Ohio State Unive
 rsity, presents An Anatomy of Disaster: Gregory of Tours on Plague and Be
 yond.Classics / CMS Lecture: Kristina Sessa BiographyKristina Sessa receiv
 ed her A.B. in Religion from Princeton University (1992) and her M.A. and 
 Ph.D. in Ancient and Medieval History from the University of California at
  Berkeley (2003). Her research focuses on the social and cultural history 
 of Late Antiquity (ca. 250-700 CE), especially on the intersection betwee
 n classical Roman culture and early Christianity in the late Roman West. S
 he is especially drawn to topics that examine the relationship between ide
 as and social practice on the ground and consider how late-ancient physica
 l environments, economic conditions, legal structures, and gender norms
  mediated the formation of late Roman institutions, habits, and leaders.
  She is the author of The Formation of Papal Authority in Late Antique Ita
 ly: Roman Bishops and the Domestic Sphere (Cambridge University Press, 20
 12), Daily Life in Late Antiquity (Cambridge University Press, 2018), a
 nd co-editor of A Companion to Ostrogothic Italy (Brill, 2016). Her curre
 nt book project, Disaster in Late Antiquity: A Cultural and Material Hist
 ory, explores the history and historiography of human-made and natural di
 sasters in late and post-Roman communities. She has received various grant
 s and awards including an NEH and an ACLS, and has been a fellow at both 
 the American Academy in Rome (2001-2002) and the Italian Academy for Advan
 ced Studies in America at Columbia University (2006-2007). She is currentl
 y editor-in-chief of Studies in Late Antiquity. \n\nContact Information: 
 \n Centre for Medieval Studies medieval.communications@utoronto.ca Departm
 ent of Classics \n125 Queen's Park, Toronto, ON, M5S 2C7 \n\nCategories
  \n Lectures \n\nAudiences \n FacultyFirst-Year StudentsGraduate StudentsG
 raduating Students
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LOCATION:125 Queen's Park, Toronto, ON, M5S 2C7
SUMMARY:Kristina Sessa, An Anatomy of Disaster: Gregory of Tours on Plague
  and Beyond
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 -disaster-gregory-tours-plague-and-beyond
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