The Devers Family Program in Dante Studies and the Center for Italian Studies at the University of Notre Dame have organized the 2023 Dante workshop to be held on May 25-26 at Notre Dame's Rome Global Gateway.
The primary purpose of the workshop is to create a space where Dantisti can meet and discuss their research and ideas in a supportive and collegial atmosphere.
Schedule
THURSDAY MAY 25
13:00-13:45: Arrival and registration
13:45-14:00: Welcome
14:00-15:00:
- GEORGE CORBETT (St. Andrews): “Beatrice ‘is NOT a woman’: symbolic and realist interpretations of Dante’s Beatrice.”
- MATTIA BOCCUTI (Notre Dame): “Searching for a center. Dante and Beatrice between fragmentation and unity.”
- KRISTINA OLSON (George Mason): “Reading across the binary: the lexicon of the transgender body in the Inferno.”
15:00-15:30: Coffee break
15:30-17:00: DISCUSSION
20:30: Dinner ‘Da Romolo alla Mole Adriana’ – Vicolo del Campanile, 12 (Borgo Pio)
FRIDAY MAY 26
9:00-10:00:
- AKASH KUMAR (Berkeley): “‘Dove la batte l’onda’: Dante’s isoletta and archipelagic thought.”
- ANNA CHISENA (Bologna): “Le prime stelle di Dante. Le scienze celesti fra Vita Nova e Convivio.”
- GIOVANNA CORAZZA (Venezia): “«L’arzanà de Viniziani» (Inf. XXI, 7-21). Paesaggi produttivi nella Commedia: modelli letterari, esperienze urbane, lettura dell’ambiente.”
10:00-10:30: Coffee break
10:30-12:00: DISCUSSION
12:00-14:00: Lunch
14:00-15:00:
- ROOKSHAR MYRAM (Notre Dame): “The representation of Christ: a vertical reading of the 23s.”
- PAOLO PELLEGRINI (Verona): “Come insegnare Dante in Italia e all’estero? Dalla scuola all’università.”
- ELISA BRILLI (Toronto): “Dante's Two Bodies. For an Anthropological History of Vernacular Authorship.”
15:00-15:30: Coffee break
15:30-17:00: DISCUSSION
17:00-18:30: Aperitivi di arrivederci
DISCUSSANTS: VERONICA ALBI (Roma Tre ); ZYGMUNT G. BARAŃSKI (Cambridge-Notre Dame); LAURA BANELLA (Notre Dame); THEODORE J. CACHEY JR. (Notre Dame); NASSIME CHIDA (Columbia); GIUSEPPE LEDDA (Bologna); LUCA MARCOZZI (Roma Tre); MIRA MOCAN (Roma Tre); RINO MODONUTTI (Padova); ANTONIO MONTEFUSCO (Ca’ Foscari); PAOLA NASTI (Northwestern); ANNA PEGORETTI (Roma Tre); FEDERICO ROSSI (Roma Tre); CHIARA SBORDONI (Notre Dame); HEATHER WEBB (Cambridge).
This workshop will be open to invited speakers and discussants only.