Date/Time
Date(s) - 13 Nov 2014
9:45 AM - 7:45 PM
Location
Italian Academy - Columbia University
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Dante’s Poets, Teodolinda Barolini’s groundbreaking study of textuality and truth in the Commedia, was published in 1984 and has profoundly influenced the field of Dante studies ever since. Dante’s Poets: Thirty Years Later is a one-day conference in honor of the book’s 30-year anniversary, featuring work by current and former students that responds to the critical paths charted out in the book, revisiting the ways in which Dante’s Poets continues to inform how we read and teach Dante today.
For more information, see the conference’s website, here, or the program copied below.
Thursday, November 13 / Italian Academy, 1116 Amsterdam Ave.
9:45: Coffee and breakfast
10:15: Welcome and brief opening remarks
10:30 – 11:45: Panel 1 – From Antiquity to Dante (and Beyond)
Jonathan Combs-Schilling, “Dante’s Shepherds: Textuality and Truth After the Comedy”
Jessica Levenstein, “Dire Straits: Leander in Purgatorio 28”
Julie Van Peteghem, “Ovid Goes to Heaven: Love, Myth, and Exile in Dante’s Paradise”
11:45: Break
12:00 – 1:15: Panel 2 – Dante’s Contemporaries
Akash Kumar, “‘From an Adjective, He Became a Substantive’: Dante, Guinizzelli, and the Grammar of Natural Philosophy”
Isabelle Levy, “Dante and Immanuel of Rome: Charting a Prosimetric Course”
Seth Fabian, “Cecco’s Poets: the Vernacular Lyric and Auctoritas”
1:15 – 2:30: Lunch (not provided)
2:30 – 4:15: Panel 3 – Historicizing Dante and Boccaccio
Grace Delmolino, “Dante’s Lawyers”
Martin Eisner, “Boccaccio’s Poets: Vernacular Literary History in Decameron 4”
Kristina Olson, “‘Sòstati tu ch’a l’abito ne sembri / essere alcun di nostra terra prava’: Textiles and Political Truth in the Comedy”
Kristen Swann, “‘Quel corpo nel quale io ho portati i figliuoli da voi generati’: Boccaccio and the Trope of Generation”
4:15: Break
4:30 – 5:45: Panel 4 – Later Reception
Manuele Gragnolati, “Between Transformation and Identity: Diffracting Dante’s Paradiso with Pier Paolo Pasolini and Elsa Morante”
Steve Baker, “Textuality and Truth in Petrarch’s Familiares IV, 1”
Tobias Foster Gittes, “Lessons in Liberality: George Eliot’s Hidden Debt to Boccaccio”
5:45 – 6:45: Roundtable: The Impact of Dante’s Poets
Participants: Christopher Bacich, Nassime Jehan Chida, Savannah Cooper-Ramsey, Allison DeWitt, Francis Hittinger, Matteo Pace, Luke Rosenau, and Julianna Visco
6:45 – 7:45: Comments and closing remarks
Comments by Roberta Antognini, Eugenio Giusti, and Christian Moevs
Closing remarks by Teodolinda Barolini