Medieval History
Dante?s Volume from Alpha to Omega: a Graduate Symposium on the Poet?s
Universe
Yale University, March 26-27, 2010
Keynote Speaker: Prof. Giuseppe Mazzotta (Yale University)
Call for Papers
On behalf of the Department of Italian Language and Literature, we are pleased
to announce a Graduate Student Symposium on Dante, to be held on March 26-27,
2010 at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.
Dante?s Divine Comedy is a totalizing vision?a work emanating from and
culminating in the poet?s glimpse of a universe ?bound with love in a
single volume.? In the 21st century, the goals of universal digitization and
constant accessibility that mark our information age might seem far removed
from Dante?s vatic rendering of the cosmos, and yet our technological models
of thought might equally be understood as the current form of an encyclopedic
impulse that stretches back to (and well beyond) the 14th century. Dante?s
Volume from Alpha to Omega will explore how the encyclopedism of today can
enrich, inform, or obscure our understanding of Dante?s universe and its
poetic representation.
In the interests of interdisciplinarity, paper topics may consider,
but are not
limited to the following:
-Receptions of Dante: commentary, exegesis, and philology
-Representations of Dante: the visual, acoustic, and cinematic arts
-Dante and the place of language
-Dante and the sciences
-Poetry as knowledge and self-knowledge
-In the shadow of the Comedy: the ?minor? works
-Nature, necessity, and freedom in the Comedy
-The world outside the secretissima camera: social/institutional history in
Dante?s time
-Justice earthly and divine
-Dante and the lyric tradition
-Theology, history, and the politics of exile
-Classical and medieval theories of love
-Ethics and psychology
-Style and rhetoric
-Theological and philosophical debates in the thirteenth century
Presentations should not exceed 20 minutes (approximately 9-10 pages of
double-spaced text) and may be in Italian or in English.
Please submit an anonymous abstract (no longer than 250 words) and, on a
separate page, a cover sheet with the title of your paper, your name,
affiliation, and contact information (including telephone and e-mail address).
Kindly send this information as Microsoft Word file attachment to
[email protected] by November 15, 2009. Further
information will be
available on the events webpage of the Yale Italian Department
http://www.yale.edu/italian/news/index.html as the symposium draws nearer.
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Medieval History
Dante?s Volume from Alpha to Omega: a Graduate Symposium on the Poet?s Universe
Dante?s Volume from Alpha to Omega: a Graduate Symposium on the Poet?s
Universe
Yale University, March 26-27, 2010
Keynote Speaker: Prof. Giuseppe Mazzotta (Yale University)
Call for Papers
On behalf of the Department of Italian Language and Literature, we are pleased
to announce a Graduate Student Symposium on Dante, to be held on March 26-27,
2010 at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.
Dante?s Divine Comedy is a totalizing vision?a work emanating from and
culminating in the poet?s glimpse of a universe ?bound with love in a
single volume.? In the 21st century, the goals of universal digitization and
constant accessibility that mark our information age might seem far removed
from Dante?s vatic rendering of the cosmos, and yet our technological models
of thought might equally be understood as the current form of an encyclopedic
impulse that stretches back to (and well beyond) the 14th century. Dante?s
Volume from Alpha to Omega will explore how the encyclopedism of today can
enrich, inform, or obscure our understanding of Dante?s universe and its
poetic representation.
In the interests of interdisciplinarity, paper topics may consider,
but are not
limited to the following:
-Receptions of Dante: commentary, exegesis, and philology
-Representations of Dante: the visual, acoustic, and cinematic arts
-Dante and the place of language
-Dante and the sciences
-Poetry as knowledge and self-knowledge
-In the shadow of the Comedy: the ?minor? works
-Nature, necessity, and freedom in the Comedy
-The world outside the secretissima camera: social/institutional history in
Dante?s time
-Justice earthly and divine
-Dante and the lyric tradition
-Theology, history, and the politics of exile
-Classical and medieval theories of love
-Ethics and psychology
-Style and rhetoric
-Theological and philosophical debates in the thirteenth century
Presentations should not exceed 20 minutes (approximately 9-10 pages of
double-spaced text) and may be in Italian or in English.
Please submit an anonymous abstract (no longer than 250 words) and, on a
separate page, a cover sheet with the title of your paper, your name,
affiliation, and contact information (including telephone and e-mail address).
Kindly send this information as Microsoft Word file attachment to
[email protected] by November 15, 2009. Further
information will be
available on the events webpage of the Yale Italian Department
http://www.yale.edu/italian/news/index.html as the symposium draws nearer.
- Book Review: Dante In Love
Yeats said no face was more familiar to Western civilisation than Dante's, apart from that of Christ. Dante Alighieri is the greatest poet of Italy and he is also the one figure of the late medieval-renaissance period who bears comparison with the...
- Dante's Inferno, The Game...
Oh, dude. Electronic Arts (EA) is apparently now producing a game based on Dante's Inferno. Apparently, Dante will travel through Hell's 9 levels in pursuit of his "beloved Beatrice." Oh, but wait, there's more! It'll be an action-adventure...
- Fugelso Reviews Chwast,
Karl Fugelso reviewed Seymour Chwast's Dante's Divine Comedy: A Graphic Adaptation, for medievally speaking....
- 41st Annual Conference Southeastern Medieval Association (sema)
Forty-First Annual ConferenceSoutheastern Medieval AssociationLittle Rock, AR October 22-24, 2015 "Heaven, Hell, and Little Rock" Call for Papers You are cordially invited to participate in the 2015 meeting of the Southeastern Medieval Association....
- Translating The Middle Ages Cfp
CALL FOR PAPERS ?TRANSLATING THE MIDDLE AGES? AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE SPONSORED BY THE PROGRAM IN MEDIEVAL STUDIES AND CENTER FOR TRANSLATION STUDIES UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN OCTOBER 28 and 29, 2008 DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS:...