We are pleased to announce the details about the forthcoming ISCAD 4 and 137th Annual Meeting and Symposium of the Dante Society of America.
May 4 | 10am – 6pm
Fr. Madden Hall
100 St. Joseph Street, Toronto
Free and open to the public
https://dante.medeval.utoronto.ca
Program
Saturday, May 4
8:30am – 9:00am Continental breakfast
9:00am – 10:00am 137th Annual Meeting of the Dante Society of America (open to DSA members only)
Albert R. Ascoli (University of California, Berkeley), President, Dante Society of America
10:00am – 10:30am Greetings and Welcome
S. Bancheri (University of Toronto)A. Ruggera (Istituto Italiano di Cultura)E. Brilli (University of Toronto)
10:30am – 11:30am Keynote Lecture on Plurilingualism
Manuele Gragnolati (Paris IV – La Sorbonne), Dante’s Plurilngualism and the Complexity of Literature Introduced by Suzanne Akbari (University of Toronto)
11:30am – 12:00am Coffee Break
12:00am – 1:30pm Roundtable on Plurilingualism
Chair: William Robins (University of Toronto) Ambrogio Camozzi Pistoja (Harvard University), Plurilingualism and Readership – Gary Cestaro (DePaul University), Plurilingualism and Gender Body and lingua materna – Francesco Ciabattoni (Georgetown University), Plurilingualism and Polyphony – Francesca Southerdern (Oxford University), Plurilingualism and Particularity
1:30pm – 2:30pm Buffet Lunch
2:30pm – 3:30pm Keynote Lecture
Marcello Ciccuto (Università di Pisa & Società Dantesca Italiana), Giotto, Dante, Francesco da Barberino: alle fonti del ‘visibile parlare’ Introduced by Albert R. Ascoli (University of California, Berkeley)
3:30pm – 4:00pm Coffee Break
4:00pm – 6:00pm Roundtable on Visibile Parlare
Chair: Elisa Brilli (University of Toronto) Suzanne Akbari (University of Toronto), Visibile Parlare and Ekphrasis – Aida Audeh (Hamline University), Visibile Parlare and Visual Arts – Luca Fiorentini (Accademia dei Lincei), Visibile Parlare and the Secolare commento – Eloisa Morra (University of Toronto), Visibile Parlare and Twentieth Century Italian Visual Culture – Arielle Saiber (Bowdoin College), Visibile Parlare and the Invisible
6:00pm Conclusions