18th Annual Conference of the American Association of Italian Studies
(AAIS), Chicago (Illinois), Radisson Hotel, 2-5 April 1998
Homepage of the Conference (including a Preliminary Program from which the
following extracts were compiled):
http://www.luc.edu/depts/modern_lang/italian/aais/
Papers and Sessions on Dante:
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Thursday, 2 April, 16:00-17:15
Session 17 New Perspectives on Dante: Questions of Influence
Sponsor: Dante Society of America
Organizer: Christopher Kleinhenz (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison)
Chair: Sergio Corsi (Loyola Univ. Chicago)
Paper: Christopher Muskopf (Miami Univ.), Architectural Structure
and Dante's Celestial Rose Image
Paper: Fabian Alfie (Univ. of Arizona), Dante and the Comic Style
Paper: Santa Casciani (Pennsylvania State Univ.), Fifteenth-Century
Mariology: Dante and the Franciscans
Friday, 3 April, 10:00-11:15
Session 38 Dante - The Commedia
Organizer: Steven Botterrill (Univ. of California, Berkeley)
Chair: Gloria Allaire (Purdue University)
Paper: Manuele Gragnolati (Columbia Univ.), Air, Flesh, and Body:
The Human Being and Resurrection in the Commedia
Paper: Diana Modesto (Univ. of Sydney), Who is the Loser of the
'Gioco della zara' (Purg. VI. 1-2)?
Paper: Steven Botterill (Univ. of California, Berkeley), Language
and Community in 'Malebolge'
Paper: Christian Moevs (Univ. of Notre Dame), The 'Primo Mobile' as
a Pot of Time: Par. 27.115-120
Friday, 3 April, 15:30-16:45
Session 61 New Approaches: Teaching, Scholarly Research and the Internet
Organizer and Chair: Rosetta D'Angelo (Ramapo College of New Jersey)
Paper: Gaetano Maruca (Liceo classico di Locri RC), Dante e Internet
Friday, 3 April, 17:00-18:15
Session 64 New Perspectives on Dante as Author
Sponsor: Dante Society of America
Organizer: Christopher Kleinhenz (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison)
Chair: Santa Casciani (Pennsylvania State Univ.)
Paper: Gabriella Finizio (Univ. of Delaware), Dal latratus canis
allo scriba Dei: una rilettura della profezia del veltro
Paper: Antonio Rossini (Univ. of Toronto), Tra senno e cenno: Dante
discepolo e poeta attraverso la Commedia. Uno studio sulla
rima in fine di terzina
Paper: Paul Vlajcic (Northern Illinois Univ.), Dante's Pastorals:
The Auctor as Exile
Saturday, 4 April, 8:30-9:45
Session 79 Epic, National Identity, and the History of Italian Film
Organizer: Millicent Marcus (Univ. of Texas)
Chair: Margaret Waller (Univ. of California, Riverside)
Paper: Amilcare Iannucci (Univ. of Toronto), Dante and the Silent Film Era
Saturday, 4 April, 10:15-11:30
Session 86 Sound and Narrative
Organizers: Giorgio Biancorosso (Princeton Univ. and Univ. di Venezia)
& Antonella Puca (New York Univ.)
Chair: Maurizio Godorecci (Univ. of Alabama)
Paper: Antonella Puca (New York Univ.), Song and Biblical citation in
Dante's Purgatorio
Saturday, 4 April, 14:00-15:15
Session 94 Dante: Intertextual Approaches
Organizer and Chair: Steven Botterill (Univ. of California, Berkeley)
Paper: Charles Ross (Purdue Univ.), Translating the Thebaid of
Statius Through the Eyes of Dante
Paper: Umberto Taccheri (Duke Univ.), Boethius' Consolatio and
Dante's Purgatorial Dreams
Paper: Dennis Looney (Univ. of Pittsburgh), Dante in the Here and
Now: Moments in the African-American Reception of Dante
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