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italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies Dear Colleagues, please find enclosed the programme for the Conference Metamorphosing Dante which take place at the Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry on 24-26 September. Manuele Gragnolati Somerville College, Oxford Metamorphosing Dante ICI Berlin, 24-26 September 2009 http://dante.ici-berlin.org After almost seven centuries, Dante persists and even seems to haunt the present. This conference investigates what so many authors, artists and thinkers from very different artistic, political, geographical and cultural backgrounds have found in Dante’s oeuvre in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The hypothesis is that, along with a corpus providing multiple linguistic and narrative structures, characters and stories (thereby allowing a wide range of possibilities to be evoked and re-activated), Dante has provided a field of tensions in which to mirror, explore and question one’s own time. Situated itself on critical points of tension (sermo humilis/ sublimis, lyric/epic, life/afterlife, human/divine, present/future), Dante’s aspiration towards totality remains a daunting presence in the age of fragmentation, while – after the ‘death of the Author’ – his work seduces precisely as the site of a powerful production of authorship. Metamorphosing Dante, conceived within the frame of the Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry’s core project Tension/Spannung, gathers scholars from different disciplines and cultures to explore what the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have probed in Dante’s works, and the ways in which they have engaged with them through rewritings, dialogues, and transposition. 24 September 14h00 Greetings and Welcome: Christoph Holzhey Opening Remarks: Fabio Camilletti, Manuele Gragnolati, Fabian Lampart 14h15-16h00 [Paradisi] Rachel Jacoff (Wellesley), Reclaiming Paradiso: Dante in the Poetry of James Merrill and Charles Wright Erminia Ardissino (Torino), “Perché mi vince il lume d’esta stella”. Giovanni Giudici’s Rewriting of Dante’s Paradiso for the Theatre Francesca Southerden (Oxford), 'Per-tras-versioni' dantesche: Post- paradisiacal Constellations in the Poetry of Vittorio Sereni and Andrea Zanzotto 16h00-16h30 Break 16h30-18h15 [Subjectivity] Fabio Camilletti (Berlin): The Bipolarity of Angélisme: Beatrice, Desire and Sublimation from Gide to Lacan Manuele Gragnolati (Oxford), Rewriting Dante after Freud and the Shoah: Giorgio Pressburger’s Nel regno oscuro Rebecca West (Chicago), Wives and Lovers in Dante and Montale 19h00 Piero Boitani (Roma), Dante in Ireland: Yeats, Joyce, Heaney 25 September 10h00-11h10 [Canonizations] Dennis Looney (Pittsburgh), Stretching the Canon in African American Appropriations of Dante from the Nineteenth Century to Today Federica Pich (Pisa), Dante’s “Strangeness”. The Commedia and the late Twentieth-Century Debate on the Literary Canon 11h10-11h40 Break 11h40-12h50 [Bodies] Nicola Gardini (Oxford), In The Name of Dante: Body and Sex in Twentieth-Century American Gay Poetry James Miller (Western Ontario), Ghostwriting Dante: Derek Jarman’s Queer Appropriations of the Inferno 12h50-14h30 Lunch 14h30-16h15 [Modernities] Ray Fleming (Florida State), Thomas Mann's Über Dante and the Politics of Reading Teresa Prudente (Torino), “Misi me per l’alto mare aperto”: Personality and Impersonality in Virginia Woolf’s Reading of Dante’s Allegorical Language Cornelia Wild (München), The Caring Dead: Auerbach’s Desire for the Mundane in Dante's Inferno 16h15-16h45 Break 16h45-18h30 [Visualizations] Ronald De Rooy (Amsterdam), A Cardboard Dante. The Metropolis of Hell Revisited Hannah Lisa Linsmaier (Potsdam), Comics Capturing the Comedy Antonella Francini (Firenze), Transferring Dante: Robert Rauschenberg’s 34 Drawings for the Inferno 19h00 [Vernissage] Himmel un Hölle. 100 Drawings on Dante’s Divina Commedia By Hiltrid Gauf (Köln) with an Introduction by Sabine Schrader (Insbruck) 26 September 10h00-11h45 [Catabasis] Angela Merte-Rankin (Maynooth), Dante’s Inferno and Walter Benjamin’s Cities: Considerations of Place, Experience and Media Federico Sabatini (Torino), Imagination, Memory and Language: Dante’s Influence on Samuel Beckett Florian Trabert (Düsseldorf), “Il mal seme d’Adamo”. Dante’s Inferno and the Problem of the Literary Representation of Evil in Thomas Mann’s Doktor Faustus und Wolfgang Koeppen’s Der Tod in Rom 11h45-12h15 Break 12h15-13h25 [Structures] Patricia Feise-Mahnkopp (Oldenburg), The Matrix-Trilogy: Postmodern Pastiche or Postsecular Rearticulation of Dante’s Divina Commedia? Tristan Kay (Oxford), Dante’s Commedia as Anti-model in Cesare Pavese’s La luna e i falò 13h25-15h00 Lunch 15h00-16h45 [Manipulations and Distortions] Nick Havely (York), “Hell on a Paying Basis”: Morality and the Market in Harry Lachman’s Dante’s Inferno (1935) Davide Luglio (Paris), “Anzichè allargare, dilaterai!”. Allegoria e mimesis dalla Commedia di Dante alla Divina Mimesis di P.P. Pasolini Manuela Marchesini (Texas at Austin), From Agamben's Italian Category of Comedy to Profanation as the Political Task of Modernity: Dante in Gadda's Pasticciaccio and Pasolini’s Petrolio ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: join italian-studies YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: leave italian-studies to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/italian-studies.html