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italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies Please find below details of the conference 'Desire in Dante and the Middle Ages', to take place at the Taylor Institution, Oxford, 22-24 April. Desire in Dante and the Middle Ages Oxford University, 22-24 April 2010 Taylor Institution, St Giles’ Oxford OX1 3NA Sponsored by: The Oxford Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature The Paget Toynbee Fund of the Department of Medieval and Modern Languages, Oxford Organizers: Manuele Gragnolati (Oxford University), Elena Lombardi (University of Bristol) Assistance: Tristan Kay (Oxford University) Thursday 22 April 15h00 Greetings and Welcome: Manuele Gragnolati & Elena Lombardi 15h10-17h00 [Dynamics of Desire] Robert Sturges (Arizona State University): Desire and Devotion, Vision and Touch in Dante’s Vita nuova Francesca Cadel (University of Calgary): ‘The form of the Commedia’: Ezra Pound's Resemantization of Dante's Structures of Desire in his Latest Cantos Pierpaolo Antonello (Cambridge University) and Manuele Gragnolati (Oxford University): Modelling Desire: Notes for a Girardian Reading of the Divine Comedy Chair: Elena Lombardi 17h15 Bill Burgwinkle (Cambridge University): Modern Lovers: Evanescence and the Act in Dante, Arnaut and Sordello Chair: Sophie Marnette (Oxford University) Friday 09h30-11h15 [Loss, Lack and Fulfillment] Fabio Camilletti (ICI Berlin –Birmingham University): Dante Painting an Angel. Simulacra, Sublimation and Double-oriented Sonnets in the Vita Nova Daniela Bocassini (University of British Columbia), ‘L’ora che volge il disio’: Comparative Hermeneutics of Desire in Dante and ‘Attâr Almut Suerbaum (University of Oxford): Between ‘Unio’ and Alienation: Expressions of Desire in the Strophic Poems of Hadewijch Chair: Giuseppe Stellardi (Oxford University) 11h15-11h45 Break 11h45-13h00 [Nostalgia and Textuality] Francesca Southerden (Oxford University): Out of Eden: The Genesis of Desire in Petrarch Monika Otter (Dartmouth College): Desiring Tales: Two Vernacular Formulations of a Poetics of Desire (Gottfried von Strassburg and the English poet Layamon) Chair: Emmanuela Tandello (Oxford University) 13h00-14h30 Lunch 14h30-16h15 [Mind/Intellect] Gregory Stone (Louisiana State University): Cavalcanti’s Desire and the Salvation of Intellect Paola Ureni (CUNY College of Staten Island): Intellectual Memory and Desire in Augustine and Dante’s Paradiso Tristan Kay (Oxford University), ‘La colpa ch’a mente non torna’: Earthly love and duality in Dante from Convivio to the Heaven of Venus Chair: Manuele Gragnolati 16h15-16h45 Break 17h00 Christian Moevs (Notre Dame University): Triform Love: Desire as the Ordering Principle of Dante’s Comedy Chair: Martin McLaughlin (Oxford University) Saturday 10h30-12h15 [Bridges and Transformations] Vittorio Montemaggi (Notre Dame University): Reconfiguring Desire in Dante’s Commedia Peter Dent (University of Warwick): The Call of the Beautiful: Augustine and the Object of Desire in Purgatorio X Annette Volfing (Oxford University): Ever-Growing Desire: Spiritual Pregnancy in Hadewijch and in Middle High German Mystics Chair: Nicola Gardini (Oxford University) 12h15-14h00 Lunch 14h00-16h00 [Senses and Appetites] Jonathan Morton (University of Oxford): Wolves in Human Skin: Questions of Animal Appetite in Jean de Meun’s Roman de la Rose Giuseppe Ledda (University of Bologna): ‘Quali colombe dal disio chiamate’. A Bestiary of Desire in Dante’s Commedia Marguerite Waller (University of California, Riverside): Sexualities and Knowledges in Inferno 5 and Purgatorio 26 Chair: Manuele Gragnolati ********************************************************************** 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