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