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I would like to correct an omission from a previously published call for papers, which I send again below with some preliminary information about conference registration. Please read to the end.
Thank you,
Marina Della Putta Johnston
The Center for Italian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania invites submissions for papers to be read at the interdisciplinary international conference
The conference, held at the University of Pennsylvania, will explore how monks, priests, and nuns dwell in literary texts and the visual arts quite comfortably, from Saint Anthony's life to Boccaccio's Decameron, from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales to Diderot's La religieuse, from Giotto's frescoes to Salvator Dali's surrealistic visions. What is their destiny in our desacralized age? Are they the new wanderers, do they live as foreigners in a world of people who no longer not recognize them? From Lewis to Manzoni, from Bernanos to Chesterton, from Fogazzaro to Parise, priests, monks and nuns still inhabit our literature, art, cinema, as a sort of uncanny presence.
The keynote speaker will be Victoria Kirkham Plenary speakers will include Armando Maggi, Millicent Marcus, Giuseppe Mazzotta, Roland Martinez, Christine Poggi, Janet Smarr, David Wallace, Elissa Weaver, Rebecca West, and others.
Please send a 250 words proposal and a brief vita (no cv) to [log in to unmask] by Nov. 15.
The conference website with all information relative to registration and accommodations will be activated at the end of July. We ask that you register for the conference as soon as possible after notification of acceptance of your proposal. The registration fee will be $150 for faculty and $100 for graduate students.
Marina Della Putta Johnston, PhD
Assistant Director, Center for Italian Studies
University of Pennsylvania
549 Williams Hall
255 South 36th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Tel. 215 898 6040