italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies
Dear Colleagues,
As you will be aware, Professor Peter Armour will retire from his post as
Professor of Italian at Royal Holloway University of London in the summer of
2002.
In the course of his career Peter has held posts at the Universities of
Sheffield, Leicester and London where he was successively a member of the
departments at Bedford College, University College and Royal Holloway. Peter
has thus played a major role in Italian Studies in the UK. He has held
Visiting Professorships in the USA and lectured widely in many countries.
His contribution to research and scholarship in our discipline, especially
on Dante is highly regarded nationally and internationally. He has also been
a significant influence in guiding and stimulating the research of younger
colleagues and research students. We wish to recognise his contribution by
honouring his retirement with a symposium and a volume of studies. These two
elements though linked are not intended to be completely overlapping. The
aim in organising both is to give Peter's many friends, colleagues and past
students the opportunity to be involved in some way.
The symposium is scheduled to take place this summer, just after the end of
the summer term, on July 5th and 6th (Friday and Saturday) and will be held
at Royal Holloway. The dates chosen are just immediately prior to the Leeds
Medieval Conference, and it is hoped that this timing will allow
participants to attend both events if they wish. Papers on any aspect of
Dante studies, and also on other areas of scholarship with which Peter has
been particularly associated, are now invited. Papers should be timed to
last for not more than 20 minutes. If you would like to give a paper at the
symposium please submit a title and brief outline (one short paragraph) to
us by March 22nd 2002. Practical details concerning the conference will be
circulated shortly; those interested in attending (as opposed to delivering
a paper) are also invited to reply to this mailing.
As many of you will know, volumes of essays and festschriften nowadays need
to be structured around a precise theme and to have a tight coherence in
order to attract the interest of a publisher. The theme for the volume is
currently under discussion, but will be an aspect of contemporary research
on Dante. Since papers included in the volume must match the selected theme,
it will not be possible automatically to accept all of the papers delivered
at the symposium for consideration for the volume, and we hope that
contributors to the symposium will understand this constraint.
Jane E.Everson }
Anne Mullen } Joint Organisers
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