Desire in Dante and the Middle Ages
http://mediumaevum.modhist.ox.ac.uk/conf_dante.shtml
Oxford University, 22-24 April 2010
Taylor Institution
St Giles’ Oxford, OX1 3NA
Sponsored by:
Paget Toynbee Fund of the Department of Medieval and Modern Languages, Oxford University; The Oxford Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature
Organizers: Manuele Gragnolati (Oxford University), Elena Lombardi (University of Bristol)
Assistance: Tristan Kay (Oxford University)
Thursday 22 April
15h00
Greetings and Welcome: Manuele Gragnolati (Oxford University), Elena Lombardi (Bristol University)
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): 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 Boccassini (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’ (Par. IX, 104): Human love and duality from the 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