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Dear Colleagues,

enclosed you will find the programme for the conference 'Desire in Dante and the Middle Ages' which will take place in Oxford on 22-24 April. The conference is free and everybody is welcome. Please note that some small bursaries are available to help post-graduate students to attend the conference. To register and for any query about the bursaries or the conference, please contact Tristan Kay: [log in to unmask]. In case one is interested in applying for a post-graduate bursary, please write before 15 March and include a brief summary of research interest and academic experience.

With best wishes and apologies for cross-posting,
Manuele Gragnolati
Somerville College, Oxford





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


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