A Conference to celebrate the 750th Anniversary of Dante’s Birth

University of Bristol, Wednesday 16th December 2015

Lecture Room 8, 21 Woodland Road

PROGRAMME

11.00-11.30: Coffee and welcome

11.30-12.30:
Paolo Bartoloni (NUI Galway): ‘The Original Order and the Ordering of Imagination’

12:30-1.30: Lunch

1.30-2.45:
David Bowe (Oxford): ‘Origins of Beatrice: “Women’s” Voices Before and in Dante’
George Corbett (St Andrews): ‘The Original Sin of the Capetian Dynasty’

2.45-3.15: Coffee and undergraduate poster session

3.15-4.45:
Carolyn Muessig (Bristol): ‘The Invention and Conception of Stigmata at the Time of Dante’
Giulia Gaimari (UCL): ‘From Etymology to Ethics: A Reflection on Some Dantean Words’
Peter Dent (Bristol): ‘Dante and the Origins of Art History’

4.45-5.00: Coffee

5.00-6.00:
Heather Webb (Cambridge): ‘The New Persons of Dante’s "Purgatorio"’

6.00-7.30: Drinks Reception

The conference organizers are most grateful for the financial support provided by the Bristol Institute for Research in the Humanities and Arts (BIRTHA), the School of Humanities, the School of Modern Languages, and the Centre for Medieval Studies.

There is no registration fee, but the organizers — George Ferzoco ([log in to unmask]) and Tristan Kay ([log in to unmask]) — request that you contact them if you intend to be present.