Apocalissi: Eschatological Imagination in Italian Culture, from Dante to the Present
Friday, 9 October 2009 to Saturday, 10 October 2009Location: CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane
Please note this programme is provisional
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9.00 - 9.30 |
Welcome and registration |
9.30 - 10.00 |
Introductory remarks |
10.00 - 11.00 |
Session 1 Chair: Robin Kirkpatrick (Cambridge) Gian Luca Potestà (Milan) L'Apocalisse di Dolcino, fra mito e storia (Please note that this paper will be delivered in Italian. Discussion will be in English.) English paper title: The Apocalypse of Fra Dolcino: Between History and Myth Ron Herzman (SUNY) Dante, the Apocalypse, and the Frescoes at Santi Quattro Coronati |
11.00 - 11.30 |
Coffee |
11.30 - 12.30 |
Session 2 Chair: Manuele Gragnolati (Oxford) John Took (UCL) Dante and the Eschatos: Intimacy and Urgency Maria Stella Barberi (Messina) La discesa agli inferi di Dante (e di Empedocle) in Inferno XII, 34-45 (Please note that this paper will be delivered in Italian. Discussion will be in English.) Click here for abstract in English. |
12.30 - 14.00 |
Lunch |
14.00 - 15.30 |
Session 3 Chair: Heather Webb (Ohio State and CRASSH) Anne Derbes and M. Sandona (Hood College) Visions of the End in Late Medieval Padua Giuseppe Fornari (Bergamo) The Silent Apocalypse of Boccaccio's Decameron: The ‘Strange Case’ of Ser Ciappelletto Jessica Goethals (NYU) Early Modern Ends: The Sack of Rome and the Renovatio Imperative |
15.30 - 16.00 |
Tea |
16.00 - 17.30 |
Session 4 Chair: Catherine Keen (UCL) Michele Cometa (Palermo) Stimmungen: 'The Triumph of Death' of Palermo Armando Maggi (Chicago) The 'New Jerusalem' in the Literature of the Counter-Reformation Manuele Gragnolati (Oxford) Mediating the Apocalypse: History and Writing in Dante’s Divine Comedy and Giorgio Pressburger’s Nel regno oscuro |
17.30 - 18.00 |
Discussion Chair: Heather Webb (Ohio State and CRASSH) |
19.30 |
Conference dinner Senior Parlor, Gonville and Caius College |
