Symposium: De vulgari eloquentia: Dante’s Laboratory of Vernacular Speech

Morning at COLUMBIA (Italian Academy);
Afternoon at NYU (Casa Italiana).

Directors: Maria Luisa Ardizzone (NYU) & Teodolinda Barolini (Columbia)

PRESENTED BY NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: Department of Italian Studies; Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò; Medieval and Renaissance Center
IN COLLABORATION WITH COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: Department of Italian; Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America

Conference Details:

9:00 Welcome
David Freedberg, Director, Italian Academy, Columbia University
Jo Ann Cavallo, Chair, Department of Italian, Columbia University
Teodolinda Barolini, Department of Italian, Columbia University & The Global Dante Project of New York

Presentations marked with ** will be in Italian.

9:15 - 11:15 Panel I
Panel I Moderator: Alessandro Vettori, Rutgers University
Irène Rosier-Catach, Directrice de recherches au CNRS: A Political Reading of Dante’s vulgare illustre
**Mirko Tavoni, Università di Pisa: Il pubblico del De vulgari eloquentia, la biografia di Dante e la sua creatività progettuale (presentation in Italian)
**Roberto Antonelli, Università di Roma, La Sapienza: Dalla “Cittade” al mondo: Il De vulgari eloquentia nella prospettiva dantesca (presentation in Italian)

11:15 - 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 - 1:00 Panel II
Panel II Moderator: Julie Van Peteghem, Hunter College
Gary Cestaro, DePaul University: “Anteriora posteriora putantes”: Queer Reflections in/on Dante’s De Vulgari Eloquentia
Alison Cornish, University of Michigan: Sound It Out: Talking Beasts and Human Instruments in Dante’s Theory of Language

1:00 - 3:00 Break: Conference moves to NYU

Click here to see the schedule at Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, NYU