DANTE’S PLURILINGUALISM: AUTHORITY, VULGARIZATION, SUBJECTIVITY
Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry, 2-4 April 2009
http://dante.ici-berlin.org
Thursday 2 April
14:00 – 14:15 Christoph Holzhey (ICI Berlin): Greetings
14:15 – 15:00 Albert Russell Ascoli (Berkeley): “Translating Allegory: Convivio 2.1”
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15-00 -15:45 Irène Rosier-Catach (Paris): “Man as a Speaking and Political Animal
(Convivio, De vulgari eloquentia, Monarchia)”
15:45 – 16:15 Break
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16:15 – 17:00 Ruedi Imbach (Paris): “Gratiosum lumen rationis: linguaggio tecnico della filosofia e principi filosofici in Dante”
17:00 – 17:45 Carlo Ginzburg (Pisa): “On (and around) Gerione (Inf. XVI-XVII)”
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17:45 – 18:30 Giulio Lepschy (London, Cambridge): “Mother Tongue in the Middle Ages and Dante”
18:30 – 19:00 Break
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19:00 – 20:30 Riscrivere Dante in un’altra lingua: Lettura da Nel regno oscuro di Giorgio Pressburger e conversazione con l’Autore, organized by Laura Lepschy (London, Cambridge) with the collaboration of Emma Bond (Oxford) and Manuele Gragnolati (Oxford, Berlin)
21:00 – Reception
Friday 3 April
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9:30 – 10:15 Stefano Gensini (Rome): “Le idee linguistiche di Dante e il naturalismo fiorentino-toscano del Cinquecento”
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10:15 – 11:00 Franco Lo Piparo (Palermo): “Aristotele e Dante, filosofi della variabilità linguistica”
11:00 – 11:30 Break
11:30 – 12:15 Mirko Tavoni (Pisa): “Volgare e latino nella storia di Dante”
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12:15 – 13:00 Jürgen Trabant (Berlin, Bremen) “Overcoming the Horror of Variation: Dante and Bacon”
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch
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14:30 – 15:15 Elena Lombardi (Bristol): “Plurilingualism sub specie aeternitatis: Language/s in the Divine Comedy”
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15:15 – 16:00 Zygmunt Baranski (Cambridge): “The Roots of Dante’s Plurilingualism”
16:00 – 16:30 Break
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16:30 – 17:15 Manuele Gragnolati (Oxford, Berlin): “(In-)Corporeality, Language, Performance in Dante’s Vita Nuova and Commedia”
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17:15 – 18:00 Lino Pertile (Harvard): “Dante, trasmutabile in tutte guise” [in English]
20:00 – Dinner
Saturday 4 April
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10:00 – 10:45 Francesca Southerden (Oxford): “Lost for Words: Recuperating Melancholy Subjectivity in Dante’s Eden”
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10:45 – 11:30 Bettina Lindorfer (Berlin): “Language as a Mirror of the Soul. Guilt and Punishment in Dante’s Concept of Language”
11:30 – 12:00 Break
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12:00 – 12:45 Sara Fortuna (Berlin): “Dante after Wittgenstein: aspetto, Language, Subjectivity”
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12:45 – 13:30 Gary Cestaro (Chicago): “Is Ulysses Queer? The Subject of Greek Love in Inferno XV and XXVI”
13:30 – 14:00 Final Remarks: Sara Fortuna, Manuele Gragnolati, Jürgen Trabant
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19:30 Passione e Libertà: Staged Reading/Performance from Dante and Pasolini. A project by Agnese Grieco and Manuele Gragnolati