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20 December 2021 zoom link Jerusalem time 4:30-5:00 pm Greetings and Welcome Nissim Otmazgin, Dean of Humanities (HUJI) Opening Remarks Maria Sica (IIC), Gur Zak (HUJI) 5:00-6:00 pm Opening Lecture Alessandro Barbero | Dante Before World Literature: A Poet in His Own Space and Time (Introduced by Maria Sica, IIC) 6:15-7:45 pm Dante’s Global Visions Chair: Manuela Consonni (HUJI) Elisa Brilli (Toronto) | The challenges of World Literature: Dante and various ideas of Europe Kevin Brownlee (UPenn) | Delineating Dante’s Boundaries: Problematizing the Universal in the Commedia Roberta Morosini (Wake Forest University) | “Tra’ discordanti liti”: Dante, Tommaso, and Francesco on the Orient and the Book of Islam 21 December 2021 zoom link Jerusalem time 4:30-5:30 pm Negotiating Borders in Dante and Beyond Chair: Yuval Tal (HUJI) Justin Steinberg (Chicago) | Limes, Lites: Border Conflicts in Dante’s Inferno Chiara Caradonna (HUJI) | Crossing Waters and Meeting Monsters. Dante’s Presence in Stefano D’Arrigo’s Horcynus Orca 5:45-6:45 pm Exile and Migration in Dante and Beyond Chair: Vivian Liska (Antwerp/HUJI) Sefy Hendler (TAU) | “il suo exilio indegno”: Michelangelo after Dante, using exile as a political token Kristina Olson (George Mason University) | Dante’s Migrant Purgatories: Lô, Nabil, and Sedira 7:00-8:30 pm Auerbach’s Dante and the Fortunes of Philology Chair: David Fishelov (HUJI) Giuseppe Ledda (Bologna) | Biblical Figurality and Biblical Models in Dante Studies Irina Chernetsky (Haifa) | Dante’s Architectural Image of Florence Andreas Kablitz (Cologne) | Auerbach’s Modernization of Dante’s Commedia 22 December 2021* zoom link Jerusalem time * Will take place at the Mandel Building, Auditorium #530 4:30-6:00 pm Dante’s Moral Visions: Between Medieval and Modern Chair: Yona Hanhart-Marmor (HUJI) Alessandro Vettori (Rutgers) | Dante’s Transgressive Approach: Church Injustice and Divine Mercy Yoav Rinon (HUJI) | Grace and Luck: From Dante via Petrarch to Machiavelli Gur Zak (HUJI) | Common Grounds: Compassion and Community in Dante’s Purgatorio and Contemporary Thought 6:15-7:45 pm Dante’s Literary Afterlives Chair: Ilana Pardes (HUJI) Shachar Livne (HUJI) | Chaucer’s Statius: Lists, Genealogies, and Dantean Influence Yaakov Mascetti (Bar Ilan) | Dante, Donne and the Union of the Souls Aminadav Dykman (HUJI) | Dantesque visions of Hell in Hebrew Literature 7:45-8:15 pm Closing Discussion Dante Poet of World Literature Globalism, Philology, and the Future of Literary Studies 20-22 December 2021 [e event will take place on ZOOM] e Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Istituto italiano di cultura, Tel Aviv Design: Credit: Max Petrone The Department of Comparative Literature
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20 December 2021zoom link Jerusalem time
4:30-5:00 pm Greetings and WelcomeNissim Otmazgin, Dean of Humanities (HUJI)
Opening RemarksMaria Sica (IIC), Gur Zak (HUJI)
5:00-6:00 pm Opening LectureAlessandro Barbero | Dante Before World Literature: A Poet in His Own Space and Time (Introduced by Maria Sica, IIC)
6:15-7:45 pm Dante’s Global VisionsChair: Manuela Consonni (HUJI)
Elisa Brilli (Toronto) | The challenges of World Literature: Dante and various ideas of EuropeKevin Brownlee (UPenn) | Delineating Dante’s Boundaries: Problematizing the Universal in the CommediaRoberta Morosini (Wake Forest University) | “Tra’ discordanti liti”: Dante, Tommaso, and Francesco on the Orient and the Book of Islam
21 December 2021zoom link Jerusalem time
4:30-5:30 pm Negotiating Borders in Dante and BeyondChair: Yuval Tal (HUJI)
Justin Steinberg (Chicago) | Limes, Lites: Border Conflicts in Dante’s InfernoChiara Caradonna (HUJI) | Crossing Waters and Meeting Monsters. Dante’s Presence in Stefano D’Arrigo’s Horcynus Orca
5:45-6:45 pm Exile and Migration in Dante and Beyond Chair: Vivian Liska (Antwerp/HUJI)
Sefy Hendler (TAU) | “il suo exilio indegno”: Michelangelo after Dante, using exile as a political tokenKristina Olson (George Mason University) | Dante’s Migrant Purgatories: Lô, Nabil, and Sedira
7:00-8:30 pm Auerbach’s Dante and the Fortunes of PhilologyChair: David Fishelov (HUJI)
Giuseppe Ledda (Bologna) | Biblical Figurality and Biblical Models in Dante StudiesIrina Chernetsky (Haifa) | Dante’s Architectural Image of FlorenceAndreas Kablitz (Cologne) | Auerbach’s Modernization of Dante’s Commedia
22 December 2021*zoom link Jerusalem time* Will take place at the Mandel Building, Auditorium #530
4:30-6:00 pm Dante’s Moral Visions: Between Medieval and ModernChair: Yona Hanhart-Marmor (HUJI)
Alessandro Vettori (Rutgers) | Dante’s Transgressive Approach: Church Injustice and Divine MercyYoav Rinon (HUJI) | Grace and Luck: From Dante via Petrarch to MachiavelliGur Zak (HUJI) | Common Grounds: Compassion and Community in Dante’s Purgatorio and Contemporary Thought
6:15-7:45 pm Dante’s Literary AfterlivesChair: Ilana Pardes (HUJI)
Shachar Livne (HUJI) | Chaucer’s Statius: Lists, Genealogies, and Dantean InfluenceYaakov Mascetti (Bar Ilan) | Dante, Donne and the Union of the SoulsAminadav Dykman (HUJI) | Dantesque visions of Hell in Hebrew Literature
7:45-8:15 pm Closing Discussion
Dante Poet of World LiteratureGlobalism, Philology, and the Future of Literary Studies20-22 December 2021 [The event will take place on ZOOM]
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Istituto italiano di cultura, Tel Aviv
Design:
Credit: Max Petrone
The Department of Comparative Literature
