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  1. Category: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 07.06.2021
    Gary Cestaro Dante’s Queer Fathers
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In English In 700 years of intense commentary, readers of the Comedy—at least professional readers—have almost entirely managed to avoid a crucial inquiry: what did Dante know about classical pederasty? What did he think of it? And most...

    Fields of research Italian literature,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature of the Middle Ages (6th-13th century)
    Created on: 07.06.2021
  2. Category: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 10.05.2021
    Suzanne Conklin Akbari: What Ground Do We Read On? (Online)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The field of Medieval Studies has undergone a period of reckoning, including a greater awareness of histories of race and racialization, an increasingly fraught relationship of religious and racial identities, and the effects of the ’global turn‘,...

    Fields of research Italian literature,  Media studies,  Writtenness and 2 more
    Created on: 10.05.2021
  3. Category: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 12.05.2021
    Lorna Goodison Going Through Hell (Online)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Perhaps it was seeing an illustration of Henry Holiday’s painting, ‘Dante and Beatrice’, in a history text book at school in Jamaica that started my fascination with the Divine Comedy; for I remember that I had a premonition that this poet and...

    Fields of research Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Italian literature,  Literary historiography and 2 more
    Created on: 10.05.2021
  4. Category: Various (summer schools etc.)
    Beginning: 26.02.2021
    Book Presentation: Possibilities of Lyric. Reading Petrarch in Dialogue
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In Italian Presentation and discussion of the latest ICI Berlin Press publication by Manuele Gragnolati and Francesca Southerden, Possibilities of Lyric: Reading Petrarch in Dialogue (2020) . The seminar Lirica&Teoria ...

    Fields of research Italian literature,  Lyric poetry,  Translation
    Created on: 22.02.2021
  5. Category: Projects
    Institutions: ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry
    Possibility and the Utopian Imagination in the Poetic Practice of Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Peripheral but central, external but inner, between being and non-being—possibility has the multi-stable ontology of utopias and their creative and transformative power. Through possibility, writers, philosophers, and artists through the ages have...

    Fields of research Italian literature,  Literature and law,  Literature and theology/study of religions and 2 more
    Created on: 03.06.2019