The Undivine Comedy: Thirty Years Later
October 21, 2022
At the Italian Academy, Columbia University
Casa Italiana Building, 1161 Amsterdam Avenue (South of 118th Street), New York, NY 10027
Morning Sessions (8:30 am – 12:30 pm)
8:30 am Opening Remarks
8:45 am-10:30 am Session 1: Inferno
- Akash Kumar, Institutionalizing Difference and Loving It: Narrative and Alterity in the Commedia
- Martin Eisner, Making a Miracle: Dante’s Invention of Beatrice
- Kristina Olson, The Textual and Sartorial Protagonists of Pride: Nimrod, Arachne, and Geryon
- Chair: Grace Delmolino
10:45 am-12:30 pm Session 2: Purgatorio
- Grace Delmolino, Ulysses in Purgatory: Contrition and the Stakes of Penitential Law
- Lina Bolzoni, Il ‘visibile parlare’ e l’educazione dello sguardo
- Giuseppe Ledda, Prophetic Models and Structures in an Undivine Comedy
- Chair: Martin Eisner
Afternoon Sessions (1:30 pm – 6:00 pm)
1:30 pm Opening Remarks from Barbara Faedda
1:30 pm-3:15 pm Session 3: Paradiso
- F. Regina Psaki, The One and the Many: The Reader in the Actualization of the Comedy
- Manuele Gragnolati, Textuality, Temporality, and Desire: The Paradoxical Pleasure of Dante’s Paradiso
- Maria Luisa Ardizzone, Lontano, da dove. Constructing an “Undivine Comedy”
- Chair: H. Wayne Storey
3:30 pm-4:45 pm Session 4: Overarching Reflections
- Roberta Antognini, Translating the Undivine Comedy
- H. Wayne Storey, The Intricate Weaving of The Undivine Comedy
- Chair: Akash Kumar
4:45 pm-5:15 pm Session 5: Graduate Student Panel
- Laura DiNardo
- Louis Moffa
- Joseph Romano
- Chair: Kristina Olson
5:30 pm-6:00 pm Conclusions by Teodolinda Barolini