Christoph Holzhey (ICI Berlin): Greetings and Welcome Fabio Camilletti, Manuele Gragnolati, Fabian Lampart: Opening Remarks
14:15 – 16:00 Paradisi
Rachel Jacoff (Wellesley): Reclaiming Paradiso: Dante in the Poetry of James Merrill and Charles Wright
Erminia Ardissino (Toronto): "Perché mi vince il lume d'esta stella". Giovanni Giudici's Rewriting of Dante's Paradiso for the Theatre
Francesca Southerden (Oxford): 'Per-tras-versioni' dantesche:
Post-paradisiacal Constellations in the Poetry of Vittorio Sereni and Andrea Zanzotto
16:00 – 16:30
Break
16:30 – 18:15
Subjectivity
Fabio Camilletti (Berlin): The Bipolarity of Angélisme: Beatrice, Desire and Sublimation from Gide to Lacan
Manuele Gragnolati (Oxford): Rewriting Dante after Freud and the Shoah: Giorgio Pressuburger's Nel regno oscuro
Rebecca West (Chicago): Wives and Lovers in Dante and Montale
19:00
Piero Boitani (Roma): Dante in Ireland: Yeats, Joyce, Heaney
Friday 25 September
10:00 – 11:10
Canonizations
Dennis
Looney (Pittsburgh): Stretching the Canon in African American
Appropriations of Dante from the Nineteenth Century to Today
Federica Pich (Pisa): Dante's "Strangeness": The Commedia and the late Twentieth-Century Debate on the Literary Canon
11:10 – 11:40
Break
11:40 – 12:50
Bodies
Nicola Gardini (Oxford): In the Name of Dante: Body and Sex in Twentieth-Century American Gay Poetry
James Miller (Western Ontario): Ghostwriting Dante: Derel Jarman's Queer Appropriations of the Inferno
12:50 – 14:30
Lunch
14:30 – 16:15
Modernities
Ray Fleming (Florida State): Thomas Mann's Über Dante and the Politics of Reading
Teresa
Prudente (Torino): "Misi me per l'alto mare aperto": Personality and
Impersonality in Virginia Woolf's Reading of Dante's Allegorical
Language
Cornelia Wild (München): The Caring Dead. Auerbach's Desire for the Mundane in Dante's Inferno
16:15 – 16:45
Break
16:45 – 18:30
Visualizations
Ronald De Rooy (Amsterdam): A Cardboard Dante. The Metropolis of Hell Revisited
Hannah Lisa Linsmaier (Potsdam): Comics Capturing the Comedy
Antonella Francini (Firenze): Transferring Dante: Robert Rauschenberg's 34 Drawings for the Inferno
19:00
Vernissage: Himmel und Hölle. 100 Drawings on Dante's Divina Commedia. By Hiltrud Gauf (Köln) with an introduction by Sabine Schrader (Innsbruck)
Saturday 26 September
10:00 – 11:45
Catabasis
Angela Merte-Rankin (Maynooth): Dante's Inferno and Walter Benjamin's Cities: Considerations of Place, Experience and Media
Federico Sabatini (Torino): Imagination, Memory and Language: Dante's Influence on Samuel Beckett
Florian
Trabert (Düsseldorf): "Il mal seme d'Adamo". Dante's Inferno and
the Problem of Literary Representation of Evil in Thomas Mann's Doktor Faustus and Wolfgang Koeppen's Der Tod in Rom
11:45 – 12:15
Break
12:15 – 13:25
Structures
Patricia Feise-Mahnkopp (Oldenburg): The Matrix-Trilogy: Postmodern Pastiche or Postsecular Rearticulation of Dante's Divina Commedia?
13:30 – 14:00
Tristan Kay (Oxford): Dante's Commedia as Anti-Model in Cesare Pavese's La luna e i falò
13:25 – 15:00
Lunch
15:00 – 16:45
Manipulations and Distortions
Nick Havely (York): "Hell on a Paying Basis": Morality and the Market in Harry Lachman's Dante's Inferno (1935)
Davide Luglio (Paris): "Anziché allargare, dilaterai!".
Allegoria e mimesis dalla Commedia di Dante alla Divina Mimesis di P.P. Pasolini
Manuela Marchesini (Texas A&M University): From Agambern's Italian Category of Comedy to Profanation as the Political Task of Modernity: Dante in Gadda's Pasticciaccio and Pasolini's Petrolio
