Upcoming Conferences |
The Philadelphia MLA | |
Lectura Boccaccii, Day Ten (Friday, 5 Jan. 2024, 3:30-4:45, in Marriott 414) Chair: Kristina Marie Olson (George Mason U) |
The Chicago RSA | |
I. Boccaccio at the Crusades Organizers: Nicola Esposito, Valentina Rovere
"Mediterranean Durations by Boccaccio's Decameron: Trade, Communication and Information Flows in Cilician Armenia" "Narrating the Holy Land: Echoes of the Crusades in the Decameron" "Translating and Visualizing the Crusades: from Boccaccio to 15th-Century France" "An Island in the Stream: Boccaccio's Cyprus and Mobility in the Decameron's Mediterranean" Alejandro Cuadrado (Yale U) | |
II. Boccaccian Reflections in History and Art Chair: Alison Cornish (New York U) "Boccaccio 125 Years Later: Examining a Late 15th-Century Portrait Medal" "Dirty Pictures: Learning from Clara Tice's 1925 Decameron Illustrations" "Hortensia, Filippa, Novella" "Giletta, Jacoba, and the Other mediche. Gendering Science in Decameron III.9" |
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III. Reframing Ethics in Boccaccio's Works Chair: Francesco Ciabattoni (Georgetown U) "Decameron's Frames and the Sense of the Sacred" "Divergent Lessons: The Interpretation of the Infernal Hunt among Dante, Boccaccio, and Passavanti" "Con più ordinato parlare e coperto. Songs, Novellas, and Boccaccio's Ethics of Narration" "'Poeta fui': Dante's Virgil through Boccaccio's Esposizioni sopra la Comedia" | |
IV. Boccaccio and the Daughters of Lot Chair: Maggie Fritz-Morkin (U of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) "Boccaccio and the Daughters of Lot: Plague, Population, and Natural Law" Response: Enrica Zanin (U de Strasbourg) | |