Join us on Zoom for our first celebration of 50 years of the American Boccaccio Association, in conversation with past ABA presidents. Click here for details.

December 16, 2024
2:00 – 4:00 pm EST

Elissa Weaver (1982-1986)
Victoria Kirkham (1988-1992)
Chris Kleinhenz (1993-1997)
Michael Sherberg (1997-1999)
Janet Smarr (2003-2007)

January 9-12, New Orleans
https://www.mla.org/Events/2025-MLA-Convention

Lectura Boccaccii: Day Two
Sponsored by the ABA

• Simone Marchesi (Princeton University): Decameron II.4

• Anna Wainwright (University of New Hampshire): Decameron II.2

Join us on Zoom for our second celebration of 50 years of the American Boccaccio Association, in conversation with past ABA presidents. Click here for details.

January 24, 2025
2:00 – 4:00 pm EST

Michael Papio (2011-2014)
Tim Kircher (2014-2017)
Simone Marchesi (2017-2020)
Kristina Olson (2020-2023)

Sponsored Sessions at RSA Boston 2025 (March 20-22)

Thursday, March 20

9:00-10:30. Boccaccio’s Afterlives

Organizers: Kristina Olson and Ambra Moroncini

Chair: Kristina Olson

• Alison Cornish.Per fama e per gloria: Boccaccio’s cult of literary afterlife

• Fabian Alfie.Lascio al Boccaccio la sua filastrocca: Nicolò Franco’s Response to the Author’s Conclusion to the Decameron

• Brenda Berenice Rosado. Boccaccio’s Authorial Spaces in Bigolina’s Urania and Translational Vessels in Cervantes’s Don Quijote

• Stephen Milner. Boccaccio and Bibliomania: Dibden’s Bibliographical Decameron (1817)

11:00-12:30. Boccaccio’s Afterlives II

Organizers: Kristina Olson and Ambra Moroncini

Chair: Ambra Moroncini

• James H. S. McGregor. Boccaccio and the Art Novella Tradition

• Maria Esposito Frank.Decameron III, 9: Awaiting a New Afterlife for Giletta of Narbonne

• Sara Díaz. The clothes on her back: Boccaccio’s Griselda and Guadagnino’s Io sono l’amore

• Brittany Asaro. The Decameron for the 2020's: The San Diego Decameron Project

2:30-4:00. Boccaccio and the Latin Classics

Organizer and Chair: Janet Levarie Smarr

• Ronald L. Martinez. Boccaccio, Apuleius, and Theater

• Riccardo Samà.Decameron Day 7 Between Salmacis and Proserpina

• Jon Solomon. The Many Facets of Apollo in Boccaccio’s Genealogy of the Pagan Gods

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Friday, March 21

9:00-10:30. A Global Author: The World in Boccaccio and Boccaccio in the World

Organizers: Nicola Esposito and Valentina Rovere

Chair: Nicola Esposito

• Valentina Rovere. News From the M.A.R.I.S. Project: The Mediterranean in Giovanni Boccaccio and Domenico Silvestri’s Geographical Works

• Nicolas Campagnoli. East and Back: The Demotic Greek Translation of Boccaccio’s Teseida Between Greece and Venice

• Raffaele Cesaro. European Fortune of the Corbaccio between the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries

11:00-12:30. Boccaccio and the Jewish World, Boccaccio in the Jewish World

Organizer: Alberto Gelmi

Chair: Maggie Fritz-Morkin

• Jilian Anne Pizzi. Abraam Giudeo in Decameron I.2: The Historical Anxiety of Jewish Conversion

• Gur Zak, Boccaccio and the Bible: Tracing Joseph in Day 2 of the Decameron

• Nicola Esposito. Regression in Representation: The Idea of the “Jew” from Boccaccio to HisFourteenth-Century Followers

• Alberto Gelmi. Divine Decrees and Human Laughter: Boccaccio and the Novella Genre in Abraham Ben Yagel

September 16-7
Paleography Seminar, Newberry Library
https://www.newberry.org/

September 18-9
Newberry  Library
https://www.newberry.org/

September 20
Instituto Italiano di Cultura di Chicago
https://iicchicago.esteri.it/it/

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