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)

March 20-22, Boston
https://www.rsa.org/

Boccaccio's Afterlives
Sponsored by the ABA

Organizers: Kristina M. Olson (George Mason University) and Ambra Moroncini (University of Sussex)

Session A, Co-chaired by Ambra Moroncini and Kristina Olson:

• Alison Cornish (New York University): “Per fama e per gloria: Boccaccio’s cult of literary afterlife”

• Fabian Alfie (University of Arizona): “Lascio al Boccaccio la sua filastrocca: Nicolò Franco’s Response to the Author’s Conclusion to the Decameron”

• Brenda Berenice Rosado (University of California Berkeley): “Boccaccio’s Authorial Spaces in Bigolina’s Urania and Translational Vessels in Cervantes’s Don Quijote”

• Stephen Milner (University of Manchester): “Boccaccio and Bibliomania: Dibden’s Bibliographical Decameron (1817)”

Session B, Co-chaired by Ambra Moroncini and Kristina Olson:

• James H. S. McGregor (University of Georgia): “Boccaccio and the Art Novella Tradition”

• Maria Esposito Frank (University of Hartford): “Decameron III, 9: Awaiting a New Afterlife for Giletta of Narbonne”

• Sara Díaz (Fairfield University): “The Clothes on her Back:  Boccaccio’s Griselda and Guadagnino’s Io sono l’amore”

• Brittany Asaro (University of San Diego): “The Decameron for the 2020's: The San Diego Decameron Project”

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/