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Upcoming Events/Conferences
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I. Boccaccio at the Crusades
Organizers: Nicola Esposito, Valentina Rovere
Chair: Chiara Sbordoni (U of Notre Dame, Rome Global Gateway)"Mediterranean Durations by Boccaccio's Decameron: Trade, Communication and Information Flows in Cilician Armenia"Zohrab Gevorgyan (U of Armenia)
"Narrating the Holy Land: Echoes of the Crusades in the Decameron"Nicola Esposito (U of Notre Dame)
"Translating and Visualizing the Crusades: from Boccaccio to 15th-Century France"
Valentina Rovere (U Cattolica del Sacro Cuore)"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"
John Adrian (U of Virginia at Wise)"Dirty Pictures: Learning from Clara Tice's 1925 Decameron Illustrations"
Cosette Bruhns Alonso (U of Pennsylvania)"Hortensia, Filippa, Novella"
Maggie Fritz-Morkin (U of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)"Giletta, Jacoba, and the Other mediche. Gendering Science in Decameron III.9"
Matteo Pace (Connecticut C)III. Reframing Ethics in Boccaccio's Works
Chair: Francesco Ciabattoni (Georgetown U)
"Decameron's Frames and the Sense of the Sacred"
Alison Cornish (New York U)"Divergent Lessons: The Interpretation of the Infernal Hunt among Dante, Boccaccio, and Passavanti"
Mario Sassi (Williams C)"Con più ordinato parlare e coperto. Songs, Novellas, and Boccaccio's Ethics of Narration"
Paolo Scartoni (Rutgers U)"'Poeta fui': Dante's Virgil through Boccaccio's Esposizioni sopra la Comedia"
Chiara Sbordoni (U of Notre Dame, Rome Global Gateway)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"
Justin Steinberg (U of Chicago)Response:
Enrica Zanin (U de Strasbourg)
Past Events
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