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Italian Language Meeting – February 28, 2024 (Online)
February 28 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
When: February 28, 2024
Speaker: Prof. Beatrice Arduini
Topic: Dante’s Works
Location: Online
Advanced registration will be required. A link to the registration form will be sent to the Dante Alighieri Society mailing list.
There will be a “social hour” beginning at 7 pm. The presentation will start at 7:30.
About the Presentation:
Dante and his works, especially The Divine Comedy, seem to be inevitably present in writers and readers of Italian literature, from the fourteenth century to the present, even in those periods of time when the appreciation for his style was feeblest, most notably in the seventeenth century. Cultural memory is, however, highly selective, and later readers and writers responded to Dante and his legacy by tailoring him to their own contexts, especially in relation to issues of national identity, since Dante’s language was early recognized in Italy as the foundation of what Italian culture had become. For this reason, in my presentation I will explore some episodes of Dante’s reception and how they are defined by interpretative frameworks and filters through which readers and scholars have approached his work and life.
About the Presenter:
Beatrice Arduini is Associate Professor of Italian and current Chair of the Department of French and Italian Studies at the University of Washington. Her research centers on Medieval Italian literature, Dante studies, manuscript culture, and textual studies. Her book, Dante’s Convivio: the Creation of a Cultural Icon, examines the tradition of this work in manuscripts and early printed editions. Her projects include a book manuscript on the lyric production of a 13th-century Tuscan poet, Monte Andrea da Firenze, and a study on representations of domestic slavery in medieval and early modern Italy. Dr. Arduini has published on these and other topics in Mediaevalia, Heliotropia, Romance Philology, Textual Cultures, and Medioevo Letterario d’Italia.
DANTE ALIGHIERI SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON
2023-2024 Season
Live Meeting COVID Guidelines
Even as COVID variants continue to plague the population, we have returned to offering live meetings for Dante this season. We’ve all been longing for a return to shared meals, and since this is foundational to Dante activities, we want to make it possible. Following the guidelines and regulations now in place by many workplaces, public venues and community groups, the Dante Board of Directors has agreed to the guidelines listed below as an acceptable plan to keep us as safe as possible when meeting in person.
1) Please do not attend if you have been exposed to COVID, or are experiencing any symptoms of illness. We will make best efforts to record the presentations so that those who cannot attend in person can enjoy them afterwards. There will also be a few meetings presented on ZOOM instead of live this season, for all to enjoy.
2) Masks are encouraged. Although no longer required, we encourage attendees to wear masks when not eating or drinking.
Thank you again for your understanding and observance of these guidelines. Let’s work together to control COVID!!!
