To mark the 700th anniversary of the poet’s death, the Dante Society of America and Harvard University are together organizing an international symposium on the reception and influence of Dante and his work from Canada to Chile from May 5-13, 2021. This collaboration commemorates the origins of "The Dante Society” in 19th-century Cambridge, but aims also to display the wider range of Dante’s presence as found in the Harvard collections. Our main goal is to highlight the reception of Dante in all parts of the Americas, and among readers of different intersectional identities. Our sessions include a wide range of contributions that consider the poet’s legacy in a variety of different spheres.
We are grateful to the following organizations for their support:
The Dante Society of America
Harvard University
Provostial Fund for the Arts and Humanities
David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
The Standing Committee on Medieval Studies
The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
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Key Notes
Alberto Manguel: Di retro al sol: Dante in the Americas
Matthew Pearl: Dantesque: A personal, professional and literary journey through Dante
Kevin Young & Robin Coste Lewis: Dante, Rauschenberg: Nearer than Hope
Fireside Chats
Deborah Parker & Arielle Saiber: Dante and his Publics
Peter Hawkins, Ron Herzman, Ronald Jenkins, Thomas Graff: Reading Dante Behind Bars
Jeffrey Schnapp & Robert Harrison:…rivolti al monte ove ragion ne fruga
Panels
Dante in Latin America: An Appeal to ‘Lectores’ - Claudia Fernández, Mariano Pérez Carrasco, Adriana Bruschi
Dante in Latin America: 'Dante peregrino' Erika Valdivieso, Fernando Ibarra Chávez, Heather Sottong, Jorge Wiesse-Rebagliati
Dante and the Geopolitics of the Americas Alexandre Ginzel, Dennis Looney, Federico Sessolo, Luca Bernardini
Dante Refigured - Ida Duretto, Jacqueline Marie Musacchio, Kathleen Verduin Kristen Keach, Kate Driscoll
