DANTE AND THE CONTEMPLATIVE TRADITION
Wednesday, 7 November 2007 — 4:30 p.m.
Department of Special Collections, University of Notre Dame
A talk by Denys Turner, Horace Tracy Pitkin Professor of Historical Theology, Yale Divinity School: "Reason, Poetry and Theology: 'Vernacularity' in Dante and Aquinas"
The talk will be followed by a reception.
Thursday, 15 November 2007 — 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Department of Special Collections, University of Notre Dame
Christian Moevs, Associate Professor of Romance Languages, University of Notre Dame: "God Alone Surpasses the Soul:
Dante and Augustine's De quantitate animae"
Matthew Treherne, Lecturer in Italian, University of Leeds: "Contemplation and the Created World in the Commedia"
Thursday, 15 November 2007 — 3:30 to 5:00 p.m.
Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame
Vittorio Montemaggi, Junior Research Fellow, Churchill College,
Cambridge University: "Contemplation and Charity in the Commedia"
Zygmunt Baranski, Serena Professor of Italian, Cambridge University, and 2007-08 Ravarino Family Distinguished Visiting Professor in Italian Studies, University of Notre Dame: "Between Laus and Vituperatio: Doctrine in Paradiso 27-29"
These talks will be followed by a reception at 5:00 p.m. in the
Medieval Institute.
20-22 September 2007 — Oxford, UK
Somerville College and Taylor Institution,
University of Oxford
Fifth International Dante Seminar: "Dante lirico e etico"
4-5 June 2007 — Rome, Italy
A "Primo Colloquio" (First Colloquium), featuring sixteen leading scholars from the humanities faculties of the University of Notre Dame and the University of Rome "La Sapienza". The goal of the meeting was to begin to establish research relations between faculty and students in the humanities at Notre Dame and the University of Rome, as well as in anticipation of Notre Dame's establishment of a humanities center in Rome.
25-27 September 2003 — Notre Dame IN, USA
University of Notre Dame,
Fourth International Dante Seminar: “Le Culture di Dante”
