Dante in France

This workshop, co-organised by the Leeds Centre for Dante Studies and the Department of French at the University of Leeds, will explore aspects of the reception of Dante in French culture from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century.

[Cette journée d'étude, organisée par le  Centre d'études sur Dante et le Département de français de l'université de Leeds, s'intéressera à la réception de Dante dans la culture française, du Moyen Age au XXe siècle]

Programme:

10.30-11am Tea/coffee and registration

11am-12.30pm Session 1 (Chair: Matthew Treherne, Leeds)

Bill Burgwinkle (Cambridge): ‘Dante and the Political'

Russell Goulbourne (Leeds): ‘Voltaire and Dante'

12.30-1.30pm Lunch

1.30-2pm Visit to Special Collections, Brotherton Library

2-3.30pm Session 2 (Chair: Russell Goulbourne)

Adam Watt (Royal Holloway): ‘L'air du temps: Dante and Proust'

Daniela Caselli (Manchester): ‘Déjà vu Beyond Reach: Dante, Invisibility and Authority in Mercier and/et Camier and The Calmative/Le calmant'

3.30-4pm Tea/coffee

4-5.30pm Session 3 (Chair: Matthew Treherne)

Alex MacMillan (Independent scholar): ‘Dante, Romantic France and the Politics of the (Grammatical) Period'

Peter Cooke (Manchester): ‘The Dantean and the Dantesque: The Divine Comedy and Nineteenth-Century French Painting'

Registration costs £10, including lunch and tea/coffee. Please register using the registration form at http://www.leeds.ac.uk/italian/cdsdantefrance.htm. The workshop is generously supported by the Society for French Studies, the Society for Italian Studies and the ‘Italianist' research fund.