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«L'ombra sua torna» 2020: Dante, the twentieth century and beyond

20-21 abril 2020. Sección de Italiano. Facultad de Filología (UCM). Call for Papers: hasta 17 de enero

16 dic 2019 - 16:28 CET

20th-21st April 2020
Departamento de Estudios Románicos, Franceses, Italianos y Traducción
(Sección de Italiano) – Universidad Complutense de Madrid


Abstract submission deadline: Friday 17th January 2020 (see information below)

Keynote speakers: TBC


Following up on the international conference «L’ombra sua torna»: Dante, the twentieth century
and beyond, held at the University of Leeds on the 24th and 25th of March 2017, the organising
committee, together with a scientific committee, based at the universities of Leeds, Madrid, Oxford,
Barcelona, and Bologna, have decided to create a second edition of the conference, with a view to
Dante’s centennial 2021.
«L’ombra sua torna» 2017 was a great occasion to take stock of current studies in the field of
‘Dante and the twentieth and twenty-first centuries’: the conference explored the presence, reappropriations,
re-elaborations, and manipulations of Dante from many different perspectives and in
very different authors and contexts. The keynote addresses by Professor Manuele Gragnolati and Dr
Emanuela Patti focused on Dante’s own practice of re-writing himself in the Vita Nuova and the
concept of ‘interconnection’ in the relationship between Dante and Pasolini, respectively. The
presentations covered a broad range of subjects and issues: Dante and Césaire, Weiss, Luzi,
Yourcenar, Gadda, Primo Levi, Barthes, Gramsci, Pasolini, Pirandello, Dante in Persian translation,
and a recent impact project on Dante in England. The final roundtable was a lively and inspiring
work-in-progress discussion on the different threads, methodologies and future perspectives in this
ever-fertile field of studies.


This new edition of «L’ombra sua torna» aims to build on those debates and suggestions, in order
to keep that dialogue open and to expand it further.


Language, themes, theories, poetics, narrative structures, auctoritas, images, stories: contemporary
culture still needs Dante for many reasons. The scope of our investigation is not limited to
contemporary Italian literature, but embraces contemporary world culture, not only enriching the
individual subject areas, but also raising new methodological issues related to intertextuality,
comparative literature, interdisciplinarity. Dante Alighieri could be rightly considered the most
representative Italian author in the ‘canon’ of world literature, and his relationship with twentiethand
twenty-first-century culture provides a profitable opportunity to insert Italian studies into a
transnational perspective.


We invite to submit papers on any aspect of the relationship between Dante and twentieth- and
twenty-first-century culture (literature, visual arts, music, cinema, television, entertainment, comics,
education, journalism, advertising, etc.). Topics may include, but are not limited to:


• the presence of dantisms;
• the presence of Dante and his works;
• Dante’s reception;
• re-elaborations, manipulations, re-appropriations of Dante’s works;
• Dante as an authorial model;
• Dante as a linguistic model;
• readings of and criticism on Dante’s works;
• translation of Dante’s works;
• comparative readings of Dante and authors (including artists, directors, musicians, etc.).


Each presentation will last 20 minutes, and may be given in Italian, English, or Spanish.
Researchers interested in taking part in the conference are invited to send their abstract (300 words
maximum) by Friday 17th January 2020, together with a short biography (50 words), specifying
name, email address and affiliation to ombrasuatorna@gmail.com.


The organising committee will send notification of acceptance, together with further details on the
event, by Monday 24th February 2020.


All interested researchers, at any level, are very welcome to participate and/or attend. Registration
is free.


The programme for this event will follow in due course. For further information, do not hesitate to
contact the organisers at ombrasuatorna@gmail.com.


We look forward to hearing from you!


The organising committee:


Carlota Cattermole Ordóñez, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Maddalena Moretti, University of Leeds
Serena Vandi, University of Oxford


The scientific committee:


Chiara Cappuccio, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Simon Gilson, University of Oxford
Claire Honess, University of Leeds
Giuseppe Ledda, Università di Bologna
Giuseppe Stellardi, University of Oxford
Gigliola Sulis, University of Leeds
Juan Varela-Portas Orduña, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Eduard Vilella Morató, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

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