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Researching Romance

Scholarship in French and Italian Department at Dartmouth

Saturday, April 25, 2015

8:30am – 5:30pm

Haldeman 41 (Kreindler Conference Hall)

Sponsored by: French and Italian Department

Intended Audience(s): Faculty, Public

Categories: Lectures & Seminars

9:00 Courtney Quaintance “Of Sirens, Swans, and Sappho: Women Singers and Writers in Seventeenth-Century Italy”

9:30 Robert St. Clair “Ecopoetics and Estheticism – on Embodiment in Rimbaud”

10:00 Tania Convertini “The Only Thing Was Drawing. Maestro Manzi Making Sense of Media Communication Strategies for Teaching Literacy”

11:00 Andrea Tarnowski “Christine de Pizan and the Prince's Choice”

11:30 Kelly McConnell “Seventeenth-Century Conceptions of Admiration”

2:00 Kathleen Wine PARIS SKYPE “Shelf Space: The Long Baroque Romance as Book”

2:30 Lynn Higgins “Getting from Page to Screen: 39 Fragments for a Theory of Adaptation”

3:00 Laurence Hooper “The Author in Dante’s Vita nova between Christian Exile and Learned Poet”

4:00 Annabelle Cone “The Humorous Erotic in Wolinksi and Bretécher”

4:30 Yasser Elhariry “The Meccan Swerve & Mediterranean Poetics”

5:00 CLOSING REMARKS

For more information, contact:

Arantxa Perales

Events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.