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To celebrate 50 years of the foundation of Birmingham's Dante Alighieri Society this
year, the University of Birmingham's Department of Italian Studies is hosting a
series of open lectures by Dante specialists from UK, European and American
Universities.
The Society, known as 'The Dante', is one of the oldest campus based societies with
a membership that spans the whole region. For anyone interested in Italy and
Italian culture, the society runs a packed programme of talks, musical events and
informal gatherings, often with an array of Italian food.
The lectures centre on Dante from Medieval Italy to the Third Millenium and take
place every Thursday in March. The topics include the creation of the character
'Dante' in his own poem, the relation between art and nature in the Divine Comedy,
Dante and music, and the question 'what makes Dante great?'
Under the patronage of the Italian Ambassador and supported by the Italian Cultural
Institute in London, the series begins on 1 March with the Professor Piero Boitani
from La Sapienza University of Rome speaking on 'Dante and the Poetry of Christian
Europe'. He is followed by two of the leading British Dante scholars of the present
day, Simon Gilson from the University of Warwick and Zygmut Baranski from the
University of Cambridge, by Birmingham's own director of the Centre for Early Music
Performance and Research, Mary O'Neill, and to round off the series, the best-known
lecturer on Dante in the United States, Professor Lino Pertile, from Harvard
University.
All lectures are open to the public and take place in the Arts Lecture Theatre 6
beginning at 6pm on Thursday 1, 8, 15, 22 and 29 March 07. The full programme can
be seen at www.italian.bham.ac.uk.
For postgraduate programmes with the Centre of European Languages and Cultures at
the University of Birmingham see: www.modernlanguages.bham.ac.uk.
See also our funding opportunities at:
http://www.postgraduatestudentships.co.uk/node/112...
