Please join us for a symposium honoring the work of Giuseppe Mazzotta, March 27-30, 2008 at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Proposals for brief papers are welcome to be submitted on this website. The central themes for the conference are Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Vico, and Theology and Poetry. Abstracts can also be mailed to Symposium, ELS, Combs Hall, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA, 22401. Abstracts are due by February 15, 2008. Please complete the online registration process by March 9 if you plan to attend.
Participants and a tentative program will be posted by February 20; acceptances will begin to be sent by January 30. Please register for the conference and for hotel acommodations on the links to your left.
In order to facilitate a rich and rewarding conversation about Mazzotta's work, all sessions will be plenary, in a round table format. Please plan for a presentation of between approximately 8 and 10 minutes to allow for adequate time for questions and discussion.
Thanks to the generous support of friends and colleagues, there is no charge for the Symposium. When completing the registration form, please let us know which events you plan to attend for planning purposes. Small travel subventions are available to defray hotel and travel costs. For more information contact tkennedy@umw.edu.
Update
Shuttles will be available Thursday at 5:45 p.m. from the conference hotel (Hilton Garden Inn) to campus for our opening reception. Should you travel directly to the University, please follow the directions posted on the link to your left, and park at Combs Hall. Students will be available to direct you to the reception.
Co-organizers
Professor Teresa Kennedy, Simpson Chair in English, Simpson Program in Medieval Studies at the University of Mary Washington.
Professor Albert R. Ascoli, Terrill Distinguished Professor in Italian Studies, University of California, Berkeley.
Professor Theodore Cachey and The William and Katherine Devers Program in Dante Studies, the University of Notre Dame.
Professor Warren Ginsberg, Knight Professor of the Humanities, University of Oregon.
Professor Zygmunt Baranski, Serena Professor, Cambridge University.
Professor Brenda Deen Schildgen, Director, Comparative Literature Program, University of California at Davis.
Sponsors
Professor Teresa Kennedy, Simpson Chair in Engish, Simpson Program in Medieval Studies, University of Mary Washington.
Bob and Suzy Pence, Washington, D.C.
Karl and Audrey White, Fredericksburg, Virginia.
Professor Millicent Marcus, Professor of Italian and Chair, Department of Italian Language and Literature, Yale University.
Associate Professor Santa Casciani, Director, The Bishop Anthony M. Pilla Program in Italian American Studies, John Carroll University.
Professor Albert R. Ascoli, Terrill Distinguished Professor in Italian Studies, University of California, Berkeley.
Professor Theodore Cachey and The William and Katherine Devers Program in Dante Studies, the University of Notre Dame.
About UMW
Celebrating its centennial this year, the University of Mary Washington is a state-sponsored co-educational liberal arts college located 50 miles south of Washington, DC.