Meeting 31
31st meeting – Programme
Saturday 6th November 2021
Parliament Hall, St Andrews or Online
Free Entry Open to the public All welcome
This will be a hybrid event, and you can attend in person or join us online.
To reserve an in-person seat or to register to attend online, please visit our Eventbrite page: LDA Paradiso 32-33
12.15- Dante and the Divine in St Andrews’ Special Collections
Open Exhibition of manuscripts, rare books and visual objects (including the work of Monika Beisner and Liam Ó Broin)
13.00 – Welcome – Introduction – Dr Daragh O’Connell (University College Cork)
13.30 – “Visibile Parlare”: Imagining the Comedy across time
Inferno 1: Openings and Beginnings – Dr Kenneth Clarke (University of York)
Seeing Dante’s Commedia with Monika Beisner – Patrizio Salvadori
“Pigliare occhi, per aver la mente”. Dante through the Art of Liam Ó Broin
– Dr Daragh O’Connell (University College Cork)
15.00 – Break
15.15 – Who’s Afraid of Translating Dante – Prof. Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin (Trinity College Dublin)
16.00 – Paradiso Canto 32, Parenthetically – Prof. Ron Martinez (Brown University)
16.50 – Paradiso Canto 33: ‘reducemi a ca’. Dante’s Homecoming – Prof. Corinna Salvadori Lonergan (Trinity College Dublin)
Short Break
18.00 – ‘Facemmo adunque più lungo viaggio’: Retracing our journey with all LDA speakers and the Choir of St Fin Barre’s Cathedral, Cork.