Conference Program
nirnaeth on Mar 21 2008
Friday April 11, 2008
Rosenwald 405
9-9:30 – coffee
9:30-9:45 – welcome and introductions, Daisy Delogu, University of Chicago
9:45-10:45 – opening remarks, Michel Zink, Collège de France
10:45-11:00 – pause
11:00-12:30 – session one
“In the Beginning was the Razo,” Elizabeth Poe, Tulane University
“Making Poems Tell Stories in Dante’s Vita Nuova,” H. Justin Steinberg, University of Chicago
12:30-2 – lunch
2:00-4:00 – session two
“Poetry, Music, and Narrative in Guillaume de Machaut’s Motets,” Kevin Brownlee, University of Pennsylvania
“Thoughts on the mise en scène of the lyric voice: Alain Chartier’s Belle Dame sans Mercy,” David Hult, University of California, Berkeley
“Who tells the stories of poetry/Qui raconte la poésie?: Villon and his Readers,” Nancy Freeman Regalado, New York University
4:00-4:15 – pause
4:15-5:00 – round table
Claudio Giunta, Dipartimento di Studi Linguistici, Letterari e Filologici, Università degli studi di Trento
Alison James, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago
Mark Payne, Department of Classics, University of Chicago
Eleonora Stoppino, Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
5 – closing reception