CONFERENCE VENUE:
University of Tampere (How to Find Us),
Main Campus, Pinni B Building, room 3107

KEYNOTE ADDRESS:
Prof. William Franke (Vanderbilt University), 'Il trapassar del segno': Language and Transcendence in Dante's Paradiso


Inspired by Dante Alighieri's (1265-1321) poetic imagination, the Fourth International Conference of the Nordic Dante Network will focus on ways of transgressing literary, philosophical, linguistic, moral and other rules. Dante may be understood in the sense of both Dante the Medieval Poet - including the earlier traditions that shaped his work - and Dante the Classic, as viewed through later reception, art and culture. The papers will address confluence and conflicts between

o art and politics
o stylistic and structural transgression
o virtuous and vicious 'selves' in fact and fiction
o literature, philosophy, (negative) theology
o medieval, modern and postmodern Dante

ORGANISER & FURTHER INFORMATION
Päivi Mehtonen (Academy Research Fellow, Adjunct Professor)

IN COLLABORATION WITH:
Glossa: the Society for Medieval Studies in Finland
Trivium: Tampere Centre for Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Department of Literature and the Arts, University of Tampere
Alfred Kordelin Foundation