Pandemics and Apocalypse

COMING SOON Table of ContentsBook DescriptionCritics’ Reviews 1st Edition Pandemics and Apocalypse in World LiteratureThe Hope for Planetary Salvation By William FrankeCopyright 2025 This book rereads classical narratives of plague from the Bible (Exodus) and classical antiquity, both Greek (Homer, Thucydides, Sophocles) and Roman (Lucretius, Virgil, Ovid), through the Middle Ages (Boccaccio) and Modernity (Defoe, Manzoni,…

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Florence, Italy, May-June, 2024

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London 2024, Dante Salon

Link to videorecording of roundtable discussion          

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Boston 2023

FINAL Schedule to Salonistas for Fall 2023 FINAL Schedule to Salonistas for Fall  Videorecording of Boston Vita Nuova lecture: “Dante’s New Life, or How Phenomenological Reduction Enables Theological Revelation  William Franke, “Dante’s New Life, or How Phenomenological Reduction Enables Theological Revelation” This lecture presents Dante’s youthful work the Vita Nuova (The New Life) as the inaugural…

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Warwick – Processing the Pandemic

Processing the Pandemic III: Hope (warwick.ac.uk) Franke Lecture, “Pandemics and Apocalypse in World Literature”                      KEYNOTE SPEECH for Symposium on “Processing the Pandemic III: Hope”  Franke Lecture, “Pandemics and Apocalypse in World Literature,” University of Warwick, April, 2023 KEYNOTE SPEECH for Symposium on “Processing the…

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Kuwait, Wokeism

  About Kuwait – Oilpunk Kuwait  Thorsten Botz-Bornstein Conference site Wokeness Resources       William Franke Apophatic Ethics as an Alternative to Identity Politics or How to Avoid Wokeism William Franke                            Nancy Pelosi kneeling to honor George Floyd in 2020 Generic social identities, by their differential…

Posted by frankewp on February 2, 2023 in News

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Modernità di Dante – Madrid

“La nuova vita per il linguaggio poetico come rivelazione teologica in una chiave moderna e secolare secondo Dante,” [The New Life for Poetic Language as Theological Revelation in a Modern Secular Key” International Conference “La modernità di Dante], Complutense University of Madrid, October 16, 2021 Videorecording PRESENTACIÓN Retrato alegórico de Dante (1533-34) por Agnolo Bronzino    …

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Liverpool Thinking about Nothing

Videotaped lecture – Apophatic Thinking and its Applications: Between Explosion and Exhaustion Thinking About Nothing 2021 – POSTER (002) Thinking About Nothing 2021 – Conference Program Thinking About Nothing 2021 – Conference Program  

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Xi’an, Xianxi, KEYNOTE SPEECH for ICRCA

“Religion, Culture, and Art: Their Common Matrix” KEYNOTE SPEECH for ICRCA International Conference on Religion, Culture, and Art, MIGCCA (Modern International Green Culture Communication Association) (Co-Organizers: University of Zagreb, Yun Tech, University of Glasgow)Xi’an, Xianxi, China, September 21-22, 2019 Keynote Speakers   Alean Al-Krenawi, Ph.D. Professor Chair of the BSW Program  Spitzer Department of Social…

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Chinese University of Hong Kong Lecture

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