{"id":2090,"date":"2018-03-30T10:10:43","date_gmt":"2018-03-30T15:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/williamfranke\/?p=2090"},"modified":"2018-03-30T10:10:43","modified_gmt":"2018-03-30T15:10:43","slug":"newberry-graduate-workshop-on-new-theoretical-approaches-to-dante","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/williamfranke\/2018\/03\/newberry-graduate-workshop-on-new-theoretical-approaches-to-dante\/","title":{"rendered":"Newberry Graduate Workshop on New Theoretical Approaches to Dante"},"content":{"rendered":"

Poetry as Theology: New Theoretical Approaches to Dante, Graduate Workshop, Newberry Center for Renaissance Studies, Chicago, Illinois, February 26, 2015<\/h2>\n
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Poetry as Theology: New Theoretical Approaches to Dante<\/h1>\n
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Dante Alighieri, Paradiso<\/a>, 1502. Click image to enlarge.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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William Franke, Vanderbilt University<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Vittorio Montemaggi, University of Notre Dame<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Research Methods Workshop for Early-Career Graduate Students<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Friday, February 26, 2016<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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9 am to 5\u00a0pm<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Led by William Franke, Vanderbilt University, and Vittorio Montemaggi, University of Notre Dame<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Center for Renaissance Studies Programs<\/div>\n
Renaissance Graduate Programs<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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One recent approach to research on Dante emphasizes the use of poetry as a vehicle of religious discourse and even of theological revelation. Dante has a paradigmatic value for this topic that has widely influenced study throughout numerous subfields of literature and religion, intensely engaging a considerable variety of medieval and Renaissance writers\u2014mystics and humanists alike.<\/p>\n

This workshop will bring together Dante scholars who have given decisive impulses to the new theologically\u2014and at the same time theoretically\u2014oriented readings of Dante, to suggest how the techniques developed in Dante studies might be applied to the study of other authors and even to Biblical literature. Key to this undertaking is understanding the theology of the divine Word not as a dogmatic system but as interpreting a dimension of literary communication, a dimension of the poetic word that in some ways can transcend pragmatic contexts of communication. Such interdisciplinary study moves the traditional disciplines of theology and philology into a new kind of dynamic interaction.<\/p>\n

Learn more about the workshop directors:<\/h3>\n

William Franke, Vanderbilt University<\/a>
\nVittorio Montemaggi, University of Notre Dame<\/a><\/p>\n

Download a PDF flyer for all this year\u2019s methods workshops<\/a>, to post and distribute.<\/p>\n

Preliminary schedule, Friday, February 26<\/h1>\n

8:30: Coffee and introductions<\/h2>\n

9 \u2013 11:15: Session 1<\/h2>\n