Apr 24: Amor Vincit Omnia: Love as a Destructive Force in Italian Arts and Literature

This event is a two-day graduate student conference hosted by the University of Chicago Departments of Romance Languages and Literatures and Art History. The conference will include five panels with presentations given by graduate students in addition to two keynote lectures given on Friday and Saturday. The conference seeks to examine the theme of Amor vincit omnia, or love as a motivator for the demise of the self in Italian arts and literature. Friday, April 24th: 9.00am—5.00pm: Cochrane Woods Art Center, 157 5540 S. Greenwood Ave. 5:30pm: Keynote Lecture: Giuseppe Mazzotta, Sterling Professor of Humanities in Italian, Yale University The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 1155 E 58th Street Saturday, April 25th: 9.30am—1.00pm: Cochrane Woods Art Center, 161 5540 S. Greenwood Ave. 12.00: Closing Lecture, Hendrik Dey, Professor of Art History, Hunter College List of Presenter(s): Keynote Lecture: Giuseppe Mazzotta, Sterling Professor of Humanities in Italian, Yale University Closing Lecture: Hendrik Dey, Professor of Art History, Hunter College List of Presenters: Luis Lopez, Romance Languages and Literatures, Spanish, Harvard University Cosette Bruhns, Romance Languages and Literatures, Italian, University of Chicago Jessica Peritz, Dept. of Music, University of Chicago Daniel Rogers, Musicology, Indiana University Christine Zappella, Art History, University of Chicago Sebastiano Bazzichetto, Italian, University of Toronto Marion Beaufils, Arts et Langage, École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales Sylwia Frach, Université Paris III Sorbonne Nouvelle Linda Mai Green, Art History, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University Charles Heinrich, History, Loyola University Chicago Emily Forden, History, University of Chicago John Welsh, Romance Languages and Literatures, Italian, Harvard University Allison Hadley, Italian Language and Literature, Yale University Sophia Farmer, Art History, University of Wisconsin Madison Maddalena Bergamin, Letteratura Italiana Contemporanea, Université Paris-Sorbonne Sponsored by: The Franke Institute for the Humanities, the Norman Waite Harris Fund, the Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Chicago, the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, the Department of Art History, the Center for Study of Gender and Sexuality, the Western Mediterranean Workshop, the Lumen Christi Institute For more information, please contact: Taylor Dimke at tmdimke@uchicago.edu

Starts: April 24, 2015
Ends: April 25, 2015
Time: All Day