Title: Mirror of Narcissus to Mirror Neurons: A Cognitive Scientific Approach to Italian Cinema
French Lecture with Faycal Falaky, Tulane University
Title: L’Astree and the Economies of Sesire in Eighteenth-Century France
Italian Lecture with Luca Marcozzi, University of Roma Tre
Title: Reading and illustrating the Divine Comedy in the Renaissance: Antonio Grifo and the Poem with painted figures
German Lecture with Kenneth Calhoon, University of Oregon
Italian Graduate Student Lecture with Audrey Fastuca and Alberto Zuliani
Title: Dissertation in Progress: How Southern Italy Became Europe’s Other Angelic Speech in Dante’s Divine Comedy
German Lecture with Brain K. Feltman, Georgia Southern University
Title: The Home as a Site of Mourning: Everyday Commemorations of Germany’s Fallen Soldiers, 1914-1933
Sponsored by the Philological Society
French Colloquium with Robin Derby, UCLA
Title: “The Mysterious Jailbreak of Clément Barbot: Black Dogs as Trauma Revenants on Hispaniola”
Italian Lecture with Robert Rushing, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Title: Calvino and the Catacoustic: An ‘Echo-Logical’ Reading
German Lecture with Samuel M. Frederick, Penn State
Title: TBD
Aesthetic Theories in Yiddish Conference
The Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Jewish Studies Program presents the 15th Lavy Colloquium:
Aesthetic Theories in Yiddish
All sessions will take place at the Smokler Center for Jewish Life at Johns Hopkins University, 3109 N. Charles St., Baltimore. The conference is free and open to the public
For more information, please contact: Samuel Spinner, spinner@jhu.edu