Dante Futures 2025: New Voices in Ireland and the UK
21-22 November 2025 | University of Warwick
Conference Flyer with Programme here
Friday 21 November 2025
Room: Wolfson Research Exchange, REX 1&2
12.30-13.30 Lunch and registration
13.30-14.00 Opening remarks
14.00-15.00 Panel 1 – Comparative and Transcultural Reception (respondents: Dr Federica Coluzzi & Dr Katherine Travers)
Francesca Sartori (Bristol) – Dantean Resonances in the Travel Writings of Frances Trollope, Frances Kemble, and Frances Elliott
Chiara Valcelli (UCC) – From Cerberus to the Celestial Banquet: Appetite, Ethics, and the Body in Dante and Joyce
15.00-15.30 Coffee break
15.30-16.30 Panel 2 – Senses and Performance (respondents: Dr Ryan Pepin & Dr Sean Wyer)
Kate McKee (Oxford) – Smell Paradoxes in Dante and Jacopone da Todi
Giuseppe Christian Distefano (Madrid) – Voce Dantis: A New Methodological Approach through Philology and Performance
16.30-16.45 Coffee break
16.45-18.00 Keynote – Dr Julia Hartley (Glasgow) – Chair: Fabio Camilletti (Warwick)
The Orientalist’s Dante: Historical Antecedents and Future Possibilities
18.00-20.00 Cultural Event
‘[Un] volumen escolar con ilustraciones:’ A Story of Dantean Global Reception and World-building through Los límites y el mar (2022). The author, Dr Esteban Catalan Muñoz (independent, former Warwick), in conversation with Enrica Leydi (Warwick); contributions by Dr Macarena Miranda Mora (Fondecyt / Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile), Ian Nixon (Warwick), Prof. Fabienne Viala (Warwick). The event will include readings from the Spanish original and the forthcoming French and English translations.
20.30 Dinner (self-paid)
Varsity, Gibbet Hill Rd, Coventry CV4 7AJ
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Saturday 22 November 2025
Room: Faculty of Arts Building, FAB 5.03
10.00-11.00 Panel 3 – Vision and Female Mediation (respondents: Dr Lorenzo Dell’Oso & Dr Alessia Carrai)
Elizabeth Bratton (Bristol) – Painting a Picture of the Earthly Paradise: A Visual Inquiry into the Divine in Purgatorio 29
Elisa Rosati (UCC) – Beatrice from the Vita nova to the Commedia: Lyric Memories and Biblical References in Inferno II
11.00-11.30 Break
11.30-12.30 Panel 4 – Dante Beyond Europe (respondents: Becky Reilly & Dr Frey Kalus)
Michael O’Donohue (Glasgow) – No Longer Comedic: Dazai, Ito, and Dante
Ruoci Song (Cambridge) – From Page to Stage: Fieldwork Approaches to the Reception of Dante’s Commedia in Contemporary China
12.30-13.30 Lunch
13.30-14.30 Panel 5 – Political and Utopian Dante (respondents: Dr Gianluca Caccialupi & Dr Leyla Livraghi)
Berenice Daniele (Trinity College Dublin) – Humanist Dante? Free Will in Politics and Civic Life in Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio
Giulia Depoli (Warburg Institute) – From Commedia to Utopia: Dantean Intertextuality in Paolo Ramusio’s Unpublished Vision
14.30-15.00 Coffee break
15.00-16.00 Panel 6 – Dante, Afterlife, and Modernity (respondents: Dr Serena Vandi & Dr George Rayson)
Francesca Luppino (Warwick) – Lectures from the Afterlife. Literature as a Performative Relationship with the Dead
Roberto Galleran (Pavia) – The Language of Vision in Dante’s Vita nova: Stylistic Patterns and Sources
16.00-16.30 Final remarks
16.30-18.00 Wine reception
19.00 Dinner (self-paid)
Tang Chinese, 114 Far Gosford St, Coventry CV1 5EA
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20 November, the evening before the official start of the conference, will feature the launch of the new critical edition of Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s translation of the Vita nova (Warwick University, FAB 2.32, 5-7 PM). Editor Fabio Camilletti will be in conversation with Aistė Kiltinavičiūtė and Francesco Giusti, moderated by Federica Coluzzi. The poster for this event can be found here.
If you’d like to join us for any of the days, please get in touch with the organising committee at dantefutures@gmail.com.
We look forward to seeing you at Warwick!
With best wishes,
Dante Futures 2025 Organising Committee
(Gennaro Ambrosino, Aistė Kiltinavičiūtė, Enrica Leydi, Elisa Rosati, Chiara Valcelli)
Venue Information
Day 1 – Friday, 21st November
The first day of the conference will take place in Room REX 1&2, located in the Wolfson Research Exchange on Floor 3 of the University of Warwick Library (Central Campus).
Registration will be held at the Welcome Point on Floor 1. From there, please enter through the main library entrance and proceed to Floor 3 via the stairs or lift. Then, follow the signposted passage to the Floor 3 extension, where you will find the Wolfson Research Exchange.
There will be helpers on-site during registration to guide you.
Day 2 – Saturday, 22nd November
The second day will be held in Room FAB 5.03 in the Faculty of Arts Building, which is easily accessible from the central campus.
You can locate both venues using the Interactive Campus Map.