January 8-11, Toronto

ABA Lecturae Boccaccii

• Francesco Ciabattoni (Chair), Georgetown University

• Decameron 5.7
  Kristin Phillips-Court, University of Wisconsin, Madison

• Decameron 5.10
  Eugenio L. Giusti, Vassar College

Panel: Family Resemblances in Boccaccio’s Works

• Sara Diaz (Chair), Fairfield University

• Saladin, a Mediterranean Exemplar in Decameron 10.9
  Anna Dini, University of California, Berkeley

• Boccaccio’s Family Trees: On Olympia and Inheritance
  Jonathan Combs-Schilling, Ohio State University, Columbus

Panel: Unlikely Relatives in Mediterranean Cultures

• Anna Dini (Chair), University of California Berkeley

• Boccaccio’s Mediterranean Adventures: Seafaring in the Decameron
  Francesco Ciabattoni, Georgetown University

• Three South Asian Analogues of La novella del Grasso legnaiuolo
  Alexander Brock, Appalachian State University

Panel: Negotiating Gender, Virtue, and Domesticity in Medieval Italian and Ming Chinese Novellas

• Jelena Todorovic (Respondent), University of Wisconsin, Madison

• Economy of Slavery and Literary Influences in Decameron V.7
  Beatrice Arduini, University of Washington, Seattle

  ‘Thou Shalt Not’: Adultery and Confession in Decameron VII.5
  Angela Porcarelli, Emory University

• Tormented Wives and Family Reunions: Griselda and Her Chinese Sisters
  Maria Franca Sibau, Emory University

• Sixteenth-Century Chinese Erotic Novellas: Medium Literacy and the Forming of Families
  Xiaoqiao Ling, Arizona State University

Other:
The Real and the Fictive: Boccaccio’s Compulsory ‘Orrido Cominciamento’ to the Decameron
Anthony Russell (University of Richmond)

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In Dialogue with Dioneo
Chair: Elsa Filosa, Vanderbilt University

• Ambroise Bernier (Université de Montréal): “Bartolomea’s Education (Decameron II, 10)”

• Olivia Holmes (Binghamton University): “Comparatico and Incest in Later Decameron”

• Maggie Fritz-Morkin (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill): “Panfilo’s ‘orazion picciola’ and Reign of Terror”

Boccaccio and the Symbolic Order
Chair: Maggie Fritz-Morkin, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

• Angela Porcarelli (Emory University): “Redefining Communion, Reimagining Salvation: Dialogical Ethics in Decameron I.1”

• Megan Fenrich (High Point University): “Correcting a Parodic Salvation in Boccaccio’s Decameron”

• Veronica Ricotta (Università per Stranieri di Siena): “Giovanni Boccaccio and the Shaping of the Italian Lexicon in the Sixteenth Century (and Beyond)”

Sacred Deceptions: Religion, Politics, and Narrative from Boccaccio to Machiavelli (co-sponsored with the International Machiavelli Society)

Organizers: Sean David Erwin (Barry University), Claudia Antonini (Wake Forest University), Maggie Fritz-Morkin (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chair)         

• Claudia Antonini (Wake Forest University): “Religion and Deception in Machiavelli’s Poetry”

• Alison Cornish (New York University): “‘Whose baby is this?’ Mandragola, Andria, and Decameron: Deceptions Necessary to Maintain the City”

• Heather Webb (Yale University): “Paranoia in Sacred Spaces: Feminized Minor Affects in Boccaccio’s Decameron”

Boccaccio’s Esposizioni on Dante’s Commedia: State of the Art and Research Prospects

Organizers: Enrica Zanin (Université de Strasbourg), Franziska Meier (University of Göttingen, Chair)

Discussants:

• Elsa Filosa (Vanderbilt University)

• Franziska Meier (University of Göttingen)

• Andrea Aldo Robiglio (University of Leuven)

• Justin Steinberg (University of Chicago)

• Enrica Zanin (Université de Strasbourg)

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