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Saturday, January 19

Participants and Accompanying persons
Afternoon
Arrival
18,00: Words of Welcome. Introduction of the Seminar Programme and Speakers
Pitti Palace Hotel, Sala Rosa (-1st floor)
Evening
19,00: ‘Get together Dinner’ in hotel Pitti Palace Hotel, Rooftop restaurant 6th floor
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Sunday, January 20

8,30: meeting point in front of Pitti Palace Hotel

Morning Session I: 9:30-10:30
Gabinetto Viesseux, Sala Ferri - Piazza Strozzi (Strozzi Palace), ground floor, Florence

Chair: Professor Temur Kobakhdize
Keynote Presentation: Professor Jewel Spears Brooker, Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, Florida, USA
Enlarging Immediate Experience: Bradley and Dante in Eliot’s Aesthetic

Morning Session II: 11:00-1:00
Chair: Professor Temur Kobakhidze
1. Dr. Randy Malamud, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Dante as Guide to Eliot’s Competing Traditions
2. Dr. Claudia Corti, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
T.S. Eliot, Tradition, and Hermeneutics
3. Mr. Craig Woelfel, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, USA
The Waste Land and Dante's Poetics of Revelation
4. Mrs. Tamari Cheishvili, Akaki Tsereteli State University, Kutaisi, Georgia
Dante's Perception in T. S. Eliot's Essay "Dante"

Participants and Accompanying persons
13,15: Light lunch

Afternoon
15,00: Visit to ‘House of Dante’, Via S. Margherita, 1, Florence

19,30: Dinner
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Monday, January 21

Morning Session III: 9:30-11:00
Florence University, Department of Italian, Aula Grande (1st floor) – Piazza Savonarola 1, Florence

Chair: Professor Paul Douglass
1. Professor Nancy K. Gish, University of Southern Maine, Portland, Maine, USA
Gerontion, The Waste Land, and the Dissociation of Consciousness
2. Dr. David Summers, Capital University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
Paradise Tossed: The Truncated Dantean Pilgrimage in Eliot’s Major Poems
3. Dr. Simten Gurac, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA
Impossible Body, Invisible Pain: The Waste Land from Dante to Eliot

Morning Session IV: 11:30-1:00
Chair: Professor Nancy K. Gish
1. Dr. Arianna Antonielli, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
Dantesque Perspectives in T.S. Eliot’s Inventions of the March Hare
2. Dr. Massimo Bacigalupo, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy
Types of Ecstasy – Paradise Regained in Eliot and American Modernism
3. Dr. Jennifer Cook, Bentley College, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA
Sign and Sacrament: Anamnesis from Dante to Eliot to Jones

Participants and Accompanying persons
13,15: Light lunch
Afternoon
15,30: Visit to Corsini Palace, Via Parione, 11, Florence
Evening
(on request – not included in the fee)
Dinner in a typical restaurant
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Tuesday, January 22

Palazzo Vecchio – Salone dei Duecento, Florence (in collaboration with Town of Florence)
9,00 Welcome of authorities
Dr.ssa Moira Macfarlane, British Consul

Morning Session V: 9:30-11:00
Chair: Dr. Jewel Spears Brooker
1. Professor Anthony Cuda, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, North Carolina, USA
By the Light of Virgil’s Lantern
2. Professor Temur Kobakhidze, Metekhi National University, Tbilisi, Georgia
Squaring the Circle: Dantesque Aspects of “The point of intersection of the timeless with
time”
3. Dr. Fabio Vericat, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
The Lady of the Window is not Beatrice: Philosophic Consolation and Allegorical Impersonation in T. S. Eliot’s Reception of Vita Nuova

Morning Session VI: 11:30-1:00
Chair: Dr. Nancy K. Gish
1. Dr. Viorica Patea, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
Eliot, Dante and the Poetics of a ‘Unified Sensibility’
2. Mr. Andrija Matic, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
T. S. Eliot, Dante and Irony
3. Ingrid Soren, Saffron Walden, Essex, England
‘We are born with the dead’: T. S. Eliot and Dante in Conversation

Participants and Accompanying persons
15,00: Visit to Palazzo Pitti and Boboli Garden , Via Piazza de’Pitti, 1, Florence
or
(on request – not included in the fee – minimum 20 participants)
Excursion to Siena and San Gimignano. Departure at 13,00 by bus with English-speaking guide.
Box Lunch. Dinner in Siena in a typical restaurant. Return to Florence after dinner.
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Wednesday, January 23

Morning Session VII: 9:30-11:00
Gabinetto Viesseux, Sala Ferri - Piazza Strozzi (Strozzi Palace), ground floor, Florence

Chair: Dr. Jewel Spears Brooker
1. Dr. Paul Douglass, San José State University, San José, California, USA
T.S. Eliot’s European Tradition: The Roles of Dante Alighieri and Matthew Arnold
2. Dr. John Xiros Cooper, University of British Columbia, Vancouver British Columbia, Canada
T. S. Eliot’s Die Einheit der Europäischen Kultur (1946) and the Idea of European Union
3. Dr. Patrick Query, U.S. Military Academy, West Point, New York, USA
‘That the Pattern May Subsist’: Eliot, Verse Drama, and the Mind of Europe
Respondent: Mr. Will Gray, University of St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland

Morning Session VIII: 11:30-1:00
Chair: Professor Paul Douglass
1. Notable Presentation: Professor Padmanabhan Sri, Royal Military College of
Canada, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
The Dantean Rose and the Hindu-Buddhist Lotus in the Poetry of T.S. Eliot
2. Brief Comments: Vladimir Skorodenko, the Margarita Rudomino Library for
Foreign Literature in Moscow, Russia
Russian translations of "La Divina Commedia" and T.S.Eliot's terzas in "Little
Gidding"

Participants and Accompanying persons
13,15: Light lunch

Afternoon
15,00: Visit to the Accademia Gallery’, Via Ricasoli 58 – 60, Florence

18:00 British Institute of Florence - Lungarno Guicciardini 9, Florence
Richard Burns, poet-in-residence at the Symposium, Bye-Fellow, Downing College, Cambridge
and Preceptor, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
A poetry reading from recent work followed by informal discussion and
questions

20,30: Dinner

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Thursday, January 24

Morning Session IX: 9:30-10:30
British Institute of Florence - Lungarno Guicciardini 9, Florence

Chair: Paul Douglass
Keynote Presentation: Professor Dominic Manganiello, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
‘Dante, e poi Dante’: T.S. Eliot, Wendell Berry and ‘Europe’s Epic’

Morning Session X: 11:00-1:00
Chair: Professor Temur Kobakhidze
1. Dr. Stefano Maria Casella, Libera Universite di Lingue e Comunicazione IULM Milan/Feltre, Italy
‘… Restoring / With a new verse the ancient rhyme’ T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound’s poetic homage to Dante (‘Little Gidding’ II and Canto 72)
2. Mr. William Malcuit, Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Dante, Ezra Pound, and the Poetics of Exile
3. Professor Irakli Tskhvediani, Akaki Tsereteli State University, Kutaisi, Georgia
Dante, Eliot and Joyce: Creating Order out of Chaos
4. Dr. Mafruha Mohua, Queen Mary, University of London, England
T. S. Eliot and Dante: The Anxiety of Romantic Contamination

Participants and Accompanying persons
13,15: Light lunch
Afternoon
15,00: Visit to the Uffizi Museum, Piazzale degli Uffizi, Florence

18,30 – cocktail at U. S. Consulate General in Florence, Lungarno A. Vespucci 38, Florence (on special invitation)

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Friday, January 25

Morning Session XI: 9:00-10:30
Gabinetto Viesseux, Sala Ferri - Piazza Strozzi (Strozzi Palace), ground floor, Florence

Chair: Professor Temur Kobakhidze
1. Professor Carl Schmidt, Balliol College, Oxford University, Oxford, England
T. S. Eliot, Bernard Berenson and the Theory of Impersonality in Art
2. Professor Neli Moody, San Jose State University, San Jose, California, USA
Shades of the Earthly and Divine: Contour, Perspective and Invention in Sandro Botticelli’s ‘Birth of Venus,’ and T.S. Eliot’s ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’
3. Dr. Stephen Tapscott, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
‘Another Way of Saying Whitman’: Dante, Influence, Iconicity

Morning Session XII: 11:00-1:00
Chair: Professor Padmanabhan Sri, Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
1. Prof. Arnaldo Bruni, Prof. Antonella Francini, Prof. Sergio Risaliti
University of Florence/ Dpt. of Italian –Florence (Italy)
Rewriting Dante (Literature, Art, Music in Russia, USA, Italy), special issue of Semicerchio. Rivista di poesia comparata, 2007
2. Professor Mario Domenichelli
University of Florence/Dpt of Modern Philology - Florence (Italy)
"Poi s'ascose nel foco che gli affina". Memory and oblivion: Figures of fire, light, silence and the still point of the turning world in T. S. Eliots' Poetry
3. Mr. Didac Llorens-Cubedo, Universitat Jaume I, Castello, Spain
Dantean Inspiration of Two Images in T. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets: The Still Point and Midwinter Spring
4. Dr. Olga Ushakova, Tyumen State University, Tyumen, Russia
Journey Towards Dante: T.S. Eliot and Anna Akhmatova

Conclusions and presentation of new programmes for the next year
Participants and Accompanying persons
Light lunch
Afternoon
Free

Evening
19,30: ‘Final Dinner ’in hotel Pitti Palace Hotel, Rooftop restaurant 6th floor
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January 26, 2008
Morning
Departure



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