New York – Four days of lectures and meetings in New York with the President of the ICoN Consortium, Mirko Tavoni. Between Nov. 11-14, Professor Tavoni will participate in the initiatives put forth by the John D. Calandra Institute of Italian American Studies, a joint initiative of the Department of Italian Studies at New York University, the Department of Italian at Columbia University, and the Consulate General of Italy in New York. The first meeting, scheduled on November 11 at the John D. Calandra Institute, is a meeting with Dean and Professor Anthony Tamburri and with the faculty of the Queens College Italian Department of City University of New York. The following day, Professor Tavoni will speak at New York University (6:30pm), when the Department of Italian Studies will host a lecture on Dante’s “Banquet” and “De vulgari eloquentia” (part of Professor Maria Luisa Ardizzone’s course). On Nov. 13 at 10.30am, Columbia University will host a lecture on “Dante ‘Imagining’ His Journey Through the Afterlife,” part of the Medieval Seminar directed by Professor Teodolinda Barolini. (9Colonne)
