You are invited to attend the event celebrating “A Decade of Digital Dante: Original Research and Ideas” on Friday October 18, 2-5pm at Butler Library at Columbia University. Digital Dante is a collaboration among the Department of Italian, Columbia University Libraries, and Columbia University Libraries’ Humanities and History Division. More information to come.

Please note: For members of the general public, RSVP is required for entry by October 14. Your registration will generate an email with a QR Code on or before 10/18/2024. Please bring this code, along with your ID, for admittance to the Columbia campus. It is recommended that you arrive early, as you will need to check-in with Public Safety at the Butler Library entrance upon arriving. 

Program

2:00 pm | Welcome and Opening Remarks
Robert Cartolano, Associate Vice President, Technology and Preservation (Columbia University Libraries)

2:05 pm | A Short History of Digital Dante
Teodolinda Barolini (Columbia University)

2:15 pm | A Tour of Digital Dante: 10 Years of Digital Humanities
Panoramic Overview of the Site, Akash Kumar (University of California, Berkeley)
Some Pages of Note on Digital Dante:

• Five Takeaways from Ten Years of Intertextual Dante, Julie Van Peteghem (Hunter College)
• Diagramming the Commedia on Digital Dante, Louis Moffa (Columbia University)
• Theodore Roosevelt as Reader of Dante, Akash Kumar (University of California, Berkeley)
• How to Read a Legal Maxim with Digital Dante, Grace Delmolino (University of California, Davis)

3:00 pm | Break

3:15 pm | The Commento Baroliniano

Teodolinda Barolini (Columbia University)

3:25 pm | Pedagogy and the Core Curriculum with Digital Dante
Moderator: Laura DiNardo (Columbia University)

• Teaching Literature Humanities with Digital Dante, Laura DiNardo (Columbia University)
• Creating an Interdisciplinary Podcast with Digital Dante, Chas Firestone East (Columbia University)
• Digital Dante and Interdisciplinary Courses in Disability Studies, Catherine Bloomer (Villanova University)
• TAing the Dante Course with Digital Dante, Jilian Pizzi (Columbia University)
• Teaching Graduate Students with Digital Dante, Alejandro Cuadrado (Bowdoin College)

4:15 pm | Digital Dante around the World
Julie Van Peteghem (Hunter College) & Katie Cannon (Columbia University)

4:25 pm | Concluding Remarks
Robert Cartolano, Associate Vice President, Technology and Preservation (Columbia University Libraries)

Reception to follow