Convegno su Arcangela Tarabotti

[11-4-1997]

ARCANGELA TARABOTTI
A Literary Nun in Baroque Venice
April 18-19, 1997

SCHEDULE
All lectures presented in the Chicago Humanities Institute Joseph Regenstein Library, Room S-118, 1100 E. 57th Street, Chicago, IL 60637

FRIDAY, APRIL 18

9:00-9:30 Coffee
9:30-9:45 Introductory Remarks: Elissa Weaver: Chair, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Philip Gossett: Dean, Division of Humanities
9:45-11:00 Keynote Address: Anne Jacobson Schutte "The Permeable Cloister" discussion
11:00-11:15 Coffee
11:15-1:00 Jutta Sperling: "Potlatch alla veneziana: Coerced Monachizations and Conspicuous Consumption in Late-Renaissance Venice"
Gabriella Zarri: "Attraverso le grate: Monache e religiose nel primo Seicento italiano"
discussion
1:00-2:30 Lunch break
2:30-4:00 Daria Perocco: "Produzione in prosa nella Venezia del primo Seicento"
Wendy Heller: " 'Di monaca in musa': Arcangela Tarabotti and the Opera of Venice"
discussion
4:00-4:15 Coffee
4:15-5:30 Nathalie Hester: "Protesting against convent life: a 17th-century Sienese discorso"
Valeria Finucci: "Women's Novellas in the Renaissance: A First Survey"
discussion
5:30-7:00 Opening Reception for the "Arcangela Tarabotti: A Literary Nun in Baroque Venice" book exhibit. Reception sponsored by the University of Chicago Press, featuring the series, "The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe." In Special Collections, Regenstein Library of the University of Chicago [April 18-June 30]

SATURDAY, APRIL 19

9:00-9:30 Coffee
9:30-11:15 Stephanie Jed: "Arcangela Tarabotti and Gabriel Naudé: Libraries, Taxonomies and Ragion di Stato"
Franco Fido: "From Cloister to Saintliness or Glory: the Cases of Mère Angelique of Port-Royal and Sor Juana de la Cruz"
discussion
11:15-11:30 Coffee
11:30-12:30 Mario Infelise: "Libri e politica nella Venezia di Arcangela Tarabotti"
discussion
12:30-2:00 Lunch break
2:00-3:45 Adriana Chemello: "Le lettere dal convento di Arcangela Tarabotti"
Lynn Westwater: "The Trenchant Pen: Humor in Arcangela Tarabotti's Lettere"
Meredith Ray: "Epistolary Self-representation: The Public Voice of Arcangela Tarabotti"
discussion
3:45-4:00 Coffee
4:00-6:00 Francesca Medioli: "L'Inferno monacale: Truth, Reality and Narrative Devices"
Letizia Panizza: "The Venetian Accademia degli Incogniti and Arcangela Tarabotti's Literary Studies"
discussion
6:00 Reception at Chicago Humanities Institute