The Dublin Dante Summer School is an initiative meant to attract national and international attention to the Italian language, literature and culture through the study and teaching of Dante’s Divine Comedy, one of the poetic masterworks of Western culture.
This year's edition of the DDSS took place online due to the Covid-19 emergency. It included both recorded and live lectures, workshops, and events with internationally renowned scholars in the field of Dante studies, international writers, performers and artists, coordinated by IIC, Trinity College Dublin and University College Dublin.
The recorded lectures, workshops and talks can now be watched in chronological order on this page; they are also available on our YouTube Channel, where they are collected in the following playlists:
DDSS 2020 // Day 1
DDSS 2020 // Lectures
DDSS 2020 // Dante & Economics
DDSS 2020 // Dante & the Theatre
Welcome and introductions by Renata Sperandio (IIC), Igor Candido (TCD) and Francesco Lucioli (UCD):
L'Italia di Dante. Viaggio nel paese della Commedia - with Giulio Ferroni // Morning lecture
L'Italia di Dante. Viaggio nel paese della Commedia - with Giulio Ferroni // Afternoon presentation
Removing the first P: a reading of Purgatorio XII - with Stefano Carrai // Morning lecture
Removing the first P: a reading of Purgatorio XII - with Stefano Carrai // Afternoon lecture
Pandemics, money, economics and Dante's world // Presentation
Pandemics, money, economics & Dante's world - with David McWilliams and Catherine Dunne
Purgatorio between history and theology - with Jelena Todorovic // Morning lecture
Purgatorio between history and theology - with Jelena Todorovic // Workshop pt. 1
Purgatorio between history and theology - with Jelena Todorovic // Workshop pt. 2
Performing Purgatorial Encounters - with Ermanna Montanari, Marco Martinelli, Andrea Porcheddu and Edoardo Camurri
Visions and dreams in Purgatorio XIX - with Renzo Bragantini // Morning lecture
Visions and dreams in Purgatorio XIX - with Renzo Bragantini // Workshop
Ideas for a future concert // Performance by Carole-Ann Roussel
Ideas for a future concert // Performance by Axel Trolese pt. 1
Ideas for a future concert // Performance by Axel Trolese pt. 2
Ideas for a future concert - with Carole-Anne Roussel and Axel Trolese
The project has received collaboration and financial support from Dublin Unesco City of Literature, the Italian Institute of Culture and the Italian Embassy in Dublin, The National University of Ireland, TCD Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, TCD School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies, Trinity Centre for Literary and Cultural Translation, UCD College of Arts and Humanities, UCD School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, The UCD Foundation for Italian Studies.
