Meetings and Events

The Dante Society of America regularly organizes panel sessions at various academic conferences, and holds its own annual meeting and conference.

Upcoming Events

DSA Annual Meeting, May 7, 2025

The 143rd Annual Meeting of our Society will be held online, via Zoom on Saturday, May 17, at noon Eastern Daylight Time.

Per our Society's by-laws, it is essential that a quorum of members be present, or represented via proxy, in order for business to be conducted, including the approval of minutes and reports. The meeting agenda, minutes, and recording from last year's Annual Meeting are available on the Society's website.

To register to attend the meeting and receive the Zoom meeting link, please complete this simple online form.   

Very important: If you will not be able to attend, please consider authorizing Julie Van Peteghem, as the Society's Secretary, to serve as your proxy on matters requiring a vote by submitting this online form.       

As in recent years, we will be offering attendees a special program immediately following the brief business meeting, so we hope that many of you will be able to participate.  Our special guests will be Professors Zygmunt Baranski and Robert P. Harrison, who will offer remarks on two scholars we have recently lost: Martin McLaughlin and Rachel Jacoff.

We will also have an update on the soon-to-be released new and totally revamped website of The Dante Society of America that is in the works.

Recorded Events

  • The 140th Annual Meeting of the Dante Society of America was held online on May 7, 2022. It was followed by a program commemorating Robert Hollander and John Freccero, two influential Dantists who died during the previous year. A videorecording of the meeting and program is available on the Society's
    YouTube channel.
  • The 139th Annual Meeting of the Dante Society of America was held online on May 16, 2021. A videorecording is available on the Society's
    YouTube channel.
  • Video recordings of sessions from the 2021 Annual Symposium of the Dante Society of America, "'Tra liti si lontani': Dante for the Americas," are available as a
    playlist
    on the Society's
    YouTube channel. The symposium was on hosted online by Harvard University in collaboration with the Society on 5-13 May 2021.
  • The 137th Annual Meeting of the Dante Society of America was held at the University of Toronto in Toronto, Canada, on Saturday, May 4, 2019. Presentations given during the associated symposium "Plurilingualism and Visibile Parlare" are available as a
    playlist
    on the Society's
    YouTube channel
    (note: due to technical difficulties, recordings of some presentations are not available).
  • The 136th Annual Meeting of the Dante Society of America was held at Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, on Saturday, May 5, 2018. Presentations given during the associated symposium "'Come il baccialier': Questioning and Professing Dante" are available as a
    playlist
    on the Society's
    YouTube channel.
  • The 135th Annual Meeting of the Dante Society of America was held at the University of Oregon on Saturday, May 6, 2017. Presentations given during the associated symposium "Translation in Dante / Dante in Translation" are available as a
    playlist
    on the Society's
    YouTube channel.

Past Meetings and Events

A listing of meetings and events sponsored by the Dante Society in previous years is available here.

Minutes and agenda for the Society's annual membership meetings since 2014 may be found under "About the Society."