The 60th International Congress on Medieval Studies will be held at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan, from May 8-10, 2025. The Dante Society of America organized five panel sessions:
Dante (1): Friday, May 9, 2025: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
- Stefano Scandella (New York University), "'Quando l'uomo ascende in cielo, ello è contro natura': Dante's (Un)natural Ascent as (In)formative Violence in the Making of Paradise on Earth"
- Beatrice Arduini (University of Washington–Seattle), "The Wood of the Self-Murderers and the Forests of Dante's Time"
- Wuming Chang (Peking University), "Is Virgilio a Book? Accessus, Allegory, and Authorship from Brunetto Latini to the Prologue of the Divine Comedy"
Dante (2): Friday, May 9, 2025: 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
- Penélope Salge Glick, (independent scholar), "Red, Old, and Religious: An Analysis of Literary Adaptation, Visual Imaginary, and Stereotypes in Dante's Divine Comedy in Colombia"
- Sara Galli (Dickinson College), "Teaching Dante Through Himself"
Dante (3) Friday, May 9, 2025: 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
- Aaron Scott Taylor (University of Central Oklahoma), "Saturn's Sphere: Astrology, Mythology, and the Contemplatives in Dante's Paradiso 21–22"
- Humberto Ballesteros (Hostos Community College, CUNY) "From 'Deificari in otio' to 'Disio degli altri cari': The Development of the Doctrine of Caritas from Augustine to Dante"
Dante and Ovid (1): Thursday, May 8, 2025: 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Co-sponsored with the Societas Ovidiana
- Sara Frances Burdorff (Guilford College), "Devorat ipse dolor: Reprising Hecuba in Dante's 9th Circle of Hell"
- Julie Van Peteghem (Hunter College), "Let's (Not) Talk About Sex: Reading Ovid's Stories of Rape in Dante's Time"
- Paola M. Rodriguez (Graduate Center, CUNY), "The Influence of the Virgilian Bucolic in Dante's Interpretation of Ovid's Galatea Myth in Purgatorio I"
Dante and Ovid (2) Thursday, May 8, 2025: 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
- Jacek Hajduk (Jagiellonian University, "Ovid and Dante in Machiavelli"
- Giordana Artiaco (University degli Studi di Siena), "Sculpting the Poet: Dante, Orpheus, and the Ovidian Legacy"