CHE Workshop: “The Song of Songs in the Middle Ages and Dante”, Professor Lino Pertile (Harvard University)

Date: Thursday 20 October, 2016
Time: 3:00pm–5:00pm (afternoon tea served in Tea Room 1.13 from 2.45pm)
Venue: Philippa Maddern Seminar Room 1.33 (First Floor, Arts Building), University of Western Australia
Register: This event is free, but please email Katrina Tap (katrina.tap@uwa.edu.au) to register by 19 October, 2016.

Professor Lino Pertile is Harvard College Professor and Carl A. Pescosolido Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures. Professor Pertile is a renowned scholar on Italian literature, with a particular focus on the medieval and Renaissance periods. He has also been Director of the Villa I Tatti, the Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies (2010-2015). His extensive list of publications include Dante in Context (Cambridge University Press, 2015), The Cambridge History of Italian Literature (Cambridge University Press, 1996 and 1999) and The New Italian Novel (Edinburgh University Press, 1993).

Event information: http://www.historyofemotions.org.au/events/the-song-of-songs-in-the-middle-ages-and-dante.

“Scrapbook Shakespeare: James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps and the preparation of a nineteenth-century Shakespeare edition”, Paul Salzman (La Trobe University)

Date: Thursday 20 October, 2016
Time: 12:00pm–1:00pm
Venue: Leigh Scott Room, Level 1, Baillieu Library, The University of Melbourne
RSVP: Free but RSVP required. Book here: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/scrapbook-shakespeare-james-orchard-halliwell-phillipps-and-the-preparation-of-a-nineteenth-century-tickets-26274722402

James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps was responsible for one of the most beautiful and most expensive complete editions of Shakespeare in the nineteenth century. In this talk Professor Paul Salzman will explain how the edition was put together, and how Halliwell-Phillipps created an extensive series of scrapbooks to help with his annotation, creating them in part through a process of slicing pages out of old books, including a number of Shakespeare quarto and folios. Professor Salzman will speak about about the way Shakespeare was edited in general in the nineteenth century, a time when approaches to editing combined with the elevation of Shakespeare into the role of national and indeed international icon.

Paul Salzman, FAHA is an Emeritus Professor of English Literature at La Trobe University. He has published widely on early modern literature; his most recent book is Literature and Politics in the 1620s: ‘Whisper’s Counsells’ (2014).