The Department of Italian Studies at UC Berkeley proudly presents

The 2024 Chair of Italian Culture
Roberta Morosini
Universitá L’Orientale of Naples

As a continuation of her research of the Mediterranean in Dante’s Commedia, Morosini’s talk aims to share how Dante employs seas and rivers to illustrate his experience of exile, evoking his own memory and the memory of the world. More specifically, the talk aims to show how Dante’s forced mobility led him to privilege crossings in and of the Mediterranean within a plurality of geographies in movement within a Mediterranocentric perspective, as she calls it, one that rethinks Europe from the water with a cartographic eye that shifts geo-cultural notions of “center” and “periphery,” and spaces of alterity.

With questions or accommodation/mobility requests, please contact issa@berkeley.edu