ISCAD5: Heads-up!

After the pandemic and 2021 Dante year, ISCAD is back, safe and sound, for its 5th edition.

In 2023, we will host the International Conference on

“Emotions and Communities in Dante” (April 12-13), a tentative programme is available here;

as well as

the Exhibition, in partnership with the Istituto Italiano di Cultura Toronto and USMC’s project Teaching in the Metaverse:

“How does it feel? Dante’s Emotions Today” (April 12-21).

Start booking your visit on Eventbrite (slots of 30 minutes for the VR experience): https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/594138001757.

Are you a U of T or Toronto-based artist, musician, photographer, or writer? Please consider sharing your creative work with us by March 24, 2023. The call for creative contributions and supporting materials are available here.


… and while waiting for ISCAD5, you can listen to Toronto Salutes Dante, a series of multilingual readings of Dante’s Inferno featuring Adriene Clarkson, Margaret Atwood, Alberto Manguel, and many other members of our community who joined ISCAD to celebrate Dante’s legacy.

With the support of the Department of Italian Studies, University of Toronto, the University of Saint Michael’s College, the Istituto Italiano di Cultura Toronto, the U of T, Vice-President, International, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto, and the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies.

Conveners of the 2023 edition: Elisa Brilli, Giulia Gaimari, Paolo Granata, Laura Ingallinella, Justin Steinberg and William Robins.