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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>CMRS Symposium:</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Exploring the Medieval and Renaissance </b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Maritime Humanities</b></span></div>
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The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies will host its annual symposium on Friday, February 21 and the morning of Saturday, February 22. This event brings together six scholars from OSU and around the country to discuss issues centered on medieval and
Renaissance maritime humanities. Papers from historical, literary and environmental perspectives will address such topics as underwater archaeology and the ethics of recovering historic shipwrecks; evolving patterns of fishing and consumption; shipboard entertainers;
and the representation of the sea in the poetry of Dante. A day of talks on Friday will be followed by a roundtable discussion on Saturday morning. All are welcome to participate. </div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The keynote speaker will be </span><span style="color: rgb(186, 12, 47);"><a href="https://elts.ucla.edu/person/roberta-morosini/" id="OWA39953db3-7ef4-4245-f202-2a2926d36ca3" class="x_OWAAutoLink" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="color: rgb(186, 12, 47);">Dr.
Roberta Morosini</a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> (European Languages and Transcultural Studies, UCLA), presenting “Between Discordant Shores: Mobility, Blu Humanism and the Futures of Europe, from Dante to Petrarch."</span></div>
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For the full schedule, talk titles and bios, <a href="https://cmrs.osu.edu/events/symposium-sea-studies-exploring-medieval-and-renaissance-maritime-humanities" id="OWAf3eb3071-49d4-48a0-97fe-b46120b4daf6" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://cmrs.osu.edu/events/symposium-sea-studies-exploring-medieval-and-renaissance-maritime-humanities" data-auth="NotApplicable">
go to the event web page</a>. </div>
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Morosini continues her research on the Mediterranean in Dante’s Commedia as both a literary and geopolitical space, exploring it through a cartographic lens. In this paper, she examines the works of Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, emphasizing the significance
of a "sea-level" perspective, or Blu Humanism, as envisioned by Paul Gilroy. She argues that these authors share a common maritime perspective on humanism and shows how what Édouard Glissant calls "archipelagic thought" is rooted in their works, offering a
framework for thinking beyond traditional, fixed geographies. The talk specifically explores the advantages of thinking through water in Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio’s works, and particularly how Dante’s forced mobility—his exile—compelled him to prioritize
Mediterranean crossings and migrations, including Europa’s navigation, taken against her will on the back of the bull. Morosini terms this a Mediterranean-centric perspective, which rethinks Europe from the vantage point of the water. This cartographic approach
challenges geocultural notions of ‘center’ and ‘periphery,’ while reimagining spaces of alterity</div>
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