Plenary speakers
Piero Boitani (Professor of Comparative Literature at the University
of Rome La Sapienza, author, among others books, of The Tragic and the
Sublime in Medieval Literature; In the Shadow of Ulysses; The Bible and
Its Rewritings; The Genius to Improve an Invention)
Rachel Bowlby (Professor of English at University College London; Still
Crazy After All These Years: Women, Writing and Psychoanalysis; Shopping
with Freud;Feminist Destinations and Further Essays on Virginia Woolf;
Carried Away: The Invention of Modern Shopping)
John Dixon Hunt (Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University
of Pennsylvania; The Genius of the Place: The Pictoresque Garden in Europe;
Garden and Grove: The Italian Renaissance Garden and the English Imagination)
Argentine-Canadian-French writer Alberto Manguel (Paris, Toronto;
News From a Foreign Country Came; Stevenson under the Palm Trees; Ports
of Call, written with Amin Maalouf; A History of Reading)
And the poet and critic Susan Stewart (Annan Professor of English, Princeton
University; Poetry and the Fate of the Senses; The Open Studio: Essays
on Art and Aesthetics; Colombarium; The Forest).
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