A symposium on Dante Alighieri has been organised by the Italian Cultural Institute of Sydney and the Australian Catholic University (ACU) for next Friday, March 25, at the Ramsay Centre of the said university (North Sydney Campus). The event is the conclusion of the 2022 initiatives dedicated to the celebrations of the 700th anniversary of the Supreme Poet’s death.
The Symposium will be attended, among others, by the Rector and President of the ACU, Zlatko Skrbis, the Consul General of Italy, Andrea De Felip, and the Director of the Italian Cultural Institute, Lillo Guarneri. The keynote speaker will be John Kinder, Professor Emeritus of Italian at the University of Western Australia, and author of numerous publications on various aspects of the Italian language and dialects. Professor Kinder is a corresponding member of the Accademia della Crusca. His talk will provide an overview of Dante’s journey and show how his holistic view of reality is still relevant after seven centuries, based as it is on love which, in the Poet’s words, is the force “that moves the sun and other stars”.
This event sees the Italian Cultural Institute collaborating for the first time with the Australian Catholic University and the Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation.
