Compassion in Dante’s Inferno: Literary and Philosophical Encounters

An Interdisciplinary International Workshop

The conference will take place on December 26-28, 2017,

and will be held in the Mandel Building, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mount Scopus Campus

in the background:
“Paradiso II”: Dante and Beatrice in the sphere of the moon, with Beatrice explaining the nature of the heavens; illustration by Sandro Botticelli, ca. 1490

in the image above: Dante and Virgil, Inferno I
Yates Thomson 36 MS, British Library