Decameron 2020: Survival through Stories
Decameron 2020: Survival through Stories
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18. What sparks political engagement? Boccaccio in 1358 and America in 2020.
Here in the United States we are at the center of a global pandemic and the greatest political turmoil in generations. What sparks political engagement? In Boccaccio's Decameron, Pampinea berates her peers for accepting second-class st...
17. Interview with the humanist Marianna Iannaccone on John Florio, Boccaccio's Early Modern translator
In this interview, J.M. Meyer and Ania Upstill talk to Marianna Iannaccone, a John Florio expert based in Boccaccio's native Italy. As you may remember, Italy was the center of the pandemic in Europe in February and March, and implemented...
16. Imagining a more just post-pandemic world, Part 2
Welcome back to Decameron 2020: Survival through Stories. In the second part of our segment on Black Lives Matter, we will continue our conversation with the artists James Edward Becton, Ashley Bufkin, and Justin Withers. Johnny Meyer wil...
15. Imagining a more Just Post-Pandemic World through Black Lives Matter, Part 1
In the next two bonus episodes, we are taking a step back from Boccaccio’s stories in order to bring more focus to the stories going on around us. Boccaccio’s ten young story-tellers are, in part, using narrative to elevate their minds above th...
14. Discussion with Bob Jones, Ashley Bufkin, Erin Bogert, and Karen Alvarado
We've reached the third and final discussion episode for the last three stories in Day 1 of Bocaccio's Decameron. In this episode you will hear from actors Ashley Bufkin, Erin Bogert, myself Karen Alvarado as well as Bob Jones serving ...