Sandra Ducic-Collette will talk about the relations between Shelley’s conception of poetry and the idea of technological innovation and modernity that was revolutionizing western life.

Tuesday 20 May, 17.00

Booking recommended but not essential.

 Sandra Dučic-Collette is a scholar and translator who studied Classical Philology in ex-Yugoslavia (Novi-Sad), Canada (Université de Montréal), Germany (DAAD) and Austria (Universität Wien). As a Culture Communication Fund B.V. Fellow (2004-05), she researched the ancient Japanese conception of the garden (in the Japanese court of the Heian period) at the International Research Institute for the Humanities in Nichibunken (Kyoto, Japan). She has a wide range of research interests and expertise, from ancient concepts of love to the influence of Plato on Hölderlin and Shelley. Her current research embraces several themes in the history of art and literature, including the poetry of Dante and of the Romantic movement, as well as the aesthetic theories of Raphael and Castiglione. She is currently also working on several translations into Serbian of studies by C.L. Frommel on Raphael and Pope Julius II, as well as Shelley’s poetry.