DANTE AFTER HOURS

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FOOD & DRINK

• Our cafe on level -1 will be open all evening for drinks and snacks.
   
• Our Rooftop Restaurant on level 4 will be open for dinner and tables can be booked online via OpenTable: Book on OpenTable
   

BITE-SIZE TALKS

• 5.30pm – ‘Enthousanding' words: Dante, inventor of language at the end of the Paradiso
  With Dr Serena Vandi, Powys Roberts Research Fellow in European Literature, St Hugh’s College
   
• 6pm – Curator talk: Dante and the Invention of Celebrity 
  With Professor Gervase Rosser, Professor of the History of Art, Ertegun Director and Fellow of St Catherine’s College
   
• 6.30pm – Translating the language of Eden
  With Professor Matthew Reynolds, Professor of English and Comparative Criticism; Tutorial Fellow, St Anne’s College
   
• 7pm – “These Dirty Avenues to Fame": Celebrity and Scandal in 18th-century Newspapers
  With Dr Ruth Scobie, Stipendiary Lecturer in English, Mansfield College
   
• 7.30pm – The Icon, the Exile: Dante and Italian Street Art
  Dr Macs Smith, Career Development Fellow in French at the Queen’s College
   

PERFORMANCE FROM AI-DA

The Humanities Cultural Programme Presents… Ai-Da, the world's first humanoid artist-robot

Ai-Da has contributed works to the Ashmolean Exhibition Dante: The Invention of Celebrity. This includes palimpsest works, featuring portraits of Beatrice and Dante in the Paradiso, and a lenticular artwork reflecting on the blindness of human progress when pursued at any cost in our technological age.

• 5.10pm – In Conversation with Ai-Da
  Ai-Da, the world’s first humanoid artist-robot fields questions from children at Cheney School and the Rumble Museum. Gallery space is limited for this event and available on a first come first served basis.
   
• 6.15pm & 7.15pm – Ai-Da on Dante
  i-Da performs poetry in response to Dante’s Divine Comedy and her creators, Aidan Meller and Lucy Seal, tell us more about the world’s first humanoid artist-robot. Gallery space is limited for this event and available on a first come first served basis.
   

ATRIUM PERFORMANCES

• 5pm – The Oxford Baroque Ensemble
   
• 5.25pm – La Divina Commedia
   
• 5.45pm – The Oxford Baroque Ensemble
   
• 6.15pm – Ai-Da on Dante (live-streamed)
   
• 7pm – Inner Peace Records
   
• 7.20pm – The Oxford Baroque Ensemble performs
   

MORE PERFORMANCE

• Dante’s Troubadours: A Lecture-Recital
  5.30pm, 6.20pm and 7pm
  With Lachlan Hughes, Stipendiary Lecturer in Italian, St Hilda’s College; and Joseph W. Mason, Junior Research Fellow, New College.
   
• Spesse Fiate
  5.45pm, 6.30pm, 7.30pm
  With students Piers Kennedy (DPhil, Music Faculty) and Rowan Ireland (UG, Ruskin Schools of Art)
   

ACTIVITIES

• Explore the Greek Underworld
   
• Poetry Workshop Guides, Journeys, Destinations
   
• Interactive talk: Dante's Women, Who Would You Save?
   
• Street Art Workshop
   
• Book Stand
   
• Digital Display 
   
• Art Display from The Cherwell School in Oxford

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