Jiang announces that David Bromwich will join the Thursday session for a live comparison of Shakespeare and Dante, requiring an earlier class start.
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Jiang announces that on 2026-06-25 at 09:00 the class will host Professor David Bromwich from Yale for a Shakespeare and Dante discussion before continuing Purgatory.
Jiang closes by saying Virgil would rather burn in hell forever than say 'I am wrong,' and then announces that the class will finish the Divine Comedy the following Wednesday.
Jiang tentatively agrees to another conversation about a month later, naming April 8 as a rough target date.
Jiang proposes doing the next livestream again in two weeks.
The moderator says the team will announce precise future dates and times and list events on a calendar ahead of time.
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"It's a rare treat for, for us. It will be live stream to, to everyone. Um, and what he's going to do is he's..."
"So then are we doing like a three hour morning? Yeah."
"morocco okay all right so um we we will conclude uh um today um a reminder tomorrow morning we start at nine o 'clock..."
"So that's why Virgil had to leave Because he did not want to be wrong Okay? He did not want his world view To..."
"Yeah. No, I love talking to you because you ask great questions. You have a huge audience. And you have a huge influence over..."
"for organizing this, for being a fantastic moderator and like, let's, let's plan on doing this again in two weeks time. Um, does that..."
"Yeah. Um, we'll schedule the precise. Date and time, um, you know, much of the mod team is here, but we'll, we'll make announcements...."
"...to a future collaboration. I did speak to Professor Morandi. We'll schedule that. I'll email you and see. Yeah. Yeah."
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