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Jiang describes the ideal seminar as one where everyone contributes their individuality to a larger shared discussion and the teacher also learns.
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Seminar
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...your comments. And some of your ideas. But that's the ideal seminar, right? Where we're all learning from each other. Where we're all contributing..."
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Jiang says the seminar should only provide a framework that students later break apart and replace through their own encounter with the poem.
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He announces that a two-week Dante seminar at the Yale Beijing Center will begin on Monday, be livestreamed four hours a day, and aim to train the next generation of Dante scholars.
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He plans to run a two-week public livestream seminar on Dante's Divine Comedy in June, reading the whole work line by line because he regards it as the greatest literary work ever and universally valuable.
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He says the Dante seminar is scheduled for mid-to-late June 2026 at the Yale Beijing Center, with a small in-person cohort and a global livestream for broader participation.
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"...your comments. And some of your ideas. But that's the ideal seminar, right? Where we're all learning from each other. Where we're all contributing..."
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"And it's never enough. So the ultimate goal of our seminar is just to introduce you to divine comedy. Do not believe that I'm..."
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"...to love it. It's a great class. And it's a university seminar. So I'll be teaching it at the Yale Beijing Center. It's located..."
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"...few students who just come from overseas just to attend this seminar. So you can imagine these are pretty enthusiastic, pretty ambitious students. My..."
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"...approaches. So, in June, I'm going to do a two -week seminar on Dante. So, I'm going to read with students line by line..."
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"I mean, it will be. It's set for two weeks from mid -June to the end of June. It'll be at the Yale Beijing..."
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A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central claim: Dante's Heaven is not the end of questioning but the place where imagination, love, and freedom turn against dead authority, dead fear, and finally Virgil himself.
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The stream begins as a thank-you and career update, but its real pressure is larger: leave China, refuse the influencer trap, build schools, democratize creativity, and prepare communities for a world Jiang thinks is...
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The interview sounds scattered at first, but its logic is consistent.
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