Oratory and Rhetoric at UCL - 23/03/2016, London (England)
A consideration of the ways in which classical theories of oratory and rhetoric were redeployed, understood and influential in the early modern world.
FECHA/ DATE/DATA: 23/03/2016
LUGAR/LOCATION/LUOGO: UCL Foster Court 307 - Gower Street London (London, England)
ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: Alexander Samson
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INSCRIPCIÓN/REGISTRATION/REGISTRAZIONE: gratis, registro online / free, registration online / gratuito, registrazione online
PROGRAMA/PROGRAM/PROGRAMMA:
Session 1
3 - 4.30pm:
-Sarah Knight (Leicester)
“Take heede of that dull, cold, idle way of reading Syllogismes out of a paper”: learning to argue at the early modern English universities
-Michael Trapp (KCL)
Aelius Aristides’ Platonic Orations: Orators, Politicians and Plato’s Gorgias
4.30 - 5pm Tea
Session 2
5 - 6.30pm:
-Gesine Manuwald (UCL)
‘that talker, Cicero’: the orator Cicero as a figure in early modern drama
-Mike Edwards (Roehampton)
Tbc.
All welcome, followed by a wine reception.