The Rhetoric of (dis)unity: Community and division in Greco-Roman prose and poetry - 23-24/11/2017,
This conference aims to shed new light on the capacity of rhetoric, as used in Greek and Roman prose (mainly oratory and historiography) and poetry (mainly in tragedy and comedy), to promote either bonding and affiliation or distancing and division between the speaker and the audience. From the ancient Greco-Roman courts and assemblies to today’s political discourse, rhetoric is inherently divisive. It focuses on appealing to core groups and defining oneself against others.
FECHA/DATE/DATA: 23-24/11/2017
LUGAR/LOCATION/LUOGO: Athens University Museum (Athens, Greece)
ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: Andreas Michalopoulos (Athens); Flaminia Beneventano della Corte (Siena); Andreas Serafim (Cyprus); Alessandro Vatri (Oxford).
INFO: andreas.serafim@ouc.ac.cy
INSCRIPCIÓN/REGISTRATION/REGISTRAZIONE: Aquí/here/qui Deadline: 01/11/2017
Gratis/free /gratuito
PROGRAMA/PROGRAM/PROGRAMMA:
Thursday – 23 November 2017
09:00-09:45 Registration (Coffee/Tea)
09:45-10:00 Welcome speeches
Panel 1 ~ The Rhetorical Triangle: Authors, Speakers and Audiences
Chair: Mary Yossi (Athens)
10:00-10:30 Ioannis Konstantakos (Athens): Divided audiences and how to win them over: The case of Aristophanes’ Acharnians
10:30-11:00 Eleni Volonaki (Kalamata): Rhetorical techniques of identification/hostility between speakers and audience in eisangelia cases
11:00-11:30 Robert Sing (Cambridge): Trust me, I am not an expert: Identifying with a moral ethos
11:30-12:00 Noboru Sato (Kobe University): Thorubos in Athenian speeches, a sign of (dis)unity
12:00-12:30 Cristina Rosillo-Lopez (Spain): Bonding with the audience in trials: the importance of the corona in the Late Roman Republic
12:30-13:30 Lunch
Panel 2 ~ Rhetorical Techniques of Unity and Division
Chair: Dimitrios Karadimas (Athens)
13:30-14:00 Dimos Spatharas (Crete): Emotions, out-groups and the construction of social identities in the Attic orators
14:00-14:30 Andreas Serafim (Cyprus): A War in Words: Mockery, laughter and the rhetorics of (dis)unity in Attic oratory
14:30-15:00 George Paraskeviotis (Cyprus): Humorous unity and disunity between the characters in Vergil’s Eclogues 1, 2 and 3
15:00-15:30 Bé Breij (Radboud University Nijmegen): “It takes more love to kill a son than to vindicate him”: how maxims may contribute to affiliation
15:30-16:00 Stratis Kyriakidis (Thessaloniki): Anadiplōsis and geminatio in Ausonius: Rhetorical theory and poetic praxis
16:00-16:30 Coffee/Tea Break
Panel 3 ~ Constructed Communities
Chair: Christos Fakas (Athens)
16:30-17:00 Lene Rubinstein (London): Cruelty and Community in Greek oratory and historiography
17:00-17:30 Nick Fisher (Cardiff): Creating a Cultural Community: Aeschines and Demosthenes
17:30-18:00 Roger Brock (Leeds): Citizens and demesmen in Athenian rhetoric
18:00-18:30 Brenda Griffith-Williams (London): Everybody knows: the “common knowledge” topos in Athenian forensic oratory
18:30-19:00 Tzu-I Liao (London): Persuading “us”: Demosthenes’ strategy of using the collective identity in the Assembly
19:00-19:30 Coffee/Tea Break
Keynote speech
Chair: Katerina Carvounis (Athens)
19:30-20:30 Philip Hardie (Cambridge): Concordia and Discordia in late antique Latin poetry: The rhetoric of community and dissension in church and state
21:00 Dinner (at a local restaurant)
Friday – 24 November 2017
Panel 4 ~ Arguments and Concepts in the Construction of Communities
Chair: Amphilochios Papathomas (Athens)
09:00-09:30 Ilias Arnaoutoglou (Athens): “Corporate” rhetoric and identity-building in Athenian Hellenistic associations
09:30-10:00 Myrto Aloumpi (Oxford): Creating community through the rhetoric of charis: deliberative versus forensic oratory
10:00-10:30 Flaminia Beneventano (Siena): Rhetoric of the humans, rhetoric of the gods. Deigmata, phasmata and the construction of evidence
10:30-11:00 Michael Paschalis (Crete): The Rhetorical Strategy of Cicero’s On Divination
11:00-11:30 Simone Mollea (Warwick): Humanitas: a double-edged sword in Apuleius the orator?
11:30-12:00 Coffee/Tea Break
Panel 5 ~ Rhetorical unity and division in the Roman world
Chair: Sophia Papaioannou (Athens)
12:00-12:30 Paulo Martins (Sao Paulo): The Neoteric Poetry and Old Voices in Early Empire
12:30-13:00 Andreas N. Michalopoulos (Athens): Fighting against an intruder: Τhe speeches of Pentheus (3.531-563) and Niobe (6.170-202) in Ovid’s Metamorphoses
13:00-14:00 Lunch
Keynote speech
Chair: Rozalia Hadjilambrou (Athens)
14:00-15:00 Michael Edwards (Roehampton): TBA
Panel 6 ~ Gender
Chair: Grammatiki Karla (Athens)
15:00-15:30 Stefano Ferrucci (Siena): Vanishing Mothers. The (de)construction of Personal Identity in Attic Forensic Speeches
15:30-16:00 T. Davina McClain (Northwestern State University): Cato vs Valerius/Men vs Women: Rhetorical Strategies in The Oppian Law Debate in Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita
16:00-16:30 Coffee/Tea Break
Panel 7 ~ Textual Communities in Literary and Scientific Genres
Chair: Evgenia Makrigiani (Athens)
16:30-17:00 Christos Kremmydas (London): Dio Chrysostom on (dis)unity in the cities of the Greek East under Roman rule
17:00-17:30 Marco Romani Mistretta (Harvard): Finding unity through knowledge: narrative and identity-building in Greek technical prose
17:30-18:00 Maria Kythreotou (Cyprus): Antithesis as a (dis)uniting figure in Thucydidean speeches
18:00-18:30 Vasileios Liotsakis (Heidelberg): How to Satisfy Everyone: Balance between Unity and Division in Arrian’s Anabasis of Alexander
18:30-19:00 Alessandro Vatri (Oxford): Divisive scholarship: affiliation dynamics in ancient Greek literary criticism
19:00-19:15 Conclusions
20:15 Dinner (at a local restaurant)