Linguistic representations of identity. In rhetoric ancient and modern - 12-13-14/06/2017, Kraków (P
FECHA/DATE/DATA: 12-13-14/06/2017
LUGAR/LOCATION/LUOGO: Collegium Maius, Sala im. M. Bobrzynskiego, Jagellonian University (Krakow, Poland)
ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: Jakub Filonik
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Monday, 12 June
8:45 – 9:15am: Registration and tea/coffee 9:15 – 9:30am: Welcome address
Session I (9:30 – 11:00am) Popular Identities and Democracy Chair: Peter Agocs Edward Harris (Durham & Edinburgh), ‘The stereotype of tyranny and the tyranny of stereotypes: Demosthenes on Philip II of Macedon’ Sarah Bremner (Birmingham), ‘From Athenian democracy to post-Brexit ochlocracy: identity and the rhetoric of anti-rhetoric from Demosthenes to Trump’ Agnieszka Kampka (SGGW Warsaw), ‘Memory and action: elements of national and civic identity in contemporary Poland’
11:00 – 11:30am: Coffee break Session II (11:30am – 1:00pm) Social Identities in the Greek World Chair: Brenda Griffith-Williams Janek Kucharski (US Katowice), ‘Punishments and identities in classical Athens’ Eleni Volonaki (Peloponnese), ‘Religious identity in Athenian forensic oratory’ Alessandro Vatri (Oxford), ‘The readerly “us”: ancient Greek criticism and the creation of textual communities’
1:00 – 2:00pm: Lunch break
Session III (2:00 – 3:30pm) Cognitive Approaches to Rhetoric and Identity Chair: Alessandro Vatri Dimos Spatharas (Crete), ‘Emotions, out-groups, and social identities in Athenian forensic oratory’ Evert van Emde Boas (Oxford), ‘Mind style, identity, and ethopoeia in Lysias’ Jennifer Devereaux (Southern California & Edinburgh), ‘Intercorporeal identities and collective action in the ancient world’
3:30 – 4:00pm: Coffee break
Session IV (4:00pm – 5:30pm) Material Remnants of Identities Chair: Edward Harris S. Douglas Olson (Minnesota & Helsinki), ‘Dressing like the Great King: cross-cultural perspectives on Persian fashion in classical Athens’ Peter Liddel (Manchester), ‘The rhetoric of polis-identity: the example of Hellenistic Erythrai’ Andrzej Wypustek (Wrocław), ‘Creating identity in Greek and Roman magic’ 5:30 – 6:00pm: General discussion: Linguistic Representations of Identity in Rhetoric Ancient and Modern
Tuesday, 13 June
9:00 – 9:30am: Tea/coffee
Session V (9:30 – 11:00am) The Rhetoric of Oppositions Chair: Jakub Filonik Lene Rubinstein (RHUL London), ‘The vocabulary of cruelty, brutality, and savagery in Attic oratory’ Joanna Janik (UJ Kraków), ‘ἐγώ, ἡμεῖϛ, ὑμεῖϛ: constructing a speaker’s identity in relation to his audience in the political speeches of Demosthenes and political writings of Isocrates’ Brenda Griffith-Williams (UCL London), ‘“Everybody knows”: knowledge and identity in political and forensic discourse’
11:00 – 11:30am: Coffee break
Session VI (11:30am – 1:00pm) Dual Identities and Double Speech Chair: Lene Rubinstein Dorota Dutsch (UCSB California), ‘Ut uos in uostris uoltis mercimoniis: gods, slaves, and identity politics in a Plautine Prologue’ Christine Plastow (UCL London), ‘The language of place and ideology in Athenian homicide jury identity’ Rosie Harman (UCL London), ‘Ideological rhetoric in Xenophon’
1:00 – 2:00pm: Lunch break
Session VII (2:00 – 3:00pm) Metaphor in Athenian Politics Chair: Peter Liddel Lucia Cecchet (Mainz), ‘Public metaphors of begging and warnings against the risk of identity confusion in early fourth-century Athens’ Jakub Filonik (UJ Kraków), ‘Dikast, sailor, soldier, spy: metaphorical appeals to civic identity in Athenian oratory’
3:00 – 3:30pm: Coffee break
Session VIII (3:30 – 5:00pm) Roman Senatorial Elites Chair: Dorota Dutsch Brian Krostenko (Notre Dame), ‘Pandering for the greater good: Senate, people, and politics in Cicero’s de lege agraria I and II’ Roman Frolov (Yaroslavl), ‘Not among magistrates anymore? The rhetoric of political actors’ identity in the historiography of Republican Rome (the case of decemviri legibus scribundis)’ Elizabeth McKnight (UCL London), ‘Pliny's conception of the identity of the Roman senatorial class’
5:00 – 5:30pm: General discussion: Linguistic Representations of Identity in Rhetoric Ancient and Modern
Wednesday, 14 June
9:00 – 9:30am: Tea/coffee
Session IX (9:30 – 10:30am) The Theory of Rhetoric and its Application Chair: Janek Kucharski Jakub Lichański (UW Warsaw), ‘Identification in ancient and modern rhetoric: a case study of selected examples’ Anna Bendrat (UMCS Lublin), ‘“The Revolution will be Blogged”: female voices on multiracial identity’
10:30am – 11:00pm: Coffee break
Session X (11:00am – 12:30pm) The Beginnings and After-Life of Identities Chair: Joanna Janik Peter Agocs (UCL London), ‘Pindare le Dorien revisited: myth, politics and cultural identity in the epinicians’ Sławomir Sprawski (UJ Kraków), ‘Rhetoric in the service of the King. Speusippos, Antipatros of Magnesia and the shaping of Macedonian genealogical traditions’ Aleksandra Klęczar (UJ Kraków), ‘Alexander, Athenians and Demosthenes: creating unity in Pseudo- Callisthenes’ Alexander Romance’
12:30 – 1:15pm: General discussion and closing remark