Speaking Religion: Religious Discourse and Public Speaking in Classical Athens and Beyond - 19/06/20
FECHA/DATE/DATA: 19/06/2018
LUGAR/LOCATION/LUOGO: University of Cyprus (Nicosia, Cyprus)
ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: Andreas Serafim
INFO: andreas.serafim@ouc.ac.cy
INSCRIPCIÓN/REGISTRATION/REGISTRAZIONE: AquÃ/here/qui Deadline 10/06/2018
PROGRAMA/PROGRAM/PROGRAMMA:
08:30-09:20 Registration
09:20-09:30 Welcome speech by Costas Constantinou, Vice Rector of the University of Cyprus
09:30-09:40 Welcome speech by Stavroula Constantinou, Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Letters at the University of Cyprus
09:40-10:00 Introduction by Andreas Serafim, Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Cyprus
10:00-11:00 Keynote Address
Chair: Georgios Xenis (University of Cyprus)
Edward M. Harris (University Durham & University of Edinburgh): Religion and the Rule of Law
11:00-11:30 Coffee/Tea Break
11:30-14:00 Panel 1 ~ Religion in/as Performance
Chair: Stavroula Constantinou (University of Cyprus)
11:30-12:00 Hannah Willey (University of Cambridge): The allure and the fear of performative religious rhetoric. Comparing Plato and the orators.
12:00-12:30 Despina Keramida (University of Cyprus): The Rhetoric of Magic in Ovid’s Epistulae Heroidum
12:30-13:00 Stella Alekou (University of Cyprus): Manus in actio and manus iniectio in Roman ritual: forensic discourse in Ovid’s Heroides
13:00-13:30 Elizabeth DePalma Digeser (University of California, Santa Barbara): Excavating Lactantius’ Divine Institutes within the Religious Topography of Constantine’s Gaul
13:30-14:00 Glenn S. Holland (Allegheny College): Argument and Performance in the Creation of a Rhetorical Matrix in Paul’s Churches
14:00-15:00 Lunch
15:00-16:00 Panel 2 ~ Religion, Politics and Morality
Chair: Antonia Giannouli (University of Cyprus)
15:00-15:30 Michael Paschalis (University of Crete): The Discourse of Religious and Moral Decline in Horace, Odes 3.6: Beyond the Augustan Context
15:30-16:00 Leonora Neville (University of Wisconsin Madison): Civic Religion in Tenth-Century Constantinople
16:00-17:00 Panel 3 ~ Religion and Rituals in Public Speaking
Chair: Antonis Petrides (Open University of Cyprus)
16:00-16:30 Rebecca Van Hove (King’s College London): Recording divine words: archiving and re-using oracles in classical Athens
16:30-17:00 James W. Watts (Syracuse University): Pollution as a rhetorical topos in ancient texts and cultures
17:00-17:30 Coffee/Tea Break
17:30-18:30 Panel 4 ~ Religious Discourse in Christianity
Chair: Maria Ypsilanti (University of Cyprus)
17:30-18:00 Roger Rees (University of St Andrews): Latin panegyrical oratory in a century of religious change
18:00-18:30 Hanne Roer (University of Copenhagen): Augustine’s De civitate Dei: a Mirror of Classical Rhetoric
18:30-18:45 Final remarks by Maria Ypsilanti, Associate Professor at the University of Cyprus
20:00 Dinner