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Oratory and Politics in the Roman Republic

Programme (provisional)

Wednesday, September 1st

Registration: 12 - 1.30 pm, Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies

Session I: 1.30 – 2.50 pm (two papers): The Orator and his Audience
Valentina Arena, University College London: ‘The orator and his audience in the Roman Republic.'
Martin Jehne, Technical University of Dresden: ‘Feeding the plebs with words. The significance of senatorial public oratory in the small world of Roman politics.'

2.50 – 3.30 pm: coffee/tea

Session II: 3.30 – 4.50 pm (two papers): Oratory and Popular Choice
Amy Russell, University of California, Berkeley: ‘Tribunician oratory and popular choice.'
Jeffrey Tatum, University of Sydney: ‘Campaign Rhetoric'
Public Lecture: 5 – 6 pm:
Karl-Joachim Hölkeskamp, University of Cologne: ‘Friends, Romans, countrymen. Addressing the Roman people and the rhetoric of inclusion.'

Wine reception: 6 – 7pm

7.15 pm: Dinner at Merton College
9 pm onwards: meet in pub

Thursday, September 2nd

Session III: 9 – 11 am (three papers): Speech, Texts and Political Communication
Harriet Flower, Princeton University: ‘Beyond the contio: political communication in republican Rome.'
Catherine Steel, University of Glasgow: ‘Pompey, Helvius Mancia, and the politics of public debate.'
Henrik Mouritsen, King's College London ‘”Legi contionem tuam” Fam. 9.14.7: from meeting to text, audience and politics in the late republic'

11-11.30 am: coffee/tea
Session IV, 11.30 – 12.50 pm (two papers): Oratory in Theory and Practice
Jakob Wisse, Newcastle University, ‘The bad orator'
John Dugan, SUNY Buffalo, New York: ‘Cicero and the Politics of Ambiguity.'

12.50 – 2 pm: lunch

Session V: 2 – 4 pm (three papers): Romans and Foreigners
Elena Torregaray, University of the Basque Country, ‘Legatorum dicta: political oratory on the diplomatic stage'
Francisco Pina Polo, University of Zaragoza: ‘Foreign Eloquence in the Roman Senate.'
Jonathan Prag, University of Oxford: ‘The provincial perspective on the politics of repetundae-trials.'

4-4.30 pm: coffee/tea

Session VI: 4.30 – 6.30 pm (three papers): Individual Orators I
Ida Gilda Mastrorosa, University of Florence: ‘Roman Republican Imperialism between Oratory and Politics'
Cristina Rosillo Lopez, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, ‘The common orator of the late Republic: the Scribonii Curiones'
Robert Morstein-Marx, University of California Santa Barbara: '"Cultural Hegemony" and the Communicative Power of the Roman Elite.'

7.15 pm: Dinner at Merton College
9 pm onwards: meet in pub

Friday, September 3rd

Session VII: 9 – 11 am (three papers): Individual Orators II
James Tan, University of Columbia, ‘P. Clodius Orator'
Trevor Mahy, University of St. Andrews, ‘Antony the Orator: career, style, and effectiveness'
Andrea Balbo, University of Easter Piedmont/University of Turin, ‘Praestat enim nemini imperare quam alicui servire. Marcus Iunius Brutus' oratory at the end of the Roman Republic'

11-11.30 am: coffee/tea

Session VIII, 11.30 – 12.50 (two papers): Fragmentary Oratory
Henriette van der Blom, University of Oxford: ‘The lost orators of Cicero's Brutus and their political careers.'
Christopher Smith, University of St Andrews/British School at Rome: ‘Republican oratory: the evidence of the fragments.'

Lieu de la manifestation : The Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, University of Oxford
Organisation : Dr Henriette van der Blom and Professor Catherine Steel