Conference: "Ciceronian Invective. Emotions, Reactions and Performance"
Organisation:
Collaborative Research Centre 1285: „Invectivity. Constellations and Dynamics of Disparagement“.
Project B: "Invective Enactments. Verbal degradations in the Roman society of the 1st century BC between literary tradition and fictitious orality"
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Conference Location:
The conference will take place in digital form.
Contacts:
Dennis Pausch
Ken Heuring
Christoph Schwameis
Rainer Wierzcholowski
Conference Program:
Thursday, 24 September
13:30-13:40: Dennis Pausch (Dresden): Opening remarks
Panel 1: Emotions (Chair: Dennis Pausch)
13:40-14:20: Judith Hack (Jena): Sexuelle Beleidigungen bei Cicero
14:20-15:00: Ken Heuring (Dresden): Emotionale Sprache in der 2. Philippica
15:00-15:20: Break
Panel 2: Reactions (Chair: Christoph Schwameis)
15:20-16:00: Christoph Pieper (Leiden): How to respond to a political master’s invective? Responses to Cicero’s first Catilinarian
16:00-16:40 Henriette van der Blom (Birmingham): Marcus Antonius' invective responses to Cicero in 44-43 BC
16:40-17:10 Final discussion and remarks, day one
Friday, 25 September
Panel 3: Performance (Chair: Ken Heuring)
09:00-09:40: Christoph Schwameis (Wien / Dresden): Konstellationen der Invektive im Piratenkapitel von De suppliciis
09:40-10:20: Rainer Wierzcholowski (Wuppertal / Dresden): Invective Performance in Cicero’s Verrines
10:20-11:00: Kathryn Tempest (London): Cicero under attack: Truth, deception and oratorical performance in the trial of Plancius
11:00-11:20: Break
Panel 4: Discourse (Chair: Rainer Wierzcholowski)
11:20-12:00: Christopher Degelmann (Berlin): „Von Wein, Schlaf und Unzucht betäubt“ (Cic. red. sen. 13): Ekel und ebriositas im politischen Diskurs der späten römischen Republik
12:00-12:40: Catherine Steel (Glasgow): Cicero’s oratorical predecessors for invective arising from provincial government, within and without the repetundae context
12:40-13:10: Final discussion and remarks, day two