Aspects of performance in Graeco-Roman oratory and rhetoric
University College London, 19-20 April 2012 (Gordon House, Room 106)
Programme
Thursday, 19 April 2012
09:15-09:40 Coffee and registration
09:40-10:00 Welcome: Andreas Serafim, Chris Carey (University College London)
10:00-12:30 Panel 1: Aspects of performance in Demosthenes' speeches
Chair: Mike Edwards (University of Wales, Trinity St David)
· Guy Westwood (University of Oxford): "Performing the past in Athenian public
oratory"
· Andreas Serafim (University College London): "Moving beyond text: the
performance dynamics of ekphrasis in selected speeches of Demosthenes"
· Arina Patrikova (University of Oxford): "De Corona 232-3 on oratorical
performance: criticising the critic"
· Tzu-I Lao (University College London): "The speaker's persona in the proem of
Demosthenes' First Philippic"
· Maria Galanaki (University of Crete): "Konon's sons and Meidias: ēthopoiia and
hypocrisis in Demosthenes' Against Konon and Against Meidias"
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:30 Keynote lecture (chair: Chris Carey, University College London)
Ian Worthington (University of Missouri): "Performing Oratory, or, How to Read Your Audience"
14:30-15:00 Coffee break
15:00-17:30 Panel 2: Hypocrisis-Actio-Delivery
Chair: Kathryn Tempest (University of Roehampton)
· Emmanuela Schoinoplokaki (University of Crete): "Ἔλεος and Ὑπόκρισις: The
performance of pity in the ancient forensic oratory"
· Beatrice Da Vela (University College London): "From the stage to the courtroom:
rhetorical and dramatic performance in Donatus' Commentary on Terence"
· Kamila Wyslucha (University of Wroclaw): "Speech delivery versus musical
performance as presented by Cicero in de Oratore, Brutus and Orator"
· Verena Schulz (University of Munich): "The Voice of the Orator in Ancient
Rhetoric. Rhetorical Instructions and their Medical Background"
· Alice Bonandini (Università degli Studi di Trento): "The eyes of Aquilius Regulus,
or the actio between folklore and dramatic performance"
18:30 Dinner at a local restaurant
Friday, 20 April 2012
10:00-11:30 Panel 3: Performing identity in the law-court
Chair: Adele Scafuro (Brown University)
· Matthew Kears (University of Birmingham): "Apollodorus and Performing Identity
in the Athenian Courts"
· Jakub Filonik (University of Warsaw): "Good children make good citizens and
soldiers - civic ethos as a means of rhetorical manipulation in Athenian oratory"
· Janet Mowat (University of Toronto): "Performing the Oikos: Ethopoiia in
Lysias 32"
11:30-12:00 Coffee break
12:00-13:30 Panel 3 (continued)
· Laura Viidebaum (University of Cambridge): "Creating fiction in the courtroom,
or, what do we talk about when we talk about ἠθοποιία?"
· Brenda Griffith-Williams (University College London): "Would I lie to you?
Narrative and performance in Isaios 6"
· Nefeli Papakonstantinou (University of Paris-Sorbonne): "Personam induere:
towards the construction of performance in Roman declamatory eloquence"
13:30-14:30 Lunch
14:30-15:30 Keynote lecture (chair: Gesine Manuwald, University College London)
Edith Hall (King's College London): "Judicial mime"
15:30-16:00 Coffee break
16:00-17:30 Panel 4: Theorising performance
Chair: C.W. Marshall (University of British Columbia; UCL Visiting Professor)
· Evan Jewell (Macquarie University): "Performing memoria: Oratorical exempla as
mnemonic speech-acts in Ciceronian oratory"
· Bogdan Cristea (University of Leeds): "The Orator as Stage Director in Roman
Rhetoric. A Case Study of Cicero's Perorations"
· Michael Hardy (King's College London): "Enactment and the oratorical text"
17:30-18:30 Drinks reception
Sponsored by:
UCL Graduate School, UCL Faculty of Arts and Humanities, UCL Greek & Latin Alumni, and the Institute of Classical Studies