Oratory and Rhetoric

3 - 4.30pm: Session 1

Sarah Knight (Leicester)

“Take heede of that dull, cold, idle way of reading Syllogismes out of a paper”: learning to argue at the early modern English universities

Michael Trapp (KCL)

Aelius Aristides’ Platonic Orations: Orators, Politicians and Plato’s Gorgias

4.30 - 5pm Tea

5 - 6.30pm: Session 2

Gesine Manuwald (UCL)

"‘that talker, Cicero’: the orator Cicero as a figure in early modern drama"

Mike Edwards (Roehampton)

A Recipe for Bacon and Chickpea

Registration:

Although this event is free and all are welcome, we require attendees to register on our Eventbrite page.

The symposium will be followed by a wine reception.