28.2473, Confs: Applied Ling, Historical Ling, Socioling/Poland

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Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2017 15:42:55
From: Jakub Filonik [jakub.filonik at gmail.com]
Subject: Linguistic Representations of Identity in Rhetoric Ancient and Modern

Linguistic Representations of Identity in Rhetoric Ancient and Modern 

Date: 12-Jun-2017 - 14-Jun-2017 
Location: Krakow, Poland 
Contact: Jakub Filonik 
Contact Email: jakub.filonik at gmail.com 
Meeting URL: http://www.ifk.filg.uj.edu.pl/en_GB/wydarzenia/-/journal_content/56_INSTANCE_3Nh6/1745131/136555453 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Sociolinguistics 

Meeting Description: 

Instytut Filologii Klasycznej UJ serdecznie zaprasza na organizowaną we
współpracy z Department of Greek and Latin, University  College London
konferencję pt. Linguistic Representations of Identity in Rhetoric Ancient and
Modern, która odbędzie się w dniach 12-14 czerwca 2017 w sali im. M.
Bobrzyńskiego w Collegium Maius UJ.

The Department of Classical Philology, Jagiellonian University in Kraków is
pleased to invite you to the conference Linguistic Representations of Identity
in Rhetoric Ancient and Modern, organised in co-operation with Department of
Greek and Latin, University College London, which will take place in Collegium
Maius UJ, Bobrzyński’s Room on 12-14 June 2017.

Monday, 12 June

8:45 – 9:15am: Registration and tea/coffee

9:15 – 9:30am: 
Welcome address

Session I (9:30 – 11:00am)
Popular Identities and Democracy
Chair: Peter Agocs
Edward Harris (Durham & Edinburgh), ‘The stereotype of tyranny and the tyranny
of stereotypes: Demosthenes on Philip II of Macedon’
Sarah Bremner (Birmingham), ‘From Athenian democracy to post-Brexit
ochlocracy: identity and the rhetoric of anti-rhetoric from Demosthenes to
Trump’
Agnieszka Kampka (SGGW Warsaw), ‘Memory and action: elements of national and
civic identity in contemporary Poland’

11:00 – 11:30am: Coffee break

Session II (11:30am – 1:00pm)
Social Identities in the Greek World
Chair: Brenda Griffith-Williams
Janek Kucharski (US Katowice), ‘Punishments and identities in classical
Athens’
Eleni Volonaki (Peloponnese), ‘Religious identity in Athenian forensic
oratory’
Alessandro Vatri (Oxford), ‘The readerly “us”: ancient Greek criticism and the
creation of textual communities’

1:00 – 2:00pm: Lunch break

Session III (2:00 – 3:30pm)
Cognitive Approaches to Rhetoric and Identity
Chair: Alessandro Vatri
Dimos Spatharas (Crete), ‘Emotions, out-groups, and social identities in
Athenian forensic oratory’
Evert van Emde Boas (Oxford), ‘Mind style, identity, and ethopoeia in Lysias’
Jennifer Devereaux (Southern California & Edinburgh), ‘Intercorporeal
identities and collective action in the ancient world’

3:30 – 4:00pm: Coffee break

Session IV (4:00pm – 5:30pm)
Material Remnants of Identities
Chair: Edward Harris
S. Douglas Olson (Minnesota & Helsinki), ‘Dressing like the Great King:
cross-cultural perspectives on Persian fashion in classical Athens’
Peter Liddel (Manchester), ‘The rhetoric of polis-identity: the example of
Hellenistic Erythrai’
Andrzej Wypustek (Wrocław), ‘Creating identity in Greek and Roman magic’

5:30 – 6:00pm: 
General discussion
Linguistic Representations of Identity in Rhetoric Ancient and Modern

Tuesday, 13 June

9:00 – 9:30am: Tea/coffee

Session V (9:30 – 11:00am)
The Rhetoric of Oppositions
Chair: Jakub Filonik
Lene Rubinstein (RHUL London), ‘The vocabulary of cruelty, brutality, and
savagery in Attic oratory’
Joanna Janik (UJ Kraków), ‘ἐγώ, ἡµεῖϛ, ὑµεῖϛ: constructing a speaker’s
identity in relation to his audience in the political speeches of Demosthenes
and political writings of Isocrates’
Brenda Griffith-Williams (UCL London), ‘“Everybody knows”: knowledge and
identity in political and forensic discourse’

11:00 – 11:30am: Coffee break
Session VI (11:30am – 1:00pm)
Dual Identities and Double Speech
Chair: Lene Rubinstein
Dorota Dutsch (UCSB California), ‘Ut uos in uostris uoltis mercimoniis: gods,
slaves, and identity politics in a Plautine Prologue’
Christine Plastow (UCL London), ‘The language of place and ideology in
Athenian homicide jury identity’
Rosie Harman (UCL London), ‘Ideological rhetoric in Xenophon’

1:00 – 2:00pm: Lunch break

Session VII (2:00 – 3:00pm)
Metaphor in Athenian Politics
Chair: Peter Liddel
Lucia Cecchet (Mainz), ‘Public metaphors of begging and warnings against the
risk of identity confusion in early fourth-century Athens’
Jakub Filonik (UJ Kraków), ‘Dikast, sailor, soldier, spy: metaphorical appeals
to civic identity in Athenian oratory’

3:00 – 3:30pm: Coffee break

Session VIII (3:30 – 5:00pm)
Roman Senatorial Elites
Chair: Dorota Dutsch
Brian Krostenko (Notre Dame), ‘Pandering for the greater good: Senate, people,
and politics in Cicero’s de lege agraria I and II’
Roman Frolov (Yaroslavl), ‘Not among magistrates anymore? The rhetoric of
political actors’ identity in the historiography of Republican Rome (the case
of decemviri legibus scribundis)’
Elizabeth McKnight (UCL London), ‘Pliny's conception of the identity of the
Roman senatorial class’

5:00 – 5:30pm: 
General discussion
Linguistic Representations of Identity in Rhetoric Ancient and Modern

Wednesday, 14 June

9:00 – 9:30am: Tea/coffee

Session IX (9:30 – 10:30am)
The Theory of Rhetoric and its Application
Chair: Janek Kucharski
Jakub Lichański (UW Warsaw), ‘Identification in ancient and modern rhetoric: a
case study of selected examples’
Anna Bendrat (UMCS Lublin), ‘“The Revolution will be Blogged”: female voices
on multiracial identity’

10:30am – 11:00pm: Coffee break
Session X (11:00am – 12:30pm)
The Beginnings and After-Life of Identities
Chair: Joanna Janik
Peter Agocs (UCL London), ‘Pindare le Dorien revisited: myth, politics and
cultural identity in the epinicians’
Sławomir Sprawski (UJ Kraków), ‘Rhetoric in the service of the King.
Speusippos, Antipatros of Magnesia and the shaping of Macedonian genealogical
traditions’
Aleksandra Klęczar (UJ Kraków), ‘Alexander, Athenians and Demosthenes:
creating unity in PseudoCallisthenes’ Alexander Romance’

12:30 – 1:15pm: General discussion and closing remarks

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