The Centre for Oratory and Rhetoric (COR) at Royal Holloway, University of London and the International Society for the History of Rhetoric (ISHR) are delighted to announce the third series of COR/ISHR Rhetorical Get Togethers.

This series’ theme will be “Rhetorical representations of war and atrocities in deliberative and forensic oratory and in speeches in Graeco-Roman historiography”. The series will be made up of five virtual “get togethers” (COR/ISHR) which will take place on Zoom every Friday in June from 3 to 5 pm (GMT). The programme and list of speakers is as follows:
 
2/6       Kathryn Tempest (Roehampton): Forgetting the Past: Cicero, Civil War, and Amnesty in Cassius Dio.
 
            Verena Schulz (Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt): Remembering
            and forgetting Actium in Augustan poetry.
 
9/6       Richard Alston (RHUL): Mass murder as Identity Performance: Tacitus
            on Imperial Power.

           Johannes Engels (Cologne): Tacitus on the sack of Cremona and the
           atrocities of Roman civil war in AD 69 - Rhetorical enargeia and ekphrasis in
           early imperial historiography.

           Mike Edwards (RHUL): Vae Victis! Atrocious treatment of the defeated in
           Plutarch's Lives.
 
16/6     Lisa Hau (Glasgow): Experiential narratives of violence in Greek
            Historiography.

           Mengzhen Yue (RHUL): Isocrates’ educational idea and the narrative of 
           Greek past wars in Antidosis.

              Bernd Steinbock (Western Ontario): Ending Imperialist Wars: Isocrates’
           Radical Critique of the Athenian Funeral Ceremony.
 
23/06   Asako Kurihara (Osaka): Rumour and Politics in War in Classical Athens.

            Christine Plastow (Open University): Victory, defeat, and spatial metonyms
            in Greek rhetoric.
 
30/06   Lene Rubinstein (RHUL): Representations of non-combatants in 
           Forensic and Deliberative Oratory.
     
              Noboru Sato (Kobe): Phocis, Olynthos and Thebes in Demosthenes’ and
           Aeschines’ forensic speeches.
     
           Giulia Maltagliati (Clare Hall, Cambridge): Remembering the Social war:
           trauma and decision-making in the Athenian assembly.
 
All welcome! 

Please email Giulia Maltagliati (gm716@cam.ac.uk) to register your interest; you will be added to our mailing list and will receive links to the sessions and further details closer to the time. We hope that you will be able to join us!