Conference
Conference Mediated Cicero
- Date
- Thursday 16 June 2022 - Saturday 18 June 2022
- Address
- RMO, Gravensteen and Lipsius (see programme)
From 16 to 18 June 2022, Christoph Pieper and Leanne Jansen are organizing a festive, three-day event to mark the end of the VIDI-project Mediated Cicero.
You are all warmly invited to join (part of) the programme.
On Thursday 16 June, we will start with a 'publieksmiddag', in Dutch, at the National Museum of Antiquities with contributions by Rosa van Gool and Piet Gerbrandy. Entrance is free!
From Friday 17 to Saturday 18 June, we will host an academic conference at Leiden University concerning the reception of Cicero's life and writing in the 50s BCE.
Please register before 1 June with Jessy Rensink (jessyrensink@hotmail.com), indicating which day(s) you will attend. Please also indicate if you will join the lunches on Friday and Saturday (and if so, if you have any dietary restrictions). The fee for the academic conference, including lunch, is €20 per day.
Programme
Opening event (in Dutch)
Thursday 16 June, National Museum of Antiquities
Onsterfelijke Cicero!
Een middag over de receptie van Cicero door de eeuwen heen
Moderated by Rogier van der Wal
14:00 Welcome
14:15-14:45 Rosa van Gool (correspondent Volkskrant):
Cicero in tijden van oorlog. Van de Perzische Golf tot Kyiv
14:45-15:15 Piet Gerbrandy (Universiteit van Amsterdam):
Gigant, loser of mens? Veranderende visies op Cicero
15:15-15:30 Discussion
15:45-16:15 Christoph Pieper & Leanne Jansen:
Cicero’s roem: eindeloos, maar wel terecht?
16:15 Closing discussion
Academic programme
Friday, 17 June, Leiden University, Gravensteen
The Reception of Cicero’s Life and Works in the 50s bce
9:30 – 9:45 Registration & coffee
9:45 – 10:00 Welcome
Session 1: Cicero and his legacy
10:00 – 10:45 Lidewij van Gils (Universiteit van Amsterdam):
τὸ γὰρ εὖ μετ᾽ ἐμοῦ. Cicero’s thoughts about his heritage in the spring of 50 BCE
10:45-11:30 * Gesine Manuwald (University College London):
Cicero’s genus dialogorum between fact and fiction
11:30 – 12:00 Break
Session 2: Cicero through Roman eyes (1)
12:00 – 12:45 Andrew Sillett (Oxford University):
Historia contexta? Atticus’ mediated history of the 50s
12:45 – 13.30 Leanne Jansen (Universiteit Leiden):
Cicero unmasked? Greek views on the Milo trial
13:30 – 15:00 Lunch
Session 3: Cicero through Roman eyes (2)
15:00 – 15:45 * Tom Keeline (Washington University in St. Louis):
Cicero poeta in the 50
15:45 – 16:30 * Caroline Bishop (Texas Tech University):
Platonis aemulus: Ancient reception of Cicero’s Platonic works
16:30 – 16:45 Break
16:45 – 17:30 Henriette van der Blom (University of Birmingham):
Cicero’s humanitas? Valerius Maximus on Cicero’s defences of enemies in the 50s BC
17:30 – 19:00 Drinks
19:30 Dinner
Saturday, 18 June
Leiden University, Lipsius building, room 148
10:00 – 10:15 Coffee
Session 4: Late and post-antique interpretations of Cicero
10:15 – 11:00 * Andrea Balbo (Università di Torino):
Reading some of Cicero's speeches in late antiquity: In Pisonem, Pro Plancio, Pro Milone
11:00-11:45 Irene O’Daly (Universiteit Leiden):
Positioning the paratext: Reflections on an argumentum to the Pro Milone and its manuscript contexts
11:45 – 12:00 Pauze
12:00 – 12:45 Karl Enenkel (Universität Münster):
Inconstantia: The relevance of Cicero’s last years for Petrarch’s picture of Cicero
12:45 – 14:00 Lunch
Session 5: Cicero in the early modern period
14:00 – 14:45 Christoph Pieper (Universiteit Leiden):
Clodius’ enmity in early modern biographies of Cicero
14:45 – 15:30 * Verena Schulz (Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt): Cicero’s Pro Milone in Gerardus Vossius’ rhetorical works
15:30 – 16:00 Closing discussion
Asterisk means online participation