Lire la déclamation romaine. Première session : Sénèque le Père
Thursday 22nd November 2012
9.15 Opening address
9.30 Keynote speaker
Danielle Van Val-Maeder (Lausanne)
Jeux de controverses. Les postures didactiques dans les Suasoires et les Controverses de Sénèque le Père
10.30 Coffee break
10.45 Panel 1: Seneca and literary genres
- Y. Baraz (Princeton) — The bitter medicine of history: Seneca on the genre of declamation
- B. Larosa (Calabria) – The mythical exempla of faithful heroines in the Elder Seneca’s work: literary fortune of a declamatory device
- A. Rolle & J. Pingoud (Lausanne)– L’intertextualité chez Sénèque le Père
14.30 Panel 2: Criticism, agression and declamatory practice
- J. Mannering (Loyola) – Attuning the Roman Ear: The Poetics of Criticism and Collaboration inside the Declamatory Arena
- C. Schneider (Strasbourg) – On ne plaisante pas avec le rire
15.30 Coffee break
16.00 Panel 3: Seneca and declamatory practices
- A. Balbo (Torino) – Between real and fictional eloquence: the declaimers who were also orators
- S. Feddern (Kiel) – The fictionality of the declamation
- C.Van der Berg (Amherst) – The Rhetoric of Decline and the Rhetoric for declamatio
Friday 23rd November 2012
10.00 Keynote speaker
Anthony Corbeill (Kansas)
Physical excess as a marker of genre in Seneca the Elder
11.00 Coffee break
11.30 Panel 4: Structure and meaning in Seneca’s works
- O. Cappello (Southern California) – Nomination and Systematisation in Seneca’s Controversiae
- P. Schwartz (Sao Paulo) – The opposition ingenium- iudicium in Seneca the Elder
- T. Burkard (Kiel)– The terms divisio and color in the works of Seneca and (Ps.) Quintilian