Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Sprach- und literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultät - Institut für Klassische Philologie, HU Berlin

Organisation: Lisa Cordes und Sophia Häberle

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Please register by September 10, 2026 at: sophia.haeberle@hu-berlin.de

Thursday, Sept. 17th

13:45–14:00 Welcome and Introduction (Lisa Cordes, Sophia Häberle)

Chair: Lisa Cordes

14:00–14:45 Catherine Steel (Glasgow): Violence, Secrecy and Fear: Cicero’s Presentation of the Catilinarian Conspiracy

14:45–15:30 Sophia Häberle (Berlin, HU): Rivers of Blood. Forensic Imagery and the Experience of Civil Violence in Cicero’s Oratory

16:00–16:45 Dennis Pausch (Marburg): Monumentum eius pugnae: Memories of Conflict in Livy’s Topography of the Forum Romanum

16:45–17:30 Verena Schulz (Munich): Cicero’s Caesarian Speeches: Coping with the Trauma of Civil War?

17:30–18:15 Wolfgang Havener (Heidelberg): Tanta vis admonitionis inest in locis — The Experience of Violence and Rome’s “Exemplary Topography” in Cicero’s Speeches

Friday, Sept. 18th

Chair: Babett Edelmann-Singer (Berlin, FU)

9:00–9:45 Peter Scholz (Stuttgart): Wie laut sprach Cicero? Vorstellung der Curia Iulia-Auralisierungen und des dazugehörigen 3D-Modells

09:45–10:30 Fabio Calo (Berlin, FU): Performative Anger as a Rhetorical Instrument in Cicero’s Forensic Oratory

Chair: Sophia Häberle

10:45–11:30 Harriet I. Flower (Princeton): Sulla’s Senate House Revisited

11:30–12:15 Lisa Cordes (Berlin, HU): (Forensic) Horror and Memory in Cicero’s De finibus 5: Civil War Landscapes and the Affective Power of Urban Anachronism

13:15–14:00 Kamil Kopij (Krakow): Affordances of the Oratorical Taskscape: Multisensory Communication and Political Space in Roman Public Assemblies

14:00–14:45 Henriette van der Blom (Birmingham): The first-century BCE contio in Valerius Maximus: Speech, Politics and Roman Identity

14:45–15:15 Discussion and Closing Remarks