Symposia

2010 ASHR Symposium

Rhetorics of Reason and Restraint: Stoic Speech from Antiquity to the Present

Preliminary Schedule

Thursday, May 27 – Friday, May 28, 2010

Thursday, May 27, 2010

Papers & Panels

Spring Park Bay Room

The Minneapolis Marriott City Center
Minneapolis , Minnesota

8:30am

Ned O'Gorman, President ASHR, Welcome and Opening Comments

8:45am-10:15am

Olga Kaczmarek, University of Warsaw, " Stoicism and the Literate Mind: Correlation and Contestation."

Michele Kennerly, University of Pittsburg, "Unmasking the Stoic Rhetoric Behind Early Dramatistic Theory."

Rya Butterfield, Louisiana State University, "Before Song Politics and Hero Worship: A Comparison of Taoism and Stoicism "

10:30am-12:00pm

Claudia M. Carlos, Carnegie Mellon University , "Restraint and Rhetorical Craftiness: Reticentia as a Means of Figured Speech in Montaigne's Essays."

Michal Dobrzanski, University of Warsaw , " Reception of Justus Lipsius in Poland ."

John Pell & William Duffy, University of North Carolina , Greensboro , " “The Stoic's Evangelist: Las Casas at Valladolid , 1550-51.”

12:00-1:30pm

LUNCH BREAK

1:30-2:30pm

Keynote: Janet Atwill, University of Tennessee, “The ‘Nature’ of Stoicism in the Second Sophistic.”

Introduced by Ekaterina Haskins, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

2:45-4:15pm

Susan C. Jarratt, University of California , Irvine , "Cosmopolis vs. Sophistopolis: Versions of the City in Greek Rhetoric under Empire."

Alessandra Beasley Von Burg, Wake Forest University , "Cosmopolitanism of Reason and Respect: Stoic and Kantian Rhetorics for the Irrationality of Citizenship."

Michael Svoboda, George Washington University , " The Performance of the Reasonable: Bjorn Lomborg, the Copenhagen Consensus, and the Cost-Benefit Construction of Climate Change."

4:30-5:30pm

Keynote: Lawrence Green, University of Southern California, “Stoic Residues in Renaissance Rhetoric."

Introduced by Cory Holding, University of Illinois

5:45-7:00pm

ASHR Symposium Reception, Lake Nokomis Room, The Minneapolis Marriott City Center

Friday, May 28, 2010

Papers & Panels

Spring Park Bay Room

8:30am

Ned O'Gorman, President ASHR, Welcome and Opening Comments

8:45am-10:15am

Pitor Stankiewicz, University of Warsaw , " The teachings of the slave and the meditations of the emperor."

Alex Parrish, Washington State University , "Conspicuously Withdrawn, Conspicuously Present: Epicurean and Stoic Publicity Strategies before Augustus."

Brandon Inabinet, Furman University , " The Stoicism of Eloquence: Cicero 's Hellenistic Treatise."

10:30-11:30am

Keynote: James Darsey, Georgia State University, "The Non-Stoical Cosmopolitan."

Introduction by Dave Tell, University of Kansas

11:30-11:45am

Ned O'Gorman, President ASHR, Thanks and Concluding Remarks

For more information, contact

Ned O'Gorman

President, ASHR

Department of Communication

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

325 Communication Building, MC-456