Presentations

Presentations relating to the project (all by Henriette van der Blom):

  1. ‘Speaking up for themselves: Women in Valerius Maximus’ Facta et dicta memorabilia’, University of New England (Australia) and Amphorae Masterclass for Classics/Ancient History UG and PG students across AUS/NZ, 2026.
  2. ‘Italian and (non-)Roman speakers in Valerius Maximus: hierarchy and identity’, University of New England (Australia) Classics and Ancient History Research Seminar, 2026.
  3. ‘Proving, pleasing and persuading: why ancient rhetoric still matters’, Public lecture, University of Melbourne (Australia), 2026.
  4. ‘Representations of Cicero in Valerius Maximus: orator, politician and source’, University of Melbourne (Australia) Classics and Ancient History Masterclass and Graduate Seminar, 2026.
  5. ‘Valerius Maximus on maiestas treason, res publica and public speech’, University of Sydney (Australia) Classics and Ancient History Research Seminar, 2026.
  6. ‘Cicero(s) in Valerius Maximus’ Facta et dicta memorabilia’, University of Glasgow Classics Research Seminar, 2026.
  7. ‘Roman, Italian and other foreign speakers in Valerius Maximus: hierarchy and identity’, University of Warwick Classics and Ancient History Research Seminar, 2026.
  8. ‘The agency of maternal testators in Valerius Maximus’, Eugesta international conference on ‘Subversive Motherhood and the Roman Revolution’, online 2025.
  9. ‘Valerius Maximus on Cicero’, international conference ‘Persuader et faire mémoire à Rome à la fin de la République: relectures croisées des Catilinaires et des Philippiques de Cicéron’, Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3 (France), 2025.
  10. ‘Liminal speakers in Valerius Maximus’ Facta et dicta memorabilia’, Princeton University (USA), 2025.
  11. ‘Public speaking from Saturninus to the Social War: the perspective from the Facta et dicta memorabilia’, international conference ‘The Generation before Cicero’, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore (USA), 2025.
  12. ‘Not the vir bonus dicendi peritus Valerius Maximus on Roman republican orators’, International Society for the History of Rhetoric conference 2025 (University of Copenhagen, Denmark).
  13. ‘Anti-immigration rhetoric in and around Cicero’s Pro Balbo’, international conference on Cicero, Pro Balbo, Universität Potsdam (Germany), 2025.
  14. ‘Docere, movere ac delectare the significance of ancient rhetoric’, Lectures at Fudan and Peking Universities, Shanghai and Beijing, 2025.
  15. ‘Valerius Maximus on female speakers’, international conference ‘Women’s Oratory in the Roman world: the gender dimension in ancient speeches (8th BCE – 1st CE)’, Università Ca’ Foscari, Venice (Italy), 2025.
  16. ‘Time, chronology and turning points in Valerius Maximus’ representation of republican public speakers’, Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg Ancient History Research Seminar (Germany), 2025.
  17. ‘Anti-immigration rhetoric in the Roman republican contio?’, international conference In the name of the People: Facets of Populism in Ancient Greece and Rome, TU Dresden (Germany), 2024.
  18. ‘LGRR and Roman republican elections: the view from Valerius Maximus’, ‘Last Generation of the Roman Republic international seminar series’, online, 2024.
  19. ‘Elections and electioneering in Valerius Maximus’, international conference Canvassing and Elections in the Roman Republic, Università di Padova (Italy) 2024.
  20. ‘Reading the oratorical exempla in chronological order: authorial programme and temporal perspectives’, international conference Time and Temporality in Valerius Maximus, University of Exeter, 2024.
  21. ‘Valerius Maximus on Julius Caesar’, international conference Caesar’s Visions and Impact on the Roman Empire, Universität Flensburg (Germany), 2024.
  22. ‘Style in Valerius Maximus’, international conference Style in Ancient Literature and Computational Approaches, Aarhus University (Denmark), 2024.
  23. ‘Orator-audience dynamics in Valerius Maximus’ Facta et dicta’, international conference L’oratore sale in tribuna, Università degli Studi di Roma ‘Tor Vergata’ (Italy), 2024.
  24. ‘Oratory in Valerius Maximus: sources, traditions and interests’, University of Edinburgh Ancient History Research Seminar, 2024.
  25. ‘Valerius Maximus and traditions about Roman republican orators’, international conference Roman Historiography: Nature and Methodologies, Danish Institute at Rome (Italy), 2024.
  26. ‘Roman oratory ‘from below’: women speaking in (the re)public’, University of Copenhagen SAXO Institute Research Seminar (Denmark), 2023.
  27. ‘Alternative voices in Roman oratory’, University of Cape Town Classics Research Seminar (South Africa), 2023.
  28. ‘Valerius Maximus on republican oratory’, international conference on Valerius Maximus, University of Fribourg (Switzerland), 2022.
  29. ‘Literary innovations in early imperial engagement with Roman republican oratory’, international conference on Appropriation and Innovation in Early Christianity, Aarhus University (Denmark), 2022.
  30. ‘Exempla of republican orators – a change from republic to empire?’, International Society for the History of Rhetoric Conference 2022 (Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands).
  31. ‘Exempla of republican orators and expectations of audience knowledge of the rhetorical past’, international conference on ‘Speaking Knowledge in the Ancient World’, University of Cambridge, 2022.
  32. ‘Cicero’s humanitas? Valerius Maximus on Cicero’s defences of enemies in the 50s BC’, ‘Mediated Cicero’ conference, Leiden (the Netherlands), 2022.