BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Grails iCalendar plugin//NONSGML Grails iCalendar plugin//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240328T124732Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20130627T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20130628T180000 SUMMARY:Emotion and persuasion in classical antiquity UID:20240328T130302Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6f97df9687-7c6q9 TZID:Europe/London LOCATION:11 Bedford Square/2 Gower Street\, London\, United Kingdom\, WC1B 3RF DESCRIPTION:
This colloquium addresses the variety of ways in which emotions are used in \;strategies of persuasion within and between societies\, groups and \;individuals in the ancient world\, considering different strata of society\, \;and diverse media of communication.  \;Persuasion may be effected\, for \;example\, by narrative\, explicit exhortation\, or covert manipulation through \;the judicious use of certain words and phrases.  \;Emotional strategies can be \;aimed at superiors\, inferiors or one&rsquo\;s equals\; to strangers or friends\; and \;attempted for personal gain or the public good. They can appear in oral \;communications designed to be heard briefly &ndash\; i.e. forensic\, deliberative\, \;epideictic\, hortatory or supplicatory oratory &ndash\; their representations in \;literature\, or in written communications that can be read again and again \;(philosophical treatises\, other literary works\, letters\, inscriptions).
In recent years scholarship on emotive persuasion techniques has focused \;primarily on explicit exhortation to feel a small group of emotions (anger\, \;hatred\, envy\, gratitude\, pity) in Attic forensic oratory\, rhetorical \;techniques as propounded by philosophers (Aristotle\, pseudo-Aristotle\, \;Cicero\, Quintilian)\, and theatrical techniques such as dress\, gesture or \;vocal techniques. The last of these is outside the scope of this \;colloquium\, and we aim to move discussion well beyond the former two.
Contact: Ed.Sanders@rhul.ac.uk \;and \;Matthew.Johncock.2011@live.rhul.ac.uk.