News & Events

Upcoming Events

Quintilian, Rhetoric and the Arts
January 8, 2027
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11:00AM - 1:00PM EST
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Meeting Room at the Hotel: Provincetown
Hybrid
Information on SCS website! This interdisciplinary panel, sponsored by the Colloquium for Ancient Rhetoric, an SCS-affiliated group, seeks to explore the role of Quintilian’s Institutio Oratoria (henceforth IO ) in the formation of discourses about the...

Past Events

Workshop: Michelle Freeman, with a response from Lea Niccolai
October 23, 2026
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12:00PM - 1:00PM EDT
Virtual
We are back in business this semester with an invitation to our first fall session of the virtual Works-in-Progress series, on Friday, October 23, 12:00–1:00 PM (Eastern). Dr. Michelle Freeman (Southern Illinois University) is kindly offering a pre...

Workshop: Edward Schiappa, with a response from David Mirhady
June 19, 2026
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12:00PM - 1:00PM EDT
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Virtual
Virtual
Dr. Edward Schiappa, John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities (MIT), is generously offering us a preview of his current book in progress: From Logos to Rhētorikē: A Lexical History of the Emergence of Rhetoric as a Discipline in Classical Greece. Dr...

Workshop: Laura Viidebaum
April 17, 2026
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12:00PM - 1:00PM EDT
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Virtual
Virtual
Laura Viidebaum (NYU), "Rhetoric as Dunamis " 2025–2026 Works in progress talk (organizers: Jackie Arthur-Montagne and Giulia Maltagliati)

Workshop: Sviatoslav Dmitriev, with a response from Matthew Ward
March 19, 2026
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12:00PM - 1:00PM EDT
Virtual
Sviatoslav Dmitriev (Ball State), "Homer and the Rhetorical Tradition" with a response from Matthew Ward (Cambridge) Abstract: Although ancient and Byzantine authors did not consistently credit Homer as the founder of rhetoric, Homeric poetry served as a...

Workshop: Sarah Brucia Breitenfeld, with a response from Hilary Lehmann
November 13, 2025
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12:00PM - 1:00PM EST
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Virtual
Virtual
Sarah Brucia Breitenfeld (University of Pittsburgh), "Living in the Enslaver's House: Gendered Slaving Strategies in Lysias’s On the Murder of Eratosthenes" with a response from Hilary Lehmann (Knox College) 2025–2026 Works in progress talk (organizers...

Workshop: Brian Krostenko, with a response from Kathryn Tempest
April 25, 2025
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12:00PM - 1:00PM EDT
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Virtual
Virtual
Brian Krostenko (Notre Dame), It’s Our World Now: Rhetorical Form, Legal Theory, and Generational Polemics (forthcoming, OUP) with a response from Kathryn Tempest (Leicester), 2025–2026 Works in progress talk (organizers: Jackie Arthur-Montagne and Giulia...

Colloquium for Ancient Rhetoric Spring Colloquium
May 3, 2024
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12:00PM - 2:00PM EDT
Virtual
"Writing Histories of Greco-Roman Rhetoric: A forward-looking reappraisal of Kennedy’s A New History of Classical Rhetoric" Join us for CAR’s Spring Colloquium, featuring six distinguished panelists in a critical reappraisal of Kennedy’s New History of...
Spring Colloquium Poster

Colloquium for Ancient Rhetoric Summer Conference
Jun. 8 - Jun 10, 2023
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All day
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Center for Hellenic Studies
In Person
Conference and Workshop on Cicero, De Inuentione at the Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington DC with 21 distinguished participants.
Colloquium for Ancient Rhetoric Summer Conference

Colloquium for Ancient Rhetoric Virtual Roundtable
December 9, 2022
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12:00PM - 1:30PM EST
Virtual
Roundtable featuring four panelists — Yelena Baraz (Princeton), Andrew Ford (Princeton), Sean Gurd (UT Austin), and Bryant Kirkland (UCLA) — about Laura Viidebaum's Creating the Ancient Rhetorical Tradition (CUP, 2021) and Christopher van den Berg's The...
Virtual Roundtable heading