Thursday, November 6, 2025
9:30–10:00 – Coffee reception
10:00–10:30
Marie LEDENTU (Université Lyon 3) & Charles GUÉRIN (Sorbonne Université): « Pourquoi et comment (re)lire les Catilinaires et les Philippiques de Cicéron ? Enjeux et questionnements rhétoriques, politiques, historiques »
SESSION 1
Cicero and the res publica: memory, rhetoric, and politics
10:30–11:15 – Keynote speaker
Christoph PIEPER (Universiteit Leiden)
Cicero’s consular mask 2.0: Self-fashioning strategies in the Philippics and beyond
11:15–11:45
Bernardo CEDONE (Università degli Studi di Milano)
Cicerone “uomo forte”: uso e riuso di Catilina tra Catilinarie e Filippiche
11:45–12:15
Katharine FIRTH (University of Amsterdam)
Cicero’s Catilinarian Orations, The Plebs, The Senate, and Collective Memory
12:15–12:45 – Discussion
12:45–14:30 – Lunch break
SESSION 2
In Catilinam and In Antonium: invective, memory, and representations of conflict
14:30–15:00
Bogdan George CRISTEA (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)
La revalorisation des personnages et des événements négatifs dans les Philippiques de Cicéron
15:00–15:30
Giuseppe LA BUA (Sapienza Università di Roma)
Nec vero necesse est quemquam a me nominari: memoria sui, esemplarità e invettiva nelle Catilinarie e Filippiche di Cicerone
15:30–16:00 – Coffee break
16:00–16:30
Sophia Luise HÄBERLE (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Fabulam conficere: Autorschaftskonkurrenz and Writing the Future of Civil War
16:30–17:00 – Discussion
Friday, November 7, 2025
9:00–9:30 – Coffee reception
SESSION 3
What survival for Cicero?: literary and rhetorical receptions
9:30–10:15 – Keynote speaker
Alfredo CASAMENTO (Università di Palermo)
"Predicatore di illusioni". Leopardi, Cicerone, le Filippiche
10:15–10:45
Francesca ROMANA NOCCHI (Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata)
Le citazioni ciceroniane nell’Institutio oratoria di Quintiliano: memoria e tradizione di un maestro
10:45–11:15
Raphaëlle CYTERMANN (Sorbonne Université)
Cicéron chez Lucain (Pharsale VII, 62–85): la déconstruction de la figure du consul togatus
11:15–11:45 – Discussion
11:45–13:30 – Lunch break
SESSION 4
Ciceronian memory in historiography and exemplary literature: a process of reduction?
13:30–14:00
Henriette VAN DER BLOM (University of Birmingham)
Valerius Maximus on Cicero
14:00–14:30
Simon CAHANIER (Nantes Université)
L’oubli des Catilinaires et des Philippiques dans les Faits et dits mémorables de Valère Maxime
14:30–15:00 – Coffee break
15:30–16:00
Tommaso RICCHIERI (Università di Bologna)
Aeternas Antonii memoriae inussit notas: le Filippiche e la morte di Cicerone in Velleio Patercolo
16:00–16:30 – Discussion
16:30–17:00 – Closing remarks and farewell
Final Program
