Cicero Awayday 2026 will take place at UCL on 7 May 2026.
Everyone with an interest in Ciceronian matters will be welcome!
Please register here.
Programme:
10.30–10.45 am Registration and coffee
10.45–11.00 am Opening remarks
Section 1: Cicero’s letters and treatises
11.00–11.40 am Catharine Edwards: Paternal address: Cicero and son
11.40–12.20 pm Cesare Barba: Cicero’s officium in the Civil War reconsidered
12.20–1.00 pm Jaap Wisse: Playing the long game: thoughts old and new about the interpretation and nature of De oratore
1.00–1.45 pm Sandwich lunch
Section 2: Cicero’s speeches
1.45–2.25 pm Alex A. Antoniou: Pulling the wool over our eyes: Cicero and the censorial nota in the pro Cluentio
2.25–3.05 pm Shekinah Vera-Cruz: Technicality and technique: Cicero and the ius civile
3.05–3.15 pm Discussion about Cicero Awayday 2028
3.15–3.35 pm Tea / coffee break
Section 3: Reception of Cicero (roundtable)
3.35–4.55 pm Yanda Song: Ovidian Reception of Ciceronian Friendship
Abigail Sieradzki: Cicero, Ciceronis: Cicero as a grammatical exemplar in late antique literature
Leonardo Costanini: Petrarch’s role in the transmission of Pro Archia
4.55–5.00 pm Concluding remarks