Cicero Awayday 2026

CICERO AWAYDAY 2026

Thursday, 7 May 2026

(London, UCL, ‘Common Ground’)

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

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