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Summer Zoom: Spotlights on the reception of the Pro Archia

21 May 2025

Summer Zoom Meeting “Spotlights on the reception of Pro Archia”

Friday 6 June, 3-5 PM

Zoom link (t.b.a. upon registration)

We warmly invite you to join us for a Zoom meeting of the  Europa Ciceroniana project on Friday, 6 June, from 15:00 to 17:00 o’clock (channel and detailed program will be announced later). The afternoon is chaired by David Movrin and Christoph Pieper.

In the first part, we will start thinking about the reception of the Pro Archia (a topic that we will also investigate during the Ljubljana workshop in March 2026). There will be three short, informal pitch presentations. After the coffee break, there will be ample time to discuss, in breakout rooms, the project in general, to exchange news, and make new acquaintances.

Please register by sending an email to both organisers: David.Movrin@ff.uni-lj.si; c.pieper@hum.leidenuniv.nl

 

Programme

15.00-15.10     Welcome

15.10-15.25      Simone Mollea (Turin): At the origins of the Humanities: humanitas in Cicero’s Pro Archia

15:25-15:40      Christoph Pieper (Leiden): Teaching Pro Archia in Antiquity: the late antique Scholia Bobiensia on Cicero’s speeches

15:40-15:55      David Movrin (Ljubljana): Cicero’s Pro Archia in the American South: W.E.B. Du Bois and The Souls of Black Folk

15:55-16:00      Questions about the pitches

16:00-16:10      (Coffee) Break

16:10-16:45      Discussion of the pitches and the project in breakout rooms

16:45-17:00     Final discussion and closing remarks