Rethinking Epideictic Rhetoric
Pinni B4113, Kanslerinrinne 1, Tampereen yliopisto
Program
12:30 Opening words: Sari Kivistö
Session 1 (chair: Eeva-Liisa Bastman)
12:45 Raija Sarasti: Descriptive Epideictic Rhetoric: How to Praise Natural objects
13:15 Erika Pihl: The Cosmic Union: Natural Philosophy and the Vasa-Jagiellon Alliance in Henricus Mollerus’ Epithalamium (1562)
13:45 Päivi Mehtonen: Colonialist Dedication. The Persistent Patriotism of New Sweden Literature
14.15 coffee
Session 2 (chair: Erika Pihl)
14.45 Peter Sjökvist: Poetical Friends, and a Teacher in their Midst – From the Golden Age of Latin Poetry in Sweden
15.15 Eeva-Liisa Bastman: From Charm to Praise: Incantatory Rhetoric in an Early Modern Finnish Wedding Poem
15.45 Hannu Riikonen: Views on the Relationship between Music and Rhetoric in Dissertations at the Royal Academy of Turku
16.15 end discussion and publication