讲座题目： Western Rhetoric from Antiquity to Early Modernity

讲 座 人： Laura Iseppi De Filippis 

主 持 人： 徐  斌 博士

讲座时间： 5月10日（周五） 10:00-12:00

讲座地点： JG209会议室 

讲座概要：

Rhetoric is a common term. We often hear it mentioned, with negative connotations, as a synonym for trite pedantry and base manipulation. But has it always been this way? A closer look at the ancient and early modern texts from which it originated is going to unveil a few much more complex and fascinating aspects of this art.

讲座人简介：

Laura Iseppi De Filippis holds a Ph.D. in English from New York University (2004) and currently teaches in the European Studies Dept. and in the School of English Studies at Xi’an International Studies University. She is the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship and has previously taught as Adjunct Professor at NYU, Sarah Lawrence College, Università di Verona, Accademia di Belle Arti di Verona. Her publications include essays, translations and the editing of Inventing a Path: Studies in Medieval Rhetoric in Honour of Mary Carruthers Nottingham Medieval Studies 56 (Brepols, 2012). Her latest essay, ‘A Hell of a Job. Mnemotechnics and the Depiction of Trades in the Last Judgment at Chaldon, Surrey,’ is published in vol. 6 of Medieval and Renaissance Studies (Zhejiang University Press, 2022). Her essay ‘Mnemotechnics, Vision, and Apocrypha. Sources of imagines agentes in Middle English Drama’ is forthcoming for Routledge in 2025.