Programme

The detailed programme is available for download as a PDF here.

Abstract, handouts, and presentations.

1 September 2026

(14:30) Greetings and introduction

(15:00) Session 1: Lectio magistralis

(chair Chiara Torre)

Tiziana Lippiello (Ca’ Foscari, Venezia). The rhetoric of Confucianism

(16:30) Session 2: Antiquity

(chair Chiara O. Tommasi)

Andrea Balbo (University of Turin), Amedeo A. Raschieri (University of Milan). Rhetoric in a comparative perspective

Sven Günther (Northeast Normal University, Changchun). con-/adsentio: speaking only one word in the Senate

Elisabeth Günther (Heidelberg University). The iconography of adlocutio

2 September 2026

(09:00) Session 3: Middle Ages

(chair Francesco Stella)

Paola Mocella (University of Siena). Tui nuntii magna verba dixerunt: schemi retorici a confronto nella comunicazione tra papa Innocenzo IV e le corti mongole

Federica Favero (Independent Scholar). La presenza dell’Oriente nelle cronache universali latine. Alcuni esempi tra Vincenzo di Beauvais e Galvano Fiamma

Book presentation. Hagiographica Coreana, vol. 4, ed. by Ahn Jaewon e 정혜정, rev. by F. Stella (Pacini Editore, 2026)

(11:00) Session 4: Early modern period

(chair Alberto Rocca)

Chiara O. Tommasi (University of Pisa). Aspetti retorico-stilistici nella China Illustrata di Athanasius Kircher

Elisa Della Calce (University of Turin). Rhetoric and History in Latin Texts Related to the East

Simone Mollea (University of Basel). What room for Werkpolitik in Jesuit Latin texts related to China?

(15:00) Session 5: Early modern period

(chair Andrea Balbo)

Anne Regent-Susini (Sorbonne Nouvelle University). What Antiquity to Convert China? Missionary Discourse as Represented in Louis Lecomte’s Nouveaux Mémoires sur l’état présent de la Chine (1696)

Haeyoung Kim (Kyungpook National University). Conceptualizing Yi (義) in Early Modern Missionary Discourse

(17:00) Session 6: Short papers

(chair Jaewon Ahn)

Andrea Pio Ravera Chion (University of Turin). Serica Pedemontana: Latin and Chinese texts in Piedmont

Davide Azzolin (SNS Pisa). Cross-Dressing and Other “Heresies”: The Seres in Epiphanius of Salamis’s Heresiological Discussion

Seungyeon Shin (Seoul National University). A Fictive Dialogue in Régis’ Latin Commentary on Y-King: The Debate over Textual Exegesis between Proclus and Arnobius

Jong-heon Kim, Hanuri Son (Seoul National University). The Iliad as a Love Story and the Emergence of a New Concept of Family in Twentieth-Century Korea

3 September 2026

(09:00) Session 7: Between the 18th and 19th centuries

(chair Amedeo A. Raschieri)

Pier Francesco Fumagalli (Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana). La Cina nelle immagini e nella narrazione di Giulio Ferrario

Jaewon Ahn (Seoul National University). Samse-daeeui (The Three Worlds): A 19th-Century Roman Catholic Didactic Poem in Korean

Cynthia Liu (Warwick University, University of Oxford). Epic Rhetoric from Asia to Europe

(11:00) Session 8: Contemporary age

(chair Paola F. Moretti)

Li Hui (Beijing Foreign Studies University). Integrating Latin Rhetorical Knowledge into Latin Teaching in China: Course Design and Textual Analysis Training

Bettina Mottura (University of Milan). Argumentation and the State in contemporary China

(12:30) Discussion and final remarks

Jaewon Ahn, Andrea Balbo, Bettina Mottura, Chiara Torre