Invitation to the Tacitism Conference, Warsaw 2025

All presentations can be attended online. If you want to join online, send an email to TacitismConference@proton.me and we will send you the link to the online session website: tacitism.wordpress.com

Day 1
Thursday 18 September

9:30 Welcome and Opening remarks

10:15 Session 1: European Expansion and American Tacitism. Chair: Anna Laskowska

10:15 Arthur Weststeijn, Virtue Politics in Dutch Brazil: The Tacitism of Krzysztof Arciszewski

10:45 Coffee

11:00 Carolina Ferraro, The Tacitean Mirror: Balthasar Álamos de Barrientos and Spanish Colonial Rule

11.30 María Juliana Gandini, Tacitus in the swamp: Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas’ Tacitist reading of Hernando de Soto’s Florida expedition (1615)

12:00–12:30 Discussion

12:30 Lunch

14:00 Session 2: Counter-Tacitism and debates. Chair: Zofia Żółtek

14.00 Nicoletta Bruno, The Silent Sovereign: Tacitus’ Tiberius and the Afterlife of a Political Model (16th–18th c.)

14:30 Tiziana Provvidera, Tacitism and (anti)machiavellianism in Giovanni Botero’s De regia sapientia (online)

15:00 Alberto Clerici, Paganino Gaudenzi and Tacitism

15.30 Discussion

15:45 Tea

16:00 James McNamara, Reorienting Tacitism: Agricolan Tacitism in William Camden’s Britannia

16:30 Jan Waszink, Dutch protestant counter-Tacitism 1600–1640

17:00 Discussion

20:00 Conference Dinner, Pod Samsonem

Day 2
Friday 19 September

9:30 Session 3: Theory of Tacitism / contemporary reception. Chair: Carolina Ferraro

9:30 Stefano Colavecchia, Tacitism in Disguise: Rubbiani’s Puzzling Reading of Gentili’s Modernity in Fascist Italy

10:00 Andrea Di Carlo, Foucauldian Tacitus: Parrhēsia, Calgacus, Boudica, and Caratacus

10:30 Discussion

10:45 Coffee

11:00 Lucie Claire, Study of Tacitus or Tacitism? Some Reflections based on the Case of Marc-Antoine Muret

11:30 Meg Sanglikar, Portrayals of Power: the Tacitean Legacy of Praise and Blame

12:00 Evangelos Adam, Petere Tacitum. Law, Morality, and Governance in light of Legal Humanism

12:30 Discussion

12:45 Lunch

14:00 Session 4: 17th-century receptions of Tacitism. Chair: María Concepción Gutiérrez

14:00 Saúl Martínez Bermejo, People’s Tacitism: obstacles to and perceptions of the widespread popularization of Tacitus’s works in 16th and 17th century

14:30 Silvana D’Alessio, Tacitus or the 'Ippocrate politico’ (according to Boccalini). Reading Tacitus for a new politics (online)

15:00 Discussion

15:15 Tea

16:00 Anna Maria Laskowska, Tacitus at the Polish Court of Queen Maria Gonzaga: Imported Realism and the Tradition of Liberty

16:30 Zofia Żółtek, Thomas May and history as propaganda

17:00 Discussion

Day 3
Saturday 20 September

10:00 Session 5: Tacitism and Practice. Chair: Jan Waszink

10:00 Giovan Giuseppe Monti, The use of Tacitus in Giulio Cesare Capaccio

10:30 María Concepción Gutiérrez Redondo, Reading Tacitus in Early Seventeenth-Century Spain: Political Uses and Strategies of Reception

11:00 Filip Drazenovic, Influence of Tacitus on Political Thought in Habsburg monarchy between 1660–1740

11:30 Discussion

11:45 Coffee

12:00 General conclusions and discussion

13:00 Closure