| Description | Dr. Laurent Pernot is traveling from Strasbourg, France to give a lecture on classical rhetoric at Baylor University. Dr. Pernot is Professor and Chair of the Department of Greek at the University of Strasbourg, Director of the Center for the Analysis of the Religious Rhetorics of Antiquity, Member of the Institut de France (Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres), and former President of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric (ISHR). On Thursday, 2/7, Dr. Pernot will give a public lecture entitled “To Speak, Saying Nothing? The Enigma of Ceremonial Praise.” |
