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The holding of high political office under the Principate has often been regarded as evidence for collaboration with, or at least acceptance of, the imperial regime, as in the cases of Tacitus and Pliny. Conversely, the refusal to hold high political office or to seek to advance one’s political career has been interpreted as a mark of defiance and autonomy. In this paper, these assumptions are challenged by examining the careers of dissidents and collaborators and by exploring how the opposition could actively use the cursus honorum as a means of opposition. I conclude that a Roman’s cursus honorum does not reveal political allegiances or opinion, which especially pertains to writers like Tacitus and Pliny.

Illinois Classical Studies, 2013

This article examines the response of the court of Nero and the Senate to Agrippina's murder in terms of imperial ideology and ceremony. Our ancient sources, particularly Tacitus, depicts events after Agrippina's murder in order to highlight the wickedness of Nero, the complicity of Burrus and Seneca, and the adulation of the Senate. The re-contextualization of these events in imperial ideology regarding the salus of the emperor and the state, as well as practices related to damnatio memoriae, brings the activities of the Nero's court and the Senate surrounding the matricide into clearer historical focus.

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The speech To the King (35 K.), declared spurious by B. Keil, is an authentic work of Aristides representing a speech delivered ca. 144. Debate continues: for a study of the Eis basilea against the background of Antonine ideology, M. Haake, “Image-Politik. Antoninus Pius, ‘Greeks under Rome’ und das kaiserliche Image zwischen Erwartungshaltungen und Selbstdarstellung,” in Chr. Michels and P. Fr. Mittag, eds., Jenseits des Narrativs: Antoninus Pius in den nicht-literarischen Quellen (2017) 195-213.

Proceedings. Fourth IEEE International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces, 2002

Speech and gesture are two primary modes used in natural human communication; hence, they are important inputs for a multimodal interface to process. One of the challenges for multimodal interfaces is to accurately recognize the words in spontaneous speech. This is partly due to the presence of speech repairs, which seriously degrade the accuracy of current speech recognition systems. Based on the assumption that speech and gesture arise from same thought process, we would expect to find patterns of gesture that cooccur with speech repairs that can be exploited by a multimodal processing system to more effectively process spontaneous speech.

The Local scenes and Global Cultures of Psytrance, 2010

Cririque of Anthropology, 2012

This article takes a fresh look at political brokerage as a complex, provisional and contested phenomenon. Although brokerage has received little recent attention, I show how it remains critical to understanding the urban poor’s involvement in electoral politics. The article focuses on how local community leaders in a Recife slum, Brazil, operate as brokers during elections. Here, they have to deal with the different interests of their patrons (politicians) and their clients (their fellow slum dwellers), and also with the latter’s contradictory views on electoral politics. Slum dwellers combine a positive image, in which electoral politics provides access to resources, with a negative image, in which it contaminates all those involved, including the brokers. Further, by showing how these slum dwellers perceive electoral politics as coming from ‘another world’, this study counters the still prevalent functionalist understandings of brokerage which depict brokers as the forgers of a shared moral universe. http://coa.sagepub.com/content/32/4/479.abstract

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