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Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics Jesse Weiner presided over a roundtable discussion during the annual joint meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) and the Society for Classical Studies (SCS) in Toronto on Jan. 7.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics Jesse Weiner chaired a panel on Greek literature and presented a paper at the annual meeting of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics Jesse Weiner recently presented an invited lecture at Hobart and William Smith Colleges.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics Jesse Weiner presented an invited keynote address for a conference titled “Feeling History” on Oct. 28.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics Jesse Weiner co-chaired a panel on “Frankenstein and the Fantastic” at the annual meeting of the Northeast Popular Culture Association.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics Jesse Weiner hosted a conference titled “The Modern Prometheus; or, Frankenstein” on April 8-9. The interdisciplinary symposium explored the ways in which the literature, mythology and philosophy of Greek and Roman antiquity inform Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and its later traditions.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics Jesse Weiner presented an invited lecture titled “Every Time I Write A Rhyme, These People Think It’s a Crime: Transgressive Poetics and Self-Representation in Catullus and Eminem” as part of Illinois Wesleyan University’s Ides Lecture Series in Greek and Roman Studies.

, the Winslow Professor of Classics, presented a lecture titled “From Mythology to Star Wars” at Sierra Nevada College in Lake Tahoe, Nev., then traveled to Albuquerque to discuss “Frankenstein, Aristotle, and the Wisdom of Lucretius” at the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association conference.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics Jesse Weiner recently published “The Many Forms of Persian Decline after Cyrus,” an online, peer-reviewed commentary to the epilogue of Xenophon’s Cyropaedia (Education of Cyrus).

Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics Jesse Weiner presented a paper and chaired a panel on Nov. 7 during the annual meeting of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association in Portland, Ore.