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The Classics Department hosted the annual undergraduate research conference, Parilia, with Union and Skidmore Colleges on April 15. For about 15 years, the conference has been held around the time of Rome’s birthday, April 21. The host college rotates among the three each year.

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.

Professor of Africana Studies and Classics Shelley Haley presented an invited lecture titled “Translation, Authorial Intent and Racism” on March 24 at SUNY Oneonta. The lecture was part of her larger research project examining racist receptions of ancient authors.

, 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.

Carl Rubino, the Winslow Professor of Classics, presented a lecture titled “From Mythology to Star Wars” on Feb. 8 at Sierra Nevada College. His discussion focused on the ancient mythological roots of the Star Wars films.

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).

Professor of Comparative Literature Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz was awarded the Lambda Classical Caucus Activism Award at the Society for Classical Studies meeting held Jan. 6-9 in San Francisco.

Barbara Gold, the Edward North Professor of Classics, co-organized and co-directed a seminar at the annual meeting of the Society for Classical Studies in San Francisco on January 7.  The seminar was titled "Responses to Homer's Iliad by Women Writers, from WW2 to the Present"; it was by advance registration only and had 25 participants.

Hamilton's Departments of Classics and Comparative Literature were awarded the Professional Equity Award by the Women’s Classical Caucus of the Society for Classical Studies at the annual meeting of the Society for Classical Studies in San Francisco on Jan. 6.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics Anne Feltovich examined the treatment of friendship between women in male-authored classical literature in an article titled “In Defense of Myrrhina: Friendship Between Women in Plautus’ Casina,” published in the fall issue of the journal Helios.