March 29, 2026 by
GBS
Congratulations to Elisa Kogan Penha (Editor- and Organiser-in-Chief) and everyone involved in this year's Assembly of the Plebs, held in the building on Saturday, March 28, for a magnificent showcase of engaged and illuminating research by current undergraduates. The presentations will be included in this year’s issue of the undergraduate journal Plebeian, which you will be able to read online late in April. They included:
- Olivia Pontecorvo: Christianizing the Classics: the Evolution of Dante’s Personification of Love in the Vita Nuova
- Yulia Tsz Yau Wong: Myth and Function: Viewer Engagement Through an Etruscan Bronze Mirror and The Sleeping Hermaphrodite
- Elisa Kogan Penha: The Woman's Voice in Juvenal's Satire 6 and Tacitus' Germania
- Eli Vodarek-Berman: Imagery and History in Two Passages of Ammianus Marcellinus
- Raquel Lewin: Speech and Blame in Arrian’s Anabasis
- Cass Aalbers-Davey: Unwedding, Unveiling, Undoing: Marriage to Death and Female Homoeroticism in Euripides’ Medea
- Jenna Guadagna: Effeminate Hephaistos: Gender and Power in the Birth and Return of Hephaistos.