Assembly of the Plebs MMXXVI

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Saturday, March 28, 2026 10:00 am to 4:00 pm
LI220
Lillian Massey Building
125 Queen's Park, Toronto, ON, M5S 2C7

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On Saturday March 28th, 2026, join us in celebrating the undergraduate research conducted by the authors of Plebeian's twelfth volume! The conference will run from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. with our seven authors presenting their papers across various topics, texts, and histories of the ancient Mediterranean:

  • 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 Tactitus' 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
All welcome. For more information, and to register attendance, please use this RSVP link.

 

 

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125 Queen's Park, Toronto, ON, M5S 2C7

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