Assembly of the Plebs 2021 will be hosted on March 19th, 2021 via Zoom! The event will begin at 10:20 am EDT, and end at 3 pm EDT. Join us at this link: bit.ly/plebs2021 on the day of for some incredibly interesting talks from our authors!
Schedule:
- 10:20 Opening Remarks
- 10:30 John Liao (he/him), Ἐπιθυμῶ κἂν τραύματος: Agency as Conceit in Philostratus’ Erotic Letters
- 11:00 Angelli McGuigan (she/they), Finding Identity Through Sport
- 11:30 Erika Sakaguchi (she/her), Dido Exchanged: Compulsory Sexual Asymmetry in Vergil’s Aeneid
- 12:00 Lunch Break
- 1:00 Camille Richter (she/her), Shame and Sexual Allure in Roman Courtesans
- 1:30 Sheena Mckeever (she/her), A Metrical Analysis of Vergil’s Aeneid 1.268-73
- 2:00 Jordan Nemec (he/him), Signs of Cultural and Ethnic Diversity at the Serapeum of Alexandria
- 2:30 Closing Remarks