Associate Professor of Classics Jesse Weiner recently presented “Medea, Motherhood, Race, and Ecocatastrophe in N.K. Jemisin’s The Broken Earth” in Vancouver, B.C., at the joint meeting of the Classical Association of the Canadian West and the Classical Association of the Pacific Northwest.
In this paper, Weiner “interprets an iconic science fiction/fantasy trilogy as a reception of the ancient Greek Medea Medea myth, in a tradition reaching back through Toni Morrison’s Beloved and the historical Margaret Garner.” In early April, he presented a version of the paper at “Intersectional Medeas,” a two-day, hybrid format international conference that he organized and hosted on campus.
Weiner also presented an invited talk on necropolitics in Homer’s Odyssey at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Wash. This spring he is leading a public reading group on the Odyssey at the Kirkland Town Library.
Weiner recently concluded his second year of organizing/co-organizing the Carl A. Rubino 娇色导航at the Other Side public lecture series in Utica. The free program features 娇色导航faculty across disciplines presenting public-facing research.
