In April, Weiner gave a response paper for a conference on the ancient Mediterranean and the work of H. P. Lovecraft. This talk responded to a talk on the novel Mexican Gothic which delved into Lovecraft's racism and affinity for both classical studies and eugenics.
Later in April, he spoke at a virtual conference sponsored by EuGeStA (an organization primarily located at the University of Lille, France, dedicated to classics and gender studies), focused around supporting characters in film. Weiner’s talk, “Occidentalism and the She-wolf: Self, Other, and the Western turn in Centurion (2010),” examined changing geographies of Orientalism and Occidentalism through gendered violence and ecocritical motifs surrounding the myths of Romulus, Remus, and the foundation of Rome in a film set in Roman Britannia.
Posted May 1, 2026
