Peter Weller

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Peter Weller would be the coolest professor ever.

*hands in doctoral thesis*

THANK YOU FOR YOUR COOPERATION. GOOD NIGHT.

 

[Willow]

Peter Weller would be the coolest professor ever.

*hands in doctoral thesis*

THANK YOU FOR YOUR COOPERATION. GOOD NIGHT.

I'd take that class!

I just remeebred that Dominic Keating has his degree (undergrad) in History. I wonder if they swapped stories on set.

 

[eyeresist]

Some years ago, we were watching a History Channel documentary about the engineering feats in ancient Rome. One historian after another popped up to voice an opinion, but then I noted "Peter Weller, Syracuse University." He did look familiar, and some checking revealed that, yes, it was the guy who used to play Robocop. He really is a professor of history at Syracuse.

Wow. I wonder why they didn't just have him present the documentary?

 

[2takesfrakes]

I never knew he was an art historian! I found out that Weller has a Ph.D. in Italian Renaissance art history.

I never knew that, either! That IS interesting and I shall investigate this further, perhaps he's written a book on the subject - might be interested!

 

[seigezunt]

I managed to sit in on a panel at Mission New York featuring Weller and Bruce Greenwood, and Weller went on what I can only call a tirade (a justifiable one) about being a kid in a military family during the Cold War, and I left thinking, wow, that intensity you see onscreen? What you are seeing is 100 percent Peter Weller. I've been a fan since long before Robocop (think Buckaroo Banzai, Of Unknown Origin, Firstborn) but this sealed it. The guy's INTENSE.

 

[seigezunt]

Here's his dissertation, "Alberti Before Florence: Early Sources Informing Leon Battista Alberti’s De pictura."

 

[2takesfrakes]

Most appreciated, sir! ... I look forward to reading the rest of it. Real Meat & Potatoes. Peter Weller wastes NO time. Packed with information:

"De pictura by Leon Battista Alberti (1404?-1472) is the earliest surviving treatise on visual art written in humanist Latin by an ostensible practitioner of painting. The book represents a defnitive moment of cohesion between the two most conspicuous cultural developments of the early Renaissance, namely, humanism and the visual arts."

This link is from the above source, only more direct:
"http://escholarship.org/uc/item/0dm859tj#page-1

 

[arch101]

Weller has done many eps of Engineering an Empire and other doc shows. He's SO much better than the usual academic host because of his theatrical abilities. The usual scholars often come across as extremely dry and difficult to follow. Weller really gets the viewer interested. Wouldn't be surprised if he spends his golden years churning out historical documentaries.

 

[Long Syntax]

I managed to sit in on a panel at Mission New York featuring Weller and Bruce Greenwood, and Weller went on what I can only call a tirade (a justifiable one) about being a kid in a military family during the Cold War, and I left thinking, wow, that intensity you see onscreen? What you are seeing is 100 percent Peter Weller. I've been a fan since long before Robocop (think Buckaroo Banzai, Of Unknown Origin, Firstborn) but this sealed it. The guy's INTENSE.

I was at that panel discussion as well. Both Greenwood and Weller were great... however I almost couldn't tell it was Greenwood with that beard