FREE DISPLAY Open from 10 Nov 2023 to 8 May 2024 Ancient Middle East Gallery In partnership with Curating for Change, and to coincide with Disability History Month this year, we're highlighting some of the important objects in our collection to showcase how disability has been celebrated and depicted in Ancient Egypt and the Ancient…
Disability History: New Perspectives and Interdisciplinary Approaches November 6, 2024 – November 8, 2024 In-person symposium Münster (Germany) In recent years, the exploration of disability has increasingly gained importance within historical research. Disability history has particularly emphasized the social and cultural dimensions of disabilities, advocating for the recognition of disability as a central historical category…
deadline for submissions: April 30, 2024 full name / name of organization: Allie Wood Reichert / PAMLA contact email: areic004@ucr.edu The representation of traumatic experience is a fraught conversation in literary and media studies. Cathy Caruth famously argued for the “unspeakability” of trauma; other scholars such as Naomi Mandel argue that emphasizing the limits of…
