For over twenty years, the study of disability in biblical texts has brought new insights into ancient disability, the lived experience of disability, and textual representations of people with disabilities. Looking to the future of the field, this special issue invites research papers that re-assess persons with disabilities in biblical texts as well as studies…
Presented by: Dr. Alexandra F. Morris, Teaching Affiliate in Classics and Archaeology, University of Nottingham, and Access Guide, Diversity and Ability The talk will provide an overview of disability and bodily difference in ancient Egypt from both pharaonic and Ptolemaic periods from a disabled Egyptologist’s perspective. Evidence examined will include art, texts, and skeletal remains.…
How can the archaeology of temples account for people with disabilities? Overview Modern archaeological scholarship works under the assumption that the physical space of the ancient world, much like the modern, was oriented towards the able bodied. This has rendered people with disabilities as “archaeologically invisible.” Recent developments have proven that it is possible to…
Canellopoulos Museum, June 28 – October 30, 2023. A Research Station created for the Biennale Architettura 2021, How will we live together?; exhibited in the Gipsoteca di Pisa, January – April 2022; now exhibited in Athens at the Canellopoulos Museum, June – November 2023. The accessibility of historic architecture not only determines who can experience the…
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…
Working with community partners including Reading Mencap, the Ure Museum has been looking at positive histories of disability in the ancient world. Our interactive pop-up display will demonstrate some of the findings of this Community Fund supported project, and also showcase the progress we have made in developing the resource outcomes from the group’s work to make our wonderfully visual and tactile…
This is a hybrid event, which will be delivered on the University of Bradford campus (Richmond Building, Room J19) and online Via Teams. Abstract:With notable exceptions, bioarchaeology in Egypt has tended to focus upon one site or one aspect of health and disease, rather than the interrelationships between peoples, pathology and places. This paper tries…
Health and disability within Roman Britain will be the focus of our next ‘Revisiting the Romans’ intervention at the Verulamium Museum and we are looking for a Guest Curator with some knowledge of Roman history to highlight different objects from the collection, bring new perspectives and breathe new life into our static museum display.
24th ANNUAL JOINT POSTGRADUATE SYMPOSIUM ON ANCIENT PERFORMANCE ‘Bodies and Voices in the Theory and Practice of Greek and Roman Performance and its Reception.’ 27 – 28 June 2024 CALL FOR PAPERS The 24th Annual Joint Postgraduate Symposium on Ancient Performance and Reception, hosted by the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama, University of…
In popular culture, autism is frequently visualised as a maze. The maze represents confusion, detachment and fear, and there is often a monster within it. Sometimes the Minotaur in the maze is the autistic person, monstrously part-human, unable to communicate, cut off from family and community. Sometimes Autism itself is the monster, stalking its prey…
