Reading Ancient Temples through the Lens of Disability Studies and Mobility Design

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…

Exhibit: An Archaeology of Disability

Canellopoulos Museum Athens, Greece

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…

From Egypt to the Middle East: Fashioning Bodies in the Ancient World

Ashmolean Museum Beaumont St, Oxford OX1 2PH, UK, United Kingdom

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…

(Dis)ability from Achilles to Zeus: Body Positive at the Ure Museum

Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology 38 Edith Morley Building University of Reading Reading RG6 6EL (SatNav RG6 6UR), United Kingdom

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…

Sonia Zakrzewski: Identity, DisAbility and Eunuchism in Greco-Roman Egypt

School of Archaeological and Forensic Sciences, University of Bradford Bradford, BD7 1DP, United Kingdom

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…

Application deadline: Guest Curator, Health and disability within Roman Britain

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.

Open Doors in the Labyrinth: Autism and the Minotaur

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…

CFP: Special Issue or Cluster of Articles of Slavic Review on Disability Histories

We are seeking original research articles for a special issue or cluster of articles of Slavic Review dedicated to disability in Russia, Eastern Europe, and Eurasia. Any geographic/chronological focus and methodological approach is welcome. Deadlines: abstract of 250 words due by May 1, 2024; selected papers due by October 1, 2014. Complete submissions of approximately 11,000 words…

CFP: Narratio in Medicine and the Law

Narratio in Medicine and the Law: Interpretative and Scientific Knowledge in Medical and Medico-Legal Case Histories from Antiquity to the Renaissance This VivaMente conference explores the intersections of narrative, rhetorical persuasion, and factual evidence in medical and medico-legal case histories from Antiquity to the Renaissance focusing on the longue durée development of medical and medico-legal…

CFP: Queer Cripping, Art, and Resistance

deadline for submissions: May 31, 2024 full name / name of organization: Iraboty Kazi, University of Western Ontario contact email: ikazi3@uwo.ca UAAC Panel Session Queerness and disability have long intersected, from the medicalization of queerness, institutionalization, and the HIV/AIDS epidemic to contemporary address, such as the ongoing suppression of Trans* healthcare rights.  Queer/crip refusals of…