• CfP: Reframing the Gaze: Maria Theresia Paradis, Blind Musicians, and Musical Culture in the Decades before Braille

    CALL FOR PROPOSALS Reframing the Gaze: Maria Theresia Paradis, Blind Musicians, and Musical Culture in the Decades before Braille  A Bicentenary Symposium November 22-24, 2024 Mount Holyoke College (South Hadley, MA) proposal deadline: August 1, 2024 We invite proposals for presentations on the life, works, and worlds of Maria Theresia Paradis (1759-1824) in celebration of her…

  • Lecture: The Real Lives of Blind Mesopotamians (Eric Harvey)

    This lecture is part of the series Disability in the Ancient Middle East and Mediterranean. This program of public lectures takes place monthly on Thursdays at 9:30 AM Pacific (unless otherwise noted), from September 2025 through May 2026. Watch live on the ARF YouTube channel here: https://bit.ly/arf-channel or watch later on the ARF & Badè…

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