The Heidi Marx Prize for outstanding contribution in the field of medicine, health, and healing in the ancient Mediterranean Dr. Heidi Marx has carved new paths in the study of ancient Mediterranean philosophy, medicine, botany, and religion. Dr. Marx’s work is recognizable in its clarity, intellectual insight, and generous engagement with other scholars’ work, combining…
From Egypt to the Middle East: Fashioning Bodies in the Ancient World
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…
Sonia Zakrzewski: Identity, DisAbility and Eunuchism in Greco-Roman Egypt
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…
(Dis)ability from Achilles to Zeus: Body Positive at the Ure Museum
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…
Exhibit: An Archaeology of Disability
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…
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…
Call for Submissions: Disability and The Bible (Biblical Studies)
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…
Application Deadline: Kay Fellow in Premodern Disability Studies
“Brandeis University invites applications for a two-year, non-renewable Florence Levy Kay Fellowship in Premodern Disability Studies. We seek a Fellow who takes a multicultural and intersectional approach to disability in the global, ancient world. An ideal candidate would examine disability and disabled persons within a premodern context by drawing upon robust theoretical frameworks to embrace…
CFP: Disability in Ancient Egypt and Egyptology
Contributions are invited for the edited volume All Our Yesterdays: Disability in Ancient Egypt and Egyptology, which will be part of Routledge’s peer-reviewed Routledge Studies in Ancient Disabilities series. Abstracts are due by 31 August, 2022. See link below for further details.
