A hybrid book launch event will take place for the edited volume “Disability in Ancient Egypt and Egyptology: All Our Yesterdays.”
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Talk Title: In conversation with the editors: Disability in Ancient Egypt and Egyptology: All Our Yesterdays
Where: Online (via Zoom) & in-person at the John Roberts Room at Merton College, University of Oxford.
When: Saturday October 19 2024, 2:30-3:30pm (BST)
Abstract:
Disability has always been a part of our shared human history yet has been understudied in our research of the ancient past. This presentation offers an overview of disability in ancient Egypt and an insight from the editors into a new landmark publication, Disability in Ancient Egypt and Egyptology: All Our Yesterdays. The study of disability in the ancient world is limited, especially in relation to ancient Egypt. Several sources surviving from ancient Egypt allow us to explore disability in the ancient Egyptian context. This includes material culture, textual sources and artistic data, as well as human remains.
The co-presenters, together with an increasing number of peers, are challenging the research agendas of ancient world studies to be more inclusive of disability; in both the writing of our histories, but also within disciplinary praxes. The volume discussed in this talk, is the first publication to offer a detailed study into this often-overlooked area of human history. This presentation explores disability across time and space—from ‘ancient Egypt’ as a culture to Egyptology as a contemporary field—to go beyond simply identifying disability, encouraging our audience to thoughtfully consider the history of disabled people in ancient Egypt and Egyptology.
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