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Senses and disability: exploring sensory experience and disability in and beyond the Ancient World

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Senses and disability: exploring sensory experience and disability in and beyond the Ancient World

Hybrid workshop, 19 April 2024
Kennedy Hall, Garden Room 03 (St Andrews) / MS Teams

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Though ancient disability scholarship has long engaged with the body and its multifaceted and multisensorial ways of being (e.g. Adams 2021; Draycott 2015; Holmes 2010; Laes 2013; Sneed 2020; Thumiger 2022; Vlahogiannis 1998), other fields that explore the ancient body’s relationship to itself and its environment have at times assumed that all bodies see, taste, move, touch or smell in the same way. This one-day workshop aims to push back against these normative narratives in order to allow ancient disabled and otherwise divergent bodies their full personhood and agency within the field of Classics. At the same time, we aim to recognise the invaluable contribution of disabled and neurodivergent scholars to the field, and wish to hold space for these personal narratives to be articulated in meaningful ways.

Programme

08:30-09:00

Welcome and registration

09:00-10:00 Keynote speech

  • Ellen Adams, King’s College London.

10:10-11:10 Panel 1 – Bodies and status

  • Chair: Annabel Crawshaw-Brown, St Andrews.
  • Speakers: Katarína Kompauerová, University of Leicester (online); Sofia Vierula, University of Helsinki (online); Fiona Hobden, The Open University (in-person).

11:20-12:20 Panel 2 – Disabled bodies on stage

  • Chair: Sydney Hertz, Barnard College.
  • Speakers: Leyla Ozbek, University of Florence (online); Kate Melberg, University of Wisconsin-Madison (in-person); Federica Colella, The University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli (online/in-person tbc*).

12:20-13:30 Lunch break

13:30-14:30 Interactive sensory demonstration and experience

  • Alison Hadfield, St Andrews.

14:30-15:30 Panel 3 – Disability and Classics

  • Chair: Sarah Prince, St Andrews.
  • Speakers: Isabella Bonati, Universidade de Lisboa (online); Jessica Mingoia, Rutgers University (online); Jason Morris, Victoria University Wellington (online).

15:40-16:40 Panel 4 – A sensory archaeology of disability

  • Chair: Justin Biggi, St Andrews.
  • Speakers: Borja Méndez Santiago, Universidad de Oviedo (online); Kyle Jordan, Pitt River’s Museum & Ashmolean Museum (online); Alexandra Morris, University of Lincoln (online).

16:40-17:00

Q&A and conclusions

17:00-18:00

Wine reception

Registration

The event is free to attend. Registration is essential.

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Event poster. Three transparent colored ampersands overlaid on eachother: 1 pink, 1 blue and 1 yellow. Followed by text, with Black and white university crest at bottom. Poster text: Senses disability. Exploring sensory experience and disability in and beyond the Ancient World. school of classics, university of St Andrew. 19.04.2024.

[last updated: 18 April 2024]

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