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  1. The Forgotten Other: Disability Studies and the Classical Body

    03/31/2020

    The Forgotten Other: Disability Studies and the Classical Body

    The interviews in this episode of Classics Confidential were recorded at a workshop entitled The Forgotten Other: Disability Studies and the Classical Body. The workshop took place at Kings College in June 2018: it was organised by Dr Ellen Adams, Senior Lecturer in Classical Art & Archaeology at Kings College London, and Dr Emma-Jayne Graham, Senior Lecturer in Classical Studies at The Open University. Programme structure and timecodes: 0.00 Introduction to the programme; Ellen Adams on the background to the workshop. 3.31 Lennard Davis on the background to Disability Studies, and the language of disability in the modern world (and its retrospective application to antiquity) 6.41 Ellen Adams on previous scholarship on disability in antiquity 8.39 Christian Laes on Greek and Latin vocabulary 13.04 Edith Hall on the myth of Hephaestus, Orion and Cedalion, and pain in the Philoctetes. 17.55 Michael Squire on classical sculpture and the Venus De Milo 20.18 Lennard Davis on (non)representations of disability in the contemporary film industry 22.44 Stephanie Evelyn Wright on skeletal evidence from Roman burials 26.55 Jane Draycott on the literary and archaeological evidence for ancient prostheses 30.20 Tom Shakespeare on studying disability in the past, and the importance and danger of imagination. 33.19 Ellen Adams on the surprises, highlights and challenges of the workshop 37.07 Conclusion and acknowledgements

    38 min
  2. East Africa and the Classical Tradition

    06/13/2017

    East Africa and the Classical Tradition

    Welcome to the third episode in our new series of audio podcasts! We're delighted to have teamed up with Carla Bocchetti from IFRA (French Institute for Research in Africa) in Nairobi to produce an episode all about a new volume that she's edited, East Africa, Global History and the Classical Traditions.  The volume is a special issue of the journal Les Cahiers d'Afrique de l'Est: you can read the entire text on the IFRA Nairobi website. As Carla explains, her aim in editing this volume was to bring Classics into a conversation with other disciplines (including the study of 'Global History'), to show how "the global circulation of classical references in Africa make it possible to open a new dialogue with other traditions circulating in the rim of the Indian ocean world." This episode features the voices of five authors who wrote chapters for the volume: Carla Bocchetti (IFRA Nairobi) Phiroze Vasunia (University College London) Daniel Orrells (King's College London) Sarah Longair (University of Lincoln) Gordon Omenya (Pwani University) Info at http://classicsconfidential.co.uk/2017/06/13/east-africa/ Join in the conversation on Twitter with the hashtag #classicsconfide Image credit: McMillan Library, Nairobi, completed 1931, designed by John Sinclair and Messrs. Rand Overy and Blackburn. Photograph: S. Longair. From Sarah's chapter "Visions of the Global: the Classical and the Eclectic in Colonial East African Architecture".

    27 min

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