[Antiquitas] IASR Lecture 20.1. Christian Laes: Disabilities in Roman Antiquity, Tampere

[Katariina Mustakallio]

Subject: IASR Lecture 20.1. Christian Laes: Disabilities in Roman
Antiquity

University of Tampere
Institute for Advanced Social Research (IASR)
IASR Lectures 2014-2015, Spring

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Disabilities in Roman Antiquity

Dr Christian Laes, Senior Research Fellow, IASR, YKY

Time: Tuesday, 20 January 2015, at 16.15-17.45
Place: University of Tampere, Pinni B, lecture hall B1096, Kanslerinrinne 1, 1st
floor


>This lecture will be based on my recent monograph Beperkt? Gehandicapten
>in het Romeinse rijk (Leuven, 2014). After methodological reflections on
>the issue of disability history for Roman Antiquity, I will opt for an a
>capite ad calcem approach: mental disabilities, eye problems, deafness
>and muteness, speech impairment and mobility impairment will be touched
>upon by presenting case studies. For each issue, the problem of
>"continuity and change" regarding Christianity will be treated. Text
>fragments as well as iconographical evidence will be the starting point
>of this lecture.
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>Welcome!
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