Historical dimensions of disability
Le Comptoir has a growing editorial collection devoted to disability issues and the social challenges of inclusion in society. The arrival of the Alter journal, European Journal of Disability Research, now published by the Éditions de l'EHESS, has prompted the launch of a joint programme on these issues, to be addressed in a mirror form.
The first meeting will be held in conjunction with the seminar "Construire une histoire du handicap et de la surdité à travers les siècles" and the EHESS "Programme Handicap et Sociétés". It will take the form of a conversation on certain dimensions of disability in the Middle Ages.
- Ninon Dubourg (F.R.S.-FNRS research fellow, Université de Liège)
- Valentin Miclon (postdoctoral researcher, REQUIEM project, Université de Caen Normandie)
- Gildas Brégain, historian, CNRS research fellow, Laboratoire Arènes and co-editor-in-chief of ALTER magazine
The archaeology of disability is an innovative and little-addressed theme, a discreet corollary of paleopathology. Yet this embryonic field of research, in France and around the world, documents an entire field of human behavior in the face of vulnerability. The accumulation of archaeological and anthropological data now enables us to go beyond anecdotal case histories. While many incapacitating pathologies (cognitive and sensory handicaps, etc.) remain inaccessible to archaeo-anthropological interpretation, patient care, surgical interventions and the invention of ingenious compensatory devices are tangible evidence of local, human and technical care, complemented by archival studies and iconography.
Les nouvelles de l'archéologie, n°165, Archéologies du handicap, 2021 is on sale at Le Comptoir and can be consulted on Openedition Journals.
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The session will close with a friendly drink.
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