Sponsors: Badè Museum, Pacific School of Religion, Archaeological Research Facility
Digging into Disability: How Experience Affects Theory (Mason Shrader)
This lecture is part of the series Disability in the Ancient Middle East and Mediterranean. This program of public lectures takes place monthly on Thursdays at 9:30 AM Pacific (unless otherwise noted), from September 2025 through May 2026.
Watch live on the ARF YouTube channel here: https://bit.ly/arf-channel or watch later on the ARF & Badè YouTube channels.
Lectures in this series:
September 25, 2025 @ 9:30am PDT
Lissette Jiménez & Elizabeth Minor “Accessing Ancient Egypt: Inclusive Strategies for Museum Learning with Collections and Digital Tools”
October 23 @ 9:30am PDT
Eric Harvey “The real Lives of Blind Mesopotamians”
November 6 @ 3:00 PST
Mason Shrader “Digging into Disability: How Experience Affects Theory”
December 11 @ 9:30am PST
Ella Karev “Restrictions on a Driver’s License: The Reception of Disabilities in Official Identification from Graeco-Roman Egypt”
February 19, 2026 @ 9:30am PST
Rachel Kalisher “Brothers of (Mis)fortune: A story of wealth and health at ancient Megiddo”
March 12 @ 9:30am PDT
Huli Ramantswana “Disability in David Narratives in light of Armed Conflicts in Africa”
April 1 @ 4:30 PDT
Hannah Vogel “Ableism When Accessing the Past: Studies of Disability in the Ancient World”
April 9 @ 9:30am PDT
Corinna Guerrero “Physical Witness: Atrocity X Disability in the Hebrew Bible”
May 7 @ 9:30am PDT
Kyle Jordan “’God is his Potter’ - Disability in Ancient Egypt”