The next online meeting of the Manchester Ancient Egypt Society is next Monday, 14 October with Kyle Lewis Jordan:

“God is his Potter”: Disability in Ancient Egypt

Today, disability is broadly understood to be a category that applies to people with a wide array of complex health conditions and impairments, which also has many complex layers of social and cultural interaction. Many of these conditions and impairments have been around as long as humanity itself. So how did Ancient Egypt, one of the world’s oldest societies, recognise and react to individuals that we would today call disabled? In this talk, Kyle Lewis Jordan will provide an insight into new and rapidly developing studies in this area, sharing his own reflections as a disabled archaeologist and curator, and the reasons why he believes deeper studies of disability in the ancient past are integral to fully appreciating the richness of the tapestry that is humankind.

Kyle Lewis Jordan is an early career archaeologist and curator who specialises in the study of disability in antiquity, with a particular focus on Ancient Egypt and the Middle East. Upon completing his studies at UCL, Kyle went on to work as a curator for the Ashmolean Museum and Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, where he curated two displays based on his research. He is currently curating a temporary exhibition for the Verulanium Museum in St. Albans on health and disability in the Roman world. Born with Cerebral Palsy, Kyle has been passionate about Egyptology since the age of six, and has had the lifelong ambition of being Director of the British Museum since he was ten.

Free to MAES members (you’ll receive an email link). Guests welcome via Eventbrite

Doors open 7:30pm (GMT+1) and the lecture begins at 8pm. See you there!