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Meeting Program Units

2015 Annual Meeting

Atlanta, GA

Meeting Begins11/21/2015
Meeting Ends11/24/2015

Call for Papers Opens: 12/17/2014
Call for Papers Closes: 3/4/2015

Requirements for Participation

Healthcare and Disability in the Ancient World


Program Unit Type: Section
Accepting Papers? Yes

Call For Papers: The unit plans to have at least two stand-alone sessions at the 2015 meeting. Both sessions will be open to any aspect of the study of health and disability related to the Bible. In addition, we will hold two joint sessions. The first is with the Cultural Studies section, for which we invite papers related to the intersection of disability studies and the Bible that explore (but are not limited to) topics such as the following: colonial representations of the body; intersections of disability, gender, class and race; economic and sociopolitical perspectives; disability, illness and sacred texts; and/or how the Bible has been used to codify and justify discrimination of the disabled in recent history, and how may the Bible be used to resist discrimination/violence against the disabled. The second joint session will be held with the Metacriticism unit, and will be entitled Disability Studies Metacriticism. Topics of interest include disability studies and contestations of textual authority, conflicts between historical-critical studies and theological approaches, comparisons of disability scholarship within and outside of biblical studies, and disability as distinctive meta-critical tool.

Program Unit Chairs

Joel S. Baden
Nicole Kelley

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