Ellen Adams
Biographic Data
| ID | 3623878 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ellen Adams |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ellen |
| FAMILY NAME | Adams |
| SIGNATURE | ADAMS E |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8063-8618 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Audio description for all? The benefits and concerns of extending access provision to sighted people
Audio description (AD) is an established part of museums' access programs for blind and partially blind (BPB) people. This paper explores the merits and caveats regarding “AD for all”, rolling out the provision for sighted people as well. It draws from four separate Access All Senses (AAS) events in three different London museums, each conducted under slightly different conditions. In addition to collecting nearly 100 audience feedback forms, thi…
My Friends, They Did This, Too
My Friends, They Did This, Too Ellen Adams (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution PHOTO COURTESY OF KSENIA EMELIANCHIK ON UNSPLASH Franco's legacy falls across a celebration of two friends' birthdays but fails to stifle the hard-earned, uncontainable, savored joy. Up four flights of marble steps, mi roomie and I arrived on the landing. There, we found the empty box of laundry soap, left out by the quiet, rarely appearing neighbor guys w…
Community-Anchored Assessment of Indigenous Second Language Learning in K-12 Schools
Indigenous second language programs in K-12 schools contribute to culturally nourishing education and to the revitalization of Indigenous languages. Assessing Indigenous second language learning presents particular opportunities and challenges based on the linguistic, historical, political, cultural, and social contexts in and for which the Indigenous language is being taught and learned. The self-governing Inuit region of Nunatsiavut is concerne…
Disability studies and the classical body
This chapter argues that an awareness of disability studies is essential in Classics and the Humanities more widely. Studying historic disabled people requires an engagement with this relevant if seemingly anachronistic field, as we would expect with other identities, such as gender, sexuality, and ethnicity. Dialogue between past and present will help combat the ableism of our scholarly work, which is not only morally dubious, but also intellect…
Disability Studies and the Classical Body
By triangulating the Greco-Roman world, classical reception, and disability studies, this book presents a range of approaches that reassess and reimagine traditional themes, from the narrative voice to sensory studies. It argues that disability and disabled people are the 'forgotten other' of not just Classics, but also the Humanities more widely. Beyond the moral merits of rectifying this neglect, this book also provides a series of approaches a…
Cultural Identity in Minoan Crete
Neopalatial Crete - the 'Golden Age' of the Minoan Civilization - possessed palaces, exquisite artefacts, and iconography with pre-eminent females. While lacking in fortifications, ritual symbolism cloaked the island, an elaborate bureaucracy logged transactions, and massive storage areas enabled the redistribution of goods. We cannot read the Linear A script, but the libation formulae suggest an island-wide koine. Within this cultural identity, …
At the boundary of action and dream
Upon their return from exile after World War II, Surrealist writers and artists encountered a Parisian intellectual climate transformed by the legacy of the Resistance and nascent Cold War political and cultural battles. Once at the centre of the inter-war avant-garde, Surrealists endured accusations of irrelevance issued by Existentialist writer Jean-Paul Sartre and Communist Party taunts of anti-revolutionary tendencies, advanced by Louis Arago…
Shaping, collecting and displaying medicine and architecture
Journal Article Shaping, collecting and displaying medicine and architecture: A comparison of the Hunterian and Soane museums Get access Ellen Adams Ellen Adams Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the History of Collections, Volume 25, Issue 1, March 2013, Pages 59–75, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhc/fhr031 Published: 05 January 2012 Article history Received: 22 July 2011 Revision received: 19 October 2…
Representing, Objectifying, and Framing the Body at Late Bronze Age Knossos
This paper explores how the human form is depicted, objectified and contextualized, in order to clarify the complex relationship between ‘representation’ and ‘reality’, and to investigate the various ways the body is bounded. Part one argues that objectification is not always a passive process, but that the body is deliberately presented to the world to be observed and evaluated. Part two focuses on the configuration of bodily boundaries, and how…
Approaching Monuments in the Prehistoric Built Environment
The palaces are the most distinctive feature of the Minoan civilization, although their functions and meanings remain enigmatic. This paper explores these inhabited monuments with the application of a phenomenological approach. By constructing a series of categories based on data collected from all the entrances, not just the main ones, we can highlight the myriad everyday experiences encountered upon approaching and entering them. Categories bas…
Time and Chance
This article demonstrates how archaeology may go beyond the construction of chronological frameworks to address fundamental issues of temporality in the past. It addresses a variety of methodological issues for exploring this topic and, building upon a previous spatial analysis, argues that past experiences can only be unraveled by means of many different perspectives. Drawing from our current understanding of chronological change in north-centra…
Social Strategies and Spatial Dynamics in Neopalatial Crete
Neopalatial Crete possessed a high degree of homogeneity in its material culture, leading many to interpret political and social unification under the capital of Knossos. Recent studies on the regionalism of particular types of data have questioned this appraisal. This article builds upon such work with an interdisciplinary approach to north-central Crete, which includes the palatial sites of Knossos, Malia, and Galatas, other large and small set…
Power Relations in Minoan Palatial Towns
The palatial towns of Knossos and Malia offer good comparable evidence for an investigation into how we can reconstruct prehistoric urban power relations. The author builds upon recent work on heterarchies and factional competition, but argues that, in the case of Neopalatial Crete, it is better to retain the term ‘hierarchy’ and introduce a more sophisticated approach to power relations than that offered by the traditional hierarchical model. Th…
Power and ritual in Neopalatial Crete
Ritual provides the forum for both the expression of cultural identities and the articulation of social strategies. Studies that analyse ritual sites and artefacts in isolation fail to recognize this tension fully, and also tend to assume a sharp distinction between ‘religious’ rituals and ‘non-religious’ rituals. This article seeks to shed new light on the relationship between power and ritual in Neopalatial Crete (c. 1700–1450 bc), by analysing…
Social Strategies and Spatial Dynamics in Neopalatial Crete
Neopalatial Crete possessed a high degree of homogeneity in its material culture, leading many to interpret political and social unification under the capital of Knossos. Recent studies on the regionalism of particular types of data have questioned this appraisal. This article builds upon such work with an interdisciplinary approach to north-central Crete, which includes the palatial sites of Knossos, Malia, and Galatas, other large and small set…
Power Relations in Minoan Palatial Towns
The palatial towns of Knossos and Malia offer good comparable evidence for an investigation into how we can reconstruct prehistoric urban power relations. The author builds upon recent work on heterarchies and factional competition, but argues that, in the case of Neopalatial Crete, it is better to retain the term ‘hierarchy’ and introduce a more sophisticated approach to power relations than that offered by the traditional hierarchical model. Th…
Power and ritual in Neopalatial Crete
Ritual provides the forum for both the expression of cultural identities and the articulation of social strategies. Studies that analyse ritual sites and artefacts in isolation fail to recognize this tension fully, and also tend to assume a sharp distinction between ‘religious’ rituals and ‘non-religious’ rituals. This article seeks to shed new light on the relationship between power and ritual in Neopalatial Crete (c. 1700–1450 bc), by analysing…
Approaching Monuments in the Prehistoric Built Environment
The palaces are the most distinctive feature of the Minoan civilization, although their functions and meanings remain enigmatic. This paper explores these inhabited monuments with the application of a phenomenological approach. By constructing a series of categories based on data collected from all the entrances, not just the main ones, we can highlight the myriad everyday experiences encountered upon approaching and entering them. Categories bas…
Representing, Objectifying, and Framing the Body at Late Bronze Age Knossos
This paper explores how the human form is depicted, objectified and contextualized, in order to clarify the complex relationship between ‘representation’ and ‘reality’, and to investigate the various ways the body is bounded. Part one argues that objectification is not always a passive process, but that the body is deliberately presented to the world to be observed and evaluated. Part two focuses on the configuration of bodily boundaries, and how…
Power and ritual in Neopalatial Crete
Ritual provides the forum for both the expression of cultural identities and the articulation of social strategies. Studies that analyse ritual sites and artefacts in isolation fail to recognize this tension fully, and also tend to assume a sharp distinction between ‘religious’ rituals and ‘non-religious’ rituals. This article seeks to shed new light on the relationship between power and ritual in Neopalatial Crete (c. 1700–1450 bc), by analysing…
Power Relations in Minoan Palatial Towns
The palatial towns of Knossos and Malia offer good comparable evidence for an investigation into how we can reconstruct prehistoric urban power relations. The author builds upon recent work on heterarchies and factional competition, but argues that, in the case of Neopalatial Crete, it is better to retain the term ‘hierarchy’ and introduce a more sophisticated approach to power relations than that offered by the traditional hierarchical model. Th…
Social Strategies and Spatial Dynamics in Neopalatial Crete
Neopalatial Crete possessed a high degree of homogeneity in its material culture, leading many to interpret political and social unification under the capital of Knossos. Recent studies on the regionalism of particular types of data have questioned this appraisal. This article builds upon such work with an interdisciplinary approach to north-central Crete, which includes the palatial sites of Knossos, Malia, and Galatas, other large and small set…
Approaching Monuments in the Prehistoric Built Environment
The palaces are the most distinctive feature of the Minoan civilization, although their functions and meanings remain enigmatic. This paper explores these inhabited monuments with the application of a phenomenological approach. By constructing a series of categories based on data collected from all the entrances, not just the main ones, we can highlight the myriad everyday experiences encountered upon approaching and entering them. Categories bas…
Time and Chance
This article demonstrates how archaeology may go beyond the construction of chronological frameworks to address fundamental issues of temporality in the past. It addresses a variety of methodological issues for exploring this topic and, building upon a previous spatial analysis, argues that past experiences can only be unraveled by means of many different perspectives. Drawing from our current understanding of chronological change in north-centra…
Shaping, collecting and displaying medicine and architecture
Journal Article Shaping, collecting and displaying medicine and architecture: A comparison of the Hunterian and Soane museums Get access Ellen Adams Ellen Adams Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the History of Collections, Volume 25, Issue 1, March 2013, Pages 59–75, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhc/fhr031 Published: 05 January 2012 Article history Received: 22 July 2011 Revision received: 19 October 2…
Representing, Objectifying, and Framing the Body at Late Bronze Age Knossos
This paper explores how the human form is depicted, objectified and contextualized, in order to clarify the complex relationship between ‘representation’ and ‘reality’, and to investigate the various ways the body is bounded. Part one argues that objectification is not always a passive process, but that the body is deliberately presented to the world to be observed and evaluated. Part two focuses on the configuration of bodily boundaries, and how…
At the boundary of action and dream
Upon their return from exile after World War II, Surrealist writers and artists encountered a Parisian intellectual climate transformed by the legacy of the Resistance and nascent Cold War political and cultural battles. Once at the centre of the inter-war avant-garde, Surrealists endured accusations of irrelevance issued by Existentialist writer Jean-Paul Sartre and Communist Party taunts of anti-revolutionary tendencies, advanced by Louis Arago…
Cultural Identity in Minoan Crete
Neopalatial Crete - the 'Golden Age' of the Minoan Civilization - possessed palaces, exquisite artefacts, and iconography with pre-eminent females. While lacking in fortifications, ritual symbolism cloaked the island, an elaborate bureaucracy logged transactions, and massive storage areas enabled the redistribution of goods. We cannot read the Linear A script, but the libation formulae suggest an island-wide koine. Within this cultural identity, …
Disability studies and the classical body
This chapter argues that an awareness of disability studies is essential in Classics and the Humanities more widely. Studying historic disabled people requires an engagement with this relevant if seemingly anachronistic field, as we would expect with other identities, such as gender, sexuality, and ethnicity. Dialogue between past and present will help combat the ableism of our scholarly work, which is not only morally dubious, but also intellect…
Disability Studies and the Classical Body
By triangulating the Greco-Roman world, classical reception, and disability studies, this book presents a range of approaches that reassess and reimagine traditional themes, from the narrative voice to sensory studies. It argues that disability and disabled people are the 'forgotten other' of not just Classics, but also the Humanities more widely. Beyond the moral merits of rectifying this neglect, this book also provides a series of approaches a…
Community-Anchored Assessment of Indigenous Second Language Learning in K-12 Schools
Indigenous second language programs in K-12 schools contribute to culturally nourishing education and to the revitalization of Indigenous languages. Assessing Indigenous second language learning presents particular opportunities and challenges based on the linguistic, historical, political, cultural, and social contexts in and for which the Indigenous language is being taught and learned. The self-governing Inuit region of Nunatsiavut is concerne…
My Friends, They Did This, Too
My Friends, They Did This, Too Ellen Adams (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution PHOTO COURTESY OF KSENIA EMELIANCHIK ON UNSPLASH Franco's legacy falls across a celebration of two friends' birthdays but fails to stifle the hard-earned, uncontainable, savored joy. Up four flights of marble steps, mi roomie and I arrived on the landing. There, we found the empty box of laundry soap, left out by the quiet, rarely appearing neighbor guys w…
Audio description for all? The benefits and concerns of extending access provision to sighted people
Audio description (AD) is an established part of museums' access programs for blind and partially blind (BPB) people. This paper explores the merits and caveats regarding “AD for all”, rolling out the provision for sighted people as well. It draws from four separate Access All Senses (AAS) events in three different London museums, each conducted under slightly different conditions. In addition to collecting nearly 100 audience feedback forms, thi…
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