This display explores disability in the medieval past through history, archaeology and science. Discover the stories of four people who lived with disabilities in Scotland and England between 500 and 1600 years ago, presented through immersive display stations. Created in collaboration with University of St Andrews researchers, History in Our Bones invites visitors to rethink…
The digital workshop on 12. November 2026 invites researchers to exchange information on neurodivergence, disregard and neurodiversity studies. Short contribution proposals can be up to 30. September 2026 will be submitted. Neurodiversity Studies in the humanities and cultural sciences already have a permanent place in the English-speaking countries and in Scandinavia. Since the 2000s, the…
The focus of this one-day workshop/symposium on 14 January 2027 at the National Maritime Museum is the disciplinary crossroads between medical, social, and maritime history. We aim to bring researchers interested in these fields together to present research and create connections across an area of emergent research. Much traditional scholarship on maritime healthcare has focused…
In recent years, there has been a growing awareness of the importance of neurodivergent representation in all forms of media, including literature. Realistic representation is vital to providing relatable content for neurodivergent readers as well as challenging harmful stereotypes. Whilst authors today can continue to improve neurodivergent representation in their work, it is also important…
Despite there being more than 16 million disabled people in the UK today, disability rarely features in mainstream accounts of our past. That absence is not down to any lack of evidence: it is a forgotten, suppressed history – the result of deliberate choices about whose histories matter. For the first time, this book puts…
Where: In-person on Swansea University Singleton Campus, Talbot Building, Room 980 (1st floor, accessible from the Faraday Building main entrance) When: 8th October 2026 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm This seminar will consider George Herbert's collection The Temple (1633) as a neurodivergent work. I don’t at all propose to be diagnostic about it (and I am not interested in contemporary…
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Dartmouth invites applications for a full-time tenure-track appointment as Assistant Professor in Latin American Medical Humanities. The position is open to specializations in any historical period and in any Spanish-speaking region of Latin America and/or the Caribbean, including hemispheric, transatlantic, and transpacific comparative approaches. Applicants for this position should demonstrate how…
Research talk by David Turner of Swansea University. Part of the PG-led Speaker Series with the University of Warwick Centre for the History of Medicine, Science and Technology. Tuesday, 8 December, 15:00-17:00 Hybrid: online and FAB 5.0 at the University of Warwick
A one-day workshop/symposium on 14 January 2027 at the National Maritime Museum, focusing on the disciplinary crossroads between medical, social, and maritime history. The focus of this one-day workshop/symposium on 14 January 2027 at the National Maritime Museum is the disciplinary crossroads between medical, social, and maritime history. We aim to bring researchers interested in…
