Inviting submissions for a panel on women's pain and illness experiences in poetry, particularly using sick woman theory. Please submit a 250-word abstract and brief bio by the deadline. Deadline for submissions: Friday, 1 March 2024
This conference aims to open up a space for critically engaging with the field of Disability Studies and the notion of disability. We hope that the ideas and discussions from this conference will work towards recasting dominant and popular perceptions of disability as pathology and inferiority, and generate new counter hegemonic discourses of disability that…
Age Studies and Disability Studies forums invite papers theorizing intersections between age and disability studies, e.g., aging into disability/aging with disability, intersections of ageism and ableism, disability across the lifecourse. 250-word abstract and bio Deadline for submissions: Monday, 11 March 2024
Proposals exploring power, racial, and gender asymmetries in the cultural construction of beliefs and practices related to health and medicine in colonial Latin America. Send one-page abstract & short bio by March 15 to kstolle@emory.edu Deadline for submissions: Friday, 15 March 2024
This panel intends to explore how different bodies were categorized, described, and represented in Medieval and Early Modern Italy considering questions of gender, race, disability, and class differences. Deadline for submissions: Sunday, 17 March 2024
Looking for work that considers invisible disability in works of literature, art, philosophy, etc. Some suggested topics are spoon theory, crip time, spectacle, sick woman theory, the grotesque, etc. Interdisciplinary approaches welcome. 500 word abstracts Deadline for submissions: Wednesday, 20 March 2024
Inviting 250-word abstracts for papers that examine Ming- or Qing-period writings that render visible non-normative, immaterial, or unreal bodies. Especially interested in papers that explore relationships between written and corporeal forms. Deadline for submissions: Monday, 25 March 2024
deadline for submissions: April 15, 2024 full name / name of organization: Midwest Modern Language Association contact email: goddardj@trine.edu In keeping with the conference theme “Health in/of the Humanities” the permanent session of the Shakespeare and Shakespearean Criticism panel is soliciting presentations that address illness and health in the work, criticism, or teaching of Shakespeare.…
Call for Presenters! UKDHHH Connecting + Sharing Event, Thursday 6th June 2024 @ Manchester Deaf Centre Presentations in person (in an accessible environment) - we'll have some additional in-person spaces and a remote access option to expand the event to our wider home + international community! The UK Disability History and Heritage Hub (UKDHHH) links…
24th ANNUAL JOINT POSTGRADUATE SYMPOSIUM ON ANCIENT PERFORMANCE ‘Bodies and Voices in the Theory and Practice of Greek and Roman Performance and its Reception.’ 27 – 28 June 2024 CALL FOR PAPERS The 24th Annual Joint Postgraduate Symposium on Ancient Performance and Reception, hosted by the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama, University of…
deadline for submissions: April 25, 2024 full name / name of organization: Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies contact email: editors@ellids.com CALL FOR PAPERS: Rethinking Body in Medical Humanities Having its coinage in the context of history of science by George Sarton in 1948, Medical Humanities has grown into an exciting area of interdisciplinary inquiry that allows…
Disability History: New Perspectives and Interdisciplinary Approaches November 6, 2024 – November 8, 2024 In-person symposium Münster (Germany) In recent years, the exploration of disability has increasingly gained importance within historical research. Disability history has particularly emphasized the social and cultural dimensions of disabilities, advocating for the recognition of disability as a central historical category…
