Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference - Cleveland, OH (October 24-26) deadline for submissions: September 9, 2024 full name / name of organization: Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference contact email: ovsc2024@gmail.com Announcing the 47th Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference October 24-26, 2024 Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH Conference theme: “Shakespeare and the Mind” The study of Shakespeare…
deadline for submissions: September 15, 2024 full name / name of organization: Michael A Torregrossa / Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture and Monsters & the Monstrous Area of the Northeast Popular Culture Association contact email: medievalinpopularculture@gmail.com Medieval Monsters as Modern Monsters: Exploring Continuums of the Monstrous…
deadline for submissions: September 15, 2024 full name / name of organization: Anna Dini, UC Berkeley contact email: annadini@berkeley.edu Please consider submitting an abstract to the following panel at the International Congress on Medieval Studies sponsored by Italian Studies@Kalamazoo. The deadline for submissions is September 15, and the conference will take place from May 8-10,…
Organizer: Kisha Tracy ; ktracy3@fitchburgstate.edu Delivery Mode: Hybrid Principal Sponsoring Organization: Society for the Study of Disability in the Middle Ages Affect is one of the nonverbal ways humans communicate with other, particularly in how we express emotion. However, how individuals express affect can differ and even be counter to actual emotion, whether as part…
Organizer: Alison Purnell Organizer: Michael Nagy ; michael.nagy@sdstate.edu Delivery Mode: Virtual Principal Sponsoring Organization: Medieval Speech Act Society Co-Sponsoring Organization(s): Society for the Study of Disability in the Middle Ages In the rapidly-expanding field of Medieval Disability Studies, thus far little attention has been paid to the potential that discourse analysis, pragmatics, and speech act…
Organizer: Kisha Tracy ; ktracy3@fitchburgstate.edu Delivery Mode: Hybrid Principal Sponsoring Organization: Society for the Study of Disability in the Middle Ages Next year will bring the 25th anniversary of the publication of Narrative Prosthesis: Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse by David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder. Narrative Prosthesis is a seminal text in…
Organizer: Angela Weisl ; angela.weisl@shu.edu Organizer: Carol Robinson ; clrobins@kent.edu Delivery Mode: Virtual Principal Sponsoring Organization: International Society for the Study of Medievalism This session seeks investigation of disability and neurodivergence in contemporary medievalist productions. How do disability and neurodivergence function in these narratives? How are they portrayed? How do these portrayals intersect with medieval…
In association with the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies and the University of Virginia, we invite abstracts for a conference on “Black Disability Studies” to be hosted at the Carter G. Woodson Institute on the grounds of the University of Virginia. The event will be fully hybrid. Conference papers have…
deadline for submissions: November 11, 2024 University of California, Irvine contact email: chelsml3@uci.edu UCI Premodern Graduate Humanities Conference 2025: February 14, 2025 “By my troth, Nerissa, my little body is aweary of this great world.” - Portia, Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice The concept of embodiment was central to the way in which early cultures…
