CFP Deadline: Lyric Poetry and Disability (MLA 2025)
What forms of generative pressure does disability exert on the body of lyric? How does "lyric"--as term and practice--accommodate physical and intellectual difference? 250 word abstract and CV.
What forms of generative pressure does disability exert on the body of lyric? How does "lyric"--as term and practice--accommodate physical and intellectual difference? 250 word abstract and CV.
An interdisciplinary conference examining disability across medieval, early modern, and eighteenth century literature. UCSB Early Modern Center This event has in-person and virtual attendance. This interdisciplinary conference brings together scholars studying a variety “body matters,” including representations of disability or ability in premodern literature, the continuum of embodiment explored by premodern authors, and the relation…
An interdisciplinary conference examining disability across medieval, early modern, and eighteenth century literature. By UCSB Early Modern Center UC Santa Barbara and livestreamed
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…
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