Discourses on Illness: Ancient Ways of Coping with Ill-health Call for papers Dates: 6-7 October 2025 This conference, organized by the Department of Classics and Archaeology (University of Malta) in collaboration with the University of Durham, the University of Newcastle and Humboldt University of Berlin, to be held in Malta between 6 and 7 October…
July 8, 2025 - Teach Disability History Conference - Keene State College - Keene, New Hampshire - 9:00am - 4:00pm K-12 teachers, instructors of pre-service teachers, disability historians, disability studies educators, and disability rights advocates from across the U.S. will share resources and discuss ways to expand and strengthen the teaching of stories of disability history…
Shakespeare’s Globe is inviting proposals for an interdisciplinary conference bringing together literary and performance scholars, historians, archivists, and disability scholars and activists around the theme ‘Disability and the Archives’. This two-day hybrid event will be held in London on 23 - 24 January 2026 and will explore how disabled lives have been - and continue…
Session Title * Cumulative Selfhood: Ageing, Memory and Identity Across the Lifespan in the Early Modern Period Type * Paper Panel Session Abstract (Max. 300 words) * Proposals for 20-minute presentations exploring the multifaceted processes of ageing and identity formation in the Early Modern period, with particular attention to the embodied nature of selfhood and memory over time.…
Premodern Neurodiversity is a two-day symposium that explores the literary and cultural history of human neurological diversity: the fact that our minds naturally vary in how they work. Speakers will trace how different forms of cognitive, emotional, and sensory experience have manifested throughout history, prior to the formal development of neurodiversity theory in the late…
Online Symposium (via Microsoft Teams) — 5 March 2026 Organized by the Center for Innovation in Ancient Worlds (CIAW), with the support of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). This symposium invites proposals on how neurodiversity (ADHD, autism, dyslexia, and other cognitive profiles) can reshape the ways we teach and learn about the Ancient World—through…
Join us online for Disability and the Archives: Access, Absences and Action, a two-day virtual conference hosted by Shakespeare’s Globe from 23–24 January 2026. This interdisciplinary event will examine how disabled lives have been recorded, obscured, or erased across literary, performance, and institutional records. The programme includes talks, panels, and time for shared reflection, with…
Disabilities and Women in Ancient Rome: Legal, social and cultural perspectives. Workshop at the University of Helsinki, Finland, May 4, 2026 Call for papers Disabilities and Women in Ancient Rome: Legal, social and cultural perspectives Workshop at the University of Helsinki, Finland Monday, May 4, 2026 Deadline for submission: March 2, 2026 In recent years,…
Call for Contributors – Early Modern European Neurodivergence August 3rd and 4th 2026, Taliesin Arts Centre, Swansea University We welcome contributions to a conference on the topic of neurodivergence and early modern Europe. This accessible, hybrid event will examine neurodivergence in the period 1550-1750, across languages and cultures, including cross-cultural encounters between Europe and other…
If you missed our initial registration form but would still like to attend Early Modern European Neurodivergence on the 3rd and 4th of August 2026 either in-person at Swansea University or online via Zoom, please complete the following registration form!📝 https://forms.office.com/e/RDmhiWqpna
Call for Papers: Disability History and the Life Course edited by Chelsea Chamberlain and Caroline Lieffers Life stages including the fetal stage, infancy, childhood, adolescence, "reproductive age," adulthood, retirement, elderliness, and death are crucial ways of experiencing and making sense of both the bodymind and temporality, but they can also be vectors of power. Life…
In recent years, the study of early modern literature and culture has become increasingly informed by the insights of critical race studies; in a parallel development, scholars are also showing a growing commitment to exploring disability in the early modern world. This conversation puts premodern critical race studies and early modern disability studies in conversation…
