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…
deadline for submissions: April 30, 2024 full name / name of organization: Allie Wood Reichert / PAMLA contact email: areic004@ucr.edu The representation of traumatic experience is a fraught conversation in literary and media studies. Cathy Caruth famously argued for the “unspeakability” of trauma; other scholars such as Naomi Mandel argue that emphasizing the limits of…
Hosted by Division of Literature and Languages, Religion Programme, The University of Stirling. Event to be held at: The University of Stirling Campus. Symposium Outline: Organisers of this interdisciplinary symposium are inviting speakers from organisations such as National Autistic Society, Scottish Women’s Autism Network, and those who work to support people with autism, students/researchers who…
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH STUDIES FACULTY OF PHILOSOPHY UNIVERSITY OF NOVI SAD is happy to announce THE 7TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND ANGLOPHONE LITERATURES TODAY (ELALT 7) Celebrating the 70th anniversary of the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad and of the English Department October 26-27, 2024 The conference will be held ONLINE and…
Narratio in Medicine and the Law: Interpretative and Scientific Knowledge in Medical and Medico-Legal Case Histories from Antiquity to the Renaissance This VivaMente conference explores the intersections of narrative, rhetorical persuasion, and factual evidence in medical and medico-legal case histories from Antiquity to the Renaissance focusing on the longue durée development of medical and medico-legal…
We are delighted to invite papers for our international conference Writing the Self in Pain: Historical Perspectives, to be held at the University of Helsinki on 24–25 October 2024. The deadline for proposals is 31 May 2024. Check out for the criteria for proposals below. About the conference Pain as an affective, simultaneously sensory and…
deadline for submissions: May 31, 2024 full name / name of organization: Iraboty Kazi, University of Western Ontario contact email: ikazi3@uwo.ca UAAC Panel Session Queerness and disability have long intersected, from the medicalization of queerness, institutionalization, and the HIV/AIDS epidemic to contemporary address, such as the ongoing suppression of Trans* healthcare rights. Queer/crip refusals of…
In today's culture, it's almost impossible to avoid "monsters." Straight from mythology and legend, these fantastic creatures traipse across our television screens and the pages of our books. Over centuries and across cultures, the inhuman have represented numerous cultural fears and, in more recent times, desires. They are Other. They are Us. This panel will…
Lightfoot Room, St John's College, Cambridge and on Zoom, June 24, 2024 - June 24, 2024 Registration is now open for the conference Age and Health, 1500-1800. The conference asks how experiences of health and ill health shaped and were governed by age stages, and how they shifted across the lifecycle. The conference is free to attend,…
The Dress and Body Association invites submissions for the organization’s fifth annual conference, which will be held on November 2-3, 2024. Consistent with our long-term goals for inclusivity and sustainability, all activities will be 100% online, including keynote speaker(s), research presentations, and opportunities for virtual networking. Visit the DBA website—www.dress-body-association.org—to learn more about this organization…
2025 will be a critical year for early Stuart court studies. March (the time of the conference) marks 400 years from the death of King James VI & I and the ascension of Charles I. This panel seeks to contribute to this well-established yet ever-evolving field by turning attention to the potent political site of…
