Proposals for 20-minute presentations that explore how changes in bodily states, life stages, and other changes in embodiment affected people, their self-image, their subject positions, etc. in the early modern period. “Body” can be understood in the strict physical sense or in the developmental sense as a process and as an evolving entity or phenomenon,…
CALL FOR PROPOSALS Reframing the Gaze: Maria Theresia Paradis, Blind Musicians, and Musical Culture in the Decades before Braille A Bicentenary Symposium November 22-24, 2024 Mount Holyoke College (South Hadley, MA) proposal deadline: August 1, 2024 We invite proposals for presentations on the life, works, and worlds of Maria Theresia Paradis (1759-1824) in celebration of her…
This panel welcomes contributions devoted to the long genealogy of literary, visual, and historical representations of the disabled or “defective” body, particularly those also attentive to the concept of “disability gain.” Coined by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, “disability gain,” allows Renaissance scholars to reconsider and reimagine the disabled body (Fox, Krings, Vierke, 2019). Through this framework, based…
deadline for submissions: August 12, 2024 full name / name of organization: Avi Mendelson / RSA Conference, Boston, 2025 contact email: amendel@brandeis.edu In John Ford’s raucous tragicomedy, The Lover’s Melancholy (1628), the proto-psychiatrist Corax attempts an experimental treatment on his forlorn melancholic patients: he stages a masque – acted by the allegorical figures of psychic ailments, including…
Stenton Symposium 2024, University of Reading Proposals of up to 200 words and a short bio are due Friday 23 August. Send to Dr. Ruth Salter (r.j.salter@reading.ac.uk)
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…
