The Society for the Study of Disability in the Middle Ages is calling for paper and round table participants for the following sessions at the 59th International Congress on Medieval Studies: - Session: “Intersections of Medieval Dis/Ability and Race/Making” This panel examines what it means to think about premodern race and premodern dis/ability together. -…
deadline for submissions: September 30, 2023 full name / name of organization: NEMLA contact email: cbloomer@brandeis.edu This panel puts forward premodern disability as enhancement, surplus, or even reward, drawing from the concept of “disability gain,” coined by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson (Fox, Krings, Vierke, 2019), to reformulate disability as gain, instead of loss, or as a resource.…
Papers are sought for a special panel series on the subject of disability studies in dramatic texts and performance. We invite research on representation, imagery, symbolism, societal regulation, social impact, or the construction of disability as it pertains to casting and depictions of those with disabilities in playtexts and dramatic performance. Papers should be 15…
deadline for submissions: October 15, 2023 full name / name of organization: Catherine Bloomer & Alani Hicks-Bartlett contact email: alani_hicks-bartlett@brown.edu **extended deadline**NeMLA (March 7-10, 2024 - Boston)Reimagining Premodern Disability: Excess, Surplus, Gain This panel puts forward premodern disability as enhancement, surplus, or even reward, drawing from the concept of “disability gain,” coined by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson (Fox,…
deadline for submissions: November 17, 2023 December 1, 2023 full name / name of organization: University of California - Santa Barbara (Early Modern Center) contact email: emcfellow@gmail.com The Early Modern Center at the University of California, Santa Barbara, invites paper proposals for its 2024 conference, “Body Matters!: Disability in English Literature to 1800,” to be…
Sessions of interest: Thursday, 4 January Session 16: Neurodivergent Romanticisms 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM Loews - Commonwealth D (2nd Floor) Friday, 5 January Session 186: Health, Care, and Disability in the Early Modern Francophone World 8:30 AM - 9:45 AM Marriott - Grand I (Level 5) Session 251: Health, Care, and Aging in Seventeenth-…
Renaissance Hybridity deadline for submissions: January 31, 2024 full name / name of organization: University of Wisconsin–Madison Graduate Early Modern Student Society contact email: alksnis@wisc.edu Renaissance Hybridity Graduate Early Modern Student Society Seventh Annual Symposium Friday, April 26, 2024 UW–Madison Memorial Library Special Collections & Hybrid over Zoom Keynote Speaker: Lindsey Row-Heyveld, Associate Professor of…
Conference for Postgraduate Researchers and Early Career Researchers on Age and Health, 1500-1800. Submission deadline: Wednesday, 31 January 2024 Conference on24 June 2024 at the University of Cambridge. Send title, abstract (c. 200 words), and short bio to ageandhealth2024@gmail.com
"Legal bodies, embodied subjects: (re)contextualisations of physicality" Young Scholars' Conference NEW DEADLINE: 3rd February 2024 full name/name of organization: Anna Ronewicz, University of Szczecin contact email: legalbodiesconference@gmail.com We are interested in topics such as, but not limited to: - crimes against bodies; - historical legal approaches to the body; - social, political and legal taboos…
Hospital material culture in the Middle and Early Modern Ages: concepts and meanings School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon 15-17 April 2024 The everyday life in a hospital has always been related to different objects and practices that make up the material expression of established human relationships and the very functioning of such…
The two-day Symposium, scheduled for Feb. 15-16, 2024, is co-sponsored by the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis) and Macalester College (St. Paul). The Symposium will bring to the Twin Cities a group of leading scholars of early modernity to illuminate the intersections of disability and race in the global early modern period. Organized by longtime collaborators…
