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…
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,…
