CFP: Creativity, Care, and Communities: Making Visible Connections (Dress and Body Association)

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…

CFP: Changing Bodies and Subjects in Early Modernity (RSA 2025)

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,…

CfP: Reframing the Gaze: Maria Theresia Paradis, Blind Musicians, and Musical Culture in the Decades before Braille

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…

CFP: Reimagining Disability through “Disability Gain” (RSA Panel)

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…

CFP: Making Madnesses in Early Modern England (RSA Boston, March 20-22, 2025)

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…

CFP: Shakespeare and the Mind

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…

CFP: Medieval Monsters as Modern Monsters, ICMS Kalamazoo (virtual)

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…

CFP: Bad Bodies: Materiality and Performativity in the Medieval Mediterranean

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,…

CFP: Medieval/ist Disabled Affect (A Roundtable)

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…

CFP: Discourse and Disability: Constructing Disability through Speech Acts

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…