Call for Applicants: Disability History Association Conference Award

The Disability History Association invites applications for the Fall 2020 Conference Award. This award is intended to help cover costs for conferences attended between October 1, 2020 and March 31, 2021. Eligibility: This award is open to graduate students and contingent faculty, as well as underemployed, unemployed, or community-based scholars and artists. The DHA is particularly interested in…

2021 MLA Annual Convention

The 2021 MLA Annual Convention takes place from 7 to 10 January 2021, with preconvention workshops on 6 January. Registration is required. For details on panels with connections to premodern disability studies, see our conference guide.

SAA 49th Annual Meeting

Click here for the Premodern Disability conference guide. The Shakespeare Association of America will hold its 49th Annual Meeting virtually. The conference dates are March 31-April 3, 2021. This event will be updated when the SAA January Bulletin is released.

56th International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo)

Online

The International Congress on Medieval Studies will hold its 56th Congress from Monday, May 10 through Saturday, May 15, 2021. As always, the Congress is hosted by the Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University. Rather than taking place in lovely Kalamazoo, however, the 56th Congress will take place via the Web. A preview of the schedule…

CFP: Disability, Ableism, and Medievalism

Online

from Carol Robinson, via the Society for the Study of Disability in the Middle Ages Facebook group: I'm still looking for one or two papers for a session to be held at the fully online Annual Conference on Medievalism (November 4-6). Papers should focus upon how "disability" is defined and/or responded to within contemporary medievalist…

Race and the Early Modern: New Scholars, New Scholarship

Online

Race and the Early Modern: New Scholars, New Scholarship Conference With keynotes from Nicholas R. Jones and Surekha Davies, and papers from: Ana Howie (University of Cambridge) Andrew Kettler (Kenyon College) Arianna Ray (Northwestern University) Ato Quirin Schweizer (Universität Duisburg-Essen) Dessalegn Bizuneh Ayele (University of Gondar) Eli Cumings (University of Cambridge) Hassana Moosa (King’s College…

CFP: The Fury of Achilles: The Faces of War

Proposals are invited for the International Conference “The Fury of Achilles: The Faces of War,” which will be held in the Department of Languages and Cultures of the University of Aveiro, Portugal, on 29 and 30 September 2022. Abstracts due 31 May 2022. See link below for further details.

CFP: The Body and the Human

The 2022 Southeastern Medieval Association Conference, which has the theme "The Body and the Human," invites proposals for sessions of individual papers by July 7, 2022. Further information can be found via this link.

CFP: Pictures of Health in the Eighteenth Century

What does it mean to call someone “the picture of health”? The WHO’s 1949 constitution stated that “Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” More recently “One Health”—a model of health that includes the social contexts and environmental situation that limits or…