CFP: Disability Studies in Dramatic Texts and Performance

Papers are sought for a special panel series on the subject of disability in dramatic texts and performance for the 45th Annual Comparative Drama Conference in Orlando, FL. We invite research on representation, image, symbolism, societal regulation or construction of disability as it pertains to casting and depictions of those with disabilities in playtexts and…

CFP Deadline: Mental Illness in Early and Antebellum America (ALA 2023)

deadline for submissions: January 15, 2023 full name / name of organization: Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society contact email: akreed@vt.edu The Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society solicits proposals for two panels to be presented at the 2023 American Literature Association Conference. The conference will take place May 25-28 at the Westin Copley Place in Boston, Massachusetts. The…

CFP Deadline: Disability Aesthetics in a Premodern Global Context

The MLA LLC Forum for Sixteenth-Century English Literature is sponsoring a guaranteed panel on “Disability Aesthetics in a Premodern Global Context” at the MLA 2024 conference in Philadelphia (4-7 Jan. 2024). We welcome submissions and inquiries from scholars at all career stages. Call for Papers: How might we study disability aesthetics alongside histories of empire,…

CFP Deadline: Disabling Environments

Panel exploring Romantic-era disability, health inequity, and environmental harm. Possible topics might include constructions of non-normative embodiment, the development of professional medicine, and the environmental consequences of industrialization. 300-word abstracts and brief bios to fusonw@ucr.edu Deadline for submissions: Wednesday, 15 March 2023 Contact: Fuson Wang, U of California, Riverside (fusonw@ucr.edu )

CFP Deadline: Health, Care, and Disability in the Early Modern Francophone World

This non-guaranteed panel invites contributions that explore notions of health, care, and disability in early modern Francophone spaces in various contexts and perspectives. Potential topics might include (but are certainly not limited to): the relation between care, charity, and religion in the early modern; literature featuring characters with disabilities; texts that challenge gendered notions of…

CFP Deadline: Milton and Disability (RSA 2024)

The Milton Society of America will propose a panel at the RSA 2024 that promotes the work of premodern disability studies. We invite paper submissions that consider any aspect of John Milton’s writings, life, historical and literary contexts, and intellectual legacy through the lens of critical disability studies. For consideration, please submit an abbreviated CV…

(Deadline Extended) CFP: Milton and Disability at RSA 2024

"The Milton Society of America will propose a panel at the RSA 2024 that promotes the work of premodern disability studies. We invite paper submissions that consider any aspect of John Milton’s writings, life, historical and literary contexts, and intellectual legacy through the lens of critical disability studies. For consideration, please submit an abbreviated CV…

Call for Papers/Participants: Disability-Related Sessions at ICMS

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. -…

CFP: Reimagining Premodern Disability: Excess, Surplus, Gain at NEMLA

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.…

CFP: Disability Studies in Dramatic Texts and Performance

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…

CFP Deadline Extended: Reimagining Premodern Disability: Excess, Surplus, Gain

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,…

MLA 2024

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-…