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  • CFP: Deafness in the Premodern Mediterranean (VivaMente Conference in the History of Ideas)

    This VivaMente Conference explores deafness and the figure of the deaf person in the Mediterranean Antiquity and pre-modern ages through historical, medical, and socio-cultural perspectives. Despite its historical significance, this topic remains underexplored within disability history and Deaf culture studies, although recent scholarly interest in ancient disabilities has expanded to include social and cultural dimensions.…

  • CFP: Health, Welfare, and Mutual Support in Maritime Communities, 1550 – 1850

    The focus of this one-day workshop/symposium on 14 January 2027 at the National Maritime Museum is the disciplinary crossroads between medical, social, and maritime history. We aim to bring researchers interested in these fields together to present research and create connections across an area of emergent research. Much traditional scholarship on maritime healthcare has focused…

  • ‘Disability: A History of Resistance’ – David Turner in conversation with Jude Rogers

    South Wales Miners' Library, Y Storfa 277-278 Oxford St, Swansea, United Kingdom

    Despite there being more than 16 million disabled people in the UK today, disability rarely features in mainstream accounts of our past. That absence is not down to any lack of evidence: it is a forgotten, suppressed history – the result of deliberate choices about whose histories matter. For the first time, this book puts…

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