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SUMMARY:Seminar: Ageing and Sexual Dysfunction in Early Modern Literature
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday 25 March 2026\, 1.00PM to 3:00 PM \nSpeaker(s): Ezra Horbury\, University of York \n\nIn early modern culture\, old age was commonly associated with a loss of sexual function. Building on attitudes stretching back to classical texts\, early modern culture understood ageing sexuality as comically inappropriate and the ageing body as sexually dysfunctional. While legal and medical writings sought objective metrics for measuring penile ‘impotence’\, literary texts instead aimed to regulate the sexual behaviours of ageing men through comic mockery. Such texts imagined ageing sexuality through a wide and colourful range of derogatory metaphors\, transforming a private body part into the subject of public discourse and generator of comic culture. This paper considers early modern literary conceptualisations of ‘impotence’ in ageing men\, as analysed through the framework of disability and transgender theory; such frameworks offer alternative understandings of penile sexuality that deprioritise penetration. In analysing plays and poetry\, this paper tracks strategies that control ageing sexuality through comedy\, their attempts to render the ‘impotent’ penis publicly visible by displacing it onto other visual markers of ageing\, the perceived intersection between sexual dysfunction and disease\, and some of the few alternatives imagined by early modern culture for non-penetrative ageing sexuality. This paper ultimately finds early modern literary culture recurrently derogatory about ageing male sexuality\, but argues that this material offers a greater understanding of early modern attitudes to the intersection of age\, sexuality\, and genital function. \nEzra Horbury is a Lecturer in Renaissance Literature at the University of York. Their research interests span theology and theories of gender and sexuality. They are the author of two monographs\, Prodigality in Early Modern Drama (Boydell and Brewer) and Reading the Margins of the Early Modern Bible (Oxford University Press/Liverpool University Press). Their articles have been published in journals including Shakespeare Quarterly\, Harvard Theological Review\, and Transgender Studies Quarterly. \nBook in-person attendance \nBook online attendance via Zoom \n  \n\nLocation: H/G15\, Heslington Hall and Zoom \nEmail: crems-enquiries@york.ac.uk
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SUMMARY:Call for Presenters: Early Modern European Neurodivergence
DESCRIPTION:Call for Contributors – Early Modern European Neurodivergence\nAugust 3rd and 4th 2026\, Taliesin Arts Centre\, Swansea University \nWe welcome contributions to a conference on the topic of neurodivergence and early modern Europe. This accessible\, hybrid event will examine neurodivergence in the period 1550-1750\, across languages and cultures\, including cross-cultural encounters between Europe and other continents. Topics might include:\n• Representations of neurodivergence in early modern European writing\n• Neurodivergent ways of engaging early modern texts\, from stimming with books to\nADHDer responses to literature\n• Indigenous neurodiversity studies\n• Intersections between neurodivergence and other aspects of early modern Europe (for example religion\, race\, gender\, social class)\n• Early modern neurotrans studies\n• Interviews with theatre practitioners\nWe welcome proposals (up to 150 words) and biographies of presenters (up to 100 words each) for 5-20 minute talks\, posters\, workshops\, performances\, and practical sessions on these themes. We want the conference to be as accessible as possible\, so are keen to include sessions that might appeal to a variety of ways of engaging with literature. If you are proposing a practical session or performance that requires particular props or materials\, please enquire about what we can provide.\nWe can cover presenters’ travel and accommodation if needed. Breakfast\, lunch\, and dinner will be provided at the conference. We also have a number of bursaries available to cover the cost of travel and accommodation for unwaged or student attendees who wish to come to the conference without presenting.\nPresenters and attendees please fill out this form by 5pm BST 31st March 2026 :\nhttps://forms.office.com/e/L6rnAcaL8F \nIf we receive many proposals we will give preference to those that fit the conference theme (neurodivergence in early modern Europe) and that provide a diversity of languages\, cultures\, and approaches. As we plan to publish a selection of essays from the conference with Bloomsbury publishers\, the conference will include a workshop from Bloomsbury editors about the publishing process. This conference is part of the AMEND – Early Modern European Neurodivergence project at Swansea University\, funded by The Wellcome Trust. \nAny questions\, please contact a member of the project team: Dr Laura Seymour (she/her) laura.seymour@swansea.ac.uk\, Dr Bridget Bartlett (they/them)\nbridget.bartlett@swansea.ac.uk; Vicky Hansly (she/her) victoria.hansly@swansea.ac.uk The medium of the conference will be English. All organisational materials (e.g. conference schedule\, map of the rooms) will be provided in Welsh and English. If you wish to use the spoken Welsh language throughout the conference\, please let us know via the Microsoft Form and we will arrange a Welsh interpreter.
URL:https://premoderndisability.com/event/call-for-presenters-early-modern-european-neurodivergence/
CATEGORIES:Call for Papers,Conference,Early Modern,Long 18th Century
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