The Mabindra Humanities Center @ Harvard Seminar on Women, Gender and Culture in the Early Modern World presents: "In a manner that might have meant 'no'": Sexual Desire and Intellectual Disability in Early Modern French Fairy Tales Jennifer E. Row (University of Minnesota) Thursday, December 10, 5:00PM EST This seminar will offer CART service and…
Suzannah Biernoff (Birkbeck College): 'Disfigurement: A Cultural Anatomy' Disfigurement is usually thought of as a physical attribute, something visible, definable, and more or less treatable. Yet, to quote the sociologist Heather Laine Talley, this problematic term has “no static intelligibility, no objective point of reference, no stable shared meaning.” In this talk, Suzannah Biernoff will…
As part of the History of Nursing Public Events series from the Royal College of Nursing Library & Archives, Simon Jarrett will give an online talk about the history of care for people with learning disabilities. Further details and free registration can be found at the link below.
April 14, 4-5:30 pm Central Time | Elizabeth Bearden Lecture (on Zoom), organized by Center for Premodern Studies, Uncommon Bodies, and UMN Department of English.
