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…
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,…
The following at the annual meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies may be of particular interest: Session 30: Eighteenth-century Cripistemologies I (located in Sterling 9) Session 38: “Alternative” Medicine in the Eighteenth Century I (located in Sterling 2) Session 85: Roundtable: Intersectional Approaches to Eighteenth-century Disability (located in Sterling 3) Session 116: Health…
(For MLA 2024) How did authors in the Romantic period and its echoes construct the neurodivergent subject--and its others? How might we rethink neurodivergence as it becomes formulated alongside global "revolutions," racialized disability, the scientific imagination, and queerness? Deadline for submissions: Friday, 17 March 2023 Kate Singer, Mt. Holyoke C (ksinger@mtholyoke.edu )
Blake’s Visionary Temporalities: Disability and Form in Milton: A Poem While eschewing the potential limits of human perception, William Blake’s poetic vision is remarkable for its commitment to the materiality of human form and sensuality. In fact, the very corporeality of Blake’s metaphorical expression insists that we understand his vision of human experience as essentially…
All welcome to this free online talk for the Charles Lamb Society by Professor Emily Stanback Charles Lamb was one of the first thinkers and authors to theorize “disability” in its modern sense—as, among other things, a social and political identity, and a cultural and artistic resource. In this talk Prof. Stanback will highlight some…
As narrative medicine and medical humanities grow into their own specialty fields while expanding outside the traditional frameworks of academia, eighteenth-century studies assumes even greater significance within the development of both the literary canon and the medical field. What can the omnipresence of illness within the body of eighteenth-century literature teach medical humanities? What does…
The award runs every two years and is designed to support scholarly excellence in intellectual history and to promote the best PhD theses in the history of medicine and science with a focus on Europe, throughout the period 500-1800. It is named after the Italian physician Santorio Santori (1561-1636), who introduced the quantitative method to medicine.
Conference for Postgraduate Researchers and Early Career Researchers on Age and Health, 1500-1800. Submission deadline: Wednesday, 31 January 2024 Conference on24 June 2024 at the University of Cambridge. Send title, abstract (c. 200 words), and short bio to ageandhealth2024@gmail.com
