This Webinar will explore and present new research on disability studies and the Middle Ages. The speakers are: Richard H. Godden (Louisiana State University), “Cripping Langland’s Will” Leah Parker (University of Southern Mississippi), “Eschatologies of Disability / Crip Eschatologies” Tory V. Pearman (Miami University), “Cripping Time in Chaucer’s Pardoner’s Tale” The webinar will be moderated by Heide Estes…
Premodern Neurodiversity workshop (Monday 15th May 2023, 2–4:15 pm, Margaret Rooms 2 and 3, Queen’s Building, University of Exeter) Neurodiversity describes how many people think and experience the world in ways that are different from the perceived norm (e.g. through neurodivergent conditions such as autism, ADHD or OCD). This workshop will explore how neurodivergence can…
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. -…
Dr. Moret-Miranda speaks on intersecting gender, race, (dis)ability, colourism and emotions in Hildegard von Bingen's Scivias. On zoom on October 6th at 10am AEDT; email for link (cmrs-postgraduatecommittee@monash.edu)
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.
February 1, 2024 – Bianca FROHNE (Kiel University, Germany) – „What pain I suffered during that time, anyone can well imagine…“ Experiences of War, Injury, and (Chronic) Pain (15th-16th centuries). In this paper I will discuss (chronic) pain experiences in the later Middle Ages from disability studies and crip perspectives, focusing on pain narratives in…
Hospital material culture in the Middle and Early Modern Ages: concepts and meanings School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon 15-17 April 2024 The everyday life in a hospital has always been related to different objects and practices that make up the material expression of established human relationships and the very functioning of such…
An interdisciplinary conference examining disability across medieval, early modern, and eighteenth century literature. By UCSB Early Modern Center UC Santa Barbara and livestreamed
March 7, 2024 – Sasha PFAU (Hendrix College, Arkansas, USA) – Traumatic Repercussions: Warfare and Disability in the French Countryside. In four letters of remission from 1424, some residents of a town in the diocese of Bayeux explained to the English government of France how they had banded together to attack two English men in…
This panel intends to explore how different bodies were categorized, described, and represented in Medieval and Early Modern Italy considering questions of gender, race, disability, and class differences. Deadline for submissions: Sunday, 17 March 2024
Inviting 250-word abstracts for papers that examine Ming- or Qing-period writings that render visible non-normative, immaterial, or unreal bodies. Especially interested in papers that explore relationships between written and corporeal forms. Deadline for submissions: Monday, 25 March 2024
