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Global Blake: In Conversation with Jared S. Richman – ‘Blake’s Visionary Temporalities: Disability and Form in Milton: A Poem’

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…

Reading Ancient Temples through the Lens of Disability Studies and Mobility Design

How can the archaeology of temples account for people with disabilities? Overview Modern archaeological scholarship works under the assumption that the physical space of the ancient world, much like the modern, was oriented towards the able bodied. This has rendered people with disabilities as “archaeologically invisible.” Recent developments have proven that it is possible to…

Jaipreet Virdi: The Disabled Gaze: Rethinking the Past, Remaking the Future

The Medical and Health Humanities Speaker Series at SHSU is made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Humanities Initiative Grant and the SHSU Department of History *Remote attendance through Zoom requires registration. AB IV Rm. 220 and on Zoom (Zoom registration)

Online Talk: Charles Lamb and Modern Disability

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…

Speaking in Hands: Deafness in Renaissance Europe

WITH LIVE BSL INTEPRETATION AND CLOSED CAPTIONS. A public online history lecture by Dr Rosamund Oates, Reader in Early Modern History, FRHistS. Manchester Metropolitan University. Dr Oates is an expert in Early Modern England (c. 1450-1750), working on the cultural and religious history of the past. She is currently working on a history of deafness…

Sonia Zakrzewski: Identity, DisAbility and Eunuchism in Greco-Roman Egypt

School of Archaeological and Forensic Sciences, University of Bradford Bradford, BD7 1DP, United Kingdom

This is a hybrid event, which will be delivered on the University of Bradford campus (Richmond Building, Room J19) and online Via Teams. Abstract:With notable exceptions, bioarchaeology in Egypt has tended to focus upon one site or one aspect of health and disease, rather than the interrelationships between peoples, pathology and places. This paper tries…

Webinar: Experiences of War, Injury, and (Chronic) Pain (15th-16th centuries)

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…

Seminar: “Medical writer’s quibbles about genitourinary patients in early modern England”

8th February 2024 – Dr Jennifer Evans (University of Hertfordshire) – Registration details to follow. TITLE: ‘‘He was ashamed to let me know of it, and thought to have got cured otherwise without my knowledge’: Medical writer’s quibbles about genitourinary patients in early modern England.’ ABSTRACT: This seminar considers the extent to which disorders affecting…

Disability in English Literature to 1800 (Livestream)

An interdisciplinary conference examining disability across medieval, early modern, and eighteenth century literature. UCSB Early Modern Center This event has in-person and virtual attendance. This interdisciplinary conference brings together scholars studying a variety “body matters,” including representations of disability or ability in premodern literature, the continuum of embodiment explored by premodern authors, and the relation…

Webinar: Traumatic Repercussions: Warfare and Disability in the French Countryside

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…

Open Doors in the Labyrinth: Autism and the Minotaur

In popular culture, autism is frequently visualised as a maze. The maze represents confusion, detachment and fear, and there is often a monster within it. Sometimes the Minotaur in the maze is the autistic person, monstrously part-human, unable to communicate, cut off from family and community. Sometimes Autism itself is the monster, stalking its prey…