The International Spenser Society announces #GettingStartedWithSpenser, a workshop on developing inclusive teaching resources for reading Spenser in terms of race, gender, class, ecocriticism, and more. Speakers include Susanne Wofford, Debapriya Sarkar, Dennis Britton, Morgan Souza, and Ross Lerner. Ayesha Ramachandran is the moderator. The event takes place on December 15th, 9am PST/12pm EST/5pm GMT. Sign up…
An Emory University and Folger Institute partnered program, with the support of Georgia Humanities March 04 – 06, 2021 (via Zoom) REGISTRATION REQUIRED BY FEBRUARY 15 Centering intersectional approaches, public humanities, and activist performance, this virtual seminar welcomes teacher-scholars, practitioners working on disability studies in the premodern period, and the interested public. Come learn from…
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…
The University of Bern will host an international workshop on medieval sensory studies from 24 April 2023 – 27 April 2023 at Congressi Stefano Franscini, Monte Verità, Switzerland. More information can be found at this link.
We are inviting submissions for a hybrid (online and in-person) workshop Hidden Worlds: Histories of Disability Things and Material Culture, taking place in September 2023. Abstracts are due May 1 2023. Hidden Worlds: Histories of Disability Things and Material Culture For over two decades, historians of disability have called for greater engagement with material culture…
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 Disability History Association is seeking applications for our annual Disability History Graduate Writing Workshop (DHGWW). This workshop series is designed to support graduate students working on disability history and foster community in the field. The workshop provides participants with valuable feedback on their writing while also offering them a glimpse into the future directions…
Sunday, June 9 - Friday, June 14, 2024 Led by Laurel Daen and Jennifer Van Horn The 2024 Center for Historic American Visual Culture (CHAViC) summer seminar will focus on the visual and material cultures of disability in eighteenth and nineteenth-century North America. Participants will hone their skills in visual and material culture analysis, learn…
