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…
