FREE DISPLAY Open from 10 Nov 2023 to 8 May 2024 Ancient Middle East Gallery In partnership with Curating for Change, and to coincide with Disability History Month this year, we're highlighting some of the important objects in our collection to showcase how disability has been celebrated and depicted in Ancient Egypt and the Ancient…
deadline for submissions: April 25, 2024 full name / name of organization: Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies contact email: editors@ellids.com CALL FOR PAPERS: Rethinking Body in Medical Humanities Having its coinage in the context of history of science by George Sarton in 1948, Medical Humanities has grown into an exciting area of interdisciplinary inquiry that allows…
The Medical Historical Library of the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University is pleased to announce its fifteenth annual Research Travel award for use of the Historical Library. The Ferenc Gyorgyey/Stanley Simbonis YSM’57 Research Travel Grant is available to historians, medical practitioners, and other researchers outside of Yale who wish to use…
Disability History: New Perspectives and Interdisciplinary Approaches November 6, 2024 – November 8, 2024 In-person symposium Münster (Germany) In recent years, the exploration of disability has increasingly gained importance within historical research. Disability history has particularly emphasized the social and cultural dimensions of disabilities, advocating for the recognition of disability as a central historical category…
deadline for submissions: April 30, 2024 full name / name of organization: Allie Wood Reichert / PAMLA contact email: areic004@ucr.edu The representation of traumatic experience is a fraught conversation in literary and media studies. Cathy Caruth famously argued for the “unspeakability” of trauma; other scholars such as Naomi Mandel argue that emphasizing the limits of…
As part of the Association’s 2024 Award Series, the DHA Award Committee invites entries for its thirteenth annual Outstanding Book Award. The amount of the award is $300. The winning book, as well as the book receiving the honorable mention, will be announced in September 2024. Eligibility: Committee members welcome monographs and edited collections, provided…
The Disability History Association (DHA) is committed to promoting innovative scholarship in disability history, pursuing justice and equity, and supporting the disability history community in countering different forms of oppression, including ableism, racism, and colonialism. The DHA is therefore excited to announce our second annual DHA Research for Justice and Equity Award. This US$500 award…
The Disability History Association (DHA) is now accepting applications for the fourth biennial (every two years) award that recognizes public disability history projects. This $200 award spotlights projects that exemplify DHA’s mission to foster expansive historical studies of disability and disabled people. Projects may take various forms, including—but not limited to—publications, documentary films, digital projects,…
This project focuses on how impaired Stuart seafarers became identified as ‘disabled’. Engaging with critical disabilities studies where ‘disability’ is understood as a historically and culturally variable category, the project explores how early modern attitudes towards specific physical and sensorial impairments in effect disabled Stuart naval personnel, changing their lived experiences through this categorisation. Researching the…
As part of the Association’s 2024 Award Series, the DHA is pleased to invite entries for its thirteenth annual Outstanding Article or Book Chapter Award competition. The winning article or book chapter, as well the article or book chapter receiving honorable mention, will be announced in September 2024. Eligibility: The award committee welcomes entries that…
Led by Jason Farr (Marquette University) and Elizabeth Bearden (University of Wisconsin-Madison). Four meetings across the academic year on Fridays: September 27, 2024; November 1, 2024; February 7, 2025; and April 25, 2025, from 9:30 AM-12:30 PM Central Time In-person at the Newberry APPLICATION DEADLINE: MAY 15, 2024 This seminar aims to assist graduate students…
The University of Illinois Press in partnership with the Disability Histories series and the Disability History Association is pleased to welcome submissions for the second annual Outstanding Dissertation in Disability History prize. This prize is awarded annually to recognize and reward exceptional work in disability history done by early-career scholars. The winner will receive $1000…
