The Department of the History of Medicine and the Center for Medical Humanities and Social Medicine (CMHSM), Johns Hopkins University, seeks applicants for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in history of medicine and medical humanities. The fellow will have teaching and administrative responsibilities in the department’s online program in the history of medicine (OPHOM) which offers…
Proposals exploring power, racial, and gender asymmetries in the cultural construction of beliefs and practices related to health and medicine in colonial Latin America. Send one-page abstract & short bio by March 15 to kstolle@emory.edu Deadline for submissions: Friday, 15 March 2024
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
Looking for work that considers invisible disability in works of literature, art, philosophy, etc. Some suggested topics are spoon theory, crip time, spectacle, sick woman theory, the grotesque, etc. Interdisciplinary approaches welcome. 500 word abstracts Deadline for submissions: Wednesday, 20 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
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…
The Edward Worth Library, Dublin, is offering two research fellowships (duration one month), to be held in 2024, to encourage research relevant to its collections. The Worth Library is a collection of c. 4,300 books, left to Dr Steevens’ Hospital by Edward Worth (1676-1733), an early eighteenth-century Dublin physician. The collection is particularly strong in…
deadline for submissions: April 15, 2024 full name / name of organization: Midwest Modern Language Association contact email: goddardj@trine.edu In keeping with the conference theme “Health in/of the Humanities” the permanent session of the Shakespeare and Shakespearean Criticism panel is soliciting presentations that address illness and health in the work, criticism, or teaching of Shakespeare.…
Call for Presenters! UKDHHH Connecting + Sharing Event, Thursday 6th June 2024 @ Manchester Deaf Centre Presentations in person (in an accessible environment) - we'll have some additional in-person spaces and a remote access option to expand the event to our wider home + international community! The UK Disability History and Heritage Hub (UKDHHH) links…
24th ANNUAL JOINT POSTGRADUATE SYMPOSIUM ON ANCIENT PERFORMANCE ‘Bodies and Voices in the Theory and Practice of Greek and Roman Performance and its Reception.’ 27 – 28 June 2024 CALL FOR PAPERS The 24th Annual Joint Postgraduate Symposium on Ancient Performance and Reception, hosted by the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama, University of…
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…
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…
