• AMEND Website Launch

    We are exciting to announce the Official AMEND Website Launch event! It will be held 12th May 2026 from 6pm to 7pm UK time online via Zoom🎉 Register now using the link to the Microsoft Forms! https://forms.office.com/e/gCANx6v4yj

  • Deadline: Disability History Association Publication Awards – Book and Chapter/Article

    The Disability History Association is accepting submissions for its 2026 outstanding publication awards! The deadline for the Outstanding Book Award is May 15, 2026. The DHA welcomes monographs and edited collections with significant historical content, provided the book is new, original scholarship and published in English. The award is open to authors writing across all…

  • Call for Applications: 2026 Disability History Association Research for Justice and Equity Award

    2026 Research for Justice and Equity Award 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 third annual Research for Justice and…

  • CFP: Collections Uncovered: Disability at the British Library

    Call for Presenters! Collections Uncovered: Disability at the British Library – 27th November 2026 – 10am-4:30pm Presentations in-person (at the British Library) and online (via Teams/Zoom) The afternoon session is in-person only. Join the UK Disability History and Heritage Hub and the British Library to explore disability histories. Presentations will highlight disability stories within the…

  • Early Modern European Neurodivergence conference

    If you missed our initial registration form but would still like to attend Early Modern European Neurodivergence on the 3rd and 4th of August 2026 either in-person at Swansea University or online via Zoom, please complete the following registration form!📝 https://forms.office.com/e/RDmhiWqpna

  • CFP: Disability History and the Life Course

    Call for Papers: Disability History and the Life Course edited by Chelsea Chamberlain and Caroline Lieffers Life stages including the fetal stage, infancy, childhood, adolescence, "reproductive age," adulthood, retirement, elderliness, and death are crucial ways of experiencing and making sense of both the bodymind and temporality, but they can also be vectors of power. Life…

  • Early Modern Race and Disability: Intersections and Beyond

    In recent years, the study of early modern literature and culture has become increasingly informed by the insights of critical race studies; in a parallel development, scholars are also showing a growing commitment to exploring disability in the early modern world. This conversation puts premodern critical race studies and early modern disability studies in conversation…

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