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  • CFP: Community and the Uncanny: Neurodivergent Inclusion and Exile in the Middle Ages (IMC 2027)

    Despite the importance of community for human wellbeing, the neurodivergent experience of what community has meant throughout history has often differed greatly from that offered by neuronormative societies. Building on the success of our 2026 series, Neurodivergent and Neuroqueer Temporalities, we once again invite scholars working in neurodiversity studies and neuroqueer theory within medieval studies…

  • CFP: Society for Disability Studies Annual Virtual Conference

    Annual Virtual Conference | April 23 and 24, 2027 Here and There, Then and Now: Disability Studies at the End of the World Call for Papers Note: A text-only version of the information below is available as a Google Doc at this link. Amidst escalating political repression, imperialist violence, climate crisis, and warfare, how do…

  • CFPs (deadline extended): Three ICMS Sessions on Monsters and the Monstrous

    Session I: Inexplicable, Indescribable, Inconceivable MonstersSponsors: MEARCSTAPA Organizers: Mary Leech and Thea Tomaini This session seeks to explore the implied monstrosity of characters through their deeds and/or words with physical features left out or minimally described. Through this approach, this session will analyze how monstrosity is not just a physical attribute, but also related to…

  • Beyond Contagion: Rethinking the History of Leprosy in the Medieval Mediterranean

    nna Gili 22 September 2026 – 5 PM (CEST) Given the variety of its pathological manifestations, leprosy was difficult for physicians in the past to recognise. They attempted to provide different pathological descriptions, distinct aetiologies, and varied clinical portraits to grasp its nature. Even the proposed treatments, although often influenced by the Galenic discovery of…

  • CFP: Workshop: Neurodiversity in the German-speaking world

    The digital workshop on 12. November 2026 invites researchers to exchange information on neurodivergence, disregard and neurodiversity studies. Short contribution proposals can be up to 30. September 2026 will be submitted. Neurodiversity Studies in the humanities and cultural sciences already have a permanent place in the English-speaking countries and in Scandinavia. Since the 2000s, the…

  • CFP: Health, Welfare, and Mutual Support in Maritime Communities, 1550 – 1850

    The focus of this one-day workshop/symposium on 14 January 2027 at the National Maritime Museum is the disciplinary crossroads between medical, social, and maritime history. We aim to bring researchers interested in these fields together to present research and create connections across an area of emergent research. Much traditional scholarship on maritime healthcare has focused…

  • Talk: Reading Neurodivergence in Old Norse Literature

    In recent years, there has been a growing awareness of the importance of neurodivergent representation in all forms of media, including literature. Realistic representation is vital to providing relatable content for neurodivergent readers as well as challenging harmful stereotypes. Whilst authors today can continue to improve neurodivergent representation in their work, it is also important…

  • ‘Disability: A History of Resistance’ – David Turner in conversation with Jude Rogers

    South Wales Miners' Library, Y Storfa 277-278 Oxford St, Swansea, United Kingdom

    Despite there being more than 16 million disabled people in the UK today, disability rarely features in mainstream accounts of our past. That absence is not down to any lack of evidence: it is a forgotten, suppressed history – the result of deliberate choices about whose histories matter. For the first time, this book puts…

  • Stimmy Herbert – talk by Amrita Dhar

    Where: In-person on Swansea University Singleton Campus, Talbot Building, Room 980 (1st floor, accessible from the Faraday Building main entrance) When: 8th October 2026 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm This seminar will consider George Herbert's collection The Temple (1633) as a neurodivergent work. I don’t at all propose to be diagnostic about it (and I am not interested in contemporary…

  • Application Deadline: Dartmouth College – Assistant Professor in Latin American Medical Humanities

    The Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Dartmouth invites applications for a full-time tenure-track appointment as Assistant Professor in Latin American Medical Humanities. The position is open to specializations in any historical period and in any Spanish-speaking region of Latin America and/or the Caribbean, including hemispheric, transatlantic, and transpacific comparative approaches. Applicants for this position should demonstrate how…

  • Workshop/Symposium: Health, Welfare, and Mutual Support in Maritime Communities, 1550 – 1850

    National Maritime Museum Romney Rd, Greenwich, United Kingdom

    A one-day workshop/symposium on 14 January 2027 at the National Maritime Museum, focusing on the disciplinary crossroads between medical, social, and maritime history. The focus of this one-day workshop/symposium on 14 January 2027 at the National Maritime Museum is the disciplinary crossroads between medical, social, and maritime history. We aim to bring researchers interested in…

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