The International Congress on Medieval Studies will hold its 56th Congress from Monday, May 10 through Saturday, May 15, 2021. As always, the Congress is hosted by the Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University. Rather than taking place in lovely Kalamazoo, however, the 56th Congress will take place via the Web. A preview of the schedule…
from Carol Robinson, via the Society for the Study of Disability in the Middle Ages Facebook group: I'm still looking for one or two papers for a session to be held at the fully online Annual Conference on Medievalism (November 4-6). Papers should focus upon how "disability" is defined and/or responded to within contemporary medievalist…
29 September 2021 to 20 March 2022 Weston Library, Bodleian Libraries, Oxford Free admission, no booking required from the Bodleian Libraries: In 1621 Robert Burton, an Oxford scholar, published the first edition of his encyclopaedic book, The Anatomy of Melancholy. Four hundred years later, the Bodleian Libraries are hosting an exhibition (Melancholy: A New Anatomy) which draws parallels between Burton’s holistic recommendations for cures and contemporary…
Santorio Award for Excellence in Research is a scheme designed to support scholarly excellence in intellectual history and to promote the best PhD theses in the history of medicine and science with a focus on Europe, throughout the period 500-1800. The award is open to PhD students and early career scholars of all nationalities within…
Co-sponsored by PSU English and the CoLab, Intersectionality Talks is a new digital speaker series at Plymouth State University that features intersectional work on literature and culture. The program seeks to provide an interdisciplinary audience and platform for engaged, public-facing work from early career scholars and an opportunity to foster conversations at PSU about new…
Valerio Zannetti (Warburg Institute / I Tatti Joint Fellow): 'National Complexions and Health Culture in Early Modern France' Beliefs that human bodies were marked by national difference informed exchanges at all levels of early modern society, emerging as a key feature of cultural discourse and artistic production. By studying health regimens published in France between…
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…
Race and the Early Modern: New Scholars, New Scholarship Conference With keynotes from Nicholas R. Jones and Surekha Davies, and papers from: Ana Howie (University of Cambridge) Andrew Kettler (Kenyon College) Arianna Ray (Northwestern University) Ato Quirin Schweizer (Universität Duisburg-Essen) Dessalegn Bizuneh Ayele (University of Gondar) Eli Cumings (University of Cambridge) Hassana Moosa (King’s College…
At this online roundtable, Susan Anderson, Callan Davies, Andrew Gordon, Erika T. Lin, Harry R. McCarthy, and Eleanor Rycroft will discuss such questions such as "What methodologies can be used to examine mobility and embodiment in early modern theatre? How can intellectual, biological, or cultural contexts help us to understand what is happening on the…
Proposals are invited for the International Conference “The Fury of Achilles: The Faces of War,” which will be held in the Department of Languages and Cultures of the University of Aveiro, Portugal, on 29 and 30 September 2022. Abstracts due 31 May 2022. See link below for further details.
The International Association for Robin Hood Studies invites paper proposals for two sessions titled “Outlaw Bodies” at the 2022 Conference of the Southeastern Medieval Association in Birmingham, Alabama in 10-12 November. Proposals are due June 1, 2022. More information can be found at this link.
Deadline for submissions: 10th June Send abstracts to: marielouise.leonard AT unive.it Conference Dates: September 20-21, Aula Baratto, Ca' Foscari Venice (Italy) This conference aims to bring together scholars working on any aspect of the relationship between health and work in the early modern period. Scholarship in health and medicine has examined how people cared for…
