The Disability History Association invites applications for the Fall 2020 Conference Award. This award is intended to help cover costs for conferences attended between October 1, 2020 and March 31, 2021. Eligibility: This award is open to graduate students and contingent faculty, as well as underemployed, unemployed, or community-based scholars and artists. The DHA is particularly interested in…
The International Spenser Society announces #GettingStartedWithSpenser, a workshop on developing inclusive teaching resources for reading Spenser in terms of race, gender, class, ecocriticism, and more. Speakers include Susanne Wofford, Debapriya Sarkar, Dennis Britton, Morgan Souza, and Ross Lerner. Ayesha Ramachandran is the moderator. The event takes place on December 15th, 9am PST/12pm EST/5pm GMT. Sign up…
The 2021 MLA Annual Convention takes place from 7 to 10 January 2021, with preconvention workshops on 6 January. Registration is required. For details on panels with connections to premodern disability studies, see our conference guide.
On January 11th, the topic of the London Shakespeare Seminar will be disability. Session co-chairs are Robin Craig and Jennifer Young. The session will feature Simone Chess (Wayne State University) and Lindsey Row-Heyveld (Luther College). Chess will deliver a talk entitled "Feeling Statues and the Technology of Touch." Row-Heyveld's talk is entitled "Troilus and Cressida and…
The Medieval Academy of America is delighted to host a Speculum webinar that launches January 2021’s themed issue dedicated to the timely topic of “Disease, Death, and Therapy” (vol. 96.1). In ten-minute, TED-style talks each of the five contributors will preview their articles. The discussion will be followed by a Q&A session. The speakers include:…
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2021-23: Disability Studies Brown University Deadline: February 1 from the position advertisement, emphasis added: The Department of American Studies and the Program in Science, Technology, and Society (STS) at Brown University invite applications for a two-year Mellon postdoctoral fellowship in Disability Studies, to be held jointly with the Cogut Institute for the Humanities. We…
February 10 at 11am-12:30pm (Central Time) Behind-the-Scenes Methods Talk featuring Simone Chess (Wayne State University) and Lindsey Row-Heyveld (Luther College) on “The Trajectories of Early Modern Disability Studies.” Topics include: What brought us each to early modern disability studies? Where was early modern disability studies when we first met and first began this work? What has changed,…
February 12 at 12:00-1:30 pm (Central Time) Double-header Research Presentation: Simone Chess (Wayne State University), “Hacking Sex in the Renaissance.” Lindsey Row-Heyveld (Luther College), “Careless Arden: Able-bodiedness in As You Like It.” These talks approach the question of what might come next in early modern disability studies from two very different angles: Lindsey Row-Heyveld’s work on ablebodiedness…
An Emory University and Folger Institute partnered program, with the support of Georgia Humanities March 04 – 06, 2021 (via Zoom) REGISTRATION REQUIRED BY FEBRUARY 15 Centering intersectional approaches, public humanities, and activist performance, this virtual seminar welcomes teacher-scholars, practitioners working on disability studies in the premodern period, and the interested public. Come learn from…
The Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at NYU presents Exhibition Lecture Science and Spectacle in Galen's Rome by Claire Bubb, ISAW, on March 11, 2021, 5:00PM EST Claire Bubb received her A.B. in Classics: Greek and Latin from Brown University in 2006 and her Ph.D. in Classical Philology from Harvard University in…
Click here for the Premodern Disability conference guide. The Shakespeare Association of America will hold its 49th Annual Meeting virtually. The conference dates are March 31-April 3, 2021. This event will be updated when the SAA January Bulletin is released.
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…
