Symposium Session: Medieval Monstrosities
The 2022-2023 Illinois Medieval Association Symposium will host the session "Medieval Monstrosities" online on October 28, 2022. See link below for further details.
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2022 Southeastern Medieval Association Conference: The Body and the Human
The 2022 Southeastern Medieval Association Conference, which has the theme "The Body and the Human," will take place November 10 – November 12 2022 in Birmingham, Alabama. Registration opens July 1st. More information can be found via this link.
CFP: Laughter is the Best Medicine? Visual Histories of Health and Humour
Co-editors Dr Christine Slobogin, Dr Katie Snow, and Laura Cowley are pleased to announce a call for chapter proposals for an edited volume exploring vibrant intersections of humour, visual culture, and the health humanities. This volume examines what role visual humour has had and continues to play in healing and healthcare, as well as in…
Application Deadline: Kay Fellow in Premodern Disability Studies
"Brandeis University invites applications for a two-year, non-renewable Florence Levy Kay Fellowship in Premodern Disability Studies. We seek a Fellow who takes a multicultural and intersectional approach to disability in the global, ancient world. An ideal candidate would examine disability and disabled persons within a premodern context by drawing upon robust theoretical frameworks to embrace…
2023 MLA Convention
The 2023 MLA Convention will be held in San Francisco January 5-8. Sessions of particular interest include: Cervantes, the Body, and Disability Friday, 6 January 2023 8:30 AM - 9:45 AM Marriott Marquis - Yerba Buena Salon 6 (Lower B2 Level) New Directions in Long-Eighteenth-Century Disability Studies Friday, 6 January 2023 3:30 PM - 4:45…
CFP Deadline: Mental Illness in Early and Antebellum America (ALA 2023)
deadline for submissions: January 15, 2023 full name / name of organization: Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society contact email: akreed@vt.edu The Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society solicits proposals for two panels to be presented at the 2023 American Literature Association Conference. The conference will take place May 25-28 at the Westin Copley Place in Boston, Massachusetts. The…
Application Deadline: Funded PhD studentship @ UCL History and Wellcome Collection
Applications are invited for "Commonplacing Health and the Body in Early Modern England". This is a 3.5 year PhD studentship funded by the London Arts and Humanities Partnership Collaborative Doctoral Award Scheme to be held at UCL History and Wellcome Collection. Project Description: Matters of health and the body were everyday preoccupations for early modern…
Bodies and Borders: PKMS 2023 CFP Deadline
deadline for submissions: January 31, 2023 full name / name of organization: Pearl Kibre Medieval Study contact email: medieval.study@gmail.com What: Pearl Kibre Medieval Study 17th Annual Conference Where: Online, hosted through The Graduate Center, CUNY When: Friday 5 May 2023 Submission Form: https://forms.gle/ukbBwtFVNYSphJaM9 Jeffery Jerome Cohen argues in his introduction to Medieval Identity Machines that these…
CFP: Histories of Disability and Emotions
CFP – Histories of Disability and Emotions – An International Online Conference Hosted by KU Leuven and the University of Liège, Belgium, 13-15 June 2023 The history of disability and the history of emotions are now well-established fields of research. They have experienced relatively similar debates and methodological developments, and they have strong, if complicated,…
CFP Deadline: Disability in the Vast Early Americas Conference
In association with the University of Notre Dame and the Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture, conference organizers, Laurel Daen and Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy, invite abstracts for a conference on “Disability in the Vast Early Americas” to be held as a hybrid event at the University of Notre Dame on October 21-22, 2023. We…
CFP Deadline: Disability Aesthetics in a Premodern Global Context
The MLA LLC Forum for Sixteenth-Century English Literature is sponsoring a guaranteed panel on “Disability Aesthetics in a Premodern Global Context” at the MLA 2024 conference in Philadelphia (4-7 Jan. 2024). We welcome submissions and inquiries from scholars at all career stages. Call for Papers: How might we study disability aesthetics alongside histories of empire,…
ASECS 2023
The following at the annual meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies may be of particular interest: Session 30: Eighteenth-century Cripistemologies I (located in Sterling 9) Session 38: “Alternative” Medicine in the Eighteenth Century I (located in Sterling 2) Session 85: Roundtable: Intersectional Approaches to Eighteenth-century Disability (located in Sterling 3) Session 116: Health…
