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…
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…
