Session Title * Cumulative Selfhood: Ageing, Memory and Identity Across the Lifespan in the Early Modern Period Type * Paper Panel Session Abstract (Max. 300 words) * Proposals for 20-minute presentations exploring the multifaceted processes of ageing and identity formation in the Early Modern period, with particular attention to the embodied nature of selfhood and memory over time.…
Premodern Neurodiversity is a two-day symposium that explores the literary and cultural history of human neurological diversity: the fact that our minds naturally vary in how they work. Speakers will trace how different forms of cognitive, emotional, and sensory experience have manifested throughout history, prior to the formal development of neurodiversity theory in the late…
Digging into Disability: How Experience Affects Theory (Mason Shrader) This lecture is part of the series Disability in the Ancient Middle East and Mediterranean. This program of public lectures takes place monthly on Thursdays at 9:30 AM Pacific (unless otherwise noted), from September 2025 through May 2026. Watch live on the ARF YouTube channel here:…
The College of Arts and Sciences at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, invites applications for two tenure-track Assistant Professor positions in the humanities and qualitative social sciences with a research focus in and demonstrated ability to teach courses in disability studies, particularly in relation to gender and/or sexuality. We especially…
This lecture is part of the series Disability in the Ancient Middle East and Mediterranean. This program of public lectures takes place monthly on Thursdays at 9:30 AM Pacific (unless otherwise noted), from September 2025 through May 2026. Watch live on the ARF YouTube channel here: https://bit.ly/arf-channel or watch later on the ARF & Badè…
Medieval miracle narratives abound in a variety of sources, and disability studies is a productive lens through which we can examine these events. This paper takes the chronicle of Luca Dominici and his treatment of the Bianchi devotions of 1399 and examines the miracles presented therein. Moved by a threat of plague, participants in the…
This lecture is part of the series Disability in the Ancient Middle East and Mediterranean. This program of public lectures takes place monthly on Thursdays at 9:30 AM Pacific (unless otherwise noted), from September 2025 through May 2026. Watch live on the ARF YouTube channel here: https://bit.ly/arf-channel or watch later on the ARF & Badè…
Online Symposium (via Microsoft Teams) — 5 March 2026 Organized by the Center for Innovation in Ancient Worlds (CIAW), with the support of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). This symposium invites proposals on how neurodiversity (ADHD, autism, dyslexia, and other cognitive profiles) can reshape the ways we teach and learn about the Ancient World—through…
In anticipation of a special issue of the Journal of Jesuit Studies (expected publication in fall 2027), we are seeking proposals for articles that treat the subject of Jesuits and disability. We welcome a range of disciplinary approaches (including history, art history, linguistics, theater, theology, philosophy, literature, pedagogy, psychology, sociology, musicology, astronomy, gender studies, etc.),…
Join us for research seminars hosted by the Department of History with a selection of visiting academics, alongside University of York researchers. All students and staff are very welcome. A zoom link will be made available for distance learning PhD students on request. Please contact Dr Purba Hossain (purba.hossain@york.ac.uk) if you have any questions. You…
Talk by Ella Kaver. December 11th, 2025 09:30am local time
Join us online for Disability and the Archives: Access, Absences and Action, a two-day virtual conference hosted by Shakespeare’s Globe from 23–24 January 2026. This interdisciplinary event will examine how disabled lives have been recorded, obscured, or erased across literary, performance, and institutional records. The programme includes talks, panels, and time for shared reflection, with…
