CFP: Reimagining Premodern Disability: Excess, Surplus, Gain at NEMLA

deadline for submissions:  September 30, 2023 full name / name of organization:  NEMLA contact email:  cbloomer@brandeis.edu This panel puts forward premodern disability as enhancement, surplus, or even reward, drawing from the concept of “disability gain,” coined by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson (Fox, Krings, Vierke, 2019), to reformulate disability as gain, instead of loss, or as a resource.…

CFP: Disability Studies in Dramatic Texts and Performance

Papers are sought for a special panel series on the subject of disability studies in dramatic texts and performance. We invite research on representation, imagery, symbolism, societal regulation, social impact, or the construction of disability as it pertains to casting and depictions of those with disabilities in playtexts and dramatic performance. Papers should be 15…

Application Deadline: History Faculty – History of Science, Health, or Disability, with a focus on South/Southeast Asia or Latin America, (open rank)

The Department of History at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, invites applications for an open rank, tenure-line faculty position in the History of Science, Health, or Disability, broadly conceived, in South/Southeast Asia or Latin America. Specialty may be in any time period. Interdisciplinary scholars are welcome to apply. Salary and compensation will…

Application Deadline: History Faculty (open-rank) – History of Science, Health, or Disability, with a focus on Africa

The Department of History at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, invites applications for TWO open-rank, tenure-track positions in African History.One position is open to all fields and this second position prioritizes Science, Health, or Disability broadly conceived, including intersections with religion, environment, gender, sexuality, etc. Salary and compensation will be competitive, commensurate with rank and…

Jaipreet Virdi: The Disabled Gaze: Rethinking the Past, Remaking the Future

The Medical and Health Humanities Speaker Series at SHSU is made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Humanities Initiative Grant and the SHSU Department of History *Remote attendance through Zoom requires registration. AB IV Rm. 220 and on Zoom (Zoom registration)

Online Talk: Charles Lamb and Modern Disability

All welcome to this free online talk for the Charles Lamb Society by Professor Emily Stanback Charles Lamb was one of the first thinkers and authors to theorize “disability” in its modern sense—as, among other things, a social and political identity, and a cultural and artistic resource. In this talk Prof. Stanback will highlight some…

CFP Deadline Extended: Reimagining Premodern Disability: Excess, Surplus, Gain

deadline for submissions: October 15, 2023 full name / name of organization: Catherine Bloomer & Alani Hicks-Bartlett contact email: alani_hicks-bartlett@brown.edu **extended deadline**NeMLA (March 7-10, 2024 - Boston)Reimagining Premodern Disability: Excess, Surplus, Gain This panel puts forward premodern disability as enhancement, surplus, or even reward, drawing from the concept of “disability gain,” coined by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson (Fox,…

From Egypt to the Middle East: Fashioning Bodies in the Ancient World

Ashmolean Museum Beaumont St, Oxford OX1 2PH, UK, United Kingdom

FREE DISPLAY Open from 10 Nov 2023 to 8 May 2024 Ancient Middle East Gallery In partnership with Curating for Change, and to coincide with Disability History Month this year, we're highlighting some of the important objects in our collection to showcase how disability has been celebrated and depicted in Ancient Egypt and the Ancient…

Speaking in Hands: Deafness in Renaissance Europe

WITH LIVE BSL INTEPRETATION AND CLOSED CAPTIONS. A public online history lecture by Dr Rosamund Oates, Reader in Early Modern History, FRHistS. Manchester Metropolitan University. Dr Oates is an expert in Early Modern England (c. 1450-1750), working on the cultural and religious history of the past. She is currently working on a history of deafness…