BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Premodern Disability - ECPv6.17.5//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Premodern Disability X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://premoderndisability.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Premodern Disability REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:UTC BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:UTC DTSTART:20230101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20260308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20261101T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Paris BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20230326T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20231029T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20240331T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20241027T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20250330T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20251026T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20230312T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20231105T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20240310T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20241103T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20250309T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20251102T070000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250228 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250301 DTSTAMP:20241223T031118Z CREATED:20241223T031118Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241223T031118Z UID:1811-1740700800-1740787199@premoderndisability.com SUMMARY:CFP: Critical Neurodiversity Studies DESCRIPTION:Critical Neurodiversity Studies: Directions/Intersections/Contradictions\n24–26 June 2025\, Durham University\, UK\nDeadline for submissions: 28 February 2025 \nWhile traditional theory describes the world\, critical theory seeks to radically transform it. This conference seeks to harness the momentum of the new generation of neurodivergent scholar activists working collectively towards a critical turn in neurodiversity theory and research.  \nWhile the first wave of neurodiversity studies has begun to instigate a shift towards the emerging neurodiversity paradigm\, it has nonetheless tended to focus on autism at the exclusion of the broader manifold of neurodivergence. Moreover\, the institutional embrace of neurodiversity has heavily focused on the psy-disciplines rather than approaches grounded in the arts\, humanities\, and critical social theory.   \nAt the same time\, we have also seen the rise of neurodiversity-lite\, where neoliberal institutions rebrand using neurodiversity paradigm vocabularies without making meaningful changes or commitments to neurodivergent liberation.   \nThis major international conference seeks to help clarify critical neurodiversity studies as a departure from both first wave neurodiversity studies and especially the neurodiversity-lite paradigm. We understand this intervention as arising primarily through arts\, humanities\, and social sciences approaches\, grounded in the various traditions of critical theory and aimed at liberatory praxis rather than knowledge production alone.   \nWe will focus on scholarship that synthesises a concern for neurodivergent liberation with other critical traditions and liberation movements globally. For example\, we are interested in neurodivergent-led materialist\, decolonial\, indigenous\, Black\, Marxian\, queer\, trans\, mad\, feminist\, and related interventions that go beyond an essentialist identity and reformist-based approach to neurodiversity theory and praxis.    \nPossible topics might include\, but are not limited to:  \n The possibility of a critical turn in neurodiversity studies \n Neurodiversity and critical theory  \n Neurodiversity and Marxism \n Global South perspectives on neurodiversity  \n Neurodiversity and the Black radical tradition \n Cross-cultural neurodiversity  \n Neurotypical supremacy and neurotypical identity politics \n Neurodivergent research methods and creative practice \n Arts-based practices\, such as dance/performance art \n Disciplinary and/or institutional change \n Neurodiversity and social reproduction theory \n Neurodivergent frameworks for literary/cultural analysis \n Neurodiversity\, mad pride\, and mad studies \n Perspectives on disability justice  \n Temporary and/or acquired forms of neurodivergence \n Neurodiversity and Personality Disorder constructs \n Neurodivergent ablenationalism \n Neuroqueer and neurotrans approaches  \n Strategies for organising and liberation  \n Neurodivergent unionising and class struggle   \nThis conference will be fully hybrid and there will be no registration fee. We encourage in-person attendance for speakers and we are committed to making the conference space as accessible as possible. There will also be the option to present and attend online. Participants can present their research not just as traditional academic papers but also in other formats that may be more accessible to the presenter and audience\, including through performance or creative practice.  Individual research papers/performances will be limited to 20 minutes\, but there is some flexibility when it comes to pre-formed panel proposals as to how the 90-minute slot is structured by the panel. \nWe will be offering a number of bursaries and fellowship opportunities to attend and to prepare work for this conference\, including funding for participants from Lower- and Middle-Income countries to attend in-person. \nPlease submit abstracts of up to 300 words in writing or a video/voice recording of up to 3 minutes in length for an individual paper using the Critical Neurodiversity Studies abstract submission form. \nThe deadline for submissions is 28th February 2025. You may also submit pre-formed panels of 3-4 persons through this form. \nPlease indicate on the form whether you are interested in the bursary and fellowship opportunities. \nThis event is part of the 2024/25 Critical Neurodiversity Studies takeover of the Measurement Lab of the Discovery Research Platform co-led by Louise Creechan and Robert Chapman. It is co-badged with the Neurodivergent Humanities Network. \nAny queries about the conference can be sent to imh.events@durham.ac.uk.   URL:https://premoderndisability.com/event/cfp-critical-neurodiversity-studies/ CATEGORIES:Call for Papers,Conference END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250227T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250227T163000 DTSTAMP:20250224T140900Z CREATED:20250224T140900Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250224T140900Z UID:1837-1740668400-1740673800@premoderndisability.com SUMMARY:The Soldier’s Body Keeps the Score: Medical Aftermaths of Early Modern Battles DESCRIPTION:February 27 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm \nClare Griffin will present\, “The Soldier’s Body Keeps the Score: Medical Aftermaths of Early Modern Battles”\nLocation: East Baltimore Campus\, Welch Library\, Room 303 URL:https://premoderndisability.com/event/the-soldiers-body-keeps-the-score-medical-aftermaths-of-early-modern-battles/ CATEGORIES:Early Modern,Lecture END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250212T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250212T183000 DTSTAMP:20250210T132152Z CREATED:20250210T132152Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250210T132152Z UID:1833-1739379600-1739385000@premoderndisability.com SUMMARY:Celebrating Osiris 39: Disability and the History of Science DESCRIPTION:Disability has been a central—if unacknowledged—force in the history of science and the scientific disciplines. Across historical epistemology and laboratory research\, disability has been “good to think with”: an object of investigation made to yield generalizable truths. Yet disability is rarely imagined to be the source of expertise\, especially the kind of expertise that produces (rational\, neutral\, universal) scientific knowledge. \nJaipreet Virdi\, Mara Mills\, and Sarah F. Rose introduce a disability history of science in the current volume of Osiris\, which they co-edited. Across the volume\, contributors trace the disabling impacts of scientific theories and practices in the contexts of war\, factory labor\, insurance\, and colonialism; others excavate racial and settler ableism in the history of scientific facts\, protocols\, and collections; still others query the boundaries between scientific\, lay\, and disability expertise. Contending that disability alters method\, the volume’s authors bring new sources and interpretation techniques to the history of science\, overturn familiar narratives\, apply disability analyses to established terms and archives\, and discuss accessibility issues for disabled historians. \nIn this talk\, the three editors emphasize how disability history and the history of science need to be placed in conversation to foreground disability epistemologies\, disabled scientists\, and disability sciencing (engagement with scientific tools and processes). Looking beyond the paradigms of medicalization and industrialization\, the editors further propose a “scientific management model of disability” to account for the shaping of disabled lives and relations by the applied sciences\, from the ancient world to the present. \nEvent Speakers\n\nMara Mills\, Associate Professor of Media\, Culture\, and Communication at New York University\nSarah F. Rose\, Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas at Arlington\nJaipreet Virdi\, Associate Professor of History at the University of Deleware\n\nEvent Information\nFree and open to the public; registration required. Contact scienceandsociety@columbia.edu or historyofscience@nyu.edu for questions. \nThis event is part of the New York History of Science Lecture Series. \nSponsoring Organizations: \n\nColumbia University in the City of New York\nNYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study\nThe Graduate Center\, City University of New York\nThe New York Academy of Medicine\nThe New York Academy of Sciences\n\nCo-sponsored by the Center for Disability Studies at New York University. \nThe Center for Science and Society makes every reasonable effort to accommodate individuals with disabilities. If you require disability accommodations to attend a Center for Science and Society event\, please contact us at scienceandsociety@columbia.edu or (212) 854-0666 at least 10 days in advance of the event. For more information\, please visit the campus accessibility webpage. URL:https://premoderndisability.com/event/celebrating-osiris-39-disability-and-the-history-of-science/ CATEGORIES:Book Event,Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250201 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250202 DTSTAMP:20250114T135343Z CREATED:20250114T135343Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250114T135343Z UID:1823-1738368000-1738454399@premoderndisability.com SUMMARY:Call for Applications: Disability History Association Graduate Writing Workshop - Spring 2025 DESCRIPTION:Date\nJanuary 12\, 2025 – February 1\, 2025\n\n\n\n\n\nSubject Fields\nDisability Studies\, History of Science\, Medicine\, and Technology\n\n\nThe Disability History Association is seeking applications for our annual Disability History Graduate Writing Workshop (DHGWW). This workshop series is designed to support graduate students working on disability history and foster community in the field. The workshop provides participants with valuable feedback on their writing while also offering them a glimpse into the future directions of disability history. \n\nThis DHGWW will consist of a series of monthly virtual meetings from February to June 2025. Participants will discuss pre-circulated papers during our sessions. Submissions may be conference papers\, articles\, chapters\, or any other work-in-progress by graduate students in any stage of their MA or PhD. \n  \nIn the past\, successful papers have explored time periods ranging from medieval to the late twentieth century\, covering geographies including the United States\, India\, China\, and the U.K. In a previous DHGWW\, participants came from universities in five different countries. The DHA encourages scholars of all nationalities\, races\, and abilities to apply. \n  \nTo apply for the workshop\, please complete the form and upload a one page abstract through the form. Deadline for applications is February 1\, 2025. \n  \nDepending on how many participants we have\, the tentative plan is to meet one hour per month to discuss the work of one participant. The schedule will be determined based on the availability of participants. Attendance at each session is essential to building a supportive environment and offering incisive feedback to each member of the workshop. Virtual meetings will have automated live captioning. Applicants are encouraged to indicate any way we can make the workshop more accessible to you on the application form. \n  \nQuestions can be directed to the DHA Director of Graduate Student Affairs\, Ellie Kaplan\, ekaplan@ucdavis.edu. \n\n\nContact Information\n\nEllie Kaplan\, DHA Director of Graduate Student Affairs \n\n\n\nContact Email\nekaplan@ucdavis.edu\n\n\nURL\nhttps://forms.gle/mCscwd4Rb8Lm5dacA URL:https://premoderndisability.com/event/call-for-applications-disability-history-association-graduate-writing-workshop-spring-2025/ CATEGORIES:Application,Workshop END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250106 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250107 DTSTAMP:20241031T221130Z CREATED:20241031T221130Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241031T221130Z UID:1785-1736121600-1736207999@premoderndisability.com SUMMARY:Application Deadline: Mellon Race\, Place\, and Equity Postdoctoral Research Associate in the History of Nursing and Healthcare DESCRIPTION:As part of an ongoing commitment to diversifying our programs\, the professoriate\, and the research workforce\, the School of Nursing at the University of Virginia seeks applications for a Mellon Race\, Place\, and Equity Postdoctoral Research Associate in the History of Nursing and Healthcare. This program recruits postdoctoral scholars who have the potential to assume tenure-track faculty positions and who would benefit from mentored professional development opportunities. \nThe Mellon Race\, Place\, and Equity Postdoctoral Research Associate in the History of Nursing and Healthcare is funded by a university-wide Race\, Place and Equity (RPE) grant from the Mellon Foundation and UVA matching funds to advance research and teaching related to race\, justice\, and equity (RJE). The Postdoctoral Fellow will be based in the School of Nursing’s Eleanor Crowder Bjoring Center for Nursing Historical Inquiry and work on RJE-related questions\, specifically in the history of nursing and healthcare in North America. URL:https://premoderndisability.com/event/application-deadline-mellon-race-place-and-equity-postdoctoral-research-associate-in-the-history-of-nursing-and-healthcare/ CATEGORIES:Application,Long 18th Century END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250101 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250102 DTSTAMP:20240430T135313Z CREATED:20240315T123144Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240430T135313Z UID:1445-1735689600-1735775999@premoderndisability.com SUMMARY:CFP: Disability Performance Histories DESCRIPTION:Call for Papers: Disability Performance Histories A Special Section of Theatre History Studies\, Volume 46 (2026) Co-Editors: Patrick McKelvey and Samuel Yates URL:https://premoderndisability.com/event/cfp-deadline-disability-performance-histories/ CATEGORIES:Call for Papers END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20241217T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20241217T190000 DTSTAMP:20241031T132231Z CREATED:20241031T132231Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241031T132231Z UID:1783-1734454800-1734462000@premoderndisability.com SUMMARY:Demons\, Imagination\, and Mental Illness: Medical Disputations on "Phantasia" in Wittenberg (1593-1643) DESCRIPTION:In the latter half of the sixteenth century\, and particularly in its final years\, the University of Wittenberg witnessed a surge in disputations concerning ostensibly supernatural mental states\, like lycanthropy\, ecstasy\, and witchcraft. In their analyses\, contemporaries attributed such phenomena to the influence of demons\, to a disorder of the imaginatio/phantasia\, or a combination of both. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn the latter half of the sixteenth century\, and particularly in its final years\, the University of Wittenberg witnessed a surge in disputations concerning ostensibly supernatural mental states\, like lycanthropy\, ecstasy\, and witchcraft. In their analyses\, contemporaries attributed such phenomena to the influence of demons\, to a disorder of the imaginatio/phantasia\, or a combination of both. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this context\, the role of phantasia was repeatedly discussed at the medical faculty in Wittenberg. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA pertinent quote from Daniel Sennert\, who wrote in his Institutiones medicinae that mental illnesses were almost always accompanied by a disorder of phantasia\, demonstrates the crucial importance ascribed to this concept. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe reception of this concept was shaped by a multitude of factors\, including Aristotle’s theory of the soul\, the writings of Johann Weyer\, who dismissed witchcraft as pure fantasy\, and Protestant anatomy in Wittenberg\, which had focused on the connection between body and soul since its founding by Philipp Melanchthon. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe lecture aims to show the development of the phantasia discourse\, to explain and classify it against the background of contemporary concepts\, and finally to show how its reception could lead to a rationalization of seemingly supernatural mental states. URL:https://premoderndisability.com/event/demons-imagination-and-mental-illness-medical-disputations-on-phantasia-in-wittenberg-1593-1643/ CATEGORIES:Early Modern,Lecture,Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241206T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241206T133000 DTSTAMP:20241129T235618Z CREATED:20241129T235618Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241129T235618Z UID:1803-1733488200-1733491800@premoderndisability.com SUMMARY:Prosthetics and Assistive Technology in Ancient Greece and Rome DESCRIPTION:York Disability Week Lecture\nThe world came together this summer to enjoy the Paralympics in Paris. Audiences cheered on Para athletes competing at the biggest sporting event on the planet\, demonstrating their speed\, strength and endurance. As well as athletic prowess\, the games showcased cutting-edge innovation in specialised assistive technology\, such as computer-aided design for customised fits\, and intuitive interfaces between body and machine\, revolutionising the way Para athletes interact with their environments. \nBut is all this entirely new? Throughout time humans have designed and innovated to create assistive technology to support disabled people\, not only for sport\, but in their day-to-day lives. Join us to hear Jane Draycott talk about the fascinating and long history of prosthetics and assistive technology in classical antiquity. \nJane will share her findings from literary\, documentary\, archaeological\, and bioarchaeological evidence\, painting us a picture of their importance for the lived experience of disabled people in classical antiquity. \nImage credit: This file comes from Wellcome Images\, a website operated by Wellcome Trust\, a global charitable foundation based in the United Kingdom. CC BY 4.0\, via Wikimedia Commons. \nAbout the speaker\nJane Draycott is Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Glasgow. Her research investigates science\, technology\, and medicine in the ancient world. She has published extensively on the history and archaeology of medicine\, impairment\, and disability in the ancient world\, including the monographs Roman Domestic Medical Practice in Central Italy from the Middle Republic to the Early Empire (2019) and Approaches to Healing in Roman Egypt (2012)\, and the edited volumes Prostheses in Antiquity (2019) and Bodies of Evidence: Ancient Anatomical Votives Past\, Present and Future (2017). URL:https://premoderndisability.com/event/prosthetics-and-assistive-technology-in-ancient-greece-and-rome/ CATEGORIES:Classical,Lecture,Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20241126T123000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20241126T140000 DTSTAMP:20241118T135051Z CREATED:20241118T135051Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241118T135051Z UID:1798-1732624200-1732629600@premoderndisability.com SUMMARY:In Conversation on Laura Seymour’s Book\, Shakespeare and Neurodiversity DESCRIPTION:In Conversation on Laura Seymour’s Book\, Shakespeare and Neurodiversity \nTuesday 26 November 2024\, 12.30pm \nSeminar Room\, Radcliffe Humanities \nAll welcome \nJoin Laura Seymour and Gillian Woods in conversation on Laura’s new book\, Shakespeare and Neurodiversity\, which is part of the series Elements in Shakespeare and Pedagogy edited by Gillian Woods and Liam E. Semler Content Listing (cambridge.org). It argues that the Shakespeare classroom should be a place where neurodivergent learners flourish. This Element addresses four key areas: questions of reasonable adjustments\, the pace of learning\, the issue of diagnosis\, and Shakespearean neurodivergent futures in education. Throughout\, the Element provides activities and theoretical explanations to enable students and educators to understand how these four areas of Shakespeare education have often been underpinned by ableism\, but can now become sources of neurodivergent flourishing. URL:https://premoderndisability.com/event/in-conversation-on-laura-seymours-book-shakespeare-and-neurodiversity/ CATEGORIES:Book Event,Early Modern END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241118 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241119 DTSTAMP:20241115T152224Z CREATED:20241115T152224Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241115T152224Z UID:1796-1731888000-1731974399@premoderndisability.com SUMMARY:CFP: Medicine\, the Body\, and the Senses: Asian Perspectives DESCRIPTION:The Asia Research Institute at The University at Buffalo\, State University of New York\, invites scholars who work on medical ideas and practices in Asia to submit an application to participate in a conference on April 11-12\, 2025. \n\n\nBackground\n\n\nThe Asia Research Institute at The University at Buffalo\, State University of New York (SUNY-Buffalo) invites scholars who work on medical ideas and practices in Asia\, broadly conceived\, to submit an application to participate in a 1.5-day conference on April 11-12\, 2025 at SUNY-Buffalo (in-person only). \nThe conveners are particularly interested in research that speaks to how understandings of the body and its various senses (visual\, auditory\, olfactory\, gustatory\, haptic\, etc.) in premodern and modern contexts shape healing outcomes\, religious experiences\, gender relations\, and sociopolitical processes. We also welcome research that explores how social\, political\, religious\, and cultural contexts frame and change perceptions of sensorial experience and embodied practice. \nTaking a multidisciplinary approach and paying attention to both local features and transregional knowledge exchange\, the conference is intended to foster fruitful conversation that advances crucial Asian perspectives on the body and the senses and offers fresh insights on the particular Asian societies under study. \n\n\nParticipants\n\n\nWe have recruited 9 scholars whose presentations cover East Asia\, Southeast Asia\, South Asia\, and West Asia (the Islamic world). We plan to recruit another 4-6 presenters through this CFP process. Researchers at various stages of their career\, from advanced PhD students to senior scholars as well as independent scholars\, are welcome to apply. \nThe conference is generously supported by the newly established Asia Research Institute at SUNY Buffalo. The costs of airfare\, local accommodation\, and meals during the conference will be covered. \n\n\nSubmission procedures and timeline\n\n\nIf you are interested\, please fill out a title of your paper\, your biographical information\, and upload an abstract of your paper (up to 200 words) as a PDF file to the Airtable site here. The application is due on Monday\, November 18\, 2024. \nWe will notify you of the result by mid-December\, 2024. Should you be selected\, we would like to request a draft of your paper (3\,000-4\,000 words) by March 1\, 2025. We will pre-circulate submitted papers among the conference attendees so as to have a more prepared discussion together. Furthermore\, we plan to publish a select number of essays in one or two special issues of a journal (to be determined). We will discuss the details of the publication at the conference. \n\n\nFor more information\n\n\nThank you for your interest in the conference. Should you have any questions\, please contact the conference organizers: \nYan Liu\nAssociate Professor of History\, SUNY Buffalo\nyliu253@buffalo.edu \nGenie Yoo\nPost-doctoral Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks & Incoming Assistant Professor of History\, SUNY Buffalo\nyooj01@doaks.org URL:https://premoderndisability.com/event/cfp-medicine-the-body-and-the-senses-asian-perspectives/ CATEGORIES:Call for Papers,Classical,Conference,Early Modern,Long 18th Century,Medieval END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241111 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241112 DTSTAMP:20240801T190535Z CREATED:20240801T190535Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240801T190535Z UID:1630-1731283200-1731369599@premoderndisability.com SUMMARY:CFP: Corporeality and Incorporation: The Body in Literature and Culture Pre-1800 (Graduate Student Conference) DESCRIPTION:deadline for submissions:  November 11\, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nUniversity of California\, Irvine\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\ncontact email:\n\nchelsml3@uci.edu\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nUCI Premodern Graduate Humanities Conference 2025: February 14\, 2025 \n“By my troth\, Nerissa\, my little body is aweary of this great world.” \n– Portia\, Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice \nThe concept of embodiment was central to the way in which early cultures conceptualized human relationships—political\, social\, religious\, economic\, and affective. The body appears in global literature and culture pre-1800 as a tool for political creation\, a vessel for religious experience\, a space for identity construction and conflict\, and a catalyst for community\, among myriad other functions. Premodern communities were formed\, ruptured\, and reformed around the categorized and hierarchized body; corporeal appearance\, ability\, and experience became crucial markers of developing sociopolitical categories like race\, gender\, and class. The process of incorporation into community raises fraught questions about bodily agency\, boundedness\, and vulnerability. Premodern texts negotiate the debts of care and service that individuals owe to their communities\, and what communities should offer in return. The body is also used as a vehicle of knowledge production and a lens through which different disciplines (philosophical\, scientific\, medical\, and others) develop theories of the world. This conference is interested in exploring global premodern understandings of the body\, experiences of incorporation\, and the way in which these things intersect\, commingle\, and create tension. \n  \nTopics could include but are not limited to: \n\n\nEmbodied hierarchies: race\, gender\, sexuality\, social status\, (dis)ability\, etc. \n\n\nReproduction\, aging\, and bodily change \n\n\nBody politic(s): law\, power\, state formation\, conquest\, empire\, and resistance \n\n\nBody\, subjectivity\, and agency \n\n\nReligion\, ritual\, and embodiment \n\n\nCommunity care and control \n\n\nMedical humanities \n\n\nBodily violence\, trauma\, and vulnerability \n\n\nDeath\, decay\, and abjection \n\n\nAffect and sensory experience: pain\, pleasure\, desire\, hunger\, etc. \n\n\nPhysical appearance: beauty\, clothing\, manipulation\, image construction\, etc. \n\n\nNon-human bodies: interspecies embodiment\, post-human embodiment\, ecology \n\n\nTextual bodies: writing\, reading\, and creation \n\n\nThe body in movement: labor\, sport\, play\, dance\, performance \n\n\nThe 2025 UCI Premodern Graduate Humanities Conference will be held in person on February 14\, 2025 on the campus of the University of California\, Irvine (hybrid is possible\, but in-person presentations are preferred). Please submit proposals via the form linked below by November 11\, 2024. In your proposal\, include a title\, brief abstract of no more than 200 words\, and a short biography including your university and department affiliation. We also encourage three-person panel proposals consisting of a 200-word description of the panel theme\, as well as abstracts and bios for each of the individual papers. We invite abstracts from disciplines across the humanities including literature (in any language)\, visual arts\, history\, drama\, anthropology\, classics\, and more. \nSubmission form: https://forms.gle/6JBUnhxJGxN3Hk5j8 \nPlease reach out to chelsml3@uci.edu if you have any questions. URL:https://premoderndisability.com/event/cfp-corporeality-and-incorporation-the-body-in-literature-and-culture-pre-1800-graduate-student-conference/ CATEGORIES:Call for Papers,Conference,Early Modern,Long 18th Century,Medieval END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241018 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241019 DTSTAMP:20240618T141628Z CREATED:20240618T141628Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240618T141628Z UID:1568-1729209600-1729295999@premoderndisability.com SUMMARY:CFP: Black Disability Studies Conference DESCRIPTION:In association with the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies and the University of Virginia\, we invite abstracts for a conference on “Black Disability Studies” to be hosted at the Carter G. Woodson Institute on the grounds of the University of Virginia. The event will be fully hybrid. Conference papers have the potential to be published in an edited collection through the Carter G. Woodson Institute Series: Black Studies at Work in the World. \nPapers are welcome which explore the lived experiences and representations of Black disabled people across all time periods\, in Africa and the Diaspora. Scholars from all disciplines are encouraged to submit papers which approach the topic of Black disability. We also welcome papers considering the relationship between racism and ableism. Ideal papers will point toward new directions in both Black Studies and Disability Studies. \nSince Christopher Bell’s incisive indictment of white disability studies in 2006\, work on Black Disability Studies has grown steadily\, but there are so many stories to be told. Submissions which explore the complexities of disability in Africa are welcomed\, as much of the scholarship in this field has thus far centered diasporic experiences. This conference is also particularly interested in work which locates Black disability in the exchanges between the Black diaspora and the continent of Africa. \nWe seek to make this conference accessible and look forward to meeting the access needs of participants as fully as possible. We value the well-being and safety of all attendees; with the ongoing pandemic\, we will center the needs of disabled and ill colleagues as well as others who are particularly vulnerable. All sessions will be hybrid (virtual and in-person) with ASL interpretation. Graduate students\, people who are precariously employed\, and non-university affiliated scholars are encouraged to participate. \nComplete panels are encouraged\, but individual paper submissions are also welcome. Panels should include three presenters and one chair/commentator. Submitted abstracts should represent original scholarship not already published or in production and be written in English. \nThe conference will feature a keynote panel on the state of the field featuring Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy\, Keith Mayes\, Rezenet Moges-Riedel\, Therí Pickens\, and Dennis Tyler. \nAbstracts of no more than 500 words should be submitted with a concise bio (150 words) as a Word document or PDF. Panel submissions should include the same for each paper as well as a bio for the chair/commentator and an abstract for the panel. Submissions should submitted by October 18\, 2024\, Applicants will be notified by January 15th\, 2025. Submissions and questions should be sent to conference organizer G. Jasper Conner (gjconner@wm.edu). \nConference Date: April 2025 \nLocation: Charlottesville\, Virginia\, United States / Hybrid \nSubject Fields: Black History/Studies\, African History/Studies\, African Diaspora History/Studies URL:https://premoderndisability.com/event/cfp-black-disability-studies-conference/ CATEGORIES:Call for Papers,Conference END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241017T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241017T150000 DTSTAMP:20240420T184543Z CREATED:20240420T184543Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240420T184543Z UID:1518-1729173600-1729177200@premoderndisability.com SUMMARY:Visionary Technology: Exploring Eyeglasses and Impairment in the NLM’s Collections DESCRIPTION:This talk will be live-streamed globally\, and archived on NLM’s YouTube Channel and NIH VideoCasting. \nJoin Dr. Rachael Gillibrand as she explores the connections between eye impairments and the creation of eyeglasses\, using the collections of the National Library of Medicine (NLM). The talk will highlight items from her ‘ocular impairment’ resource collection\, accessible through the Medical Heritage Library\, as well as materials used in her forthcoming book on premodern disability. Together\, we will dive into the pages of historical texts\, including Guy de Chauliac’s Chyrurgia\, Bartholomeus Anglicus’ De proprietatibus rerum and the writings of Ambroise Paré\, to explore how ocular health has influenced the design of eyeglasses throughout history. URL:https://premoderndisability.com/event/visionary-technology-exploring-eyeglasses-and-impairment-in-the-nlms-collections/ CATEGORIES:Book Event,Early Modern,Lecture,Long 18th Century,Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241001 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241002 DTSTAMP:20240728T185011Z CREATED:20240728T185011Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240728T185011Z UID:1619-1727740800-1727827199@premoderndisability.com SUMMARY:CFP: Words for Disability Art History\, edited volume DESCRIPTION:We invite submissions for a peer-reviewed\, English-language edited volume on disability and art history. \nArt history and disability studies share foundational terms\, concepts\, and interests\, but rarely explicitly exchange methodological reflection. This edited volume asks both fields to invest in their shared potential and productive tensions\, creating experimental dialogs between art historical case studies and key concepts from disability studies such as crip time\, complex embodiment\, and interdependency. Likewise\, terms from art writing including figuration\, gesture\, scale\, and the gaze can be read anew. \nWe consider disability as a set of methodological invitations rather than a subfield of the humanities only relevant to researchers explicitly studying a representation of a disabled person or a disabled artist’s archive\, for example. Committed to exploring how art matters to disability and disability to art\, disabled and temporarily abled authors are invited to articulate how disability concerns us all. Contributions will center intersectionality\, considering disability in relation to gender\, sexuality\, race\, and class. Learning from queer\, trans inclusive feminist\, and anti-racist discourse\, we will reflect on how critical theory challenges normative and conventional ways of researching art\, visual\, and material culture. Working with disability studies opens new\, embodied possibilities for knowledge production that are specifically relevant to art historical work and the continued privileging of the visual. \nWe understand disability studies as encompassing a multiplicity of experiences and identities including neurodiversity\, chronic illness and pain\, Crip\, functional disability\, d/Deaf\, Blind\, Sick and m/Mad. While bodies and embodied experiences are a constant subject of artistic discourse\, ableist modes of describing\, researching\, and exhibiting figures\, bodies\, and people remain present across the humanities. Art deeply informs power relations between those who represent and those who are represented\, entangling\, obscuring\, and amplifying different disabled positionalities. A medium of communication\, art can also be the site of critique\, working to actualize anti-ableist futures. \nParticipating authors will contribute essays about art\, visual\, and material culture engaging the provocations of disability studies to articulate methodologies relevant to both fields. These essays will range in length from 6\,000–10\,000 words\, creating the space for both distilled experimental reflections and longer contextualized contributions. \nAuthors are encouraged to invest in unpacking unconventional perspectives\, working to raise open methodological questions rather than produce fixed answers. Essays will combine research into a singular case study (artwork\, object\, performance\, visual\, material archive) and reflection on a specific word (term\, phrase\, concept\, or methodological invitation) drawn from disability studies. (See below for an initial list of terms for inspiration: this list is open and fluid rather than proscriptive.) \nWe seek to support provocative and unexpected pairings of art case studies and disability concepts or issues. Authors are encouraged to experiment\, openly reflect on the processes and structures of research\, amplify intersectionality\, work with attention to their own positionality\, and explore case studies perhaps not suited for more standard publication projects. \nWe are committed to publishing an open source and fully accessible publication (audio\, design choices\, image descriptions). All contributions will be peer-reviewed and copy-edited. We will also provide funds to cover all image rights fees and\, pending approval\, a modest honorarium for contributing authors. \nTo submit a proposal\, please prepare a provisional title\, an abstract of 200–300 words (indicating which case study and term/s you intend to explore) and a short bio of 150–200 words. You can upload your proposal using the following form: https://forms.office.com/e/8zWkkFSaVh by October 1\, 2024. If accepted\, first drafts of chapters (6\,000–10\,000 words including notes and bibliography) will be due by May 1\, 2025. For any questions\, please write to disability@khist.uzh.ch. \nThe volume is edited by four early career art historians interested in the intersections of our field with disability studies and committed to anti-ableist approaches within art research: Jess Bailey (she/her\, medieval art\, University of Edinburgh)\, Virginia Marano (she/her\, contemporary art\, Museo d’arte della Svizzera italiana\, Lugano)\, Charlotte Matter (she/her\, contemporary art\, University of Zurich)\, and Laura Valterio (she/her\, early modern art\, University of Zurich). This project emerges from collaborative work on the research project “Rethinking Art History through Disability” (https://www.disability-arthist.net). \nAn open and fluid list of terms at the intersection of art history and disability: Ableism\, Anti-ableist Art History\, Access\, Aging\, Ageism\, Belonging\, Blind Gain\, Non-Visual Learning\, Care Webs\, Collective Care\, Self-Care\, Crip Ecology\, Crip Kinship\, Crip Time\, Cripping\, Cripistemology\, d/Deafness\, Deaf Gain\, Disability Justice\, Disabled Joy\, Embodiment\, Complex Embodiment\, Fatness\, Getting Fat\, Fatphobia\, Figure\, Figuration\, Fitting and Misfitting\, Gaze\, Redirecting the Gaze\, Gesture\, Posture\, Inclusivity\, Exclusivity\, Horizontality\, Interdependency\, m/Madness\, Medicalization\, Neurodiversity\, Neurodivergence\, Normativity\, the Normate\, Pain\, Politics of Pain\, Contingency of Pain\, Prosthesis\, QueerCrip\, Radical Visibility\, Representation\, Self-representation\, Sick\, Sickness\, Size\, Sizing\, Scale\, Slowness\, Rest\, Anti-Productivity\, Staring\, the Senses\, Sensory Approaches. \n\nReference:\nCFP: Words for Disability Art History\, edited volume. In: ArtHist.net\, Jul 25\, 2024 (accessed Jul 28\, 2024)\, . URL:https://premoderndisability.com/event/cfp-words-for-disability-art-history-edited-volume/ CATEGORIES:Call for Papers END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241001 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241002 DTSTAMP:20240514T132743Z CREATED:20240514T132743Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240514T132743Z UID:1543-1727740800-1727827199@premoderndisability.com SUMMARY:CFP: Special Issue - Disability and Disease in the Novel DESCRIPTION:Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Studies in the Novel: Disability and Disease in the Novel \nEditors: Dr. Lydia R. Cooper (University of Seattle) and Dr. Matthew L. Reznicek (University of Minnesota) \nIn this Special Issue\, we are looking for scholars engaged with the question of how the novel returns us to the human in precarious embodiment–in disease and disability. The form of the novel\, with its heteroglossia\, its democratizing impulses\, its modes of psychological representation\, has long been associated with representation of populations\, in the singular and collective. Not surprisingly\, historically and in the present\, bodily otherness–especially when that otherness is due to disease or disability–troubles notions of belonging and community. As Judith Butler reminds us\, in terms of the ethics of cohabitation\, the body itself is framed as being potentially undone by alternative embodiments of disease and disability–from the hunger of Fantine in Les Miserables to the wartime injuries of Persuasion\, from the embodied grief of Beloved to the body as bioweapon in American War. In contradistinction to the image of the body undone by these conditions\, critical disability studies and care ethics challenge our perception of the “brokenbeautiful” by emphasizing “bodies’ wisdom\, need\, and desire” (Piepzna-Samarasinha 2018). The novel as a form often allows us to sit within this tension between the body’s needs and its undone-ness\, providing the opportunity to uncover more complex forms of embodiment. Indeed\, the phrase “temporarily able-bodied” points to the intersection of temporality\, embodiment\, and normativity that shapes and is disrupted by literary representations of the body when it experiences disease and disability (Puar 2017). \nThis special issue seeks essays that explore the way the novel as a form intertwines\, disaggregates\, confounds\, and represents the embodied experience of disability and disease. We invite essays that employ a range of theoretical perspectives and are particularly interested in approaches from the intersection of the form of the novel with queerness\, disability\, and care ethics\, along with studies of embodiment\, care ethics\, disability studies\, queer and crip studies. We draw heavily from critical thinkers on disability and embodiment\, such as Judith Butler\, Alison Kafer\, Emile Durkheim\, Sami Schalk\, Lennard Davis\, Rosmarie Garland-Thomson\, Tobin Siebers\, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha\, and J. Logan Smilges\, to situate our understanding of disability\, disease\, populations\, and belonging. \nThis Special Issue on disability and disease in the novel calls us to encounter each other–and ourselves–where we least expect to\, and where we most need to: at the limits of our ability to make meaning\, to perform functions\, even to live. It is here where we find each other; it is here where our commitment to what makes us human begins. \nThe aim of this Special Issue is to offer studies across temporal\, geographic\, and theoretical boundaries which together will produce a groundbreaking collection from new and established voices across the breadth of Literary Studies. \nWe particularly hope to see contributions that address \n●      Disability\, disease\, and the body in various genres of the novel such as eco-gothic\, cli-fi\, and horror \n●      Disease\, pandemics\, and ethics of care in historical\, contemporary\, or speculative narratives \n●      The impacts of violence\, conflict\, and crisis on disability \n●      The structural causes and consequences of notions of “disability” and/or diagnoses of “disease” \n●      Indigenous and postcolonial literatures’ representations of health and/or illness \n●      Diaspora\, immigration/migration\, and transnational narratives of dis/ability \n●      Narratives of the body about and by trans\, intersex\, and 2S people \n●      Race\, ethnicity\, class\, gender\, sexuality\, and/or national identity as they intersect with the experience of disease\, disability\, and embodiment \nThe deadline for submissions is October 1\, 2024. Please submit to the Special Issue editors: Dr. Lydia Cooper at lcooper1@seattleu.edu and Dr. Matthew Reznicek at reznicek@umn.edu. Please feel free to email with queries about potential ideas\, as well. URL:https://premoderndisability.com/event/cfp-special-issue-disability-and-disease-in-the-novel/ CATEGORIES:Call for Papers,Long 18th Century END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240930 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241001 DTSTAMP:20240809T164713Z CREATED:20240809T164713Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240809T164713Z UID:1693-1727654400-1727740799@premoderndisability.com SUMMARY:Application Deadline: NLM Michael E. DeBakey Fellowship in the History of Medicine for 2025 DESCRIPTION:The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is pleased to announce applications are open to its Michael E. DeBakey Fellowship in the History of Medicine. The NLM Michael E. DeBakey Fellowship in the History of Medicine provides individual awards of up to $10\,000 to support research using the NLM collection. \nSpanning eleven centuries\, the NLM collection encompasses a variety of digital and physical formats and originates from nearly every part of the globe. The collection includes the Michael E. DeBakey papers—representing the diverse areas in which Dr. DeBakey made a lasting impact\, such as surgery\, medical education\, and health care policy—along with the papers of many other luminaries in science and medicine. \nFellows may conduct their research onsite at NLM by studying the collection in the NLM Reading Room or remotely using NLM digital resources\, including datasets and digitized and born-digital collections. Project proposals embracing innovative research methods and tools of the digital humanities are welcome. Applicants are expected to complete their work according to their proposal and within their fellowship year. \nSupport for research in collections that are intellectually related to those of the NLM will be considered\, but the overall proposed research must be primarily rooted in the use of the NLM collection. \nApplication Details \nAnyone aged 18 or older\, from any academic discipline and status\, who has not previously received this Fellowship\, is invited to apply. Non-U.S. citizens may apply. Fellowships will be awarded to individual applicants\, not to institutions. Group applications will be considered but will be subject to a maximum award of $10\,000 for the entire project regardless of the number of participants. Group applications should be submitted under the name of a single principal researcher. \nFor more details about the application process and required documents\, visit the Fellowship website. \nTo apply for the NLM Michael E. DeBakey Fellowship in the History of Medicine\, submit all required materials to the Foundation for Advanced Education in the Sciences via the online application portal\, by midnight ET\, Monday\, September 30\, 2024. Selected fellows will be notified and awards will be announced in December. \nFor more information about the materials available for historical research at NLM\, visit this NLM website intended for researchers or contact the NLM via NLM Customer Support. \nAbout the Fellowship \nThe NLM Michael E. DeBakey Fellowship was established in 2016 and is supported by The DeBakey Medical Foundation\, in honor and memory of Michael E. DeBakey (1908–2008)\, a legendary American surgeon\, educator\, and medical statesman. During a career spanning 75 years\, his work transformed cardiovascular surgery\, raised medical education standards\, and informed national health care policy. He pioneered dozens of operative procedures such as aneurysm repair\, coronary bypass\, and endarterectomy\, which routinely save thousands of lives each year\, and performed some of the first heart transplants. His inventions included the roller pump (a key component of heart-lung machines) as well as artificial hearts and ventricular assist pumps. He was a driving force in building Houston’s Baylor University College of Medicine into a premier medical center\, where he trained several generations of top surgeons from all over the world. He was a visionary supporter of the NLM\, playing a pivotal role in its transformation from the Armed Forces Medical Library in the 1950s\, in the establishment of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine in the 1960s (today called the Network of the National Library of Medicine)\, in launching NLM’s outreach initiatives in the 1990s\, and in promoting the digitization of its indexes to pre-1960s journal articles. \nLearn more about Michael E. DeBakey from NLM’s Profiles in Science. URL:https://premoderndisability.com/event/application-deadline-nlm-michael-e-debakey-fellowship-in-the-history-of-medicine-for-2025/ CATEGORIES:Application END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240915 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240916 DTSTAMP:20240815T232839Z CREATED:20240815T232839Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240815T232839Z UID:1736-1726358400-1726444799@premoderndisability.com SUMMARY:CFP: Medievalism and Disability DESCRIPTION:Organizer: Angela Weisl ; angela.weisl@shu.edu \nOrganizer: Carol Robinson ; clrobins@kent.edu \nDelivery Mode: Virtual \nPrincipal Sponsoring Organization: International Society for the Study of Medievalism \nThis session seeks investigation of disability and neurodivergence in contemporary medievalist productions. How do disability and neurodivergence function in these narratives? How are they portrayed? How do these portrayals intersect with medieval historical and literary examples of disability and neurodivergence? \nDeadline for New Submissions: Sunday\, September 15\, 2024 URL:https://premoderndisability.com/event/cfp-medievalism-and-disability/ CATEGORIES:Call for Papers,Conference,Medieval END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240915 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240916 DTSTAMP:20240815T232650Z CREATED:20240815T232650Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240815T232650Z UID:1734-1726358400-1726444799@premoderndisability.com SUMMARY:CFP: Medieval Disability Studies and Narrative Prosthesis at Twenty-Five DESCRIPTION:Organizer: Kisha Tracy ; ktracy3@fitchburgstate.edu \nDelivery Mode: Hybrid \nPrincipal Sponsoring Organization: Society for the Study of Disability in the Middle Ages \nNext year will bring the 25th anniversary of the publication of Narrative Prosthesis: Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse by David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder. Narrative Prosthesis is a seminal text in disability studies and\, by extension\, in the study of the Middle Ages. This panel will seek papers on prosthetics and prosthesis\, metaphoric and physical\, especially exploring how the applications of Mitchell and Snyder’s text have evolved\, changed\, and/or been revised for and in the field of medieval disability studies. \nDeadline for New Submissions: Sunday\, September 15\, 2024 URL:https://premoderndisability.com/event/cfp-medieval-disability-studies-and-narrative-prosthesis-at-twenty-five/ CATEGORIES:Call for Papers,Conference,Medieval END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240915 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240916 DTSTAMP:20240815T232417Z CREATED:20240815T232417Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240815T232417Z UID:1732-1726358400-1726444799@premoderndisability.com SUMMARY:CFP: Discourse and Disability: Constructing Disability through Speech Acts DESCRIPTION:Organizer: Alison Purnell \nOrganizer: Michael Nagy ; michael.nagy@sdstate.edu \nDelivery Mode: Virtual \nPrincipal Sponsoring Organization: Medieval Speech Act Society \nCo-Sponsoring Organization(s): Society for the Study of Disability in the Middle Ages \nIn the rapidly-expanding field of Medieval Disability Studies\, thus far little attention has been paid to the potential that discourse analysis\, pragmatics\, and speech act theory have for understanding medieval disabilities. These tools enable twenty-first-century scholars to address how medieval texts construct\, navigate\, and deconstruct disability through conversation and direct address on all social levels. Papers discussing disability in the Middle Ages using any aspect of speech act theory\, pragmatics\, or discourse analysis are welcomed and sources may be literary\, theological\, philosophical\, or documentary in nature. \nDeadline for New Submissions: Sunday\, September 15\, 2024 URL:https://premoderndisability.com/event/cfp-discourse-and-disability-constructing-disability-through-speech-acts/ CATEGORIES:Call for Papers,Conference,Medieval,Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240915 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240916 DTSTAMP:20240815T232101Z CREATED:20240815T232101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240815T232101Z UID:1730-1726358400-1726444799@premoderndisability.com SUMMARY:CFP: Medieval/ist Disabled Affect (A Roundtable) DESCRIPTION:Organizer: Kisha Tracy ; ktracy3@fitchburgstate.edu \nDelivery Mode: Hybrid \nPrincipal Sponsoring Organization: Society for the Study of Disability in the Middle Ages \nAffect is one of the nonverbal ways humans communicate with other\, particularly in how we express emotion. However\, how individuals express affect can differ and even be counter to actual emotion\, whether as part of the experience of disability or as a response to social constructs influencing how individuals should feel or how they should present their emotions. For instance\, “people with disabilities do not experience joy” or “women should smile.” This roundtable seeks to explore the experiences of disabled affect\, by medieval people(s)\, by modern medievalists\, and how each can inform the other. \nDeadline for New Submissions: Sunday\, September 15\, 2024 URL:https://premoderndisability.com/event/cfp-medieval-ist-disabled-affect-a-roundtable/ CATEGORIES:Call for Papers,Conference,Medieval,Roundtable END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240915 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240916 DTSTAMP:20240815T231629Z CREATED:20240815T231629Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240815T231629Z UID:1728-1726358400-1726444799@premoderndisability.com SUMMARY:CFP: Bad Bodies: Materiality and Performativity in the Medieval Mediterranean DESCRIPTION:deadline for submissions: September 15\, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nfull name / name of organization: Anna Dini\, UC Berkeley\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\ncontact email:\n\nannadini@berkeley.edu\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease consider submitting an abstract to the following panel at the International Congress on Medieval Studies sponsored by Italian Studies@Kalamazoo. The deadline for submissions is September 15\, and the conference will take place from May 8-10\, 2025 on the campus of Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo. Please note that this panel is a traditional in-person session. \nSession #5940 \nBad Bodies: Materiality and Performativity in the Medieval Mediterranean \nOrganizers: Catherine Bloomer and Anna Dini \nThis session looks to interrogate the body that is marked or performed as a cipher for a lack or the sign of lack\, of a failure of signification or index to something beyond customary signification. We invite papers that dialogue with a material or performative understanding of the body in the medieval Mediterranean. We also invite interdisciplinary work that reframes and discusses the body outside of ethnocentric systems. By emphasizing the transgressive body through a critical material and performative approach\, this panel urges new ways to read Mediterranean bodies that can extend outward to medieval literature\, art\, and history. \nTo submit an abstract to be considered for this panel\, navigate to this link: https://icms.confex.com/icms/2025/paper/papers/index.cgi?sessionid=5940&… URL:https://premoderndisability.com/event/cfp-bad-bodies-materiality-and-performativity-in-the-medieval-mediterranean/ CATEGORIES:Call for Papers,Conference,Medieval END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240915 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240916 DTSTAMP:20240812T200638Z CREATED:20240812T200638Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240812T200638Z UID:1723-1726358400-1726444799@premoderndisability.com SUMMARY:CFP: Medieval Monsters as Modern Monsters\, ICMS Kalamazoo (virtual) DESCRIPTION:deadline for submissions: September 15\, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nfull name / name of organization: Michael A Torregrossa / Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture and Monsters & the Monstrous Area of the Northeast Popular Culture Association\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\ncontact email:\n\nmedievalinpopularculture@gmail.com\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMedieval Monsters as Modern Monsters: Exploring Continuums of the Monstrous (virtual) \nSponsored by Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture and Monsters & the Monstrous Area of the Northeast Popular Culture Association \nOrganized by Michael A. Torregrossa \n60th International Congress on Medieval Studies \nWestern Michigan University (Kalamazoo\, Michigan) \nHybrid event: Thursday\, 8 May\, through Saturday\, 10 May\, 2025 \nPlease Submit Proposals by 15 September 2024 \n  \nSession Information \n  \nMedieval monsters and ideas about them remain at the base of many of our modern conceptions of monsters and the monstrous\, but few studies have explored the tracks of these ongoing traditions for representing monstrosities in the post-medieval world. It is our intention in this session to shed some light on these creations and their impact today. \nWe seek in this panel to unite the fields of Medieval Studies\, Medievalism Studies\, Monster Studies\, and Popular Culture Studies to highlight the links between medieval monstrosities and their post-medieval incarnations and successors. \nWe hope presenters will explore both continuity and change in addressing how terrors rooted in the medieval world have been portrayed beyond the Middle Ages and/or how modern monstrosities seem to draw indirectly from medieval traditions. \nThank you for your interest in our session. Please address questions and/or concerns to the organizers at MedievalinPopularCulture@gmail.com. \n  \nSubmission Information \n  \nThe process for proposing contributions to sessions of papers\, roundtables and poster sessions for the International Congress on Medieval Studies uses an online submission system powered by Confex. Be advised that submissions cannot be accepted through email. Rather\, access the direct link in Confex to our session at https://icms.confex.com/icms/2025/paper/papers/index.cgi?sessionid=6429. You can also view the full Call for Papers list at https://wmich.edu/medievalcongress/call. \n  \nWithin Confex\, proposals to sessions of papers\, poster sessions and roundtables require the author’s name\, affiliation and contact information; an abstract (300 words) for consideration by session organizer(s); and a short description (50 words) that may be made public. Proposals to sessions of papers and poster sessions also require a title for the submission (contributions to roundtables are untitled). \n  \nProposers of papers or contributions to roundtables for hybrid sessions should indicate in their abstracts whether they intend to present in person or virtually. \n  \nIf you need help with your submissions\, the Congress offers some resources at the Particpating in the Congress page at https://wmich.edu/medievalcongress/participating-congress. Click to open the section labeled “Propose a Paper” and scroll down for the Quick Guide handouts. \nBe advised of the following policies for participating in the Congress: \n  \nYou are invited to propose one paper (as a sole author or as a co-author) for one session of papers. You may propose a paper for a sponsored or special session or for the general sessions\, but not both. You may propose an unlimited number of contributions to roundtables and poster sessions\, but you will not be scheduled to actively participate (as paper presenter\, roundtable discussant\, poster author\, presider\, respondent\, workshop leader\, demonstrator or performer) in more than three sessions. \n  \nFurther details on the Congress’s Policies can be found at https://wmich.edu/medievalcongress/policies-guidelines. \nA reminder: Presenters accepted to the Congress must register for the full event. The registration fee is the same for on-site and virtual participants. For planning\, the cost for the previous year’s event is posted at the Congress’s Registration page at https://wmich.edu/medievalcongress/registration. \n  \nIf necessary\, the Medieval Institute and Richard Rawlinson Center at Western Michigan University offer limited funding to presenters. These include both subsidized registration grants and travel awards. Please see the Awards page at the Congress site for details at https://wmich.edu/medievalcongress/awards. \n  \nFor more information on the Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture\, please visit our website at https://medievalinpopularculture.blogspot.com/. \nFor more information on the Monsters & the Monstrous Area of the Northeast Popular Culture Association\, please visit our website at https://popularpreternaturaliana.blogspot.com/. URL:https://premoderndisability.com/event/cfp-medieval-monsters-as-modern-monsters-icms-kalamazoo-virtual/ CATEGORIES:Call for Papers,Conference,Medieval,Panel,Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240909 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240910 DTSTAMP:20240430T135330Z CREATED:20240410T163545Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240430T135330Z UID:1493-1725840000-1725926399@premoderndisability.com SUMMARY:CFP: Shakespeare and the Mind DESCRIPTION:Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference – Cleveland\, OH (October 24-26)\n\n\n\n\n\n\ndeadline for submissions:\n\nSeptember 9\, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nfull name / name of organization:\n\nOhio Valley Shakespeare Conference\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\ncontact email:\n\novsc2024@gmail.com\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAnnouncing the 47th Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference \nOctober 24-26\, 2024 \nCase Western Reserve University\, Cleveland\, OH \n  \nConference theme: “Shakespeare and the Mind” \nThe study of Shakespeare has long informed modern and contemporary understandings of the mind. From Sigmund Freud’s influential account of the Oedipus complex in Hamlet to Stanley Cavell’s readings of Shakespeare’s tragedies as interrogations of epistemological skepticism to the recurring focus on Shakespeare in interdisciplinary subfields like cognitive literary studies and the neurohumanities\, Shakespeare’s plays and poems continue to impact the sense of what\, and how\, we know about ourselves. At the same time\, some communities have felt excluded from these conversations\, reflecting how readings of Shakespeare have also influenced troubling assumptions about a “normative” mind. \nThe OVSC welcomes papers and roundtables on all topics related to a general theme of Shakespeare and the mind. How did the early moderns conceptualize thought\, emotion\, and instinct—and how does Shakespeare’s corpus reflect or resist those models? How has the renaissance influenced modern and contemporary understandings of thought\, insight\, or the unconscious? Do Shakespeare’s texts—or their adaptations or staging—provide any value for clinicians or therapists treating patients suffering from trauma or psychiatric disorders? In short\, what did Shakespeare think about the act of thinking? \nWe welcome papers and projects taking any number of critical approaches\, be they formalist\, historicist\, or theoretical. Projects focused on Shakespeare’s reception\, adaptation\, and performance\, as well as papers focused on Shakespeare’s contemporaries (i.e.\, other early modern authors\, artists\, and thinkers) are also welcome. We especially encourage papers that adopt an interdisciplinary approach. The conference is open to graduate students for regular sessions and to undergraduate students for roundtable seminars. Graduate students and undergraduate students are encouraged to submit papers for the M. Rick Smith Memorial Prize and the Julia R. Lupton Graduate Prize. Papers presented at the OVSC may also be submitted for inclusion in our proceedings journal\, Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference. \nPlenary Speakers: \nRichard Strier\, Frank L. Sulzberger Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus\, University of Chicago. Author of Shakespearean Issues: Agency\, Skepticism\, and Other Puzzles (University of Pennsylvania Press\, 2022)\, The Unrepentant Renaissance from Petrarch to Shakespeare to Milton (University of Chicago Press\, 2011)\, Resistant Structures: Particularity\, Radicalism\, and Renaissance Texts (University of California Press\, 1995)\, and Love Known: Theology and Experience in George Herbert’s Poetry (University of Chicago Press\, 1983). \nHeather Hirschfeld\, Kenneth Curry Professor of English\, the University of Tennessee–Knoxville. Author of The End of Satisfaction: Drama and Repentance in the Age of Shakespeare (Cornell University Press\, 2014) and Joint Enterprises: Collaborative Drama and the Institutionalization of the English Renaissance Theater (University of Massachusetts Press\, 2004). \nPlease submit 200-300 word abstracts by September 9\, 2024 to ovsc2024@gmail.com. The OVSC also offers an Early Decision option\, with the deadline of June 10\, 2024. Please refer to the OVSC’s website for more information: https://www.ovshakes.org/ URL:https://premoderndisability.com/event/cfp-deadline-shakespeare-and-the-mind/ CATEGORIES:Call for Papers,Conference,Early Modern END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240906 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240907 DTSTAMP:20240701T121820Z CREATED:20240701T121820Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240701T121820Z UID:1602-1725580800-1725667199@premoderndisability.com SUMMARY:Application Deadline: Assistant Professor - History of Medicine DESCRIPTION:Baylor University seeks an Assistant Professor of History of Medicine to start August 2025. Details for this position can be found at apply.interfolio.com/148215. \nPosition Description \nThe Baylor University History Department seeks to fill a tenure-track faculty position in the History of Medicine at the Assistant Professor level\, effective August 2025. The successful candidate will hold a doctorate in history or a related field and be able to demonstrate a research and teaching agenda appropriate for an R1 institution. The candidate must also be willing to participate in interdisciplinary collaboration and seek external research funding. Chronology and geography are open. \nThe application deadline for initial materials is September 6\, 2024\, 11 pm CDT. \nQualifications \nThe successful candidate: \n\nShould possess an earned doctorate in history or a related field\, with a dissertation defended before August 1\, 2025;\nWill be able to demonstrate a research and teaching agenda appropriate for an R1 institution and complement the existing strengths of the Department of History.\n\nCandidates should be able to demonstrate experience in one or more of the following: \n\nresearch publication;\nundergraduate and/or graduate teaching;\nundergraduate and/or graduate mentorship;\ninterdisciplinary collaboration (particularly with Medical Humanities or Bioethics);\nseeking external research funding.\n\nApplication Instructions \nPlease submit the following initial materials electronically via Interfolio: \n\nA letter of interest\,\nA curriculum vitae\,\nAn official transcript for the highest degree conferred or in process\,\nA list of three references.\n\nAt a later time\, applicants considered for interviews will be asked to complete a required\, self-disclosed Religious Affiliation Form. Selected applicants will also be asked to provide a sample syllabus and an article-length writing sample representing current research (unpublished or published). Recommendation letters will also be requested at this time. \nAbout Baylor \nWith a main campus located in Waco\, Texas\, Baylor University is the oldest college in Texas. With a population of 21\,000 diverse students\, Baylor is one of the top universities in the nation\, having been named an R1 institution by the Carnegie Classification in January 2022. Baylor is also on the honor roll of the “Great Colleges to Work For” from The Chronicle of Higher Education; Baylor offers competitive salaries and benefits while allowing faculty and staff to live in one of the fastest-growing parts of the state. Our strategic plan guides the University as we continue to live up to Baylor’s mission of educating men and women for worldwide leadership and service by integrating academic excellence and Christian commitment within a caring community. \nAs an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer\, Baylor University is committed to compliance with all applicable anti-discrimination laws\, including those regarding age\, race\, color\, sex\, national origin\, military service\, genetic information\, and disability. Baylor University is a private\, not-for-profit university governed by a predominantly Baptist Board of Regents and is operated within the Christian-oriented aims and ideals of Baptists and is affiliated with the Baptist General Convention of Texas\, a cooperative association of autonomous Texas Baptist churches. Baylor University is also affiliated with the Baptist General Convention of Texas\, a cooperative association of autonomous Texas Baptist churches\, and is an associate member of the Baptist World Alliance. As a religiously controlled institution of higher education\, Baylor University is exempt from compliance with select provisions of certain civil rights laws\, and Baylor University is also exempt from prohibitions against discrimination based on religion. As a religiously controlled institution of higher education\, Baylor University is exempt from compliance with select provisions of certain civil rights laws\, and Baylor University is also exempt from prohibitions against discrimination based on religion. As such\, the University prescribes standards of personal conduct that are consistent with its religious mission and values and lawfully considers a person’s religion in the employment context. Baylor’s commitment to equal opportunity and respect of others does not undermine the validity and effect of the constitutional and statutory protections for its religious liberty\, including\, without limitation\, the religious organization exemption under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964\, the religious exemption to Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972\, and the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution\, among others. Baylor encourages women\, minorities\, veterans\, and individuals with disabilities to apply. \n\n\n\nContact:\nTo learn more about the above position\, the Department of History\, the College of Arts and Sciences\, and Baylor University\, please visit www.baylor.edu/history. Please contact Office Manager Dianne Schmidt (Dianne_Schmidt@baylor.edu) with any questions regarding the application process. For questions about the position\, please contact Elesha Coffman\, the chair of the search committee (Elesha_Coffman@baylor.edu).\n\n\nWebsite:\nhttp://apply.interfolio.com/148215\n\n\nPrimary Category:\nHistory of Science\, Medicine\, and Technology\n\n\nSecondary Categories:\nNone\n\n\nPosting Date:\n07/01/2024\n\n\nClosing Date\n09/06/2024 URL:https://premoderndisability.com/event/application-deadline-assistant-professor-history-of-medicine/ CATEGORIES:Application END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240905T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240905T163000 DTSTAMP:20240903T224429Z CREATED:20240903T224429Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240903T224429Z UID:1751-1725548400-1725553800@premoderndisability.com SUMMARY:3D-Printed Prostheses and Early Modern Iron Hands DESCRIPTION:Heidi Hausse and Chad Rose of Auburn will present “3D-Printed Prostheses and Early Modern Iron Hands: A Method to Investigate the Lived Experiences of Amputees in the Pre-Modern World” \nThere will be a pre-circulated paper. \n\n\n\nLocation: East Baltimore Campus\, Welch Library\, Room 303 URL:https://premoderndisability.com/event/3d-printed-prostheses-and-early-modern-iron-hands/ CATEGORIES:Early Modern,Lecture,Methods Talk,Seminar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240823 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240824 DTSTAMP:20240729T143741Z CREATED:20240729T143741Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240729T143741Z UID:1626-1724371200-1724457599@premoderndisability.com SUMMARY:CFP: The Senses in High Medieval to Early Modern Medicine DESCRIPTION:Stenton Symposium 2024\, University of Reading \nProposals of up to 200 words and a short bio are due Friday 23 August. Send to Dr. Ruth Salter (r.j.salter@reading.ac.uk) URL:https://premoderndisability.com/event/cfp-the-senses-in-high-medieval-to-early-modern-medicine/ CATEGORIES:Call for Papers,Conference,Early Modern,Medieval END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240812 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240813 DTSTAMP:20240808T203110Z CREATED:20240808T203110Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240808T203110Z UID:1684-1723420800-1723507199@premoderndisability.com SUMMARY:CFP: Making Madnesses in Early Modern England (RSA Boston\, March 20-22\, 2025) DESCRIPTION:deadline for submissions:  August 12\, 2024\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nfull name / name of organization: Avi Mendelson / RSA Conference\, Boston\, 2025\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\ncontact email:\n\namendel@brandeis.edu \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn John Ford’s raucous tragicomedy\, The Lover’s Melancholy (1628)\, the proto-psychiatrist Corax attempts an experimental treatment on his forlorn melancholic patients: he stages a masque – acted by the allegorical figures of psychic ailments\, including Dotage\, Phrenitis\, Hypochondria\, St. Vitus’ Dance\, Hydrophobia (rabies)\, and Lycanthropia (the delusion that you’ve transformed into a wolf) – in order to shake his afflicted clients out of their melancholic funk. Pulling from Robert Burton’s massive tome\, The Anatomy of Melancholy\, Ford’s play showcases the sheer variety of madnesses – even within a subgenre such as “melancholy” – that were active\, endemic\, and of great dramatic interest in early modern England. These madnesses\, as trailblazing scholarship by Carol Thomas Neely\, Bridget Escolme\, and Duncan Salkeld has shown\, were also imbedded within a network of other rhetorical structures – from the medical to the astrological; from political fears of sedition to witchcraft legislation; and from early modern theatre to modern dramatic reimaginings of mental health from that era. \nPlaywrights from the period were obsessed with mental illness – and not just Shakespeare with his well-known depictions of madness in Macbeth\, King Lear\, and The Comedy of Errors\, among other dramas. The singing madmen in The Duchess of Malfi beg to “howl some heavy note” for the play’s harassed and tortured heroine; the rabidly jealous doctor Alibius in The Changeling rents out his medically incarcerated patients as wedding entertainment. London’s Bethlem Hospital (also known as “Bedlam”) – though intended as a charity – was often described as a space where squalor\, neglect\, and abuse ran rampant. In addition to Bethlem\, physicians such as Richard Napier wrote extensive medical records\, which we could access\, of the mentally ill people he treated in Buckinghamshire. Given all of the above\, this panel seeks papers that explore any way madness was portrayed in early modern England. \n  \nA list of potential questions and topics that is in no way exhaustive: \n*Showing how madness intersects with other realms of subjecthood: race\, class\, gender\, sexuality\, and disability. \n*Links between madness and the arts: music\, theater\, poetry\, rhetoric\, or painting. \n*Reading madness through a Disability Studies lens. Is madness always a disability? Can it be an advantage? \n*Connections between madness and the supernatural or preternatural: witchcraft\, demonic possession\, werewolves\, or lunar disturbance. \n*What is the relationship between madness and discourses of love/pleasure? \n*Reading madness through histories of medicine\, disease\, emotion/affect\, or dreams/visions. \n*Representations of early modern doctors and “psychiatric” hospitals. \n*Why do some characters fake madness in these plays? What’s the difference between real and spurious madness? \n*Analyzing how early modern madness is depicted either in modern stage productions or via other media (films\, paintings\, graphic novels\, websites\, etc.). \n*How can we foster a mad or mental illness positive pedagogy? Can early modernists blend historical discussions of madness\, with activism and advocacy for those with mental illness? \n  \n  \nPlease submit the following materials to Avi Mendelson\, at amendel@brandeis.edu\, by August 12th to be considered for this panel: Your field of study; your paper title (15 words maximum); an abstract (200 words maximum); a one page abbreviated CV (.pdf or .doc upload); PhD completion date (past or expected); full name / current academic affiliation / email address. Please note that the RSA is very strict about word count\, and will not accept entries that go beyond the maximum word limit. URL:https://premoderndisability.com/event/cfp-making-madnesses-in-early-modern-england-rsa-boston-march-20-22-2025/ CATEGORIES:Call for Papers,Conference,Early Modern END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240812 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240813 DTSTAMP:20240807T171841Z CREATED:20240807T171841Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240807T171841Z UID:1675-1723420800-1723507199@premoderndisability.com SUMMARY:CFP: Reimagining Disability through "Disability Gain" (RSA Panel) DESCRIPTION:This panel welcomes contributions devoted to the long genealogy of literary\, visual\, and historical representations of the disabled or “defective” body\, particularly those also attentive to the concept of “disability gain.” Coined by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson\, “disability gain\,” allows Renaissance scholars to reconsider and reimagine the disabled body (​​Fox\, Krings\, Vierke\, 2019). Through this framework\, based on H-Dirksen Bauman and Joseph Murray’s concept of “Deaf gain\,” which approaches Deafness as a benefit that expands social\, cultural\, intellectual\, and creative fields\, we may reconsider interpretations and depictions of the disabled body as a cipher for defect\, for loss\, vice\, or sin (2014). While this concept has yet to be applied broadly to Renaissance disability\, the lens of “disability gain” may allow the modern scholar to reframe and reconceptualize the premodern body and its various temporal\, sociocultural\, political\, and linguistic proliferations. To this end\, we ask scholars to question the designation of disabled bodies as lacking and instead posit the affordances open to premodern studies of the body when disability is reread or reimagined. We invite papers that engage with conceptions of disability as gain\, rather than a lack or failure of signification. We are open to transhistorical\, transnational and translingual\, and comparative approaches\, as well as to interdisciplinary work that dialogues with material understandings of the body\, humanistic approaches\, contemporary critical theory\, and recent critical interventions in disability studies. \n\n\n\nOrganizer *\nAlani Hicks-Bartlett\, Catherine Bloomer\n\n\nEmail *\nalani_hicks-bartlett@brown.edu\, csb2142@columbia.edu\n\n\nCo-Organizers\n\n\n\nSponsor (if applicable)\nRocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association\n\n\nProposal Deadline *\nAugust 12\, 2024\n\n\nNotification Date *\nAugust 15\, 2024\n\n\n\n  URL:https://premoderndisability.com/event/cfp-reimagining-disability-through-disability-gain-rsa-panel/ CATEGORIES:Call for Papers,Conference,Early Modern,Panel END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240801 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240802 DTSTAMP:20240614T134517Z CREATED:20240614T134517Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240614T134517Z UID:1565-1722470400-1722556799@premoderndisability.com SUMMARY:CfP: Reframing the Gaze: Maria Theresia Paradis\, Blind Musicians\, and Musical Culture in the Decades before Braille DESCRIPTION:CALL FOR PROPOSALS\nReframing the Gaze: Maria Theresia Paradis\, Blind Musicians\, and Musical Culture in the Decades before Braille \nA Bicentenary Symposium\nNovember 22-24\, 2024\nMount Holyoke College (South Hadley\, MA)\nproposal deadline: August 1\, 2024 \nWe invite proposals for presentations on the life\, works\, and worlds of Maria Theresia Paradis (1759-1824) in celebration of her bicentenary this year. Paradis was a celebrated Viennese prodigy and piano virtuosa whose story of blindness\, quack treatments under Franz Mesmer\, and fame as a touring musician has been retold in novels\, films\, and plays. But she was also a well-known composer and piano teacher\, and an influential figure in the development of educational systems and adaptive technologies for the blind in Europe. At once multiply marginalized and uniquely privileged among her peers\, she offers important perspectives on vulnerable virtuosity (Honisch)\, histories of disability and music education\, cure fantasy (Linton\, Clare)\, the politics of the gaze (Garland-Thomson)\, and late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century musical culture\, performance\, and listening practice. \nWe seek to contextualize Paradis’s legacy with an interdisciplinary symposium that brings together recent work on her career and reception\, music education for the blind\, and other blind artists and musicians of the period\, as well as their impact up to the present day. We encourage contributions from scholars working within and across the disciplines of music history\, theory\, and education; disability history and critical disability studies; gender and queer studies; celebrity studies; media studies; histories of science\, technology\, and medicine; etc. We particularly welcome proposals by blind scholars and musicians. Other presentation formats such as lecture-recitals\, lightning talks\, roundtables\, posters\, installations\, and exhibitions are also welcome. Funding for travel expenses may be available to those with limited or no institutional support. \nThe symposium will include recitals featuring music by and related to Paradis; a reconstruction of one of her Vienna school concerts; and a hands-on\, accessible exhibition of archival materials and reproductions of contemporaneous texts and tools related to blind musicians and music education of the blind. All events and materials will be preserved and shared online\, with audio descriptions\, as an accessible\, open learning resource following the symposium. \nProposals of 250-300 words are due to the symposium co-organizers at paradissymposium@gmail.com by 11:59pm ET on August 1\, 2024. Notifications will be issued by August 15. Please email us at paradissymposium@gmail.com with any questions. \nAdeline Mueller (Mount Holyoke College) amueller@mtholyoke.edu \nChristopher Parton (Princeton University) cparton@princeton.edu \nAnnette Richards (Cornell University) annette.richards@cornell.edu \n\n\nContact Information\n\nAdeline Mueller (Mount Holyoke College) \n\n\n\nContact Email\nparadissymposium@gmail.com URL:https://premoderndisability.com/event/cfp-reframing-the-gaze-maria-theresia-paradis-blind-musicians-and-musical-culture-in-the-decades-before-braille/ CATEGORIES:Call for Papers,Conference,Long 18th Century END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240801 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240802 DTSTAMP:20240516T164914Z CREATED:20240516T164914Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240516T164914Z UID:1547-1722470400-1722556799@premoderndisability.com SUMMARY:CFP: Changing Bodies and Subjects in Early Modernity (RSA 2025) DESCRIPTION:Proposals for 20-minute presentations that explore how changes in bodily states\, life stages\, and other changes in embodiment affected people\, their self-image\, their subject positions\, etc. in the early modern period. “Body” can be understood in the strict physical sense or in the developmental sense as a process and as an evolving entity or phenomenon\, including behaviour\, learned abilities and habits. Examples of changes and states include but are not limited to growth\, ageing and ailing\, pregnancy\, gender transitioning\, disabilities\, wounds and diseases\, the learning of new abilities or the loss of previously acquired ones\, etc. Approaches from literature\, history \, gender and cultural studies\, religion\, medicine and sciences\, all forms of art\, and others are welcome.\nEmail a 150-word proposal by August 1 to Enrique_Fernandez@umanitoba.ca URL:https://premoderndisability.com/event/cfp-changing-bodies-and-subjects-in-early-modernity-rsa-2025/ CATEGORIES:Call for Papers,Conference,Early Modern,Panel END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR