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: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 BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20260329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20261025T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE 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: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;TZID=Europe/Paris:20250625T173000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20250625T193000 DTSTAMP:20250530T125147Z CREATED:20250530T125147Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250530T125147Z UID:1871-1750872600-1750879800@premoderndisability.com SUMMARY:Hybrid Seminar: Histories of Resistance: Disability\, Agency and Embodiment in the Long Eighteenth Century DESCRIPTION:Event type\nSeminar\nSeries\nBritish History in the Long 18th Century\nAddress\nHybrid | Online-via Zoom & IHR Wolfson Room NB01\, Basement\, IHR\, Senate House\, Malet Street\, London WC1E 7HU\nSpeakers\nDavid Turner (Swansea University)\nEvent dates\n\n25 June 2025\, 5:30PM – 7:30PM\nAdd to calendar\n\nContact\nihr.events@sas.ac.uk\nEmail only\n\n\nDisabled people’s political activism is often assumed to be a product of the modern age\, but for centuries people with physical\, sensory and intellectual impairments have found ways to push back against negative societal framings of bodily difference and advocate for their needs. This paper explores the manifold dimensions of disabled people’s resistance in Britain from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. Using sources ranging from Poor Law petitions to autobiographies and works of history and biography\, it examines the strategies by which people with impairments from a range of social backgrounds have represented their experiences\, claimed community with people in similar situations\, and asserted a moral right to compassionate treatment by others in society. The paper provides an overview of developments while asking questions about how we frame disabled people’s political activism over the longue durée\, how pre-modern perspectives can deepen our understanding of disabled people’s histories\, and how we can develop more inclusive eighteenth-century studies. \nThis seminar aims to create a welcoming space for discussion and debate\, fostering a professional environment where diverse views and perspectives can be shared. You can find more on this via our seminar page on the IHR website. \nAll welcome. This event is free to attend\, but advance registration is required. \nThis will be a ‘hybrid’ seminar with a limited number of places available in person and a larger number of bookings for online attendance via Zoom. Those attending in person are asked to bring a Wi-Fi enabled laptop\, tablet or phone. \nThe session will start at the slightly later time of 17:30. URL:https://premoderndisability.com/event/hybrid-seminar-histories-of-resistance-disability-agency-and-embodiment-in-the-long-eighteenth-century/ CATEGORIES:Long 18th Century,Seminar,Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250615 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250616 DTSTAMP:20250530T124623Z CREATED:20250530T124623Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250530T124623Z UID:1869-1749945600-1750031999@premoderndisability.com SUMMARY:CFP: Discourses on Illness: Ancient Ways of Coping with Ill-health DESCRIPTION:Discourses on Illness: Ancient Ways of Coping with Ill-health \nCall for papers  \nDates: 6-7 October 2025 \nThis conference\, organized by the Department of Classics and Archaeology (University of Malta) in collaboration with the University of Durham\, the University of Newcastle and Humboldt University of Berlin\, to be held in Malta between 6 and 7 October 2025\, is dedicated to investigating the therapeutic role of the spoken and written word in the ancient world. \nEven today\, speech is central to the practice of medicine. Symptoms and diagnoses can only be communicated verbally and thorough documentation is at the heart of modern medical practice. Many problems in clinical practice can also be traced back to breakdowns of communication between patients and their carers. Words are also central to the process of therapy and\, indeed\, a form of therapy in and of itself. All the way from the therapist’s couch to the public health warnings\, speech plays a vital role in inoculating us against illness and helping patients cope with illness. \nGreek healers and physicians were well aware of the central role that speech plays in the therapeutic process. Indeed\, this consciousness arises early\, with magical healing\, whose practitioners believed certain phrases to hold power over the human body (Longrigg\, 1993: 3-4). The ‘Hippocratic’ physicians\, as Lain Entralgo (1970) has proposed\, were keenly aware of the healing power of discourse. Sounds could have physiological effects on the liquids οφ the body (e.g. Diseases 1.23) and logoi were among the basic objects of perception\, akin to smells (e.g. Humours 4). Moreover\, some of their written treatises and oral discourses (Juoanna\, 2001) preserved in the Hippocratic Corpus\, works which often show a keen interest in rhetoric and persuasion\, can be seen as therapeutic devices in themselves. Laskaris (2002)\, for example\, argues that On the Sacred Disease is a protreptic discourse\, geared at defending the technical nature\, and therefore the power\, of rational medicine. At a basic level\, therefore\, this speech functioned as a ‘health warning’\, even arming potential patients and their relatives with arguments with which to ward off these ‘impious hacks’. \nEven more interesting is the ‘health warning’ and ‘argumentative armamentarium’ found in On Ancient Medicine\, the intended targets of which were philosophical-minded physicians (Schiefsky\, 2005: 55-62) who were distinct from this author only by degrees. Part of his critique is an imagined conversation between a hypothetical rival doctor and one of his patients on the matter of treatment. When a philosophical doctor prescribes you ‘something hot’\, he urges his audience\, then you should ask him where to find such a thing\, for ‘heat’ is not something discoverable (Anc. Med. 15). Both Sacred Disease and Ancient Medicine\, then\, quite apart from their oral delivery\, presuppose clinical scenarios which are rich with speech coming from both sides. In fact\, both works refer to aporia – a breakdown in dialogue – and imply that this breakdown is also the end of the doctor-patient relationship. Other passages in the Hippocratic Corpus corroborate this impression of a therapeutic practice laden with speech and suggest that a capable doctor can use his speech to guarantee better health-outcomes for his patient or\, at least\, be persuaded to accept the physician’s advice (e.g.\, Prognosticon\, 1). \nRecent scholarship has grown increasingly interested in Galen’s writing technique and especially in his use of rhetorical devices – Galen presents us\, after all\, with the most refined theory of metaphor between Aristotle and Eustathius of Thessalonica (von Staden 1995). The written word has a therapeutic to Galen in at least three senses: as a learning tool\, for his students to become familiar with the theories of their predecessors as well as with the appropriate ways of recognising and handling body parts; as a diagnostic tool\, for the doctor that aims at correctly formulating his diagnostic indications; and as an archive of “case histories” that offer glimpses into the social\, cultural\, and moral aspects of Galen’s own medical activity (Mattern 2008). Certainly more is yet to be said as to the functions of Galen’s enormous literary output and its therapeutic potentials. \nThis therapeutic potential of medical discourse also connects with broader views on the physiological effects of speech and literature on the body\, the most famous example being Aristotle’s doctrine of catharsis. Yet even Gorgias borrows from medicine to describe the effects of speech: in the Helen\, speech is likened to a pharmakon that can induce something akin to ‘hallucinations’ as well as soothe the soul and quieten the passions. \nThis conference seeks to explore the physiological dimensions of speech in the ancient world and to better define the ways in which the spoken and written word were used as a form of therapy and as means to assuage and combat disease. We hope to attract papers from a broad range of disciplines and interests to enable a holistic understanding of the role of speech in ancient medicine and healing (e.g.\, inscriptions\, literary descriptions\, medical texts and speeches). We also welcome papers which look at the medical and therapeutic aspects of other literary genres\, as well as papers on ancient literary theory and methodology\, provided they connect to the primary theme of the conference: the healing word. \nSome potential topics might include: \n\nDoctor-patient communication in the ancient world\nThe physiological effects of sound and speech in ancient medicine\nSpeech\, literature and healing in the ancient world\nMedical literature as a therapeutic devices in history\nRhetorical devices as therapeutic devices in ancient medical literature\nLiterary\, dance\, and music therapy in the ancient world\nPatient-centred medicine in the ancient world\nThe limits of speech in the doctor-centred centred medicine of the ancient world\nNon-verbal communication in ancient medicine\nInscriptions and communication in ‘temple medicine’\nComedy\, laughter therapy\, and healing in the ancient world\nMedicine in tragedy and tragedy as therapy in the ancient world\nHealing incantations in the Greek and Roman religion and magic\n\nThe conference features two plenary talks by distinguished keynote speakers: Prof. Lesley Dean-Jones and Prof. Chiara Thumiger. \nIf you are interested in participating in this conference\, we welcome your anonymized abstract (300 words max.)\, along with an email containing your name\, institutional affiliation\, contact information\, and the title of your proposal by email \nEach accepted speaker will have 30 minutes to deliver their paper\, followed by 10 minutes of questions. \n  \nSubmission deadline: 15 June 2025 \n  \nApproval notifications will be sent by 15 July 2025 \n  \nFor further information and questions\, please contact  Jurgen Gatt \n  \nOrganizing committee: \nElena Bellini \nChiara Blanco \nJurgen R. Gatt \nGeorge Gazis \nCarmel Serracino. \nBibliography \nJ. Longrigg. Greek Rational Medicine. Philosophy and medicine from Alcmaeon to the Alexandrians. London and New York: Routledge\, 1993. \nP. Lain Entralgo. The Therapy of the Word in Classical Antiquity. L. J. Rather; John M. Sharp (trans.). New Haven and London: Yale University Press\, 1970. \nJ. Juoanna. Hippocrates. M. B. DeBevoise (trans.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press\, 2001. \nJ. Laskaris. The Art is Long: On the Sacred Disease and the Scientific Tradition. Leiden: Brill\, 2002. \nM. Schiefsky. 2005. Hippocrates On Ancient Medicine: Translated with Introduction and Commentary. Leiden: Brill\, 2005. \nH. von Staden. ‘Anatomy as rhetoric: Galen on dissection and persuasion.’ J Hist Med Allied Sci. 1995 ;50(1):47-66. doi: 10.1093/jhmas/50.1.47. \nS. Mattern. Galen and the Rhetoric of Healing.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press\, 2008. URL:https://premoderndisability.com/event/cfp-discourses-on-illness-ancient-ways-of-coping-with-ill-health/ CATEGORIES:Classical,Conference END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250615 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250616 DTSTAMP:20250403T123641Z CREATED:20250403T123641Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250403T123641Z UID:1853-1749945600-1750031999@premoderndisability.com SUMMARY:CFP: Disability in German and English Narratives DESCRIPTION:CFP: „DISABILITY IN GERMAN AND ENGLISH NARRATIVES“ IN: JAHRBUCH FÜR INTERNATIONALE GERMANISTIK (PETER LANG VERLAG) \nThe Jahrbuch für internationale Germanistik\, published by Peter Lang and indexed by the Web of Science (Arts and Humanities Index – AHCI) and Book Citation Index (BKCI)\, invites scholarly contributions for a special issue on Disability in German and English Narratives. \nThis volume seeks to explore the literary\, cultural\, and discursive representations of disability in German- and English-language literatures. We welcome contributions from Germany\, Asia\, Africa and America that examine how disability is portrayed\, constructed\, and negotiated in fictional and non-fictional texts across time periods—from early modern literature to contemporary works. \nPossible areas of focus include but are not limited to: \n Literary representations of physical\, sensory\, or mental disability\n Disability in medieval or early modern narratives\n Postmodern and posthuman readings of disabled bodies\n The intersection of disability with gender\, class\, race\, or religion\n Theoretical frameworks from Disability Studies applied to German and English texts\n Comparative or transnational perspectives on disability narratives\n Inclusion\, exclusion\, and the normalization of bodies in literature and culture \nAbstract Submission Deadline: 15 June 2025 \nFull Text Submission Deadline: 30 October 2025 \nPlanned Publication: Spring 2026 \nCPC: 60 EUR \nPlease submit abstracts (300–500 words) along with a short bio (100 words) to: [habib.tekin@hotmail.com]\nContact Information \nhabib.tekin@hotmail.com\nContact Email\nhabib.tekin@hotmail.com URL:https://premoderndisability.com/event/cfp-disability-in-german-and-english-narratives/ CATEGORIES:Call for Papers,Early Modern,Long 18th Century END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250601 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250602 DTSTAMP:20250329T135007Z CREATED:20241112T234657Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250329T135007Z UID:1794-1748736000-1748822399@premoderndisability.com SUMMARY:CFP: Disabilities and American Art Histories DESCRIPTION:American Art\, the peer-reviewed journal co-published by the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the University of Chicago Press\, seeks to publish papers that explore the intersections of disability studies and the histories of American art\, architecture\, and design. What perspectives\, insights\, and forms of redress does disability studies bring to American art history? Where does disability surface in American art and visual culture\, and where do absences persist? How has art enacted ableism\, spurred practices that challenge and move beyond exclusion and oppression\, or combined divergent tendencies in complicated and generative ways? What are the responsibilities of art historians to advance disability justice in their scholarship\, teaching\, and museum practice? How do the histories of American art change when new ways of making or experiencing art are included? \nWe invite essays that center disability in American art history in compelling and innovative ways. We encourage authors to foreground critical disability studies methodologies and conceptualize disability broadly\, recognizing that the meanings and terminologies of disability can vary across disciplines\, experiences\, identities\, and histories. We welcome essays about how disability has been represented\, conceptualized\, and constructed via visual and material practices; how individual artists as well as communities\, including those that reject the identity of disability\, have defined themselves alongside and beyond changing understandings of abled-ness. We encourage authors to approach disability intersectionally and to center the histories of understudied peoples. We also invite reflection on how the discipline of American art and practices of extractive looking have perpetuated ableism. \nCollectively these commentaries aim to reveal the centrality of disability and disability studies to our understanding of American art history\, considering how such approaches can advance multiple fields and contribute to anti-ableist future practices. \nPlease submit manuscripts of 1\,500 to 2\,000 words (including notes) with 3–5 images\, to AmericanArtJournal@si.edu by April 1\, 2025. We invite submissions from authors in and beyond art history\, including crip studies\, Deaf studies\, design history\, disability history\, disability studies\, Mad studies\, material culture studies\, the history of the body\, the history of the senses\, the history of technology\, medical humanities\, and visual culture/practices of looking. \nThe journal’s guidelines on originality\, quality\, and submission format apply; our submission guidelines page for details. Pre-submission inquiries may be directed to organizers Laurel Daen\, University of Notre Dame\, and Jennifer Van Horn\, University of Delaware\, at ldaen@nd.edu and jvanhorn@udel.edu. American Art will facilitate fully anonymized peer reviews and final decisions. Accepted manuscripts will be workshopped\, rigorously edited\, and published in American Art in 2026. \nDeadline extended to June 1st: https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20064243/deadline-extended-june-1-2025-disabilities-and-american-art-histories URL:https://premoderndisability.com/event/cfp-disabilities-and-american-art-histories/ CATEGORIES:Call for Papers,Classical,Early Modern,Long 18th Century,Medieval END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250406 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250407 DTSTAMP:20250317T233406Z CREATED:20250317T233406Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250317T233406Z UID:1840-1743897600-1743983999@premoderndisability.com SUMMARY:Application Deadline: Postdoctoral Research Associate - Early Modern European Neurodivergence DESCRIPTION:Swansea University is a research-led university that has been making a difference since 1920. The University community thrives on exploration and discovery and offers the right balance of excellent teaching and research\, matched by an enviable quality of life. \nOur stunning waterfront campuses and multicultural community make us a desirable workplace for colleagues from around the world. Our reward and benefits\, and ways of working enable those who join us to have enriching careers\, matched by an excellent work-life balance.\nAbout The Role \nThis is a full-time\, two-year contract designed to help launch an early career research’s career.\nAs a member of Swansea University\, you will join colleagues conducting world-class research in disability studies and neurodiversity studies across time-periods and disciplines\, and in early modern literature. You will hold a fixed term 2 year post on the project AMEND – Early Modern European Neurodivergence. AMEND is a 6-year project funded by the Wellcome Trust that aims to significantly shift the understanding of what we currently call neurodivergence by investigating the analogous concept(s) used by early modern people. Establishing a longer conceptual history of neurodivergence than currently exists\, AMEND will nurture neurodivergent people’s agency and wellbeing. The project’s definition of neurodivergence is broad and inclusive and encompasses research into areas such as voice-hearing\, addictions\, and dementia alongside what might more commonly be thought of as ‘neurodivergent conditions’ such as autism and into the concept of neurodivergence itself. We aim to explore and value the diversity of neurodivergence\, and to foreground often marginalised neurodivergent communities such as partially verbal people and neurodivergent people of colour. \nYou will contribute to the first two years of AMEND\, working with the PI and Administrator to achieve the project’s first key goal: ‘to investigate the significance and signification of neurodivergence in early modern Europe\, across languages and cultures\, remaining attentive to early modern cross-cultural encounters’ (for example\, with the Global South). This first strand of the project involves archival research\, a conference\, and a practice-as-research theatre project. \nThe project grant provides you with financial support to visit archives and attend conferences as part of your role\, and funded training in areas relevant to the project. You will receive regular mentoring from the PI\, and the opportunity to have a second or alternative mentor at Swansea.\nAcademic Career Pathway \nThe pathway for this post is Not applicable. The Academic Career Pathways (ACP) scheme is designed to ensure that academic strengths whether in research\, teaching\, the wider student experience\, leadership or innovation and engagement\, are all appropriately recognised\, developed\, valued\, and rewarded. For further information\, please see our ACP webpage.\nEquality\, Diversity & Inclusion \nThe University is committed to supporting and promoting equality and diversity in all its practices and activities. We aim to establish an inclusive environment and welcome diverse applications from the following protected characteristics: age\, disability\, gender reassignment\, marriage and civil partnership\, pregnancy and maternity\, race (including colour\, nationality\, ethnic and national origin)\, religion or belief\, sex\, sexual orientation. \nAs an inclusive and welcoming workplace\, we value people for their skills regardless of their background. Applications are welcome in Welsh and will not be treated less favourably than those submitted in English.\nWelsh Language Skills \nThe Welsh language level required for this role is Level 1 – A little. The role holder will be able to pronounce Welsh words\, answer the phone in Welsh (good morning/afternoon) and use very basic everyday words and phrases (thank you\, please etc.). Level 1 can be reached by completing a 1 hour course. \nThe University is a proud bilingual institution\, our Welsh Language Strategy outlines our aspiration to promote the language and enable our staff to engage with the language as an additional workplace skill and as a gateway to new cultural and social opportunities. Applications are welcome in Welsh and will not be treated less favourably than those submitted in English. Welsh speakers have the right to an interview in Welsh. Applicants for a role where Welsh skills are essential are expected to present their application in Welsh and will be interviewed in Welsh\, if shortlisted.\nAdditional Information \nApplications for this role will take the format of a CV submission and cover letter.\nTo apply please send: \n1. A project plan: up to one side of A4 (or\, if more accessible to you\, a video or audio file of up to 3 minutes) describing the two-year project into early modern neurodivergence that you might pursue if you were successful for this role.\n2. A cover letter: up to one side of A4 (or\, if more accessible to you\, a video or audio file of up to 3 minutes) explaining how you meet the criteria for this role.\n3. A CV of a maximum of 2 sides of A4. \nPlease use a minimum font size of 11pt for these documents. \nFor shortlisted applicants\, two samples of writing (published or unpublished) or an equivalent sample of your existing work (such as a podcast) will be required ahead of the interview. \nInterviews will take place in the week commencing May 5th. URL:https://premoderndisability.com/event/application-deadline-postdoctoral-research-associate-early-modern-european-neurodivergence/ CATEGORIES:Application END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250331 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250401 DTSTAMP:20250325T195641Z CREATED:20250325T195641Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250325T195641Z UID:1843-1743379200-1743465599@premoderndisability.com SUMMARY:CFP: Histories of Disabilities and Living Spaces from Ancient to Modern Worlds DESCRIPTION:Royal Holloway’s Bodies and Material Culture Research Group invites papers for a one-day workshop in Central London on histories of disabilities and living spaces from the ancient to the modern world. The relationship between historical actors with physical and mental disabilities and the places they live is complex\, with embodied experiences and the material world offering scope for both agency and frustration. Drawing on the recent expansion in histories of disabilities across ancient\, medieval\, early modern and modern studies\, this workshop applies this new critical approach to the study of past living spaces. The workshop will focus on how people with physical impairments\, mental illness\, chronic illness\, degenerative\, and age-related conditions (including any intersection of the above) interacted with historic domestic environments. The workshop will use comparative histories – from the ancient past to the contemporary present – to look at similarities and differences across time and space. We will explore new methodologies for interpreting embodied experiences\, drawing on ideas of co-production and participatory research. We aim to further shared understandings of lived experiences\, and to explore how these might be represented in public histories and heritage. \nKeynote Speakers: Kyle Jordan (Independent Curator and Researcher) and India Whiteley (QMUL) \nPapers might address\, but are not limited to\, the experience of people with disabilities\, chronic or mental illness\, degenerative\, and/or age-related conditions (including any intersection of the above) in relation to the following themes: \n\nThe planning\, design\, building and adaptation of living spaces\nEmbodiment and the interaction of bodies with domestic material culture\nDevelopment of historic assistive technologies and therapies\nHousehold structures and hierarchies e.g. Roman households and their extended family members\, early modern apprentice households\, nuclear families including: development of support networks; exploitation and/or abuse\nChanging patterns of individual\, family and collective residence e.g. monasteries or schools\nIdentification with domestic space and home as an emotional construct\nNew approaches to interpreting historic embodied experiences e.g. participatory research or co-production\nMethods and source materials that reveal living spaces including archaeological\, textual\, legislative\, visual and material\nStrategies for representing historical actors in domestic heritage\n\nThe workshop will take place on Tuesday June 24th 2025 at Senate House\, University of London. Please send proposals (300 word abstract and 100 word biography) to Jane Hamlett jane.hamlett@rhul.ac.uk and Hannah Platts Hannah.platts@rhul.ac.uk by March 31st. We welcome proposals from those at all career stages of academia\, independent scholars\, heritage and museum professionals. Papers can be presented in person or online. URL:https://premoderndisability.com/event/cfp-histories-of-disabilities-and-living-spaces-from-ancient-to-modern-worlds/ CATEGORIES:Call for Papers,Classical,Early Modern,Long 18th Century,Medieval,Workshop END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250331 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250401 DTSTAMP:20250113T223416Z CREATED:20250113T223416Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250113T223416Z UID:1821-1743379200-1743465599@premoderndisability.com SUMMARY:CFP: “Beyond Labels”: International Conference on Disability\, Different Ability and Neurodiversity DESCRIPTION:deadline for submissions:\nMarch 31\, 2025\nfull name / name of organization:\nLondon Centre for Interdisciplinary Research\ncontact email:\ndiversity@lcir.co.uk \n“Beyond Labels”: International Conference\non Disability\, Different Ability and Neurodiversity \nLondon/Online: 13-14 September 2025\nDeadline for proposals: 31 March 2025\nConference website: https://diversity.lcir.co.uk \nDisability\, different ability and neurodiversity are concepts that traverse boundaries\, challenging disciplines to rethink foundational assumptions about identity\, culture and power. This interdisciplinary conference seeks to bring together scholars from different fields to critically examine the shifting narratives\, representations and lived experiences surrounding ability and difference. \nHow have historical understandings of disability and neurodiversity influenced contemporary policies\, identities and cultural practices? What roles do language\, art and education play in constructing or dismantling barriers to inclusion? How can we critically analyse the labels\, frameworks and narratives that have historically marginalised\, medicalised\, or pathologised difference — and how are these being reimagined today?\nThis conference invites contributions that interrogate the intersections of disability\, different ability and neurodiversity from diverse disciplinary perspectives\, encouraging critical reflection\, theoretical engagement and creative exploration. URL:https://premoderndisability.com/event/cfp-beyond-labels-international-conference-on-disability-different-ability-and-neurodiversity/ CATEGORIES:Call for Papers END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250301 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250302 DTSTAMP:20240626T180258Z CREATED:20240626T180258Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240626T180258Z UID:1585-1740787200-1740873599@premoderndisability.com SUMMARY:Nomination Deadline: Heidi Marx Prize DESCRIPTION:The Heidi Marx Prize for outstanding contribution in the field of medicine\, health\, and healing in the ancient Mediterranean \nDr. Heidi Marx has carved new paths in the study of ancient Mediterranean philosophy\, medicine\, botany\, and religion. Dr. Marx’s work is recognizable in its clarity\, intellectual insight\, and generous engagement with other scholars’ work\, combining immense learning with critical collegiality.  In 2013\, Dr. Marx\, with Dr. Kristi Upson-Saia\, founded the international working group ReMeDHe: Religion\, Medicine\, Disability\, and Health in Late Antiquity\, to support innovative and rigorous scholarship in the field. Under their leadership\, ReMeDHe has grown to include hundreds of scholars across the globe\, and has sponsored numerous workshops\, panels\, conferences\, and publications. \nIn recognition of Dr. Marx’s ongoing scholarly contributions\, ReMeDHe is pleased to launch the Heidi Marx Prize\, to be awarded annually for the best article on medicine\, health\, and healing in the ancient Mediterranean. \nNominations and Eligibility \nTo nominate an article\, email a PDF of the article\, together with a short (100-200 words) explanation of why this essay excels in terms of the selection criteria below to ReMeDHe’s co-Directors: Kristi Upson-Saia (upsonsaia@oxy.edu) and Jonathan Zecher (Jonathan.Zecher@acu.edu.au). \nNominated articles may have been published any time within the last three (3) years\, but  must have appeared in print or online by the time the prize is awarded (see the timeline below). \nNominations and self-nominations are welcome. Authors with any affiliation and any rank\, and articles from any scholarly journal\, may be nominated. We especially encourage nominations of articles authored by early-career scholars and scholars  from communities or identities that have been historically underrepresented in the field. \nSelection Criteria \nNominated articles will be reviewed by the Prize Committee (a subcommittee of the ReMeDHe Board) based on the following criteria\, which reflect the character of Dr. Marx’s own career and legacy: \n\nContribution to the field: How is this article enriching the scholarly conversation?\nEngagement with ancient sources: How deeply does this article dive deeper into historical evidence?\nEngagement with contemporary scholarship: How does this article engage existing scholarship? How does this article balance critical new insights and scholarly generosity?\nQuality of the argument and the prose: Is this article a joy to read?\n\nPrize \nThe winner of the Heidi Marx Prize will receive $250 toward books of their choosing\, as well as recognition on the ReMeDHe website and publicity via ReMeDHe’s social media. \nTimeline \nWe start accepting nominations every July\, with a firm deadline for nominations on 1 March. The winner will be announced in early June. URL:https://premoderndisability.com/event/nomination-deadline-heidi-marx-prize/ CATEGORIES:Application,Award/Contest,Classical END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250228 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250301 DTSTAMP:20250113T222854Z CREATED:20250113T222854Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250113T222854Z UID:1819-1740700800-1740787199@premoderndisability.com SUMMARY:Application Deadline: Bioethics and Health Humanities Research Fellow DESCRIPTION:Research Fellow \nBioethics and Health Humanities \nThe University of Texas Medical Branch \nGalveston\, TX \nThe Institute for Bioethics & Health Humanities (IBHH) at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) invites applications for two Research Fellows. This mentored fellowship program is intended for scholars who have recently completed their PhD or other terminal degree or will have defended by Summer 2025. Research Fellows will be integrated into interdisciplinary research projects while also being afforded time to focus on their own research. Fellows can also potentially teach a graduate-level seminar. \nThis is an ideal opportunity for humanities and social science scholars to gain experience working in a dynamic\, multidisciplinary unit within an academic health science center. \nThe IBHH seeks to hire two Research Fellows. Areas of research could include one or more of the following: \n Empirical social sciences and humanities related to health\, including empirical bioethics; health policy studies; history of medicine or public health; medical anthropology; medical sociology; communication studies; legal studies/law and society; political science; and related areas.\n Science and Technology Studies (STS)\, including history of medicine; history and philosophy of science; sociology and anthropology of science and technology; information studies; human-computer interaction; social theory; and related areas.\n Bioethics\, including philosophical and conceptual bioethics; normative analyses of longstanding issues (e.g.\, medical aid in dying\, informed consent\, public health ethics) or emergent issues (e.g.\, artificial intelligence\, post-genomics\, psychedelics); or critical approaches such as feminist bioethics\, disability bioethics\, anti-racist bioethics\, queer bioethics\, trans bioethics\, and related areas.\n Health humanities\, including narratives of health and illness in literature or other media (e.g.\, television\, cinema\, new media); cultural studies or critical theory in health; historical perspectives on health; and related areas.\n Global and transnational health studies\, including critical global health studies; global health ethics and governance; area studies (e.g.\, Latin American and Caribbean Studies\, American Studies\, African Studies\, South Asian Studies\, etc.); and other international or translational approaches to social dimensions of health. \nResearch fellows will be expected to develop their own programs of research and to engage in interdisciplinary\, multidisciplinary\, and applied work with IBHH faculty and other units across campus. Priority will be given to applicants who have interests aligned with one or more faculty members. In their letter of interest\, applicants should identify at least one IBHH faculty member who they would want to serve as their primary mentor (find faculty profiles here). \nFellows will be supported and mentored by IBHH faculty and collaborators from other UTMB departments in multiple ways\, including developing their research program and applying to permanent positions in academia and other sectors. Fellowship activities can also include writing grants and/or fellowship applications through major funding agencies such as the National Institutes of Health\, National Science Foundation\, Social Science Research Council\, National Endowment for the Humanities\, philanthropic funders\, as well as the variety of internal funding mechanisms available at UTMB. \nEligibility and other information: \n Candidates must have a PhD\, JD\, MD\, or other terminal degree. \n Applicants must submit the following materials as a single PDF file:\n A letter of interest with a description of experience\, research interests\, career goals\, and potential IBHH faculty mentors\n Curriculum Vitae with contact information for 3-5 references\n A writing sample (article or chapter) \n Materials should be submitted by email directly to the Search Committee Chair\, subject line “Research Fellow Application – [LastName]”: \nStephen Molldrem\, PhD \nAssistant Professor and Research Program Director \nBioethics and Health Humanities \nstmolldr@utmb.edu \n In addition to a salary of $65\,000\, fellows will receive health insurance\, professional development funds\, office space\, computer\, library access\, and other UTMB benefits.\n Review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the positions are filled. Applications received by February 28th\, 2025 will receive full consideration. The start date is September 1\, 2025. \nThis is a one-year\, full-time position with an option to extend for a second year at the Research Program Director’s discretion dependent on satisfactory performance. \nEstablished in 1973\, the IBHH is an interdisciplinary research and teaching program rooted in philosophy\, literature\, religion\, history\, bioethics\, law\, and the social sciences. We seek to illuminate value questions in healthcare settings\, elicit meaning from illness\, and cultivate critical intelligence that probes the making\, meaning\, and authority of diverse knowledges. This broad-gauged inquiry provides the foundation for the activities of the Institute faculty in medical and graduate teaching\, clinical and research ethics consultation\, health policy analysis\, community engagement\, and multidisciplinary\, collaborative research. \nThe successful candidate will join an interdisciplinary faculty group with training in ethics\, humanities\, and social sciences who collaborate with more than 40 research centers and institutes located on campus\, covering a wide range of research interests including aging\, rehabilitation sciences\, women’s health\, environmental health\, translational sciences\, infectious diseases\, vaccines\, and substance use (see www.utmb.edu/centers/ for more information).The faculty engage in research\, clinical and community service\, and the teaching of graduate students and medical and other health professions trainees. The IBHH houses the nation’s only PhD program in Bioethics and Health Humanities. More information can be found at https://ibhh.utmb.edu/ \nUTMB was established in 1891 as the first academic health center in Texas and is a component of the University of Texas System. Today UTMB includes five schools (medicine\, nursing\, health professions\, public and population health\, and graduate biomedical sciences)\, a network of hospitals and clinics that provide a full range of primary and specialized medical care\, and numerous research facilities. \nThe city of Galveston is a popular tourist and cruise ship destination that includes beaches\, museums\, historical architecture\, a vibrant arts community\, and excellent restaurants\, all located only 45 minutes away from Houston\, the nation’s fourth largest city. \nUTMB Health strives to provide equal opportunity employment without regard to race\, color\, national origin\, sex\, age\, religion\, disability\, sexual orientation\, gender identity or expression\, genetic information\, or veteran status. As a VEVRAA Federal Contractor\, UTMB Health takes affirmative action to hire and advance women\, minorities\, protected veterans\, and individuals with disabilities. \nContact: \nSearch chair: \nStephen Molldrem\, PhD \nAssistant Professor and Research Program Director \nBioethics and Health Humanities \nstmolldr@utmb.edu URL:https://premoderndisability.com/event/application-deadline-bioethics-and-health-humanities-research-fellow/ CATEGORIES:Application END:VEVENT 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 END:VCALENDAR