The Department of English, Germanic and Romance studies (ENGEROM), University of Copenhagen (UCPH), and the Centre for Culture and the Mind invite applications for a 24-month post-doctoral researcher position in the history of migration and psychiatry. The expected starting date is 1 May 2024 or as soon as possible. The position is funded by the…
Health and disability within Roman Britain will be the focus of our next ‘Revisiting the Romans’ intervention at the Verulamium Museum and we are looking for a Guest Curator with some knowledge of Roman history to highlight different objects from the collection, bring new perspectives and breathe new life into our static museum display.
This seminar seeks to establish a community of neurodiverse (inclusive of all neurotypes), neuroqueering researchers/educators/activists and their allies in order to discuss and theorize what a neurodiverse, neuroqueering German Studies can be and do. We aim to open a discussion space where colleagues can become more familiar with the range of Neurodiversity Studies-related discourses and…
What forms of generative pressure does disability exert on the body of lyric? How does "lyric"--as term and practice--accommodate physical and intellectual difference? 250 word abstract and CV.
An interdisciplinary conference examining disability across medieval, early modern, and eighteenth century literature. UCSB Early Modern Center This event has in-person and virtual attendance. This interdisciplinary conference brings together scholars studying a variety “body matters,” including representations of disability or ability in premodern literature, the continuum of embodiment explored by premodern authors, and the relation…
Inviting submissions for a panel on women's pain and illness experiences in poetry, particularly using sick woman theory. Please submit a 250-word abstract and brief bio by the deadline. Deadline for submissions: Friday, 1 March 2024
An interdisciplinary conference examining disability across medieval, early modern, and eighteenth century literature. By UCSB Early Modern Center UC Santa Barbara and livestreamed
March 7, 2024 – Sasha PFAU (Hendrix College, Arkansas, USA) – Traumatic Repercussions: Warfare and Disability in the French Countryside. In four letters of remission from 1424, some residents of a town in the diocese of Bayeux explained to the English government of France how they had banded together to attack two English men in…
This conference aims to open up a space for critically engaging with the field of Disability Studies and the notion of disability. We hope that the ideas and discussions from this conference will work towards recasting dominant and popular perceptions of disability as pathology and inferiority, and generate new counter hegemonic discourses of disability that…
Age Studies and Disability Studies forums invite papers theorizing intersections between age and disability studies, e.g., aging into disability/aging with disability, intersections of ageism and ableism, disability across the lifecourse. 250-word abstract and bio Deadline for submissions: Monday, 11 March 2024
The Department of the History of Medicine and the Center for Medical Humanities and Social Medicine (CMHSM), Johns Hopkins University, seeks applicants for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in history of medicine and medical humanities. The fellow will have teaching and administrative responsibilities in the department’s online program in the history of medicine (OPHOM) which offers…
Proposals exploring power, racial, and gender asymmetries in the cultural construction of beliefs and practices related to health and medicine in colonial Latin America. Send one-page abstract & short bio by March 15 to kstolle@emory.edu Deadline for submissions: Friday, 15 March 2024
