Sessions of interest: Thursday, 4 January Session 16: Neurodivergent Romanticisms 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM Loews - Commonwealth D (2nd Floor) Friday, 5 January Session 186: Health, Care, and Disability in the Early Modern Francophone World 8:30 AM - 9:45 AM Marriott - Grand I (Level 5) Session 251: Health, Care, and Aging in Seventeenth-…
Bodies inform our way of being in the world. The human body can be a site of expression, (mis)identification, or inscription, giving rise to a myriad of possibilities that transform and are transformed by our perceptions of the self, connections with others, and the world around us. This issue of Working Papers in the Humanities explores…
Lecturer in History of Health, University of Bristol - Department of History (Historical Studies) The role The successful applicant will be expected to contribute fully to high-quality teaching and administration within the Department of History and to pursue research in their area of specialism to the highest standards in order to enhance the international research…
The Linda Hall Library is now accepting applications for its 2024-25 fellowship program. These fellowships provide graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and independent scholars in the history of science and related humanities fields with financial support to explore the Library’s outstanding science and engineering collections. Fellows also participate in a dynamic intellectual community alongside in-house experts and scholars…
The award runs every two years and is designed to support scholarly excellence in intellectual history and to promote the best PhD theses in the history of medicine and science with a focus on Europe, throughout the period 500-1800. It is named after the Italian physician Santorio Santori (1561-1636), who introduced the quantitative method to medicine.
Renaissance Hybridity deadline for submissions: January 31, 2024 full name / name of organization: University of Wisconsin–Madison Graduate Early Modern Student Society contact email: alksnis@wisc.edu Renaissance Hybridity Graduate Early Modern Student Society Seventh Annual Symposium Friday, April 26, 2024 UW–Madison Memorial Library Special Collections & Hybrid over Zoom Keynote Speaker: Lindsey Row-Heyveld, Associate Professor of…
Conference for Postgraduate Researchers and Early Career Researchers on Age and Health, 1500-1800. Submission deadline: Wednesday, 31 January 2024 Conference on24 June 2024 at the University of Cambridge. Send title, abstract (c. 200 words), and short bio to ageandhealth2024@gmail.com
The Department of American Studies and the Program in Science, Technology, and Society (STS) at Brown University invite applications for a two-year Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Disability Studies. This position is to be held jointly at the Cogut Institute for the Humanities and the Department of American Studies, effective July 1, 2024, with an affiliation…
February 1, 2024 – Bianca FROHNE (Kiel University, Germany) – „What pain I suffered during that time, anyone can well imagine…“ Experiences of War, Injury, and (Chronic) Pain (15th-16th centuries). In this paper I will discuss (chronic) pain experiences in the later Middle Ages from disability studies and crip perspectives, focusing on pain narratives in…
Today, words like ‘frantic’ and ‘frenzy’ are the stuff of hyperbolic newspaper headlines. Five hundred years ago, they described someone who was judged to be suffering from an episode of severe mental illness. Among frenzy’s hallmark symptoms were sudden, uncharacteristic changes in mood and behaviour; ‘those that be frantic… rage furiously, so that they cannot…
"Legal bodies, embodied subjects: (re)contextualisations of physicality" Young Scholars' Conference NEW DEADLINE: 3rd February 2024 full name/name of organization: Anna Ronewicz, University of Szczecin contact email: legalbodiesconference@gmail.com We are interested in topics such as, but not limited to: - crimes against bodies; - historical legal approaches to the body; - social, political and legal taboos…
8th February 2024 – Dr Jennifer Evans (University of Hertfordshire) – Registration details to follow. TITLE: ‘‘He was ashamed to let me know of it, and thought to have got cured otherwise without my knowledge’: Medical writer’s quibbles about genitourinary patients in early modern England.’ ABSTRACT: This seminar considers the extent to which disorders affecting…
