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

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

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

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

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

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

Online Talk: Charles Lamb and Modern Disability

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

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

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

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

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

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

Speaking in Hands: Deafness in Renaissance Europe

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

(Dis)ability from Achilles to Zeus: Body Positive at the Ure Museum

Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology 38 Edith Morley Building University of Reading Reading RG6 6EL (SatNav RG6 6UR), United Kingdom

Working with community partners including Reading Mencap, the Ure Museum has been looking at positive histories of disability in the ancient world.  Our interactive pop-up display will demonstrate some of the findings of this Community Fund supported project, and also showcase the progress we have made in developing the resource outcomes from the group’s work to make our wonderfully visual and tactile…

CFP Deadline: Literature as Clinic: Patient Narratives of the Eighteenth Century

As narrative medicine and medical humanities grow into their own specialty fields while expanding outside the traditional frameworks of academia, eighteenth-century studies assumes even greater significance within the development of both the literary canon and the medical field. What can the omnipresence of illness within the body of eighteenth-century literature teach medical humanities? What does…

CFP: Body Matters!: Disability in English Literature to 1800

deadline for submissions: November 17, 2023 December 1, 2023 full name / name of organization: University of California - Santa Barbara (Early Modern Center) contact email: emcfellow@gmail.com The Early Modern Center at the University of California, Santa Barbara, invites paper proposals for its 2024 conference, “Body Matters!: Disability in English Literature to 1800,” to be…