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…
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…
Heidi Hausse presents “From Book to Lab: Investigating the Malleable Body in Early Modern Germany.” In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, a complex pool of practices and techniques developed to surgically remove limbs and artificially replace them. The activities of surgeons, artisans, and amputees shifted expectations about the number and degree of interventions possible. Their efforts…
Hospital material culture in the Middle and Early Modern Ages: concepts and meanings School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon 15-17 April 2024 The everyday life in a hospital has always been related to different objects and practices that make up the material expression of established human relationships and the very functioning of such…
The two-day Symposium, scheduled for Feb. 15-16, 2024, is co-sponsored by the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis) and Macalester College (St. Paul). The Symposium will bring to the Twin Cities a group of leading scholars of early modernity to illuminate the intersections of disability and race in the global early modern period. Organized by longtime collaborators…
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
