Heidi Hausse and Chad Rose of Auburn will present “3D-Printed Prostheses and Early Modern Iron Hands: A Method to Investigate the Lived Experiences of Amputees in the Pre-Modern World” There will be a pre-circulated paper. Location: East Baltimore Campus, Welch Library, Room 303
Baylor University seeks an Assistant Professor of History of Medicine to start August 2025. Details for this position can be found at apply.interfolio.com/148215. Position Description The Baylor University History Department seeks to fill a tenure-track faculty position in the History of Medicine at the Assistant Professor level, effective August 2025. The successful candidate will hold a doctorate…
Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference - Cleveland, OH (October 24-26) deadline for submissions: September 9, 2024 full name / name of organization: Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference contact email: ovsc2024@gmail.com Announcing the 47th Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference October 24-26, 2024 Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH Conference theme: “Shakespeare and the Mind” The study of Shakespeare…
deadline for submissions: September 15, 2024 full name / name of organization: Michael A Torregrossa / Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture and Monsters & the Monstrous Area of the Northeast Popular Culture Association contact email: medievalinpopularculture@gmail.com Medieval Monsters as Modern Monsters: Exploring Continuums of the Monstrous…
deadline for submissions: September 15, 2024 full name / name of organization: Anna Dini, UC Berkeley contact email: annadini@berkeley.edu Please 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,…
Organizer: Kisha Tracy ; ktracy3@fitchburgstate.edu Delivery Mode: Hybrid Principal Sponsoring Organization: Society for the Study of Disability in the Middle Ages Affect 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…
Organizer: Alison Purnell Organizer: Michael Nagy ; michael.nagy@sdstate.edu Delivery Mode: Virtual Principal Sponsoring Organization: Medieval Speech Act Society Co-Sponsoring Organization(s): Society for the Study of Disability in the Middle Ages In 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…
Organizer: Kisha Tracy ; ktracy3@fitchburgstate.edu Delivery Mode: Hybrid Principal Sponsoring Organization: Society for the Study of Disability in the Middle Ages Next 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…
Organizer: Angela Weisl ; angela.weisl@shu.edu Organizer: Carol Robinson ; clrobins@kent.edu Delivery Mode: Virtual Principal Sponsoring Organization: International Society for the Study of Medievalism This 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…
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. Spanning eleven centuries, the NLM collection…
Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Studies in the Novel: Disability and Disease in the Novel Editors: Dr. Lydia R. Cooper (University of Seattle) and Dr. Matthew L. Reznicek (University of Minnesota) In this Special Issue, we are looking for scholars engaged with the question of how the novel returns us to the…
We invite submissions for a peer-reviewed, English-language edited volume on disability and art history. Art 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…
