• “O, let me see thee walk”: Roundtable on early modern embodiment & mobility

    At this online roundtable, Susan Anderson, Callan Davies, Andrew Gordon, Erika T. Lin, Harry R. McCarthy, and Eleanor Rycroft will discuss such questions such as "What methodologies can be used to examine mobility and embodiment in early modern theatre? How can intellectual, biological, or cultural contexts help us to understand what is happening on the…

  • CFP: Changing Bodies and Subjects in Early Modernity (RSA 2025)

    Proposals for 20-minute presentations that explore how changes in bodily states, life stages, and other changes in embodiment affected people, their self-image, their subject positions, etc. in the early modern period. “Body” can be understood in the strict physical sense or in the developmental sense as a process and as an evolving entity or phenomenon,…

  • Hybrid Seminar: Histories of Resistance: Disability, Agency and Embodiment in the Long Eighteenth Century

    Event type Seminar Series British History in the Long 18th Century Address Hybrid | Online-via Zoom & IHR Wolfson Room NB01, Basement, IHR, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU Speakers David Turner (Swansea University) Event dates 25 June 2025, 5:30PM - 7:30PM Add to calendar Contact ihr.events@sas.ac.uk Email only Disabled people’s political activism is…

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