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

Ashmolean Museum Beaumont St, Oxford OX1 2PH, UK

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…

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…