Call for Papers: Disability History and the Life Course edited by Chelsea Chamberlain and Caroline Lieffers Life stages including the fetal stage, infancy, childhood, adolescence, “reproductive age,” adulthood, retirement, elderliness, and death are crucial ways of experiencing and making sense of both the bodymind and temporality, but they can also be vectors of power. Life…
Seminar: Ageing and Sexual Dysfunction in Early Modern Literature
Wednesday 25 March 2026, 1.00PM to 3:00 PM Speaker(s): Ezra Horbury, University of York In early modern culture, old age was commonly associated with a loss of sexual function. Building on attitudes stretching back to classical texts, early modern culture understood ageing sexuality as comically inappropriate and the ageing body as sexually dysfunctional. While legal…
CFP: Cumulative Selfhood: Ageing, Memory and Identity Across the Lifespan in the Early Modern Period (RSA Panel)
Session Title * Cumulative Selfhood: Ageing, Memory and Identity Across the Lifespan in the Early Modern Period Type * Paper Panel Session Abstract (Max. 300 words) * Proposals for 20-minute presentations exploring the multifaceted processes of ageing and identity formation in the Early Modern period, with particular attention to the embodied nature of selfhood and memory over time.…
Conference: Age and Health, 1500-1800
Lightfoot Room, St John’s College, Cambridge and on Zoom, June 24, 2024 – June 24, 2024 Registration is now open for the conference Age and Health, 1500-1800. The conference asks how experiences of health and ill health shaped and were governed by age stages, and how they shifted across the lifecycle. The conference is free to attend,…
CFP Deadline: Age and/as Disability (MLA 2025)
Age Studies and Disability Studies forums invite papers theorizing intersections between age and disability studies, e.g., aging into disability/aging with disability, intersections of ageism and ableism, disability across the lifecourse. 250-word abstract and bio Deadline for submissions: Monday, 11 March 2024
CFP: Ageing and Care in the Middle Ages
Ageing and Care in the Middle Ages Call for papers for sessions at the International Medieval Congress, Leeds (3-6 July 2023) Organized by Laura Cayrol-Bernardo (Universitetet i Bergen) & Ninon Dubourg (Université de Liège) We welcome papers that deal with questions related to ageing and care during the Medieval period. Our goal is to analyze…
