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,…
CFP: Corporeality and Incorporation: The Body in Literature and Culture Pre-1800 (Graduate Student Conference)
deadline for submissions: November 11, 2024 University of California, Irvine contact email: chelsml3@uci.edu UCI Premodern Graduate Humanities Conference 2025: February 14, 2025 “By my troth, Nerissa, my little body is aweary of this great world.” – Portia, Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice The concept of embodiment was central to the way in which early cultures…
CFP: Keeping Up Appearances: Bodily Politics at the Jacobean Court (RSA Annual Meeting)
2025 will be a critical year for early Stuart court studies. March (the time of the conference) marks 400 years from the death of King James VI & I and the ascension of Charles I. This panel seeks to contribute to this well-established yet ever-evolving field by turning attention to the potent political site of…
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,…
CFP: Creativity, Care, and Communities: Making Visible Connections (Dress and Body Association)
The Dress and Body Association invites submissions for the organization’s fifth annual conference, which will be held on November 2-3, 2024. Consistent with our long-term goals for inclusivity and sustainability, all activities will be 100% online, including keynote speaker(s), research presentations, and opportunities for virtual networking. Visit the DBA website—www.dress-body-association.org—to learn more about this organization…
CFP: Bodies and Voices in the Theory and Practice of Greek and Roman Performance and its Reception(s)
24th ANNUAL JOINT POSTGRADUATE SYMPOSIUM ON ANCIENT PERFORMANCE ‘Bodies and Voices in the Theory and Practice of Greek and Roman Performance and its Reception.’ 27 – 28 June 2024 CALL FOR PAPERS The 24th Annual Joint Postgraduate Symposium on Ancient Performance and Reception, hosted by the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama, University of…
CFP Deadline: Inscribing Bodies in Ming-Qing China (MLA 2025)
Inviting 250-word abstracts for papers that examine Ming- or Qing-period writings that render visible non-normative, immaterial, or unreal bodies. Especially interested in papers that explore relationships between written and corporeal forms. Deadline for submissions: Monday, 25 March 2024
CFP Deadline: Visualizing Bodies in Medieval and Early Modern Italy (MLA 2025)
This panel intends to explore how different bodies were categorized, described, and represented in Medieval and Early Modern Italy considering questions of gender, race, disability, and class differences. Deadline for submissions: Sunday, 17 March 2024
Application Deadline: Funded PhD studentship @ UCL History and Wellcome Collection
Applications are invited for “Commonplacing Health and the Body in Early Modern England”. This is a 3.5 year PhD studentship funded by the London Arts and Humanities Partnership Collaborative Doctoral Award Scheme to be held at UCL History and Wellcome Collection. Project Description: Matters of health and the body were everyday preoccupations for early modern…
Bodies and Borders: PKMS 2023 CFP Deadline
deadline for submissions: January 31, 2023 full name / name of organization: Pearl Kibre Medieval Study contact email: medieval.study@gmail.com What: Pearl Kibre Medieval Study 17th Annual Conference Where: Online, hosted through The Graduate Center, CUNY When: Friday 5 May 2023 Submission Form: https://forms.gle/ukbBwtFVNYSphJaM9 Jeffery Jerome Cohen argues in his introduction to Medieval Identity Machines that these…
