Renaissance Hybridity deadline for submissions: January 31, 2024 full name / name of organization: University of Wisconsin–Madison Graduate Early Modern Student Society contact email: alksnis@wisc.edu Renaissance Hybridity Graduate Early Modern Student Society Seventh Annual Symposium Friday, April 26, 2024 UW–Madison Memorial Library Special Collections & Hybrid over Zoom Keynote Speaker: Lindsey Row-Heyveld, Associate Professor of…
Speaking in Hands: Deafness in Renaissance Europe
WITH LIVE BSL INTEPRETATION AND CLOSED CAPTIONS. A public online history lecture by Dr Rosamund Oates, Reader in Early Modern History, FRHistS. Manchester Metropolitan University. Dr Oates is an expert in Early Modern England (c. 1450-1750), working on the cultural and religious history of the past. She is currently working on a history of deafness…
(Deadline Extended) CFP: Milton and Disability at RSA 2024
“The Milton Society of America will propose a panel at the RSA 2024 that promotes the work of premodern disability studies. We invite paper submissions that consider any aspect of John Milton’s writings, life, historical and literary contexts, and intellectual legacy through the lens of critical disability studies. For consideration, please submit an abbreviated CV…
CFP Deadline: Milton and Disability (RSA 2024)
The Milton Society of America will propose a panel at the RSA 2024 that promotes the work of premodern disability studies. We invite paper submissions that consider any aspect of John Milton’s writings, life, historical and literary contexts, and intellectual legacy through the lens of critical disability studies. For consideration, please submit an abbreviated CV…
Seminar: On Display: Disability, (In)visibility, and Public Space in Early Modern Venice
Charitable institutions have long been a focus of civic and scholarly attention in the history of early modern Venice. Indeed, charity is often portrayed as being dependent on a division between benefactor and benefitted, with the latter seen as passive and lower in status. Much less studied are organizations such as the Confraternity of the…
Premodern Neurodiversity workshop
Premodern Neurodiversity workshop (Monday 15th May 2023, 2–4:15 pm, Margaret Rooms 2 and 3, Queen’s Building, University of Exeter) Neurodiversity describes how many people think and experience the world in ways that are different from the perceived norm (e.g. through neurodivergent conditions such as autism, ADHD or OCD). This workshop will explore how neurodivergence can…
Seminar: Re-thinking the life of court dwarfs in early modern Italy: the case of Pietro Barbino at the Medici court in Florence
Online- via Zoom Speaker: Sarah McBryde (Independent Researcher, London) Event dates: 24 April 2023, 5:30PM – 7:00PM Please note that registration for this seminar will close 24 hours in advance. Details about how to join the seminar will be circulated via email to registered attendees 24 hours in advance. All welcome: This event is free,…
CFP Deadline: SCSC 2023 Baltimore: Disability in the Early Modern Mediterranean World
We are looking for papers for one or more sessions under the broad title, “Disability in the Early Modern Mediterranean World,” for the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, to be held in Baltimore, MD in October, 2023. For the past forty years or so, disability studies theories have suggested understanding of human bodies and minds and…
Uncommon Bodies: Elizabeth Bearden Lecture (on Zoom)
April 14, 4-5:30 pm Central Time | Elizabeth Bearden Lecture (on Zoom), organized by Center for Premodern Studies, Uncommon Bodies, and UMN Department of English.
CFP Deadline: Care in Early Modern Literature: Practices and Possibilities
Guaranteed Session at MLA 2024: 4–7 January, Philadelphia, PA We welcome 10-minute papers on any aspect of care in early modern literature and culture. How do texts portray the attachments, solidarities, labors, costs, vulnerabilities, hierarchies, etc. implicated in care? Please submit a 200-word abstract and CV to nazarian@northwestern.edu
