This non-guaranteed panel invites contributions that explore notions of health, care, and disability in early modern Francophone spaces in various contexts and perspectives. Potential topics might include (but are certainly not limited to): the relation between care, charity, and religion in the early modern; literature featuring characters with disabilities; texts that challenge…
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…
CFP: Dealing with Trauma in Early Modern France
For panel at the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA). From ancient Greek τραύμα (meaning “wound, damage”), the term trauma refers to a physical or psychological injury provoked by a violent event, and the very event causing this great distress. Traumatic events abound in early modern France, whether be caused by natural catastrophes (floods, storms, fires, harsh winter,…
Application Deadline: Postdoctoral Research Position in Early Modern Disability History
The research project ‘Lived Religion and the Changing Meaning(s) of Disability from Renaissance to the Industrial Revolution’, affiliated with the Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence in the History of Experiences (HEX) based at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Tampere University, Finland, invites applications for the position of Postdoctoral Researcher (Early modern disability history) for a…
CFP: Health and Work in the Early Modern World, 1500-1750 ca.
Deadline for submissions: 10th June Send abstracts to: marielouise.leonard AT unive.it Conference Dates: September 20-21, Aula Baratto, Ca’ Foscari Venice (Italy) This conference aims to bring together scholars working on any aspect of the relationship between health and work in the early modern period. Scholarship in health and medicine has examined how people cared for…
Race and the Early Modern: New Scholars, New Scholarship
Race and the Early Modern: New Scholars, New Scholarship Conference With keynotes from Nicholas R. Jones and Surekha Davies, and papers from: Ana Howie (University of Cambridge) Andrew Kettler (Kenyon College) Arianna Ray (Northwestern University) Ato Quirin Schweizer (Universität Duisburg-Essen) Dessalegn Bizuneh Ayele (University of Gondar) Eli Cumings (University of Cambridge) Hassana Moosa (King’s College…
CFP: Shaping Intellectual Disabilities in Early Modern Literature and Culture (for edited volume)
Chapter proposals for Shaping Intellectual Disabilities in Early Modern Literature and Culture are due July 31, 2022. More information can be found via the following link: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2022/04/22/shaping-intellectual-disabilities-in-early-modern-literature-and-culture-cfp-for
“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…
Uncommon Bodies: Methods Talk with Chess and Row-Heyveld
February 10 at 11am-12:30pm (Central Time) Behind-the-Scenes Methods Talk featuring Simone Chess (Wayne State University) and Lindsey Row-Heyveld (Luther College) on “The Trajectories of Early Modern Disability Studies.” Topics include: What brought us each to early modern disability studies? Where was early modern disability studies when we first met and first began this work? What has changed,…
MLA 2021
The 2021 Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association begins today, January 7, and runs through January 10. We’ve compiled a conference guide here. Up today: 9:15-10:30AM38 – Telling Trauma and Disability 12:45-2:00PM76 – Where’s the Body? Disability, Reading, and the Senses 4:15-5:30PM164 – Spenser and Disability
