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: Shakespeare: Disease, health, and the human
deadline for submissions: April 15, 2024 full name / name of organization: Midwest Modern Language Association contact email: goddardj@trine.edu In keeping with the conference theme “Health in/of the Humanities” the permanent session of the Shakespeare and Shakespearean Criticism panel is soliciting presentations that address illness and health in the work, criticism, or teaching of Shakespeare.…
CFP Deadline: Health and Medicine in Colonial Latin America: Power, race and gender through texts and contexts, politics and practices (MLA 2025)
Proposals exploring power, racial, and gender asymmetries in the cultural construction of beliefs and practices related to health and medicine in colonial Latin America. Send one-page abstract & short bio by March 15 to kstolle@emory.edu Deadline for submissions: Friday, 15 March 2024
CFP Deadline: Age and Health, 1500-1800 PGR/ECR Conference
Conference for Postgraduate Researchers and Early Career Researchers on Age and Health, 1500-1800. Submission deadline: Wednesday, 31 January 2024 Conference on24 June 2024 at the University of Cambridge. Send title, abstract (c. 200 words), and short bio to ageandhealth2024@gmail.com
Call for contributions: Bibliography update: “The History of Public Health in Pre-Industrial Societies”
“As part of our years-long research track spanning two key research projects on premodern/ preindustrial health (About Us), we provide a bibliography of “The History of Public Health in Pre-Industrial Societies”. It is constantly updated, but our last revision was in early 2022. We’d like to open up the updating of our bibliography to fellow…
CFP Deadline: Disabling Environments
Panel exploring Romantic-era disability, health inequity, and environmental harm. Possible topics might include constructions of non-normative embodiment, the development of professional medicine, and the environmental consequences of industrialization. 300-word abstracts and brief bios to fusonw@ucr.edu Deadline for submissions: Wednesday, 15 March 2023 Contact: Fuson Wang, U of California, Riverside (fusonw@ucr.edu )
CFP Deadline: Health, Care, and Disability in the Early Modern Francophone World
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: Pictures of Health in the Eighteenth Century
What does it mean to call someone “the picture of health”? The WHO’s 1949 constitution stated that “Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” More recently “One Health”—a model of health that includes the social contexts and environmental situation that limits or…
