CFP: Collections Uncovered: Disability at the British Library

Call for Presenters! Collections Uncovered: Disability at the British Library – 27th November 2026 – 10am-4:30pm Presentations in-person (at the British Library) and online (via Teams/Zoom) The afternoon session is in-person only. Join the UK Disability History and Heritage Hub and the British Library to explore disability histories. Presentations will highlight disability stories within the…

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…

Seminar: Disability and Community: Healing Miracles and the Bianchi of 1399

Medieval miracle narratives abound in a variety of sources, and disability studies is a productive lens through which we can examine these events. This paper takes the chronicle of Luca Dominici and his treatment of the Bianchi devotions of 1399 and examines the miracles presented therein. Moved by a threat of plague, participants in the…

Premodern Neurodiversity Symposium

Premodern Neurodiversity is a two-day symposium that explores the literary and cultural history of human neurological diversity: the fact that our minds naturally vary in how they work. Speakers will trace how different forms of cognitive, emotional, and sensory experience have manifested throughout history, prior to the formal development of neurodiversity theory in the late…

CFP: Disability and the Archives: Access, Absences and Action

Shakespeare’s Globe is inviting proposals for an interdisciplinary conference bringing together literary and performance scholars, historians, archivists, and disability scholars and activists around the theme ‘Disability and the Archives’. This two-day hybrid event will be held in London on 23 – 24 January 2026 and will explore how disabled lives have been – and continue…

CFP: Medieval Disability Studies and Narrative Prosthesis at Twenty-Five

Organizer: Kisha Tracy ; ktracy3@fitchburgstate.edu Delivery Mode: Hybrid Principal Sponsoring Organization: Society for the Study of Disability in the Middle Ages Next year will bring the 25th anniversary of the publication of Narrative Prosthesis: Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse by David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder. Narrative Prosthesis is a seminal text in…

CFP: Black Disability Studies Conference

In association with the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies and the University of Virginia, we invite abstracts for a conference on “Black Disability Studies” to be hosted at the Carter G. Woodson Institute on the grounds of the University of Virginia. The event will be fully hybrid. Conference papers have…

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,…