Call for Presenters! UKDHHH Connecting + Sharing Event, Thursday 6th June 2024 @ Manchester Deaf Centre Presentations in person (in an accessible environment) – we’ll have some additional in-person spaces and a remote access option to expand the event to our wider home + international community! The UK Disability History and Heritage Hub (UKDHHH) links…
Conference: Body Matters!: Disability in English Literature to 1800
An interdisciplinary conference examining disability across medieval, early modern, and eighteenth century literature. By UCSB Early Modern Center UC Santa Barbara and livestreamed
Disability in English Literature to 1800 (Livestream)
An interdisciplinary conference examining disability across medieval, early modern, and eighteenth century literature. UCSB Early Modern Center This event has in-person and virtual attendance. This interdisciplinary conference brings together scholars studying a variety “body matters,” including representations of disability or ability in premodern literature, the continuum of embodiment explored by premodern authors, and the relation…
Uncommon Bodies Symposium: Premodern Disability and Race in a Global Context
The two-day Symposium, scheduled for Feb. 15-16, 2024, is co-sponsored by the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis) and Macalester College (St. Paul). The Symposium will bring to the Twin Cities a group of leading scholars of early modernity to illuminate the intersections of disability and race in the global early modern period. Organized by longtime collaborators…
CFP Deadline: “Legal bodies, embodied subjects: (re)contextualisations of physicality” Young Scholars’ Conference
“Legal bodies, embodied subjects: (re)contextualisations of physicality” Young Scholars’ Conference NEW DEADLINE: 3rd February 2024 full name/name of organization: Anna Ronewicz, University of Szczecin contact email: legalbodiesconference@gmail.com We are interested in topics such as, but not limited to: – crimes against bodies; – historical legal approaches to the body; – social, political and legal taboos…
Seminar: “Medical writer’s quibbles about genitourinary patients in early modern England”
8th February 2024 – Dr Jennifer Evans (University of Hertfordshire) – Registration details to follow. TITLE: ‘‘He was ashamed to let me know of it, and thought to have got cured otherwise without my knowledge’: Medical writer’s quibbles about genitourinary patients in early modern England.’ ABSTRACT: This seminar considers the extent to which disorders affecting…
Sonia Zakrzewski: Identity, DisAbility and Eunuchism in Greco-Roman Egypt
This is a hybrid event, which will be delivered on the University of Bradford campus (Richmond Building, Room J19) and online Via Teams. Abstract:With notable exceptions, bioarchaeology in Egypt has tended to focus upon one site or one aspect of health and disease, rather than the interrelationships between peoples, pathology and places. This paper tries…
Jaipreet Virdi: The Disabled Gaze: Rethinking the Past, Remaking the Future
The Medical and Health Humanities Speaker Series at SHSU is made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Humanities Initiative Grant and the SHSU Department of History *Remote attendance through Zoom requires registration. AB IV Rm. 220 and on Zoom (Zoom registration)
CFP Deadline: Disability in the Vast Early Americas Conference
In association with the University of Notre Dame and the Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture, conference organizers, Laurel Daen and Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy, invite abstracts for a conference on “Disability in the Vast Early Americas” to be held as a hybrid event at the University of Notre Dame on October 21-22, 2023. We…
