CFP Deadline: Literature as Clinic: Patient Narratives of the Eighteenth Century

As narrative medicine and medical humanities grow into their own specialty fields while expanding outside the traditional frameworks of academia, eighteenth-century studies assumes even greater significance within the development of both the literary canon and the medical field. What can the omnipresence of illness within the body of eighteenth-century literature teach medical humanities? What does…

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…
a five panel image advertising the conference. The panels contain images of black early moderns; the first painting, the second on horseback, the third working at a table, the fourth a fashion drawing, the fifth in considerable finery.

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…

Panel: Pathologies, Punchlines, Power: The Medicalized Body, Humour and Art

The Confabulations panel “Pathologies, Punchlines, Power: The Medicalized Body, Humour and Art,” which will address the role of visual humor in medical texts across history, will take place on Wednesday, August 10, 2022 from 10:00 to 11:30 AM CDT. Further details and free registration can be found at the link below.