Disability Studies is an academic field which recognises that disability is fundamental to all human lives. It acknowledges the wider history of oppression and discrimination experienced by disabled people and seeks to produce knowledge that challenges those inequalities. Informed by this perspective, the Disability Studies in Education degree examines the relationship between disability and education… Continue reading
Call for Papers: Disability, Work and Representation: New Perspectives Special Issue: Disability Studies Quarterly (Fall 2017) Editors: David Turner, Kirsti Bohata, Steven Thompson, Swansea University Disability Studies Quarterly is pleased to announce a call for papers for a special issue on Disability, Work and Representation: New Perspectives. Please circulate accordingly and direct questions to Dr. David Turner at d.m.turner@swansea.ac.uk. In/ability… Continue reading
Date: 15th-16th July 2016 The AHRC-funded network, ‘Modernism, Medicine and the Embodied Mind’, seeks to investigate the historical and discursive links between literary modernism, medical discoveries, and clinical practice, in dialogue with the insights of visual artists and art historians, dancers and dance scholars, and contemporary scientists and clinicians. Underpinning the project is the significance… Continue reading
CFP: Special Issue of a/b: Auto/Biography Studies on ‘Embodiment’ Guest Editor: Sarah Brophy, McMaster University a/b: Auto/Biography Studies seeks original articles for a special issue on ‘Embodiment’ to be published as volume 33.2. Embodied lives, in all their corporeal, social, sensory, affective, political, economic, and technological dimensions, are the primary grounds for auto/biographical production. Building on… Continue reading
Unexpected Anatomies: Extraordinary Bodies in Contemporary Art Professor Ann M. Fox Date: Wednesday 2nd March, 2016 Time: 2.15pm–3.45pm Place: Eden109, Liverpool Hope University, UK As a curator who has now co-curated three disability arts-related exhibitions, Professor Fox continually asks: what do works about bodily difference give voice to the lived experience of disability? How do… Continue reading
Mood: an interdisciplinary two-day conference at the University of Warwick, 6th-7th May 2016. Keynote speakers: Prof Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht (Comparative Literature, Stanford University) Author of Atmosphere, Mood, Stimmung: On a Hidden Potential of Literature (2012), Production of Presence: What Meaning Cannot Convey (2004) and After 1945 – Latency as Origin of the Present (2013). Prof Giovanna Colombetti (Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology, University… Continue reading
Medically unexplained symptoms, hysteria, neurasthenia, hypochondria, psychogenic illness, somatic symptoms, functional illness, malingering—there is ongoing debate amongst specialists in medicine, psychology, sociology, and the medical humanities about how to classify, diagnose, treat, and explain disorders affecting body and mind. Meanwhile, in popular culture, these terms are misunderstood, unknown, or rejected outright—what was once called “psychosomatic” illness is… Continue reading
BSA Ageing, Body and Society Study Group 7th Annual Conference: Ageing and Culture Friday 26th February 2016 MICRA, University of Manchester This year the Ageing, Body and Society study group is holding its annual day conference in Manchester, in collaboration with MICRA, University of Manchester. The theme of the day is Ageing and Culture. We will also be celebrating the… Continue reading
JNT: Journal of Narrative Theory invites submissions that further the discussion of disabling and enabling narratives from a disability studies perspective. JNT is a forum for the theoretical exploration of individual narrative texts and of the intersections between narrative, history, ideology, and culture more broadly. Essays might engage with topics such as literature and dis/enabling environments and social space, how… Continue reading
The University of Kent is delighted to announce an interdisciplinary workshop and symposium on Artists’ Books and the Medical Humanities, taking place in Canterbury on 21st-22nd April 2016 and funded by the Wellcome Trust. The events are accompanied by Prescriptions, an exhibition of artists’ books by Martha A. Hall and other artists from 21st April –… Continue reading
