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CFP: Special Issue of Palgrave Communications, ‘Socioeconomic factors and mental health: past and present’

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Palgrave Communications is an open access journal published by Palgrave Macmillan dedicated to publishing high quality original research across all areas of the humanities and social sciences. Article proposals and full submissions are now being sought for this special issue. This article collection, edited by Professor Matthew Smith and Dr Lucas Richert (University of Strathclyde), will examine how the relationship… Continue reading →

CFP: ‘The Forgotten Other: Disability Studies and the Classical Body’, London

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CFP: The Forgotten Other: Disability Studies and the Classical Body Location: Kings College London Date: 18th–19th June 2018 Deadline: 31st July 2017 Organisers: Ellen Adams (Lecturer in Classical Art and Archaeology, Kings College London) Emma-Jayne Graham (Senior Lecturer in Classical Studies, The Open University) The influence of the classical bodily ideal on Western notions of beauty has… Continue reading →

CFP: Different Bodies: (Self-)Representation, Disability, and the Media, London

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CFP: Different Bodies: (Self-)Representation, Disability, and the Media Location: Regent Campus, 309 Regent Street, University of Westminster, London Date: 9am-6pm, 23rd June 2017 Deadline: 28th April 2017 This one-day conference seeks to explore representations of the body as strange, shameful, wrong, impaired, wounded, scarred, disabled, lacking, different or ‘other’ in contemporary media. The advent of digital… Continue reading →

CFP: Care and Machines, Manchester

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CFP: Care and Machines: an interdisciplinary conference on caring relationships with technologies  Location: University of Manchester Date: 20th – 21st October 2017 Deadline: 1st June 2017 The event will provide researchers from a variety of fields with the opportunity to come together and to discuss and reflect upon what is meant by ‘care’ in a world… Continue reading →

CFP (extended): ‘Disability Gains for the Academy: Exploring Pedagogies in Disability Studies’, Liverpool Hope

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Disability Gains for the Academy: Exploring Pedagogies in Disability Studies Date: Thursday 18th May 2017 Location: Liverpool Hope University Call extended to Friday 5th May 2017   The field of disability studies is recognised and valued for research and practice across disciplines in the UK and beyond. This symposium aims to explore distinctive approaches to… Continue reading →

CFP: Edited Collection on Disability and Research

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Dr. Bronagh Byrne (Queen’s University Belfast) and Dr. Ciaran Burke (Ulster University) are currently accepting abstracts for chapters in a new edited collection examining disability and research.  The text itself will explore the empirical process from the perspective and experience of the disabled researcher.  As a companion to texts examining research processes with disabled respondents,… Continue reading →

CFP: Yorkshire Medical Sociology Discussion Group, ‘Healthy spaces: space, place and design for well-being’ (York)

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Healthy spaces: space, place and design for well-being Keynote speaker: Lindsay Prior, Queen’s University Belfast Date: 17th May 2017, 12-5pm Location: Environment Building, ENV/005, University of York Abstract deadline: 21st April 2017 The theme of the next Yorkshire Medical Sociology group is space, place and design in relation to health and well-being. This may include the built… Continue reading →

CFP: Habit, Addiction and Thought Conference (London)

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Location: London South Bank University Date: 30th June – 1st July 2017 Deadline: 31st March 2017 The London Conference in Critical Thought 2017 is a multiple-stream interdisciplinary conference hosted by the School of Law and Social Sciences at London South Bank University. It will offer a space for an interdisciplinary exchange of ideas for scholars… Continue reading →

CFP: Medicine and the Senses Symposium (Leeds)

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Location: University of Leeds Date: 1st June 2017 Deadline: 1st May 2017 The Leeds Centre for Medical Humanities is organising a one-day interdisciplinary symposium to inspire debate on the role and significance of the senses within medicine. Abstracts are welcome from a wide range of disciplines. The value of the senses as an aid to… Continue reading →

CFP: Special Issue of Modernist Fiction Studies, ‘Modernist Fictions of Disability’

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CFP: Special Issue of Modernist Fiction Studies, ‘Modernist Fictions of Disability’ Guest Editor: Maren Linett Deadline for Submissions: 1 December 2017 In 2012, then-president of the Modern Language Association Michael Bérubé described disability studies not as an emerging field, but an “emerged” one. Disability studies revises the medicalized and individualized understanding of disability, an understanding… Continue reading →