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CFP: Stories of Illness / Disability in Literature and Comics: Intersections of the Medical, the Personal, and the Cultural (Berlin)

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CFP: Stories of Illness / Disability in Literature and Comics: Intersections of the Medical, the Personal, and the Cultural Date: 27th – 28th October 2017 Location: Berlin, Germany Keynote speaker: Leigh Gilmore (Wellesley College), Author of “The Limits of Autobiography: Trauma and Testimony” (2001) and “Tainted Witness: Why we doubt what women say about their lives” (2017) Deadline: 31st May 2017… Continue reading →

CFP: Special Issue of Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, ‘Disabled Sexualities’

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CFP: Special Issue of Canadian Journal of Disability Studies (CJDS), ‘Disabled Sexualities’ Deadline: 1st August 2017 In 1993, Irving K. Zola identified the sexual freedom of disabled persons as a pressing but neglected issue, usually drowned out by policy focussed on access to public and commercial life. Since then, public health and education policies in… Continue reading →

CFP: Special Issue of Healthcare Journal, ‘Humanities and Healthcare’

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CFP: Special Issue of Healthcare Journal, ‘Humanities and Healthcare’ Deadline: 31st July 2017 Dr Ian Walsh and Dr Helen Noble, from Queen’s University Belfast, are the Guest Editors of a Special Issue entitled “Humanities and Healthcare” in the journal Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032). We invite you to contribute a paper (free of charge) to this Special Issue.… Continue reading →

CFP: Taking Back Health: Health Tomorrow, Vol. 5 (2017)

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CFP: Taking Back Health: Health Tomorrow, Vol. 5 (2017) Submission Deadline: 15th May 2017 The fifth volume of Health Tomorrow: Interdisciplinarity and Internationality (HTII) explores the themes of anti-colonialism, decolonization, anti-racism, white supremacy, and the hegemony of the Global North to reveal broader conceptualizations of health and health determinants. HTII seeks to gather original research… Continue reading →

CFP: Special Issue of CJDS, ‘Survivals, Ruptures, Resiliences: Perspectives from Disability Scholarship, Activism, and Art’

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CFP: Special Issue of Canadian Journal of Disability Studies (CJDS) ‘Survivals, Ruptures, Resiliences: Perspectives from Disability Scholarship, Activism, and Art’ Deadline: 1st October 2017  Narratives of survival and mythologies of resilience play a central role in cultural reproduction of neoliberal Westernized societies and sensibilities. A dominant trope holds that lived experiences of adversity are resources… Continue reading →

CFP: ‘Traumatic Modernities: From Comparative Literature to Medical Humanities International Conference and Seminars’, Krakow

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Traumatic Modernities: From Comparative Literature to Medical Humanities International Conference and Seminars Location: Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland Dates: 19th – 21st April 2017 Organizers: Centre for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Faculty of Polish Studies, Jagiellonian University in collaboration with Hejna Family Chair in Polish Literature and Language at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Research Centre… Continue reading →

CFP: Special Forum of Review of Disability Studies, ‘The Crip, the Fat and the Ugly in an Age of Austerity: Resistance, Reclamation, and Affirmation’

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The Crip, the Fat and the Ugly in an Age of Austerity: Resistance, Reclamation, and Affirmation http://www.rds.hawaii.edu/ojs/index.php/journal/announcement/view/13 The Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal (RDS) seeks proposals for a special forum on the Crip, the Fat, the Ugly. We are currently soliciting papers of up to 7500 words in length, including references and tables. The deadline for submission… Continue reading →

CFP: Edited Collection, The New Disability Activism: Current Trends, Shifting Priorities and (Uncertain) Future Directions

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The New Disability Activism: Current Trends, Shifting Priorities and (Uncertain) Future Directions The onslaught of neoliberalism, austerity measures and cuts, impact of climate change, protracted conflicts and ongoing refugee crisis, rise of far right and populist movements have all negatively impacted on disability and created more suffering, impairment and deaths in the global north and south.… Continue reading →

CFP: Spirituality and Recovery Conference, Durham

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Location: University of Durham Date: 12th-14th July 2017 The Project for Spirituality, Theology and Health at Durham University in association with Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust is pleased to announce its third conference exploring good practice in spirituality and mental health care. As more and more mental health service providers embrace a recovery approach to… Continue reading →

CFP: Postgraduate Medical Humanities Conference, Exeter

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Location: University of Exeter Date: 29th – 30th June 2017 Keynote Speakers: Victoria Bates (Bristol) Ina Linge (Cambridge) Hannah Morgan (Lancaster) The by now well established University of Exeter Postgraduate Medical Humanities Conference is returning in 2017 for the fourth consecutive year to showcase the diversity of contemporary medical humanities research. Our conference this year will… Continue reading →