VariAbilities III: The Same Only Different? Location: Senate House, University of London, Malet Street, London, WC1E Date: Tuesday 6th – Wednesday 7th June 2017 In the third iteration of the Variabilities Series, we will take stock of the academic work done on the “body” in “history”. When we study the “Body” should we restrict ourselves to impaired… Continue reading
Location and date: University of Oxford, 24th March 2017 Deadline: 30th November 2016 “Two distinct and separate parties interact with one another – not one mind (the physician’s), not one body (the patient’s), but two minds and two bodies.” – Jay Katz, The Silent World of Doctor and Patient (1984) The doctor-patient relationship is the primary… Continue reading
Special Issue: ‘Disability and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights’, Reproductive Health Matters Deadline: 30th Nov 2016 The forthcoming issue of RHM, which is produced in partnership with CREA, and co-edited with Janet Price and Renu Addlaka, is aimed at shedding light on the population of people with disabilities, focusing on their sexual and reproductive health… Continue reading
Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies Special issue: The Intersections of Disability and Science Fiction Guest editors: Ria Cheyne (Disability and Education, Liverpool Hope University) and Kathryn Allan (Independent Scholar, Canada) “No other literary genre comes close to articulating the anxieties and preoccupations of the present day as clearly and critically as SF, making… Continue reading
The Review of Disability Studies: An International Journal (RDS) seeks proposals for the special forum “Cripping care: Care pedagogies and practices”. The deadline for submission of abstracts is 1st November 2016. Full manuscripts should be submitted to the Special Guest Editors, Dr. Patty Douglas, Dr. Carla Rice, and Dr. Christine Kelly at douglasp@brandonu.ca, carlar@uoguelph.ca or christine.kelly@umanitoba.ca. Please indicate that your proposal… Continue reading
HEC Forum | Special Thematic Issue | “Childhood and Disability” Guest Editor: Erica K. Salter, PhD Saint Louis University, Albert Gnaegi Center for Health Care Ethics From growth attenuation therapy for severely developmentally disabled children to the post-natal management of infants with trisomy 13 and 18, pediatric treatment decisions regularly involve assessments of the probability and… Continue reading
CFP EXTENDED – new deadline FRIDAY 16th SEPTEMBER 2016 Monday 3rd April – Tues 4th April 2017 University of Glasgow The Wellcome Trust-funded Conference ‘Other Psychotherapies – across time, space, and cultures’ brings contemporary Western expertise into dialogue with psychotherapeutic approaches from ‘other’ spatially, historically or otherwise ‘distant’ cultures. The Conference Committee invites abstracts of… Continue reading
CFP: The Medieval Brain Workshop University of York 10th – 11th March 2017 As we research aspects of the medieval brain, we encounter complications generated by medieval thought and twenty-first century medicine and neurology alike. Our understanding of modern-day neurology, psychiatry, disability studies, and psychology rests on shifting sands. Not only do we struggle with… Continue reading
Disability and Disciplines: The International Conference on Educational, Cultural, and Disability Studies 5-6 July, 2017 Centre for Culture and Disability Studies, Liverpool Hope University Interdisciplinarity is pivotal in the development of the academy for many reasons, some of which form the conceptual framework of the Centre for Culture and Disability Studies. Although far from straightforward in… Continue reading
Historical Perspectives is an established history society based at the University of Glasgow which acts as a network for postgraduate researchers throughout the United Kingdom. Our monthly seminar series provides a comfortable environment for postgraduate students to present their research, receive vital feedback, and generate discussion and explore ideas with their peers. Seminars are free… Continue reading
