CFP: Crip Genealogies Co-edited by Mel Chen, Alison Kafer, Eunjung Kim, and Julie Avril Minich Abstracts: March 15, 2017 Full Papers: September 15, 2017 What is the color of disability? What are the possibilities for narrating an anti-racist, feminist story of disability studies? What relationships, orientations, and practices do different histories of the field foster—or… Continue reading
The Medical Humanities Research Centre Glasgow is delighted to announce the publication of Megan Coyer’s new monograph, Literature and Medicine in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press | Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, 1817-1858. This text is the first major study of the relationship between Scottish Romanticism and medical culture In the early nineteenth century, Edinburgh was the leading centre of medical education… Continue reading
The PJMH: The Postgraduate Journal of Medical Humanities, based at the University of Exeter’s Centre for Medical History, is now accepting submissions for articles and book reviews for its fourth edition. The journal, an online interdisciplinary publication authored and edited by postgraduate students, will be publishing professional peer-reviewed research and book reviews on all topics… Continue reading
Deadline: 15th January 2017 We are seeking essay proposals for a peer-reviewed edited volume, Literatures of Madness: Disability Studies and Mental Health, which will be submitted to the Literary Disability Studies book series at Palgrave Macmillan (http://www.palgrave.com/us/series/14821). The volume will collect disability studies essays that focus on mental health, madness, and addiction in literary texts.… Continue reading
Date: 13th April 2017 Location: Highfield House, University of Nottingham, University Park Campus Reading Bodies, Writing Minds is a one-day conference to be held at the University of Nottingham on 13 April 2017. The conference will investigate representations from the arts and social sciences of suffering, seeing, and treating mental illness. This interdisciplinary event is intended… Continue reading
CFP: Special Issue of Feminist Formations, ‘Queer/Crip Contagions’ Edited by Kelly Fritsch and Anne McGuire Full Papers due 1st February 2017 This special issue charts the limits and possibilities of queer/crip biosocial politics by examining the ways these intersect and co-mingle with the narratives, practices, and temporalities of contagion. Feminist scholars have long theorized “queer” and… Continue reading
Competition guidelines Fifth Hektoen Grand Prix Essay Competition We invite you to participate in the Fifth Hektoen Essay Competition and submit your contribution by 1st February 2017. There will be two prizes. The Hektoen Grand Prix will be for an article of no more than 1600 words and the winner will receive $1,600. A second prize of… 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
