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 →

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 →

Registration Open: 7th International Health Humanities Conference (Southampton, 2-4 August 2018)

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Date: 2nd – 4th August 2018 Location: Saint Mary’s Stadium, Britannia Rd, Southampton SO14 5FP Continuing the success of the International Health Humanities Network conferences thus far, the Network is pleased to announce the 7th IHHN conference. ‘Changing Society: Community wellbeing and transformation – how Health Humanities can change the world’ will take place in the cruise… 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 →

MHRC Discussion Group, Wed 22nd March

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The MHRC is delighted to announce the next event as part of our discussion group – Dr Ebba Hogstrom (Marie Curie Research Fellow at Glasgow) will be presenting her work on ‘Psychiatric spaces in transition: discourse, dwellling, doing’. All welcome!   Date: 1-2pm, Wednesday 22nd March Location: Room 418, School of Geographical & Earth Sciences, East Quadrangle… Continue reading →

English Language Seminar on Illness Writing, Glasgow

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Location: Boyd Orr Lecture Theatre B (Rm 412), Glasgow Date: 4.15pm, Thursday 2nd March 2017 You are cordially invited to attend an English Language Seminar at the University of Glasgow,  by two of our postgraduates nearing completion. The first of the presentations focuses on illness writing.   1. Ross Deans Mclachlan, ‘Sentiment analysis and “affective texture” in… Continue reading →

Mason Institute: Dan Crossley, ‘Food Ethics’, Edinburgh

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Dr Isabel Fletcher is pleased to announce the next Mason Institute series of lunchtime talks, which this time is co-organised with the Food Researchers in Edinburgh (FRIED) network. Speaker: Dan Crossley, Food Ethics Council Respondent: Emily Postan, University of Edinburgh Date: Tuesday 28th of February, 12.00-13:30 Venue: room 2.04, Appleton Tower, Crichton Street Why food… Continue reading →