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Centre for Culture & Disability Studies Seminar Series: The Voice of Disability (2013–2014 academic year, Liverpool)
The last Centre for Culture & Disability Studies (CCDS) seminar series ran at Liverpool Hope University over a number of years and culminated in Changing Social Attitudes Toward Disability: Perspectives from Historical, Cultural, and Educational Studies, an edited book that … Continue reading
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Tagged disability, disability studies, medical humanities, narrative, Voice
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The Rage of Caliban: Missing Bodies in Modernist Aesthetics – Michael Davidson (Leeds Centre for Medical Humanities Lecture, 7 November 2013)
Michael Davidson (University of California, San Diego) ‘The Rage of Caliban: Missing Bodies in Modernist Aesthetics’ Thursday 7 November, 5-6pm Leeds Centre for Medical Humanities Basement, School of English, Cavendish Road, University of Leeds. Abstract: Classical aesthetics depends on an … Continue reading
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Tagged aesthetics, bodies, disability, LCMH, literature, medical humanities, modernism
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The Mutilated Body: Durham University Medieval & Early Modern Student Association Conference (Register now, Durham, 8–9 July 2013)
The Mutilated Body Medieval and Early Modern Student Association Postgraduate Conference 8-9 July 2013 at St John’s College, Durham University MEMSA is proud to announce its seventh annual postgraduate conference, an event designed to bring together postgraduate and early career … Continue reading
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Tagged body, conference, disability, disease, early modern, medical humanities, medieval, mutilation, torture
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“The Construction of Norms in 17th- to 19th-Century Europe and the US” (1-yr Pre/Post-doc, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin)
Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin, announces 1 Pre/Postdoctoral position for one year (with possible extension) Starting date: January 1, 2014 (flexible) Outstanding junior scholars are invited to apply. The position is awarded in conjunction with the research project The Construction of Norms … Continue reading
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Tagged comparative literature, deaf, deafness, disability, disability studies, history of medicine, History of philosophy, history of psychology, history of science, hysteria, interdisciplinary, medical humanities, norms, postdoctoral, predoctoral, science and technology studies
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Children’s relationships, embodied social capital & disability: connecting scales of inclusion & exclusion (Conference, Loughborough, 8 July 2013)
Children’s relationships, embodied social capital and disability: connecting scales of inclusion and exclusion Loughborough University, Loughborough, LE11 3TU, UK. 10.00am – 5.00pm, 8th July 2013 Keynote speaker: Professor Gill Valentine Panel members include: Professor Deborah Youdell, Professor Janice McLaughlin This one … Continue reading
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Tagged children, conference, disability, inequality, medical humanities, schools, social class
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Avoidance and/in the Academy: International Conference on Disability, Culture, & Education (CFP, Conference, Liverpool, 11–12 Sept 2013)
Avoidance and/in the Academy The International Conference on Disability, Culture, and Education 11th-12th September 2013 Centre for Culture and Disability Studies Liverpool Hope University, United Kingdom Planned Keynotes: Sharon Snyder, Brenda Brueggemann, and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson It has been nearly … Continue reading
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Tagged CFP, disability, disability studies, education, humanities, medical humanities, pedagogy
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The Mutilated Body: Durham University Medieval & Early Modern Student Association (CFP, Conference, Durham, 8–9 July 2013)
The Mutilated Body Durham University’s annual MEMSA conference is an interdisciplinary forum for postgraduates and early career researchers to present and discuss their research. This year, the conference theme will focus on aspects of destruction, disability, and personhood in the medieval and … Continue reading
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Tagged body, CFP, conference, disability, disease, early modern, medical humanities, medieval, mutilation, torture
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Ageing & disability: “Writing in” Gender & Sexuality (Workshop, Lancaster, 25 April 2013)
Lancaster University, Conference Centre Opportunities, challenges & tensions: linking the ageing and disability rights agendas Ageing and disability: ’writing in’ gender and sexuality Thursday 25th April 2013 The importance of gender and sexuality amongst older and disabled people is often … Continue reading
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Tagged ageing, disability, disability studies, gender, sexuality
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Re-framing Disability: Portraits from the Royal College of Physicians (Study Day, Leeds, 19 January 2013)
On 19 January the Thackray Museum, Leeds, England, is hosting a day school in connection with the re-framing disability exhibition which is on display at the museum until the 27th January 2013. The exhibition comes from the Royal College of … Continue reading
Disability & Visual Culture (CFP, Special Issue, Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies)
Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies – Special Issue Call for Papers: Disability and Visual Culture Guest Editors: Dr Alice Hall (University of York) and Professor Tobin Siebers (University of Michigan) In the last two decades, there has been … Continue reading
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