The Center for the History of Medicine, Countway Library, Harvard Medical School has received a $202,900 Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, through a program administered by the Council on Library Resources (CLIR) to increase access…
Call for Papers: Women’s Narratives and the Formation of Empire Editors: Mary McAleer Balkun, Seton Hall University; Susan C. Imbarrato, Minnesota State University Moorhead If woman is indeed not born but made, as Simone de Beauvoir maintained, then certainly the process…
Call for Submissions: Early American Literature – Special Issue on “Early American Disability” Disability studies scholars call disability the “master trope of human disqualification,” emphasizing its ubiquity and relevance across space and time. Most of us will be disabled at some point in our…
Special issue CFP for Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies: Disability and the American Counterculture Guest edited by Stella Bolaki and Chris Gair The American Counterculture has a complex relationship with disability. At its heart is the reinvention of the…
The intersection of humanities, health science, and policy is ably demonstrated by the Web site Generation to Reproduction. It is described as a collaboration among “Cambridge historians of medicine and biology [who] are using a Wellcome strategic award to take…
Call for Abstracts: Third Annual Western Michigan University Medical Humanities Conference, September 26-27, 2013; Kalamazoo, Michigan Overview: Proponents of medical humanities contend that the humanistic dimensions of medicine and health are a critical component of those disciplines; not only do…
Call for proposals – 10th Global Conference: Making Sense of: Dying and Death, Thursday 7th November 2013 — Saturday 9th November 2013, Athens, Greece This inter- and multi-disciplinary conference explores dying and death and the ways culture impacts care for the dying, the overall…
Call for Presentations: 2nd Global Conference, Body Horror: Contagion, Mutation, Transformation, Friday 1st November 2013 – Sunday 3rd November 2013, Athens, Greece The body. My body. This thing which is with me all day, every day, from my birth to my death. This…
Call for Presentations: 10th Global Conference, Making Sense of:Dying and Death, Thursday 7th November 2013 – Saturday 9th November 2013, Athens, Greece This inter- and multi-disciplinary conference explores dying and death and the ways culture impacts care for the dying, the overall experience…
A workshop held on Thursday March 21st, 2013 at the Centre for Creative Collaboration as Part of Royal Holloway’s Trauma, Fiction, History Series, jointly sponsored by the School of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures and the Humanities and Arts Research…
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