Handicap et renaissance

Northern Renaissance Seminar: ‘Disability and the Renaissance’

Leeds Trinity University College, 8 September 2012

How might recent developments in disability theory be applicable to scholarship on Renaissance literature and culture? This one-day conference will interrogate the ways in which disability can be conceptualised in/through/by the Renaissance.

Topics to include:
Picturing difference in 17th-century Spain.
Shakespeare and Spenser
Sexuality and gender
John Milton and Paul Scarron
Jacobean theatre
Art and blindness
Representations of Richard III.

Plus: a performance workshop, led by Dr Andy Kesson (University of Kent)


Keynote speaker:

Allison Hobgood (Willamette University), co-editor of ‘Shakespeare and Disability’, a special issue of Disability Studies Quarterly (29.4, 2009), and of the forthcoming volume Recovering Disability in Early Modern England (Ohio State University Press).

The registration form is now available through the link below. Please either print out the form and send it, with payment, to Heather Jones, Leeds Trinity University College, Brownberrie Lane, Horsforth, Leeds, LS18 5HD, or email it to LCVS@leedstrinity.ac.uk

Disability and the Renaissance Registration Form 8 September 2012

Hope to see you on 8th September!

If you have any problems/questions, please contact Heather Jones (LCVS@leedstrinity.ac.uk) or Susan Anderson(s.anderson@leedstrinity.ac.uk)