Place, espaces et écritures féminines

Transforming Places and Transcending Spaces in English Women’s Writing 1640-1740

Call for papers

45th Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)

April 3-6, 2014

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

Host: Susquehanna University

Spaces, whether domestic, social, or political, often carry symbolic or metonymic meaning. As Nicole Pohl points out in Women, Space and Utopia 1600-1800, there is a “complex linkage between space, knowledge and power, identity and the body” (1). However, the occupants of a space can transform, alter, or redefine its significance. In early modern England, women employed a number of strategies to question, defy, and change the traditional authoritative and often oppressive spaces in their world/lives. For example, by forming bonds with other inhabitants of the prison, Mary Wollstonecraft’s Maria undermines the punishing isolation of the jail cell and converts it into a communal space defined by equality. By placing her body on display in a sustained trance Anna Trapnel transforms an inn into a sight of political protest calling into question Cromwell’s authority in England. This panel seeks to examine the multitude of strategies early modern women used to redefine spaces associated with or symbolic of, power and oppression. Spectacle, physical suffering, literacy, travel, and community are some of the tactics women used to accomplish the transformations that this panel aims to explore. By investigating the ways in which women represent their alterations of these spaces we will also address the essential question, once ruptured, what emerges? How do women modify, resist, usurp and/or escape the spaces that bind them? What do these women accomplish? 

Please send 300 word abstracts and a brief curriculum vita to Andrea Fabrizio or Ruth Garcia: at FabrizioGarciaabstracts@gmail.com

Deadline: September 30, 2013
Please include with your abstract:
Name and Affiliation
Email address
Postal address
Telephone number
A/V requirements (if any; $10 handling fee with registration)


Interested participants may submit abstracts to more than one NeMLA session; however, panelists can only present one paper (panel or seminar). Convention participants may present a paper at a panel and also present at a creative session or participate in a roundtable. http://www.nemla.org/convention/2014/cfp.html

Gazette de la SSHM

Call for Contributions to The Gazette of the Society for the Social History of Medicine

We are always interested in receiving contributions for The Gazette, which we send out with our journal. Conference reports and pictures (500 words maximum), advertisements for conferences, lectures, events or awards, links to blogs or digitization projects, general news in the field... -- all are welcome!

Please send your contributions, or questions about potential contributions, to Katherine Foxhall
(foxhall@sshm.org).

The submission deadlines for 2013 are as follows:

16 July
15 October

http://www.sshm.org/content/contributions-gazette

Histoire du loisir

BSSH South of England Sport and Leisure History Network - Autumn 2013 workshop

Call for Papers

University of Sussex, Saturday 26th October 2013

The British Society of Sports History's South of England Sport and Leisure History Network (BSSH South) aims to bring together individuals in Greater London, the South East and the East of England who share an interest in the history of leisure in all of its forms (including sport, cinema-going, popular music, reading, tourism, shopping for pleasure, etc.). BSSH South will be holding a one-day workshop on Saturday, 26th October at the University of Sussex's campus in Brighton, in what is the inaugural event for the network's South East Branch (comprising the counties of Surrey, Kent, and East and West Sussex).

The conference organisers are seeking papers for the following three panels:

• Leisure and Tourism
• Leisure and Gender
• Crowds, Audiences and Spectacles

If you would be interested in giving a paper under one of these themes, please send an abstract (c. 200-300 words; please also identify which panel you would like to speak on) and a brief biography to organisers Dion Georgiou and Ben Litherland at bsshsoutheast@gmail.com by Saturday, 31st August. Papers focusing on the South of England are particularly welcome, but we will consider all proposals, providing they meet one of the stated panel themes.

The conference will also feature a keynote lecture by Professor David Hendy (University of Sussex), who was responsible for the recent BBC Radio 4 series Noise: A Human History and the accompanying publication, Noise: A Human History of Sound and Listening (2013). 

espace, maladie et entomologie

Call for Papers ASEH disease/environment/space/entomology/human response

California, United States

We are organizing a panel that directly engages the program theme for the 2014 ASEH Conference, “Crossing Divides”.

Our papers currently focus on the intersection of disease, insects/arachnids, and state vs practitioner responses and conceptualizations. 

One example is late 19th century responses to American foulbrood, a disease of honeybees, by beekeepers in the Great Lakes Region (southern Ontario and New York state). These responses show resonance with contemporary ideas about sanitation and disease control, and emerging understandings of the role of bacteria. Another example is early 20th century response to Texas Cattle Fever in America. This paper examines Progressive thought, scientific understanding, quarantines, government initiatives, and transnational approaches to disease control. 

We are interested to find one or two more panelists whose paper addresses this issue of the environment as seen through the lens of disease, insects/arachnids, borders, and state responses. We welcome papers from all disciplines. If you are interested in joining this panel, please forward your proposal and information to Katherine Teel (katherine_teel@neo.tamu.edu). Deadline for submission is July 1, 2013.


Katherine Teel
Texas A&M University Department of History

La photographie épidémiologique

Ethics and Aesthetics of Epidemiological Photography

Call for Papers




Saturday, 14 September 2013
Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH)
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom


Convener : Dr Christos Lynteris (Mellon/Newton Research Fellow, CRASSH)


Despite recent developments in the historical and anthropological study of medical photography, the photographic depiction of epidemics remains a largely unexplored area in the humanities and the social sciences.
This one day conference seeks to bring photographers with experience in covering infectious disease outbreaks together with medical historians, anthropologists and public health experts in order to engage in a dialogue regarding the past, present and future of epidemiological photography.

The conference will examine the following topics:

” The birth of epidemiological photography at the turn of the 20th century and the changes it brought about in the depiction and public perception of epidemics.

” The historical development of the genre over the last century and its interaction with other photographic genres (e.g. war photography).

” Photo-journalism, epidemic crisis and the formation of public opinion.

” Representing disease and death in postcolonial contexts.

” New photographic technologies (such as mobile phone cameras), new social media, and grassroots photographic representation of outbreaks.

Papers are invited on the photographic coverage and representation of infectious disease epidemics, as well as on comparative studies between medical photography and the photography of epidemics, and between photographic and non-photographic modes of representation.

Papers written from historical, anthropological, visual studies and public health perspectives, dealing with current or past epidemics are welcomed.

Abstracts should be no longer than 250 words and should be sent to the conference convener, Dr Christos Lynteris cl537@cam.ac.uk, by 17:00 GMT on July 26 2013.

Administrative assistance: conferences@crassh.cam.ac.uk

Histoire de la psychiatrie

Seminar for Clinicians on the History of Diagnosis and Therapeutics in Psychiatry


University of Toronto

The seminar, envisioned as a combination lecture-discussion format, will be open to all residents, medical students and faculty who enroll. There is no cost for participation in the seminar.


Led by: Dr. Edward Shorter, PhD, FRSC, University of Toronto

Time and place: September 2013, location to be determined.

Sessions: 6 seminars a year, Tuesdays, 6:00-7:30 pm.


Rationale:

Clinicians need to have some understanding of the pathways that have led to constructing the main diagnoses in psychiatry. Similarly, they will find useful some grasp of the benefits and side effects of yesteryear’s psychopharmacological agents, compared to those of today. The seminar will introduce members to the road that has led to DSM-5 and, in a sense, to “the road to the SSRI’S” and other “blockbuster” agents, which have affected perceptions of mental illness in modern times.

Topics: the three fall sessions will concern diagnosis; the three spring sessions pharmacotherapeutics.
Fall, session 1: affective disorders
Fall, session 2: psychosis
Fall, session 3: the future of diagnosis: catatonia, melancholia, and hebephrenia
Spring, session 4: antianxiety agents, “antidepressants”
Spring, session 5: antipsychotics
Spring, session 6: electroconvulsive therapy


To enroll, contact: the History of Medicine Program by sending an email to:history.medicine@utoronto.ca

Les possédés de Loudun

UCL/British Psychological Society History of the Psychological Disciplines Seminar Series

The Possessions at Loudun: Their Significance in the History of the Science of Mind

Dr. Craig E. Stephenson (AGAP/CPA/CAPT/IAAP)

 This seminar focuses on the seventeenth-century possessions at Loudun, France and presents how the events of this famous case played out at the time and how theorizing about possession and obsession changed over almost four centuries of writing about them. For instance, in his definition of demonism for the /Schweizer Lexikon/ (1945) C. G. Jung referred to the debate about Loudun, as did Gilles de la Tourette, Michel Foucault, Michel de Certeau, and Jacques Lacan. Eventually, psychopathology co-opted the word 'obsession', stripped of its religious connotation, and left the word 'possession' outside medical discourse.

Then, in 1992, the American Psychiatric Association attempted to introduce 'possession' into its diagnostic manual (/DSM-IV/) as a mental disorder. Revisiting the history of Loudun provides a means for situating the APA's recent interest in possession within a medical and intellectual continuum.

Organiser: Professor Sonu Shamdasani (UCL)

Wednesday 26^th June

Time:6pm to 7.30 pm.

Note Location

UCL Institute of the Americas, Room 105

51 Gordon Square

London WC1H

Repenser la médecine de l'Antiquité tardive

Rethinking Medicine in Late-Antiquity: Christianity and the Classical Tradition


Conférence d'Alain Touwaide (VLAC and Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC) et Caroline Macé (KU Leuven)

On Tuesday June 25, 2013 at 10:30 am


Location: KVAB (Royal Flemish Academy), Paleis der Academiën / Palais des Académies - Hertogsstraat 1 / Rue Ducale 1 - 1000 Brussel / Bruxelles


All welcome. Attendance is free, but registration is compulsory. If you want to attend this lecture, please send an email both to Caroline Macé (Caroline.Mace@arts.kuleuven.be) and to Inez Dua (Inez.Dua@KVAB.be).