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The 70th Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America (Chicago)

Experiences of Disability I: Aging in the Community

Friday, March 22, 2024

10:30 AM – 12:00 PM

  • Palmer House Hilton – Kimball Room – Third Floor
Organizers
Chair
Presentations
 10:30 AM
Silvia Carraro, Università degli studi di Padova, Dipartimento di Beni Culturali, Italy
 10:50 AM
Prof. Wendy J. Turner, Augusta University
 11:10 AM
Elizabeth Bearden, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Experiences of Disability II: Confraternities and Social Lives

Friday, March 22, 2024

1:30 PM – 3:00 PM

  • Palmer House Hilton – Kimball Room – Third Floor
Organizers
Chair
Presentations
 1:30 PM
Marie-Louise Leonard, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia
 1:50 PM
Alessandro Vecchia, University of Padua, Italy
 2:10 PM
Dr. Julia A. DeLancey, University of Mary Washington

Experiences of Disability III:  Artists and Artistry

Friday, March 22, 2024

 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM

  • Palmer House Hilton – Kimball Room – Third Floor
Organizers
Chair
Panel Respondent
Presentations
 3:30 PM
Dr. David Merlin, Università degli studi di Padova, Dipartimento di Beni Culturali, Italy
       3:50 PM
      Barbara A. Kaminska, Sam Houston State University

      The Borderlands of Disability

      Friday, March 22, 2024

       8:30 AM – 10:00 AM

      • Palmer House Hilton – Red Lacquer Room – Fourth Floor
      Description
      Since its inception in the late twentieth century, Disability Studies has encouraged scholars to reevaluate the categories and methods we use to understand human bodies and minds. The term disability is itself an elusive category, situated on an “ever-changing, ever-slippery spectrum” (Nielsen 2014). The “rich borderland” (Kudlick 2013) around disability’s blurred edges is an especially productive site of inquiry for understanding how disability is defined and experienced in different contexts. In this roundtable, four historians discuss their work at the fluid fault lines of disability, not only in terms of cross-disciplinary methods but also temporal and geographic boundaries:

       

      1. Working at the intersection of disability history, the history of medicine and technology, and mechanical engineering, Heidi Hausse discusses a collaborative effort to investigate an early modern mechanical hand from Germany through a 3D-printed prototype and lab-based experiments.
      2. At the borderlands between disability history and the history of emotions, Wayne Tan presents his work on early modern blindness and patient accounts of Hansen’s disease in modern Japan. He discusses how we can move between different historical and literary contexts and temporal frames. 
      3. At the border between medical history and disability history, Jacob Baum explores the conceptual and methodological tools that early modern medical history offers to scholars of disability. His research on a deaf German shoemaker’s autobiography reveals how the experience of hearing loss and deafness was shaped by a diverse and far-flung network of healers, from formally trained physicians to mysterious cunning folk, who nonetheless shared a set of common assumptions about health and the human body.
      4. Ashley Elrod discusses how disability history and cultural studies bring new insights to the history of psychiatry by showing how early modern litigants used the German court system to challenge legal and medical understandings of mental incompetence
      Organizer
      Chair
      Roundtable Discussants

      The Biopolitics of Disability in Renaissance Europe

      Saturday, March 23, 2024

       9:00 AM – 10:30 AM

      • Palmer House Hilton – Salon 12 – Third Floor
      Sponsor Organization
      Organizers
      Chair
      Presentations
       9:00 AM
      Pablo García Piñar, The University of Chicago
           9:20 AM
          Ari Friedlander, University of Mississippi
               9:40 AM
              Kathleen P. Long, Cornell University

              Milton and Disability

              Saturday, March 23, 2024

               11:00 AM – 12:30 PM

              • Palmer House Hilton – LaSalle 5 – Seventh Floor
              Sponsor Organization
              Organizer
              Chair
              Presentations
               11:00 AM
              Dr. Maura Brady, Le Moyne College
                   11:20 AM
                  Amrita Dhar, The Ohio State University
                       11:40 AM
                      Dr. Jennifer Mylander, San Francisco State University
                           12:00 PM
                          Pasquale Toscano, Princeton University

                          Race and Disability in Cavendish Studies

                          Saturday, March 23, 2024

                           4:30 PM – 6:00 PM

                          • Palmer House Hilton – Sandburg 6 – Seventh Floor
                          Sponsor Organization
                          Organizer
                          Chair
                          Presentations
                           4:30 PM
                          Shanti Giovannetti Singh, Cambridge University
                               4:50 PM
                              Tyler Jean Dukes, Texas Christian University
                                   5:10 PM
                                  Ryan Campagna, University of Chicago
                                       5:30 PM
                                      Brent Dawson, University of Oregon

                                      Conference – IMC Leeds 2022 – Session related to Health, Illnesses and disabilities.

                                       

                                       

                                      Session

                                      510

                                      Title

                                      Byzantine Bodies, I: The Byzantine Body and Performativity

                                      Date/Time

                                      Tuesday 5 July 2022: 09.00-10.30

                                       

                                       

                                      Sponsor

                                      Cardiff Centre for Late Antique Religion & Culture, Cardiff University

                                       

                                       

                                      Organiser

                                      Larisa Vilimonovic, Department of History, University of Belgrade

                                       

                                       

                                      Moderator/Chair

                                      Shaun Tougher, School of History, Archaeology & Religion, Cardiff University

                                       

                                       

                                      Paper 510-a

                                      Bodily Performance in Ritual Contexts: Healing the Sick in Byzantine Hagiography
                                      (Language: English)
                                      Stavroula Constantinou, Centre for Medieval Arts & Rituals, University of Cyprus, Nicosia
                                      Index Terms: Byzantine Studies; Gender Studies; Hagiography

                                      Paper 510-b

                                      The Scribal Act as a Gendering Act in the Byzantine Lives of ‘Cross-Dressing’ Saints
                                      (Language: English)
                                      Julie Van Pelt, Vakgroep Letterkunde, Afdeling Grieks, Universiteit Gent
                                      Index Terms: Byzantine Studies; Gender Studies; Hagiography

                                      Paper 510-c

                                      Byzantine Femininities between Discipline and Punishment: Anthropology of the Female Body in Byzantium
                                      (Language: English)
                                      Larisa Vilimonovic, Department of History, University of Belgrade
                                      Index Terms: Byzantine Studies; Gender Studies; Women’s Studies

                                       

                                       

                                      Abstract

                                      This is the first session in a series of panels on Byzantine Bodies. The session aims to map how concrete collective or individual subjects form their identities through various discursive processes (those that constitute religion, class, ethnicity, sexuality, and gender). It will focus on the performative aspects of gender in Byzantium, on gender fluidity, and on readings beyond binaries. The session also maps Byzantine masculinities and femininities and their relationships to normative power structures.

                                       

                                       

                                      Session

                                      716

                                      Title

                                      Breaking Down Disciplinary Borders: Connecting Historical and Archaeological Research, III – Medieval Dental Calculus, A Treasure Trove of Information

                                      Date/Time

                                      Tuesday 5 July 2022: 14.15-15.45

                                       

                                       

                                      Organiser

                                      Claire Burridge, Department of History, University of Sheffield

                                       

                                       

                                      Moderator/Chair

                                      Alison I. Beach, School of History, University of St Andrews

                                       

                                       

                                      Paper 716-a

                                      Dental Calculus as a Window on Medieval Urban Religion: An Interdisciplinary Study of Leicester’s Augustinian Friary
                                      (Language: English)
                                      Anita Radini, Department of Archaeology, University of York
                                      Index Terms: Archaeology – General; Religious Life

                                      Paper 716-b

                                      Health and Healing Remedies in Medieval Leprosaria: The Contribution of Dental Calculus Analysis
                                      (Language: English)
                                      Elena Fiorin, Dipartimento di Scienze odontostomatologiche e maxillo facciali, Università degli Studi di Roma ‘La Sapienza’
                                      Index Terms: Archaeology – General; Medicine

                                      Paper 716-c

                                      Dental Calculus as a Proxy for Oral Health in Medieval Danes
                                      (Language: English)
                                      Liam Lanigan, GLOBE Institute, Københavns Universitet
                                      Index Terms: Archaeology – General; Medicine

                                       

                                       

                                      Abstract

                                      Analyses of dental calculus (mineralised dental plaque) are revolutionising the ways we can study past populations. The proposed session showcases new research involving the latest analytical methods, from light microscopy to palaeoproteomic and genomic techniques. Each paper addresses a different topic in the field, highlighting the ways in which dental calculus analysis can contribute to our understanding of oral health, medical practices, and monastic lifeways. Taken collectively, the papers demonstrate that this substance provides an unrivalled and, until recently, largely untapped resource for exploring the health and lived experiences of medieval individuals, and especially those unrecorded by the texts.

                                       

                                       

                                       

                                      Session

                                      806

                                      Title

                                      Borders and Bodies in Early Medieval Riddles and Beyond

                                      Date/Time

                                      Tuesday 5 July 2022: 16.30-18.00

                                       

                                       

                                      Organiser

                                      IMC Programming Committee

                                       

                                       

                                      Moderator/Chair

                                      Jennifer Neville, Department of English, Royal Holloway, University of London

                                       

                                       

                                      Paper 806-a

                                      Liminal Voices of Disabled Subjectivity in the Exeter Book Riddles
                                      (Language: English)
                                      Margaret McCurry, Department of English, New York University
                                      Index Terms: Hagiography; Language and Literature – Old English; Literacy and Orality

                                      Paper 806-b

                                      ‘[He] sægde him to sorge þæt hy sige-lease / þone grenan wong ofgiefan sceoldan’: The Porous Borders of Affect, Race, and Sovereignty in Guthlac A / B and Exeter Riddle 10
                                      (Language: English)
                                      Adam Darisse, Department of English, New York University
                                      Index Terms: Hagiography; Language and Literature – Old English; Mentalities; Sermons and Preaching

                                      Paper 806-c

                                      Defining the Boundaries of Animate and Inanimate in the Riddles of Tatwine
                                      (Language: English)
                                      Alexandra Zhirnova, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic, University of Cambridge
                                      Index Terms: Language and Literature – Latin; Language and Literature – Old English; Rhetoric

                                      Paper 806-d

                                      Cynewulf’s Questioning of the Borders of Script and Orality in The Fates of the Apostles
                                      (Language: English)
                                      Jacob Wayne Runner, Institute of Liberal Arts & Science, Kanazawa University
                                      Index Terms: Language and Literature – Old English; Literacy and Orality; Manuscripts and Palaeography

                                       

                                       

                                      Abstract

                                      Paper -a:
                                      With their repeated imperatives to ‘saga hwæt ic hatte’ (‘say what I am called’), the first-person riddles of the Old English Exeter Book demand a dialogical relation between reader and speaker, subject and object, self and other. This task is complicated, however, by the fact that the speakers of the Exeter Book riddles are, in fact, not subjects, but objects that portray themselves in a variety of straitened circumstances – as impoverished foundlings, as being impaired physically and mentally, as dejected outcasts on the brink of death – in short, as disabled. This paper employs the theoretical lens of disability studies to examine the themes of marginalisation, expiration, and objectification that are voiced by the first-person speakers of the Exeter Book riddles and posits liminality as a conceptual space for readers to consider disabled subjectivity.

                                      Paper -b:
                                      Guthlac A/B and Exeter Riddle 10 are concerned with the porous borders of celestial/terrestrial spaces, Anglo-Saxon/indigenous identities, and affect/action. Ælfric’s ‘Sermo de Memoria Sanctorum’, which articulates the Eight Principal Vices and Virtues and links affect to claims of bodily and spatial sovereignty, offers a theological framework that complicates previous analyses of the way Anglo-Saxon’s perceived these borders. This paper investigates these texts – at the border between the genres of hagiography, poetry, riddle, and homily – and how theology was employed to erect and police the borders of bodies, spaces, and identities in Anglo-Saxon England. 

                                      Paper -c:
                                      This paper examines the works of Tatwine, an 8th-century Anglo-Latin grammarian and poet, whose collection of 40 Enigmata employs the paradoxical qualities of the riddle for a semantic investigation of the linguistic boundaries between animate and inanimate things. By comparing the riddles to his and others’ grammatical works, this paper aims to show Tatwine’s use of poetic devices to replace the harsh boundary between corporalia and incorporalia of antique grammarians with a continuum in which they can co-exist, reflecting a more general change in contemporary English thought.

                                      Paper -d:
                                      The four Old English poems that contain the runic Cyn(e)wulf ‘signature’ have continuously provoked debate as to the characters’ intratextual function and interpretation. Although a case has been made for alternative words indicated by initialisms (Niles 2006), the prevailing view is that they are logogrammatic and instantiate traditional runic names (e.g. Birkett 2017; Page 1999; Symons 2016). This paper presents a semiotic assessment of a single Cynewulf poem (‘The Fates of the Apostles’) and argues that the text’s inclusion of runes amongst the bookhand alphabet characters achieves a purposeful destabilization of the associative borders between the different scripts and between ‘oral’ and ‘transcribed’.

                                       

                                       

                                      Session

                                      1005

                                      Title

                                      Social Experiences of Disability

                                      Date/Time

                                      Wednesday 6 July 2022: 09.00-10.30

                                       

                                       

                                      Organiser

                                      Ninon Dubourg, Départment d’Histoire, Université de Liège

                                       

                                      Adelheid Russenberger, School of History, Queen Mary, University of London

                                       

                                       

                                      Moderator/Chair

                                      Ninon Dubourg, Départment d’Histoire, Université de Liège

                                       

                                       

                                      Paper 1005-a

                                      Dante’s City: Unjust Exile and Disabled Life beyond the Border
                                      (Language: English)
                                      Catherine Bloomer, Department of Italian / Institute for Comparative Literature & Society, Columbia University
                                      Index Terms: Language and Literature – Italian; Medicine

                                      Paper 1005-b

                                      The Borders of Disability and Ability, Ill Health and Health in Medieval Poland
                                      (Language: English)
                                      Magdalena Matczak, Department of Archaeology, Classics & Egyptology, University of Liverpool
                                      Index Terms: Medicine; Social History

                                      Paper 1005-c

                                      Ill Health as a Space of Communication between Man and God in Ancient Rus’
                                      (Language: English)
                                      Natalia Pelezneva,
                                      Index Terms: Hagiography; Medicine; Mentalities

                                       

                                       

                                      Abstract

                                      Disablility and impairment were experienced in, and created by, an individual’s social context. These three papers consider how Disability was constructed and used in three diverse contexts – Dante’s Florence, medieval Poland, and the medieval Rus’. Despite the geographical range, all three papers demonstrate how the experience of Disability was informed as much by an individual’s social position as much as the nature of their impairment.

                                       

                                       

                                       

                                      Session

                                      1105

                                      Title

                                      Disability in Literature

                                      Date/Time

                                      Wednesday 6 July 2022: 11.15-12.45

                                       

                                       

                                      Organiser

                                      Ninon Dubourg, Départment d’Histoire, Université de Liège

                                       

                                      Adelheid Russenberger, School of History, Queen Mary, University of London

                                       

                                       

                                      Moderator/Chair

                                      Wendy J. Turner, Department of History, Anthropology & Philosophy, Augusta University, Georgia

                                       

                                       

                                      Paper 1105-a

                                      Disabled Old Women against Romance: The Depictions of ‘La Vieille’, Frontier of Love in Le roman de la Rose
                                      (Language: English)
                                      Ninon Dubourg, Départment d’Histoire, Université de Liège
                                      Index Terms: Gender Studies; Mentalities; Social History

                                      Paper 1105-b

                                      Eastern Infirmity and Unholy Suffering: Genealogy and Faith as Disability / The Borders of Ability and Disability
                                      (Language: English)
                                      Jeffrey McCambridge, Department of English, College of Arts & Sciences, Ohio University
                                      Index Terms: Islamic and Arabic Studies; Medicine; Mentalities

                                      Paper 1105-c

                                      It’s All Fun and Games: Laughing at Newly Impaired and Newly Normative Bodies in Medieval France
                                      (Language: English)
                                      Heather Curtis, School of History, University of St Andrews
                                      Index Terms: Language and Literature – French or Occitan; Mentalities

                                       

                                       

                                      Abstract

                                      These three papers examine the different ways in which imaginary accounts of Disability and impairment provided a means of expressing contemporary concerns, and how this literary use of Disability creates an insight into medieval cultural norms and thought. The papers’ literary sources range from French comedy and romance to Christian descriptions of Islam, and provide an opportunity to explore how and when Disability intersected with other social categories of gender, race, and religion.

                                       

                                       

                                      Session

                                      1142

                                      Title

                                      #DisMed 5: Disability and Accessibility in Higher Education – A Round Table Discussion

                                      Date/Time

                                      Wednesday 6 July 2022: 11.15-12.45

                                       

                                       

                                      Sponsor

                                      Medievalists with Disabilities

                                       

                                       

                                      Organiser

                                      Alexandra R. A. Lee, Department of Liberal Studies, New York University, London

                                       

                                       

                                      Moderator/Chair

                                      Jack Ford, Department of History, University College London

                                       

                                       

                                      Abstract

                                      Founded in 2017, Medievalists with Disabilities marks its fifth year at the IMC with another round table discussion. This round table discussion offers a chance for disabled medievalists and their allies to share and offer solutions for issues, as well as sharing best practice. We will be discussing accessibility in academia, with topics ranging from allyship and physical access to autism and memory, and the importance of community.

                                      Participants include Hope Doherty (Durham University), Alexandra Lee (University College London), and Amy Louise Morgan (University of Surrey).

                                       

                                      Session

                                      1205

                                      Title

                                      Cripping Normative Time: Being and Becoming Disabled in Medieval Europe

                                      Date/Time

                                      Wednesday 6 July 2022: 14.15-15.45

                                       

                                       

                                      Organiser

                                      Ninon Dubourg, Départment d’Histoire, Université de Liège

                                       

                                      Adelheid Russenberger, School of History, Queen Mary, University of London

                                       

                                       

                                      Moderator/Chair

                                      Adelheid Russenberger, School of History, Queen Mary, University of London

                                       

                                       

                                      Paper 1205-a

                                      Constructing Melancholic Time in Thomas Hoccleve’s Series
                                      (Language: English)
                                      Emily A. Price, Department of English, City University of New York
                                      Index Terms: Language and Literature – Middle English; Medicine; Mentalities

                                      Paper 1205-b

                                      Boundaries between Age, Health, Ability, and Work: Aging in Medieval England
                                      (Language: English)
                                      Wendy J. Turner, Department of History, Anthropology & Philosophy, Augusta University, Georgia
                                      Index Terms: Daily Life; Medicine

                                      Paper 1205-c

                                      Drawing the Borders of Crip Time in Women’s Monastic Life, c. 1200-1300
                                      (Language: English)
                                      Amelia Kennedy, Institut für Geschichte, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz
                                      Index Terms: Gender Studies; Medicine; Religious Life

                                       

                                       

                                      Abstract

                                      Disability disrupts and challenges normative notions of time and personal development, just as the progress of time leads to impairment. These papers explore how time itself and social expectations of an individual’s life-time in medieval Europe could disable individuals; and consider how a Disabled individual’s own experience of time could challenge the artificial boundaries of normative time.

                                       

                                       

                                       

                                       

                                       

                                       

                                       

                                       

                                       

                                       

                                       

                                       

                                      Sessions on health, illness and disability history in kalamazoo 2022!

                                      Carreful : time GMT +2 (Paris summer time)

                                      Monday, May 9, 2022

                                       

                                      Live Recorded: No

                                      Sponsored By: Societas Magica

                                        Description
                                        Magic is hard to define, control, and censure. The use and study of magic overlaps and intersects with various disciplines, practices, and geographical locations. This panel has papers that explore the places where these cross-currents occur in inquisitorial, medicinal, legal, and literary miracles.
                                         
                                        Papers

                                         

                                        Live Recorded: Yes

                                        Sponsored By: Society for the Study of Disability in the Middle Ages

                                          Tuesday, May 10, 2022

                                           

                                          Live Recorded: Yes

                                          Sponsored By: Manuscript Technologies Forum Interest Group, The English Association

                                            Papers

                                            5:00 PM – 6:30 PM

                                             

                                            Live Recorded: Yes

                                            Sponsored By: Medieval Romance Society

                                             

                                            Live Recorded: No

                                            Sponsored By: John Gower Society

                                            Papers

                                             

                                            Live Recorded: No

                                            Sponsored By: Medieval Makars Society

                                               

                                              Live Recorded: Yes

                                              Sponsored By: Manuscript Technologies Forum Interest Group, The English Association

                                                 

                                                Live Recorded: Yes

                                                Sponsored By: Medica: The Society for the Study of Healing in the Middle Ages

                                                  11:00 PM – 12:30 AM 

                                                   

                                                  Live Recorded: Yes

                                                      Papers
                                                       

                                                      Live Recorded: Yes

                                                      Sponsored By: Italians and Italianists at Kalamazoo

                                                      Wednesday, May 11, 2022

                                                       

                                                      Live Recorded: Yes

                                                      Sponsored By: Medieval Association of the Midwest (MAM)

                                                         

                                                        Live Recorded: Yes

                                                        Sponsored By: International Courtly Literature Society (ICLS), North American Branch

                                                         

                                                         

                                                         

                                                        Live Recorded: Yes

                                                        Sponsored By: International Courtly Literature Society (ICLS), North American Branch

                                                          Friday, May 13, 2022

                                                           

                                                          Live Recorded: Yes

                                                          Sponsored By: Society for the Study of Disability in the Middle Ages

                                                             

                                                            Live Recorded: Yes

                                                             

                                                            Live Recorded: No

                                                            Sponsored By: Medieval Association for Rural Studies (MARS)

                                                               

                                                              Live Recorded: Yes

                                                                  Saturday, May 14, 2022

                                                                   

                                                                  Live Recorded: Yes

                                                                       

                                                                      Live Recorded: No

                                                                          Online conference – Composing Disability Conference: “A Cultural History of Disability”, hosted by the OrganizerGeorge Washington University – April 9th – 5:00 PM – 11:00 PM CEST

                                                                           

                                                                          About this Event

                                                                          We are happy to announce that the Composing Disability conference that was postponed last year will be returning virtually on April 9th, 2021. Please join us in celebrating the publication of A Cultural History of Disability. This six-volume collection focus on Antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Long Eighteenth Century, the Long Nineteenth Century, and the Modern Age. The presenters for the event are listed below in the program and feature Martha Stoddard Holmes of California State, San Marcos and Joyce Huff of Ball State University (GW English PhD, 2001) who will deliver the keynote address for this event. All six volumes of A Cultural History of Disability will be available through the Gelman Library.

                                                                          Composing Disability: A Cultural History of Disability is free and open to the public and will take place on April 9th, 2020 as a virtual event. The conference will feature live transcription and an ASL interpreter.

                                                                          A Cultural History of Disability includes numerous participants from GW. The general editors for the six-volume series are David Bolt and GW English Professor Robert McRuer. The volume on the Middle Ages is edited by Professor Jonathan Hsy, along with Tory V. Pearman and Joshua R. Eyler, and the volume on the Modern Age is edited by Professor David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder. Department Chair Professor Maria Frawley has a chapter in the Nineteenth Century volume and PhD candidate Emily Lathrop has a chapter in the Renaissance volume. The volume on the Modern Age includes contributions from PhD candidate Zahari Richter, Samuel Yates (GW English PhD, 2019), and Theodora Danylevich (GW English PhD, 2018). The Renaissance volume also includes a chapter by Gallaudet Professor Jennifer Nelson, who received her BA from GW English in 1988. Alan Montroso (GW English PhD, 2019) and Haylie Swenson (GW English PhD, 2018) will also participate in the event.

                                                                          A Cultural History of Disability spans more than 2,500 years. Bolt and McRuer write in the series preface: “A ‘system of representation,’ according to Stuart Hall, ‘consists, not of individual concepts, but of different ways of organizing, clustering, arranging, and classifying concepts, and of establishing complex relations between them.’ From this cultural studies perspective, a cultural history of disability is attuned to how disabled people have been caught up in systems of representation that, over the centuries (and with real, material effects), have variously contained, disciplined, marginalized, or normalized them. A cultural history of disability also, however, traces the ways in which disabled people themselves have authored or contested representations, shifting or altering the complex relations of power that determine the meanings of disability experience.”

                                                                          Please join us on April 9th!

                                                                          SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

                                                                          11:00 AM-12:30 PM ROUNDTABLE: A Cultural History of Disability in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Moderator: Jonathan Hsy

                                                                          Haylie Swenson, “Disability Studies and Animal Studies”

                                                                          Alan Montroso, “Monstrosity, Disability, Ecology”

                                                                          Emily Lathrop, “Learning Difficulties: The Idiot and the Outsider in the Renaissance”

                                                                          Jennifer Nelson, “Deafnesses and Silences in Shakespeare’s England”

                                                                          1:30-3 PM ROUNDTABLE: A Cultural History of Disability in the Nineteenth Century and the Modern Age. Moderator: David Mitchell

                                                                          Maria Frawley, “Chronic Pain: ‘The Wounded Soldiery of Mankind'”

                                                                          Theodora Danylevich, “Chronic Pain and Illness: States of Privilege and Bodies of Abuse”

                                                                          Zara Richter, “Speech Disability’s Awkward Late Modernity: A Multimodal Historical Approach”

                                                                          Samuel Yates, “Deafness: Screening Signs in Contemporary Cinema”

                                                                          3:30-5 PM Keynote Address: Martha Stoddard Holmes and Joyce Huff, editors of A Cultural History of Disability in the Long Nineteenth Century. Moderator: Robert McRuer

                                                                          Conférence – Claire Billen et Marc Boone, “Gouverner en temps de pandémie — Une vision historique” – en ligne – 11 Mars 2021

                                                                             

                                                                          Nous avons le plaisir de vous inviter le jeudi 11 mars de 13h à 14h30 au webinaire organisé par la Fondation Universitaire sur « Gouverner en temps de pandémie – Une vision historique » avec les professeurs Claire BILLEN (ULB) et Marc BOONE (UGent), suite à la publication« BANS ET ÉDITS POUR LA VILLE DE TOURNAI EN TEMPS DE PESTE (1349-1351). Les transcriptions retrouvées de Frédéric Hennebert » (Commission Royale pour l’histoire, Bruxelles 2021) (en voie de publication).

                                                                          Depuis un an, nous sommes complètement immergés dans la pandémie de COVID-19. Une expérience complètement nouvelle pour chacun d’entre nous – y compris le gouvernement. Mais tout au long de l’histoire, l’humanité a été confrontée à des pandémies à de nombreuses reprises. Comment les gens ont-ils réagi à cela dans le passé ? Sur base de manuscrits récemment découverts, les professeurs Claire BILLEN (ULB) et Marc BOONE (UGent) ont étudié le comportement du magistrat de la ville de Tournai lors de l’épidémie de peste au 14ème siècle.

                                                                          La découverte, parmi les manuscrits de la Bibliothèque de l’Université de Gand, de transcriptions effectuées par Frédéric Hennebert (1800-1857), archiviste de la ville de Tournai, a permis de reconstituer les 30 premières pages du premier Registre aux publications du magistrat urbain, concernant les années 1349-1351. Ce document, disparu dans le bombardement de Tournai en 1940, informe sur les règlementations presque quotidiennes ayant régi la ville, face à une crise multiforme, dominée par l’irruption de la Peste Noire à l’été 1349. Les modalités de la réponse donnée par nos ancêtres médiévaux à la pandémie illustrent le fonctionnement d’une société urbaine, confrontée brutalement à une mortalité hors normes. Avant la redécouverte des transcriptions de Hennebert, l’impact de la Peste Noire sur la ville de Tournai n’était connu que par les écrits d’un témoin direct, l’abbé Gilles Li Muisis, à la tête de l’abbaye bénédictine de Saint-Martin. Les ordonnances urbaines bénéficient de cet éclairage mais complètent également cette description unilatérale.

                                                                          S’il est téméraire d’établir un parallèle entre l’irruption d’une épidémie inédite au XIVe siècle et l’arrivée inattendue du Covid-19 en Europe, début 2020, certaines réflexions comparatives sont néanmoins possibles. Elles touchent, entre autres, les aspects politiques. La situation sanitaire, loin d’affaiblir le gouvernement urbain de Tournai en 1349, lui a permis, au contraire, de se déployer, d’investir des domaines qui n’étaient pas directement de son ressort. Toutes choses égales par ailleurs, c’est bien un phénomène de cet ordre que nous observons aujourd’hui. Les contestations politiques et juridiques, agitant en ce moment les populations européennes, adversaires des contraintes multiples qui leur sont imposées, appellent une mise en perspective.

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