Uncommon Bodies

For anyone interested in embodiment & disability. Co-organizers: Penelope Geng and Jennifer Row. Tweets by P. Geng. Supported by @PremodernAtUMN.

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Hello everyone! Please join us for our big symposium on "Premodern Disability and Race in a Global Context" on Feb. 15-16, 2024! Day 1 will be at the UMN and Day 2 at Macalester College. Many events are hybrid. To learn more and to RSVP, use this form: https://t.co/eq65UYnulD.

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Hello friends, it's been a while! We are planning an incredible slate of events for the 2023-24 AY. First up: join us for a virtual talk on Nov. 20 by Bridget Bartlett (@allo_nothing) on "Conditioning Caliban" and neurodiversity in The Tempest. RSVP here: https://t.co/rXTlUk8MMo

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*Petrarcha.

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1. Thank you ALL for attending Elizabeth Bearden's incredible talk on Petarcha's "crip authority." Please be in touch with her if you have any follow-up questions. She can be reached at her institutional email which is available on her faculty page: https://t.co/TDSYdfntNI.

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3.iv. I know I'm forgetting a bunch of other opportunities. If you live in the Twin Cities, you know there are not enough days to attend all the events. Uncommon Bodies out! #uncommonbodies

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3.iii. For 30 years (!!), Cathy Yandell has been coordinating the Medieval and Renaissance Colloquium (Carleton College and St. Olaf College). It's a great place to workshop a chapter or a work-in-progress. In-person only. The next meeting is on April 19.

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@earlymodatLancs Thank you for coming!

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A reminder that Uncommon Bodies is co-hosting a virtual lecture by Elizabeth Bearden this Thursday. Click on link for more info and to RSVP. Prof Bearden has been working hard on her talk and we can't wait to hear her theory of "crip authority." 🙏@PremodernAtUMN #uncommonbodies

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1/2. Our final event of the spring is an online lecture by Elizabeth Bearden (author of Monstrous Kinds, 2019). April 13 (4-5:30 pm Central). She'll present from her 3rd in-progress monograph "Crip Authority." Register for the link. Free and open to all! https://t.co/woLYDuDTuH

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Sign up for our virtual reading group as we count down the days to Elizabeth Bearden's lecture! No pressure to read beyond your capacity; we know it's a busy time of the year. The Google form is here: https://t.co/sw7nM5njqS @PremodernAtUMN @PremodernDS #uncommonbodies

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2/2. As a reminder: for updates about events, join our email list, or check out our website (which has just been updated with photos!), or check this Twitter account from time to time.

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1/2. Our final event of the spring is an online lecture by Elizabeth Bearden (author of Monstrous Kinds, 2019). April 13 (4-5:30 pm Central). She'll present from her 3rd in-progress monograph "Crip Authority." Register for the link. Free and open to all! https://t.co/woLYDuDTuH

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Please share this call for papers! The MLA LLC 16c English Forum is sponsoring a guaranteed panel on "Disability Aesthetics in a Premodern Global Context" at the next conference in Philadelphia. Deadline for abstracts is Feb. 28, 2023. @PremodernDS #DisabilityTwitter #MLA2024

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On Fri., Feb. 3, join us for a workshop at the Minneapolis Institute of Art to discuss Nick Jones' paper "Black Dances, Speech Impediments, and the (Dis)ability of Blackness in the Early Ibero-Atlantic.” RSVP using this Google form if you're interested! https://t.co/pSzmVtK3pf📝

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On Thur. Feb. 2, we welcome Nicholas Jones to the Twin Cities for a dive into his research on Iberian literature and Cervantes’s literary archive of Blackness. "Cervantine Blackness" will be a hybrid event. Register here: https://t.co/xBDwPrGO5Q! @PremodernAtUMN #uncommonbodies

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We're excited to meet John Gulledge (not on Twitter), Taylor Hare (@taylorahare), and Bridget Bartlett (@allo_nothing) this weekend. They're presenting at SCSC (@16CSociety) & will be sharing new research on disability, rhetoric, print and book history, race, and Shakespeare!

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Hello world! It's been a while. We're pleased to report that Uncommon Bodies has received grant funding from the University of Minnesota's Center for Premodern Studies (@PremodernAtUMN) for the 2022-23 AY year. Thank you CPS! We're in planning mode; expect to hear more news soon!