{"id":5792,"date":"2022-01-12T22:55:38","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T22:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk\/?p=5792"},"modified":"2022-02-03T23:24:21","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T23:24:21","slug":"cfp-medical-humanities-and-the-fantastic-online-symposium-neurodiversity-and-disability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk\/index.php\/2022\/01\/12\/cfp-medical-humanities-and-the-fantastic-online-symposium-neurodiversity-and-disability\/","title":{"rendered":"CFP: Medical Humanities and the Fantastic Online Symposium: Neurodiversity and Disability"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\"><strong>Medical Humanities and the Fantastic Online Symposium:<\/strong> <strong>Neurodiversity and Disability<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Friday 11<sup>th<\/sup> &nbsp;February 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Keynote lectures from <a href=\"https:\/\/riacheyne.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dr Ria Cheyne<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.durham.ac.uk\/staff\/louise-creechan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dr Louise Creechan<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The second Medical Humanities and the Fantastic Symposium, funded by the University of Glasgow\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gla.ac.uk\/schools\/critical\/research\/researchcentresandnetworks\/mhrc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Centre for Medical Humanities<\/a>\u2019 Early Career Foundation Award, and co-hosted by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gla.ac.uk\/schools\/critical\/research\/researchcentresandnetworks\/fantasyatglasgow\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic<\/a>, continues to map and establish new ways of connecting research into the fantastic (traditionally understood as science fiction, fantasy and horror) and popular culture with the field of the medical humanities. It aims to showcase the potentials the fantastic has to offer as valuable gateway and perspective for discussing medical encounters, practices and lived experiences. The fantastic as a research method can expand the scope of the medical humanities since its <em>modus operandi<\/em> relies on reframing human understanding of the world, particularly the human condition and its relationship to technology, society, and the environment. Likewise, medical humanities offer emerging trajectories to approach the fantastic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This time the symposium intends to focus on a specific area, and its theme is set as \u201cNeurodiversity and Disability\u201d, seeking to explore and formulating answers the following questions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>How does the fantastic represent or subvert neurodiversity and disability?<\/li><li>How can the fantastic help express lived experiences of neurodiversity and disability?<\/li><li>How can the fantastic negotiate the reframing of current medical, social, political and economic debates surrounding neurodiversity and disability?<\/li><li>How can the fantastic raise awareness, and facilitate critical and policy intervention?<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are inviting 10-15-minute presentations (including work-in-progress projects) relating to but not limited to the following topics:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Ableism<\/li><li>Academia<\/li><li>Activism<\/li><li>ADHD, ASD<\/li><li>Anthropocene<\/li><li>Art and artistic practices<\/li><li>Care and care crisis<\/li><li>Capitalism and anti-capitalism<\/li><li>Children\u2019s literature<\/li><li>Chronic illness and chronic pain<\/li><li>Comics and graphic novels<\/li><li>Communities online and offline<\/li><li>Creativity<\/li><li>Dis\/ability<\/li><li>Ecology, ecopsychology, ecosickness<\/li><li>Education<\/li><li>Fantasy<\/li><li>Fantastic franchises<\/li><li>Film and television<\/li><li>Gaming and gamification<\/li><li>Gender<\/li><li>Gothic and Horror<\/li><li>History and medical history<\/li><li>Learning disabilities<\/li><li>Modernism and Postmodernism<\/li><li>Neurodiversity and the Neurodiversity Movement<\/li><li>Posthumanism<\/li><li>Precarity<\/li><li>Reproductive health<\/li><li>Robotics<\/li><li>Science fiction and speculative fiction<\/li><li>Sex and sexuality<\/li><li>Social media<\/li><li>Technology<\/li><li>Theatre<\/li><li>Vulnerability<\/li><li>Weird fiction<\/li><li>Young Adult<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please send your short abstract (100-200 words) accompanied by a brief bio (50-100 words) by the end of January 2022 as well as any enquiries and concerns to <a href=\"mailto:fantastic.medhums@gmail.com\">fantastic.medhums@gmail.com<\/a>. For information and updates on the event follow <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fantastic_mhs\">@fantastic_mhs<\/a> on Twitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Registration for this Symposium is now open! You can register <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/medical-humanities-and-the-fantastic-neurodiversity-and-disability-tickets-261197878887?keep_tld=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medical Humanities and the Fantastic Online Symposium: Neurodiversity and Disability Friday 11th &nbsp;February 2022 Keynote lectures from Dr Ria Cheyne and Dr Louise Creechan The second Medical Humanities and the Fantastic Symposium, funded by the University of Glasgow\u2019s Centre for Medical Humanities\u2019 Early Career Foundation Award, and co-hosted by the Centre for Fantasy and the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk\/index.php\/2022\/01\/12\/cfp-medical-humanities-and-the-fantastic-online-symposium-neurodiversity-and-disability\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;CFP: Medical Humanities and the Fantastic Online Symposium: Neurodiversity and Disability&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,77],"tags":[104,9,105,103],"class_list":["post-5792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-calls","category-conferences","tag-disability","tag-fantasy","tag-medical-humanities","tag-neurodiversity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5792"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6020,"href":"https:\/\/fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5792\/revisions\/6020"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}