Conference | 9-10 June 2025 | John Rylands Research Institute, Manchester
Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World
Call for Papers, deadline – 3 February 2025
The Sleeping Well in the Early Modern World team invites papers for our end-of-project conference on the topic of ‘Bodies and Environments’ in early modernity.
Please see the full call for papers at: https://documents.manchester.ac.uk/display.aspx?DocID=74945
We invite papers examining the relationship between bodies and environments in any context and geographical location c. 1500-1750. Topics may include but are not limited to:
- Practices of ‘environing’ (or human engagements with physical surroundings) aimed at preserving or restoring health
- The health or embodied consequences of environmental interventions or ‘improvements’
- The use of place-specific materials for practices of bodily management and health preservation
- Multispecies approaches to health and wellbeing
- ‘Geo-humoral’ concepts of embodiment
Please send an abstract (max. 300 words) and a short bio (100 words) to eleanor.shaw@manchester.ac.uk by 3 February 2025.
PhD students and ECRs are particularly encouraged to apply.
Reasonable travel and accommodation expenses for speakers will be covered.