NEW BOOK: Traditional Medicine in the Irish Literary Revival

The Works of W.B. Yeats, Augusta Gregory, and J. M. Synge Holly May Walker-Dunseith | Palgrave Macmillan | April 2025 This book explores representations of traditional medicine and healing practices in Irish Revival-era literature spanning from the late nineteenth century to the early twentieth century. Specifically, the book focuses on the work of William Butler Yeats, Lady Augusta Gregory, and

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CFP: ISAANZ 27 Health, Wellness and Care

20-22 November 2025University of Otago / Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka, Aotearoa / New Zealand As the emergency measures of the pandemic fade into memory, but the virus transitions into an endemic part of our medical landscape, we invite scholars and community members to use the vantage point of this new ecosystem – viral, social, political, economic, environmental – to consider what

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PHD FELLOWSHIPS: Storytelling as Pharmakon in Premodernity and Beyond (StoryPharm)

Storytelling as Pharmakon in Premodernity and Beyond: Training the New Generation of Researchers in Health Humanities (StoryPharm) Advertisement of Positions – 19 PhD fellowships Call for Applications Are you getting or have already received an MA in Ancient or Medieval History, Art History, Byzantine Studies, Classics, Cultural Heritage Studies, Medieval Studies, Philology (Arabic, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, or Latin),

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