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Special Issue of The William Carlos Williams Review
A special double-issue of The William Carlos Williams Review, co-edited by Theodora Rapp Graham and Richard M. Ratzan, MD, is planned for late 2020. The topic is broadly "Williams and Medicine." A few articles by leading scholars have been solicited. The editors are currently seeking initial proposals that assess the relationship between Williams and the medical profession, both in his own day and in the present, as well as how his medical education and experience may have influenced his writing.
Possible paper topics could include the following:

• Williams and his writing in the context of the history of medicine (his studies at Penn, in Leipzig, Vienna) and literature.
• Williams' reception among medical practitioners in his own lifetime and more recently.
• the relationship between Williams' medical background and his aesthetics.
• the relationship of his scientific knowledge to specific treatments of characters and ideas in the poetry and fiction, in nonfiction, speeches, talks.

• British Society of Aesthetics Conference: Art, Aesthetics, and the Medical and Health Humanities, proposal deadline 9/1/19
• The AIDS Crisis is Not Over, special issue of Radical History Review, abstract deadline 9/1/19
• Narrative Medicine: Fall Basic Workshop, earlybird registration deadline 9/6/19
• AMSA's Humanistic Elective in Activism, Reflective Transformation, and Integrative Medicine, deadline 9/15/19
• Graphic Medicine: A Special Issue of Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly, abstract deadline 9/15/19
• 2019 Conley Ethics Essay Contest, deadline 9/27/19
• 2020 International Health Humanities Consortium Conference, abstract deadline 9/27/19
• American Association for the History of Medicine, abstract deadline 9/30/19
• Special Issue of Humanities: "Photo-Literary Disorders: Literature, Photography and Illness," deadline 10/1/19
• Critically sick: New phenomenologies of illness, madness, and disability, paper proposal deadline 10/15/19
• 2019 Conley Art of Medicine Contest, deadline 10/25/19
• International Conference on Storytelling and Well-being Across Media Borders, abstract deadline 10/31/19
• Studies in Comics – Special Issue on Comics and Education, deadline 11/1/19
• Signs of Life Anthology, deadline 12/31/19
• Society for the Social History of Medicine 50th Anniversary Conference, CFP on "Resilience," deadline 12/31/19
• Critical and Cultural Perspectives on Dementia Today, rolling deadline through 2/28/20
• Sharing Our Stories: Narratives, Poetry, and 55 Word Stories, Families, Systems, & Health, no deadline