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Paul van Trigt
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Historicus | Leiden University | History of disability, human rights, global health, welfare, religion
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Excited to have signed the contract for my monograph on human rights and disability internationalism since the 1960s with Columbia University Press
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Happy Reformation Day! Time for one of my favourite Luther quotes (from the Wartburg era): “Almost every night when I wake up the devil is there, itching to argue with me…when the argument that the Christian is without the law and above the law doesn’t help, I chase him away with a fart.”
October 31, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Wonderfull essay on the Brothers Karamazov, with some helpful clues for Knausgard recent books
www.newyorker.com/books/second...
www.newyorker.com
October 21, 2025 at 9:44 PM
It took a while, but in December my book Progress from the Margins: Human Rights and Disability Internationalism Since the 1960s will be published: cup.columbia.edu/book/progres...
Progress from the Margins | Columbia University Press
The 2006 United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities differs markedly from other forms of international human rights law: it not onl... | CUP
cup.columbia.edu
October 20, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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CFP: Ethical regimes. Doctors, patients and ethics in colonial and postcolonial medicine

https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-158042

Leiden, 22.01.2026-23.01.2026, Fenneke Sysling; Caroline Schep, Leiden University, Bewerbungsschluss: 01.11.2025
www.hsozkult.de
October 14, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Great to see this new bio of Ed Roberts, one of the key figures in the US Disability Rights Mvmt. Looks like great detail on the legislative and politics work he did beyond what he's best known for in Berkeley.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The radical life of the father of independent living
A new book explores disabled activist Ed Roberts' revolutionary career.
www.motherjones.com
October 14, 2025 at 6:06 PM
@danielblackie.bsky.social welcome here Dan! Just discussed a chapter of David and you with my students - and they liked it!
October 7, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Our upcoming seminar in the Global Histories of Knowledge series. The link to the meeting will be on the website: www.staff.universiteitleiden.nl/events/2025/...
October 1, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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CFA: Conceptualizing Disability in History: Europe in a global context

https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-157618

Fiesole, 15.11.2025, Austrian Journal of Historical Studies; Monika Baar; Elisa Heinrich, Bewerbungsschluss: 15.11.2025
www.hsozkult.de
September 26, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Working on the history of "outlier categories" such as age and disability? Check our Call for Papers: www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025...
CfP: Human Development and Its Outliers
We are pleased to announce a call for papers for a workshop within the project 'Human Development and Its Outliers' on 26 and 27 March 2026 at Leiden University.
www.universiteitleiden.nl
September 16, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Working on the history of "outlier categories" such as age and disability? Check our Call for Papers: www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025...
CfP: Human Development and Its Outliers
We are pleased to announce a call for papers for a workshop within the project 'Human Development and Its Outliers' on 26 and 27 March 2026 at Leiden University.
www.universiteitleiden.nl
September 16, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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And do give @peacemovtsproject.bsky.social a follow, we have some exciting events planned, and new podcast episodes will air on the 12th of every month!
September 4, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Ook interessant: vacature promovendus 'Een Sociale Geschiedenis van Hiv en Aids in Nederland' werkenbij.uva.nl/vacatures/pr...
Vacature — Promovendus 'Een Sociale Geschiedenis van Hiv en Aids in Nederland'
Ben jij geïnteresseerd in de wijze waarop de aidsepidemie sinds de jaren tachtig ingreep in de levens van direct betrokkenen? Wil je betrokkenen daarover interviewen en wil je je ontwikkelen tot weten...
werkenbij.uva.nl
September 3, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Wiebe Hommes' new book - on the ECHR's reception in the Netherlands - is out

www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...
The Convention and the Kingdom
Cambridge Core - Socio-Legal Studies - The Convention and the Kingdom
www.cambridge.org
August 25, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Ah, leuk om na vakantie in mijn Leidse postvak het nieuwe nummer van TvG te vinden, met 'Disability History. Een review essay': www.aup-online.com/content/jour...
Disability History | Amsterdam University Press Journals Online
Abstract Disability History: a review essay In this essay the authors discuss the main trends in disability history in the last five years, and review a selection of relevant publications. After a sho...
www.aup-online.com
August 21, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Happy to see this volume on family, human rights, and internationalism out, edited by Julia Moses, and with my chapter on disability policies (providing a historical background for UNCRPD article 12)
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Human Rights, the Family, and Internationalism Since the Nineteenth Century
This book examines global considerations of human rights today: how the family has historically served as a protected category
link.springer.com
July 23, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Exciting news! The first publication for our 'Counter-Hegemonic Internationalisms' SI with @hisjournalha.bsky.social is available to read! Pls check out Aileen Lichtenstein's great article on 'Lucy Parsons's Propaganda Tour of Britain, November–December 1888' onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
‘More enthusiasm and hearty concord it was never my pleasure to witness’: Lucy Parsons's Propaganda Tour of Britain, November–December 1888
Lucy Parsons was one of the most famous radical orators of the United States, but little has been written about her visit to Britain. This article investigates Parsons's lecture tour of Britain in th...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
July 17, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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Dag volgers! Ook historici hebben soms vakantie, dus vanaf september zijn we hier weer terug. Heel veel dank voor het volgen en het delen van al jullie vragen en ideeën ❤️

Wil je ook een keer posten? Stuur mij (@annepetterson.bsky.social) gerust een berichtje!
July 4, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Including my reflection on this pioneering book
H-Diplo Roundtable XXVI-40 on Galmarini, _Ambassadors of Social Progress_
hdiplo.org/to/RT26-40
hdiplo.org
June 17, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Don't forget to submit your paper for our 2nd event on 'Rethinking Internationalism' - we're looking for papers/panel proposals focused on methods and new ways of writing history. Perfect if you've been trying to figure out how to push beyond (or find new ways of approaching) the 'official' archive!
May 7, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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Hi! Mijn naam is Eline Pollaert (voornaamwoorden die/zij) en deze week neem ik jullie via het ‘Historici vertellen’ account mee in mijn dagelijks leven als historicus. Spannend voor deze zelfverklaarde digitale dinosaurus, want ik heb geen ervaring met Bluesky… In deze draad stel ik mezelf voor.
May 5, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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April 4, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Hi! 👋The Peace Movements Project has joined BlueSky! We're a global history research group, studying how peace movements across the decolonizing world have connected to international peace organizations from the early 1900s onwards.
March 31, 2025 at 3:00 PM