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Elisa Heinrich @elisaheinrich.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

It was a real pleasure to reflect on history, language, activism, and the power to define what counts as "normal" on the EDI podcast The Elephant in the Room. And how wonderful to see the episode published during Pride Month! 🌈 Grateful for the opportunity to discuss the topics closest to my heart.

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EDI Podcast | Queer history, disability activism, and the politics of naming

In this episode, historian and Max Weber Fellow Elisa Heinrich explores how ideas of normality are shaped through history, language, and power Drawing on quee

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Elisa Heinrich @elisaheinrich.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

I'm excited that our third handbook on queer contemporary histories in German-speaking Europe has been published! It looks at activism and social movements. Together with @andreasbrunner.bsky.social I had the pleasure to write a chapter on lesbian/gay/queer movements in Austria.

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Elisa Heinrich @elisaheinrich.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Very grateful to the @eui-eu.bsky.social and the Research Communications team for giving me the opportunity to talk about my research on feminist and and disability rights movements.

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Elisa Heinrich @elisaheinrich.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Two days well spent! Thank you to @mboluferp.bsky.social, Mónica Burguera and Carlotta Sorba for putting together such a wonderful program. It was a pleasure to explore the history of emotions through the lens of letters and see so many common threads in the participants’ projects.

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Elisa Heinrich @elisaheinrich.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

I am excited to share this call for papers for a special issue on Conceptualizing Disability in History, which I’m co-editing with Monika Baar for the Austrian Journal of Historical Studies. Please share among your networks, we are very much looking forward to your contributions!

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Elisa Heinrich @elisaheinrich.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

What a great day, full of inspiring conversations about positionality, agency, and intimacy in oral history. I learnt a lot from the keynote speakers and the researchers' projects. Thank you so much to @zsofia-v.bsky.social and @georgiakat.bsky.social for organising it.

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Elisa Heinrich @elisaheinrich.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Happy to share that my article on the impending criminalisation of female homosexuality in Germany before WWI is now available open access. I look at the reasons why women's rights activists didn't publicly protest against it, despite many of them living in intimate relationships with each other.

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Equal Rights, equal Punishment? German Feminists discuss the impending Criminalisation of Female Homosexuality before World War I

With the Vorentwurf zu einem deutschen Strafgesetz (Proposal for a new German criminal code) in 1909 the “female homosexual” was identified as a criminal category in Germany. Where paragraph 175 had c...

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Elisa Heinrich @elisaheinrich.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

What a great experience! Had the pleasure to serve as chair/discussant on a fantastic panel on 'Methodological Challenges in Disability History: Conceptualizing Pre- and Early Modern Disability' at the ESSHC in Leiden yesterday.

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Elisa Heinrich @elisaheinrich.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

It was a pleasure to discuss auto/biographical and archival practices and questions of subjectivity with @mboluferp.bsky.social, Mónica Burguera and the researchers yesterday. Thank you for the opportunity!

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Elisa Heinrich @elisaheinrich.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Our latest OeZG issue on intersectionality is out and open access! Being part of the @oezg-journal.bsky.social editorial team definitely has its perks: I've already read all the articles and know they're great. If you read German, check them out.

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Elisa Heinrich @elisaheinrich.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Very excited that our 2nd handbook on queer contemporary histories in German speaking Europe is out (and open access)!! I contributed an article on lesbian women with disabilities, how they navigated and represented their experiences in women's and disability rights movements in the 1980s and 90s.

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