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Paul van Trigt @paulvt.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
New volume on writing disability history has landed, more info here: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/writing-t...
Cover of book mentioned in link, with title, names editors and picture of mural with an explanation of sign language
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Boyd van Dijk @boydvandijk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
very interesting CFP -on histories of North-South public health cooperation fighting-pandemics.sites.uu.nl/2026/09/07/c...
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Dr. Krista A. Milne @kmilne.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Just wanted to share this new post about my work on medieval disability studies! 🦮 🏰 #medievalsky communities.springernature.com/posts/why-ca...
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Why care about medieval guide dogs?
How medieval disability studies can help us approach modern social issues
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Dr Beckie Rutherford (she/her) @beckierutherford.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
My time at History Workshop is sadly coming to an end but it's been a huge joy to publish two final additions to Reimagining Disability (the series I launched in 2024 which now has 11 articles/podcasts in total) Firstly @hspandler.bsky.social's brilliant piece on the politics of madzines...
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From the Personal to the Political and Back Again?
Hel Spandler explores the evolution of madzines and considers why they should be recognised as a form of activism.
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Willemijn Ruberg @willemijnruberg.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
My review of @paulvt.bsky.social's new and important book on disability and human rights (Progress from the Margins. Human Rights and Disability Internationalism Since the 1960s) has been published in the International Review of Social History. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Paul van Trigt. Progress from the Margins. Human Rights and Disability Internationalism Since the 1960s [Columbia Studies in International and Global History.] Columbia University Press, New York 2026...
Paul van Trigt. Progress from the Margins. Human Rights and Disability Internationalism Since the 1960s [Columbia Studies in International and Global History.] Columbia University Press, New York 2026...
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LeidenGlobal @leidenglobal.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
𝑳𝒆𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒏 𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒆𝒓𝒕 𝒆𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒕𝒆 𝑫𝒆𝒂𝒇 𝑯𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝑻𝒐𝒖𝒓 👋 Tijdens deze stadswandeling @unileiden.bsky.social ontdek je hoe de geschiedenis van dove Leidenaren verweven is met de stad. Op 9 juli verzorgt een dove gids de tour in Nederlandse Gebarentaal (NGT) & International Sign @sleutelstad.bsky.social
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Universiteit Leiden organiseert eerste Leiden Deaf History Tour
De Universiteit Leiden organiseert volgende week de allereerste editie van de 'Leiden Deaf History Tour'. Een rondwandeling door de stad die is bedoeld om de dovengeschiedenis van Leiden te laten zien...
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Columbia University Press @columbiaup.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Get conference-ready for #SHAFR2026! Preview our new and forthcoming books in history today! buff.ly/hKCu7k4 #History #HistoryBooks #ReadUP @shafrhistorians.bsky.social
Graphic for the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) annual meeting exhibit hall. A banner reading “History 2026–2027” appears beside a pair of lavender military-style dog tags. Text lists exhibit hours: June 25, 2026, 10:00 AM–4:00 PM; June 26, 2026, 8:00 AM–5:00 PM; June 27, 2026, 8:00 AM–2:00 PM. Columbia University Press branding appears at bottom with a 20% discount code, CUP20SM, and website cup.columbia.edu.Columbia University Press graphic highlighting six new and forthcoming books in United States History. Book covers shown are The Lavender Ban(s): A Century of Anti-LGBTQ+ Policies in the US Military by Dorian Rhea Debussy; Colored Insane by Diana Martha Louis; From the Skyscraper to the Wildflower by Nick Yablon; Coding Capitalism by Devin Kennedy; The Politics of Names by R. Urbatsch; and The Lowest Freedom by Justin Leroy. Text invites attendees to visit the exhibit hall and includes a 20% discount code, CUP20SM.Columbia University Press graphic featuring six new and forthcoming books in United States & the World history. Covers shown are Agrarian Superpower by Samantha Iyer; Jimmy Carter and China by Sheng Peng; Chinese Encounters with America, edited by Deborah Davis and Terry Lautz; To Stand with Palestine by Karam Dana; Saving Apartheid by Augusta Dell’Omo; and The China Firm by Thomas M. Larkin. Text directs viewers to the exhibit hall and includes a 20% discount code, CUP20SM.Columbia University Press graphic showcasing six new and forthcoming Global History titles. Covers shown are Victimhood Nationalism by Jie-Hyun Lim; Staple to Superfood by Q. Edward Wang; The World in Flames by Martin Füssel; Progress from the Margins by Paul van Trigt; What We Eat: A Global History of Food, edited by Pierre Singaravélou and Sylvain Venayre; and Tianjin Cosmopolis by Pierre Singaravélou. Text invites attendees to visit the exhibit hall and includes a 20% discount code, CUP20SM.
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Dr Hannah J. Elizabeth @sexhistorian.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
I am looking for someone fab to join me at Strathclyde on a funded PhD studentship on the history of unorthodox health activism. If you are that person, or know someone who is, there's a month left to apply! #HistMed www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/...
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Eduwis Preschool: We're Hiring
ALT: Eduwis Preschool: We're Hiring
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Paul van Trigt @paulvt.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
For the project DisFriend, I am looking for two PhD candidates: www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3610...
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Two PhD Positions (0.9 FTE) in the transnational history of friendship and disability
2 PhD Positions in the transnational history of friendship and disability The Institute for History at the University of Leiden invites applications for: Two PhD Positions (0.9 FTE) in the transnation...
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Paul van Trigt @paulvt.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Looking forward to discussing my new book today at EUI in Florence (www.eui.eu/events?id=58...) and to present new research at the Pierre du Bois conference in Geneva (www.graduateinstitute.ch/communicatio...).
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Progress from the Margins. Human Rights and Disability Internationalism since the 1960s
Book presentation by Paul van Trigt (University of Leiden)
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Alexandre Klein @alexandreklein.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
(New Issue) (Re)thinking the history of mental disorder and psychiatry: an approach through the South(s) histoiresante.blogspot.com/2026/04/repe... #histpsych
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Paul van Trigt @paulvt.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
And nice to see the cover and ToC of a new edited volume on disability in the Bloomsbury Writing History Series, to be published later this year: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/writing-t...
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Paul van Trigt @paulvt.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Happy to see my entry on the global history of disability rights in the new Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Disability Studies: academic.oup.com/edited-volum... (send me an email if you are interested and have no access)
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Global History of Disability Rights and the United Nations
Abstract. The adoption of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities by the United Nations in 2006 is a remarkable moment in the global hist
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Stephanie van Dam @stephvandam.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Hello! Join us next week @unileiden.bsky.social to learn more about histories of ‘Human Development and Its Outliers’. Topics range from histories of ageing, disability and gender to activism AND CATS! All are welcome! email b.m.wesolowski@hum.leidenuniv.nl with any questions/alt text of the program
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Dr. Krista A. Milne @kmilne.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Please help spread the word #medievalsky! Funded PhD position on medieval literary and artistic representations of disability as part of a Vidi project I will be leading that is funded by the Dutch Research Council: www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3592...
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PhD position on medieval representations of disability within the project DISMANTLE
Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS) invites applications for a PhD position on medieval representations of disability within the project DISMANTLE (1.0 fte, 4 years / 0.8 fte, 5 y...
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Daniel Blackie @danielblackie.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
#CFP for a special issue on 'Historical Erasure in the Context of Religion' that might be of interest to #DisHist folks. The editors are esp interested in receiving proposals that foreground premodern perspectives. #Skystorians Deadline for proposals: 31 May 2026 www.mdpi.com/journal/reli...
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H-Soz-Kult @hsozkult.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
CFP: 16th European Social Science History Conference www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-1608… 6900, 01.03.2026-15.04.2026, International Institute of Social History, Bewerbungsschluss: 15.04.2026 16th European Social Science History Conference
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Jessica Reinisch @jessicareinisch.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
3. And on 19 March, the amazing Sandrine Kott will give the @rshc.bsky.social lecture on “Anti-Fascist Internationalism & the United Nations: A Better World for All?”, sign up via www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/anti-fasci...
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Anti-Fascist Internationalism & the United Nations: A Better World for All
Sandrine Kott (University of Geneva) delivers the Raphael Samuel Memorial Lecture 2026
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Ria Kapoor @riakapoor.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Join us for the 4th Rethinking Internationalisms conference, 19-20 March, the line up is brilliant. The @rshc.bsky.social memorial lecture will be delivered as part of the proceedings by Prof. Sandrine Kott (link in thread) and there will be an ECR event on 18 (1/3) www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
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Rethinking Internationalism conference
This conference presents exciting new research on the role and nature of internationalism and international organisations in modern history.
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The Peace Movements Project @peacemovtsproject.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
We are so excited to issue this CFP! If the topic resonates with you, please consider submitting a proposal! More details here: www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2026...
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Ramona Negrón @ramonanegron.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Call for applications | Visiting fellowships 2025-2026 | Royal Netherlands Institute for Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies, Leiden 🇳🇱 Deadline: 21 March 2025 www.kitlv.nl/news/call-fo...
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Call for applications |  Visiting fellowships 2025-2026
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Paul van Trigt @paulvt.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Interview DisFriend: www.universiteitleiden.nl/nieuws/2026/...
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Vriendschap tussen mensen met en zonder beperking: ‘Vaak waardevol voor beide partijen’
Ondanks een toenemende aandacht voor inclusie, worden de eenzaamheidsstatistieken er niet beter op voor mensen met een verstandelijke beperking. Universitair docent Paul van Trigt gaat met een ERC Con...
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Judith Pollmann @judithpollmann.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Heel mooi nieuws! Alicia Schrikker benoemd tot hoogleraar Geschiedenis van Nederland in de Wereld www.universiteitleiden.nl/nieuws/2026/...
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Alicia Schrikker benoemd tot hoogleraar Geschiedenis van Nederland in de Wereld
Het College van Bestuur van de Universiteit Leiden heeft dr. Alicia Schrikker per 1 januari 2026 benoemd tot hoogleraar Geschiedenis van Nederland in de Wereld. De leerstoel is gevestigd aan het Insti...
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Paul van Trigt @paulvt.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
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Promotional Graphic announcing the release of Paul van Trigt's Progress from the Margins: Human Rights and Disability Internationalism Since the 1960s. It includes the book's cover, a blurb, and a 20% discount with code CUP20SM at cup.columbia.edu
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Columbia University Press @columbiaup.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Now available! PROGRESS FROM THE MARGINS is an international history of the struggle for recognition of disability rights at the global level. buff.ly/OFPTdZ8 @paulvt.bsky.social #ProgressMargins #DisabilityInternationalism
Promotional Graphic announcing the release of Paul van Trigt's Progress from the Margins: Human Rights and Disability Internationalism Since the 1960s. It includes the book's cover, a blurb, and a 20% discount with code CUP20SM at cup.columbia.edu.
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Columbia University Press @columbiaup.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
#AHA26 is in full swing. Stop by booth 213 to browse our books and take advantage of the conference discount. Can’t attend in person? Visit us online to explore our featured titles. buff.ly/8qZraYQ
Graphic image featuring a photo of the Columbia University Press booth at #AHA26. It includes the booth number and hours as well as at 20% discount with code CUP20SM at cup.columbia.edu.
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Columbia University Press @columbiaup.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Announcing our new books in History for the 2026-2027 season! #AHA26 attendees, conference -ready by previewing our books today! buff.ly/Tn8pYmO #History #HistoryBooks #USHistory #USAndTheWorld #ReadUP
Promotional graphic announcing that Columbia University Press's new books in history, and their attendance at the American Historical Association Annual Meeting. It includes a graphic for the history catalog, booth hours and a 20% discount with code CUP20SM at cup.columbia.eduPromotional graphic highlighting news books in United States History. It includes 6 book covers and a 20% discount with code CUP20SM at cup.columbia.eduPromotional graphic highlighting news books in United State's and the World . It includes 6 book covers and a 20% discount with code CUP20SM at cup.columbia.eduPromotional graphic highlighting news books in Global History. It includes 6 book covers and a 20% discount with code CUP20SM at cup.columbia.edu
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Paul van Trigt @paulvt.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
New year, new book - great to receive the printed version!
Cover Progress from the Margins. Human Rights and Disability Internationism Since the 1960s
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Paul van Trigt @paulvt.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Amazing news... for a short summary of my new project see: www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025...
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Leiden historian and Arabist awarded ERC Consolidator Grants
Historian Paul van Trigt and Arabist Peter Webb have been awarded Consolidator Grants by the European Research Council (ERC). This grant of up to two million euros will allow them to consolidate their...
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Candida Moss @candidamoss.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
My latest for National Geographic on the pervasive myth that everyone in the ancient world was ableist and eugenist. Featuring the work of @debscavator.bsky.social www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti... @unibirmingham.bsky.social
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Did the ancient Romans really abandon people with disabilities?
New archaeological evidence is helping rewrite old myths about disabled people in the ancient world.
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Paul van Trigt @paulvt.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Great news!
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Paul van Trigt @paulvt.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
My book on human rights and disability internationalism since the 1960s is available for preorder (discount code: CUP20), for more info and kind words of Dagmar Herzog and @samuelmoyn.bsky.social see: cup.columbia.edu/book/progres...
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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
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Daniel Rempel @drempel.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
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.”
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Paul van Trigt @paulvt.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Wonderfull essay on the Brothers Karamazov, with some helpful clues for Knausgard recent books www.newyorker.com/books/second...
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Paul van Trigt @paulvt.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
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...
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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
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H-Soz-Kult @hsozkult.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
CFP: Ethical regimes. Doctors, patients and ethics in colonial and postcolonial medicine www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-1580… Leiden, 22.01.2026-23.01.2026, Fenneke Sysling; Caroline Schep, Leiden University, Bewerbungsschluss: 01.11.2025
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Bess W @besswww.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
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...
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The radical life of the father of independent living
A new book explores disabled activist Ed Roberts' revolutionary career.
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Paul van Trigt @paulvt.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
@danielblackie.bsky.social welcome here Dan! Just discussed a chapter of David and you with my students - and they liked it!
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Fenneke Sysling @fsysling.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
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/...
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H-Soz-Kult @hsozkult.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
CFA: Conceptualizing Disability in History: Europe in a global context www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-1576… Fiesole, 15.11.2025, Austrian Journal of Historical Studies; Monika Baar; Elisa Heinrich, Bewerbungsschluss: 15.11.2025
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Paul van Trigt @paulvt.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Working on the history of "outlier categories" such as age and disability? Check our Call for Papers: www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025...
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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.
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Paul van Trigt @paulvt.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Working on the history of "outlier categories" such as age and disability? Check our Call for Papers: www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025...
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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.
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Carolien Stolte @carolienstolte.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
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!
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Paul van Trigt @paulvt.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Ook interessant: vacature promovendus 'Een Sociale Geschiedenis van Hiv en Aids in Nederland' werkenbij.uva.nl/vacatures/pr...
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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...
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Paul van Trigt @paulvt.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Interessante vacature archivaris Kreukelarchief: erfgoedstem.nl/vacature/arc...
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Archivaris Kreukelarchief (maximaal 32 uur) - De Erfgoedstem
Ben jij een enthousiaste archivaris (x/v/m), die een sterke verbinding heeft met de Nederlandse disability community en bij voorkeur geleefde handicapervaring heeft? Dan zoekt het Kreukelcollectief jo...
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Boyd van Dijk @boydvandijk.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Wiebe Hommes' new book - on the ECHR's reception in the Netherlands - is out www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...
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The Convention and the Kingdom
Cambridge Core - Socio-Legal Studies - The Convention and the Kingdom
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Paul van Trigt @paulvt.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
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...
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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...
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Paul van Trigt @paulvt.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
My new book has a webpage: cup.columbia.edu/book/progres...
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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
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Paul van Trigt @paulvt.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
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...
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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
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