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Paul van Trigt
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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...
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)
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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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
(New Issue) (Re)thinking the history of mental disorder and psychiatry: an approach through the South(s) histoiresante.blogspot.com/2026/04/repe... #histpsych
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 [email protected] with any questions/alt text of the program
Paul van Trigt
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...
Paul van Trigt
#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
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Book presentation by Paul van Trigt (University of Leiden)
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/...
For the project DisFriend, I am looking for two PhD candidates: www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3610...
Paul van Trigt
CFP: 16th European Social Science History Conference
https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-160834
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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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...
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...
