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

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...

#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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

Interview DisFriend: www.universiteitleiden.nl/nieuws/2026/...

Heel mooi nieuws! Alicia Schrikker benoemd tot hoogleraar Geschiedenis van Nederland in de Wereld www.universiteitleiden.nl/nieuws/2026/...

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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

#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

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

New year, new book - great to receive the printed version!

Amazing news... for a short summary of my new project see: www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/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

Great news!

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...

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.”

Wonderfull essay on the Brothers Karamazov, with some helpful clues for Knausgard recent books www.newyorker.com/books/second...

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...

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

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...

@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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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/...

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

Working on the history of "outlier categories" such as age and disability? Check our Call for Papers: www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025...

Working on the history of "outlier categories" such as age and disability? Check our Call for Papers: www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/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!

Ook interessant: vacature promovendus 'Een Sociale Geschiedenis van Hiv en Aids in Nederland' werkenbij.uva.nl/vacatures/pr...

Interessante vacature archivaris Kreukelarchief: erfgoedstem.nl/vacature/arc...

Wiebe Hommes' new book - on the ECHR's reception in the Netherlands - is out www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...

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...

My new book has a webpage: cup.columbia.edu/book/progres...

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...

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/...

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!

Including my reflection on this pioneering book

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!

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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.

This ESSHC came a bit too early for presentations about my loneliness (see www.universiteitleiden.nl/onderzoek/on...) and migration (see www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2024...) project, hopefully we will have results for ESSHC2027!

This week I am participating in the ESSHC conference in Leiden, tomorrow I have co-organized a panel related to the "Human development and its outliers" project, see for an intro www.historyhealthhealing.nl/hhh-column-l...

Hot on the heels of the first AHRC Rethinking Internationalisms conference on ‘Counter-hegemonic Internationalisms’, here is the CfP (5 May deadline) for our next ONLINE workshop ‘New Methods for New Histories’, with @jessicareinisch.bsky.social , @drmargottudor.bsky.social , Daniel Laqua and me.

What a conference! Something that started in our minds as a ‘little workshop’ turned into this amazing, intense display of so many fantastic projects & ways of thinking about internationalism

#Skystorians #AcademicSky #History We’re delighted to be supporting the AHRC-funded conference on ‘Counter-Hegemonic Internationalisms: Perspectives from the Past’, which is taking place at @northumbriauni.bsky.social this week. Programme here research.northumbria.ac.uk/glo/?p=1341

Delighted to share a free copy of my book chapter on marriage, intimacy and adulthood in disabled people’s lives and activism. This is part of 'Adulthood in Britain and the United States from 1350 to Generation Z', all open access thanks to Knowledge Unlatched. www.jstor.org/stable/jj.22...