Nikolaos Papadogiannis
Dad; Senior Lecturer in European History, University of Stirling; UKRI Future Leaders Fellow studying the history of global HIV activism; writes in personal capacity
- Reposted by Nikolaos PapadogiannisNikolaos Papadogiannis @npapadogian.bsky.social reviews 'Radical Acts: HIV/AIDS Activism in Late Twentieth-Century England', by George J. Severs @georgesevers.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social
- A belated, but hopefully still relevant set of thoughts on the #WorldAIDSDay: the voices of #sex #workers who have been active in HIV activism, as well as those of their allies, need to become more prominent in research and broader public discussions on the subject matter. A thread.
- This is crucial due to the criminalisation of sex work in several countries, its material and emotional impact on sex workers, but also such criminalisation's impact on the sex workers' limited access to HIV and AIDS prevention and treatment programmes.
- It is also timely in the context of the increasing stigmatisation of sex workers, coupled in many cases with the spike in transphobia in several countries across the world.
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View full threadLast but not least, the interview of Pia Covre (in Italian), conducted by Rachel Love. Covre is a co-founder of the Comitato per i diritti civili delle prostitute (CDCP)The transcript is available here: taa.st-andrews.ac.uk/2023/01/16/i...
- Reposted by Nikolaos PapadogiannisCfP "Doing #MigrationHistory with Digital Methods", #DigHum #MigHist, am @dhi-paris.fr: www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve....
- During this Transgender Awareness Week, I am sharing my work on the pioneering role of #transgender people in #HIV activism in Athens, Greece: www.storre.stir.ac.uk/handle/1893/...
- Reposted by Nikolaos PapadogiannisThanks to Frederik Doktor for this very thoughtful conference report on a wonderful and very stimulating workshop about "Intimacies on the Move"! And of course to @chreinecke.bsky.social, Benno Gammerl, @npapadogian.bsky.social and @uschaper.bsky.social for bringing us together in lovely Flensburg!
- The conference report by Frederik Doktor about our #Workshop Intimacies on the Move that explored the intersecting #histories of #mobilities, #migration, #gender and #sexuality has just been published. I so much enjoyed meeting everybody and discussing their fascinating research!
- Reposted by Nikolaos Papadogiannis#EATGatEACS2025 ❤️ CORE Local Multi-Stakeholders’ Meeting: From Margins to Mainstream – Community-Led Strategies for Inclusive Health and Policy for Sex Workers in France 📅 14 October 2025 🕐 13:30 – 18:00 📍 Amnesty International www.eatg.org/events/core-... #EACS2025 @eacsociety.bsky.social
- Taking place on Monday, 22 September!
- Well done, colleagues!
- UCU Bangor pass a motion of no confidence in the VC and CFO of @bangoruniversity.bsky.social over sweeping cuts Members are now balloting for industrial action with staff at "breaking point" over 200 potential job losses www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- This very interesting event is forthcoming!
- Pleased to announce with @npapadogian.bsky.social a new books event series, featuring Maria Alexopoulou discussing her two(!) recent books with @laurenstokes.bsky.social. Virtual event, Monday, September 22, at 12pm EDT. purdue-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
- Reposted by Nikolaos PapadogiannisDelighted to welcome the University of Stirling and @npapadogian.bsky.social to the Northern Network for Medical Humanities Research Steering Group. We're looking forward to collaborating with you and your colleagues! nnmh.org.uk/university-o...
- Thought-provoking approach to identity politics to be discussed at this exciting workshop: laoms.org/workshop-ide... The organisers welcome contributions from the perspective of the history of sexuality and gender. Deadline falling soon!
- I am curious about ways in which this approach to identity could come into dialogue with queer studies.
- Looking forward to the presentation of Maria Alexopoulou’s books!
- Pleased to announce with @npapadogian.bsky.social a new books event series, featuring Maria Alexopoulou discussing her two(!) recent books with @laurenstokes.bsky.social. Virtual event, Monday, September 22, at 12pm EDT. purdue-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
- Great initiative!
- #History #AcademicSky History PhDs/ECRs: working on an article? We are running a workshop on 'Writing History Articles' @histassoc.bsky.social in London on 19 Sept. See below for details, deadline 20 Aug. Some (limited) travel support available. www.history.org.uk/higher-ed/re...
- Reposted by Nikolaos PapadogiannisThe European court of justice finds that Hungary’s law which seeks to ban LGBTQ+ issues from schools and TV (their even nastier version of Section 28) violates basic human rights and freedom of expression.
- Are any friends who live in Edinburgh, Glasgow or Stirling subletting their apartment in June? If so, could you please send me a personal message?
- A must read.
- Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
- Delighted to share the news that from August 2025 I will be a Senior Lecturer in #Contemporary #European #History at the University of Stirling!
- Great news!
- ✨UNHEARD Paperback✨ out in 2 months. Hoping that this will make it much more accessible price wise. Available to preorder now ! www.waterstones.com/book/unheard...
- Reposted by Nikolaos PapadogiannisPredictably, the government seems to be choosing exactly the wrong response. There is no win here to be had - they won't be able to control the outcome.
- Please consider signing and spreading the word: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
- It was an honour for me to interview the authors of Our Stories Told by Us ( ourstoriestoldbyus.com) for my research project, and learn about their exciting plans. Their work is so important in very challenging times for people living with HIV!
- Reposted by Nikolaos PapadogiannisThere’s never been any difference between women’s and trans rights: what went on in America demonstrated that!!! Anti trans groups were prepared to look the other way over Roe v Wade, in return for Republican targeting of trans people.
- Reposted by Nikolaos PapadogiannisResearch finds Mpox vaccine less effective for people living with HIV. Two doses are needed. i-base.info/htb/50751
- Reposted by Nikolaos PapadogiannisVery excited that the The Routledge Handbook of Sexuality in East Central Europe has been just published! You'll find my chapter on Italian men, Western goods and transactional sex in 1960s Hungary chilling alongside some other excellent pieces in Section 6 🤩 www.routledge.com/9781032069647
- Reposted by Nikolaos Papadogiannisfirmly believe more of us should do this more often
- Reposted by Nikolaos PapadogiannisWhat's the value and use of history in contemporary society and culture? The Society's new Open Access short-form book series - 'Elements in History and Contemporary Society', with @cambridgeup.bsky.social - looks explore this question. Proposals now invited bit.ly/4aqCiG4 1/2 👇 #Skystorians
- Reposted by Nikolaos PapadogiannisJoin us for IHR@Sheffield! Frank Trentmann (Birkbeck) speaks on "Complicity, Conscience and Compassion: History and Morality in Germany since the Second World War" The lecture will take place at the University of Sheffield on Wednesday, 30 April, at 4:15pm. Save the date, more details to follow
- Reposted by Nikolaos PapadogiannisFor Peace! Exhibition Opening Thursday 17th April , 5:30pm to 7:30pm RSVP here: womenslibrary.org.uk/event/for-pe...
- Spot on
- Reposted by Nikolaos PapadogiannisSix funded PhDs, Centre for Sciences of Place and Memory, Univ Stirling (Scotland). Join our team in philosophy, cognitive sciences, social sciences, & arts to study spatial thinking, disorientation, cities, truth & the past. Deadline 22 April, guidelines placememory.net/apply-now-fo...
- Reposted by Nikolaos PapadogiannisI love this! So cool! 🔮
- Reposted by Nikolaos PapadogiannisSuper looking PhD opportunities here! www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/initiatives/...
- Reposted by Nikolaos PapadogiannisIn times where queer studies is attacked and queer history is erased I want to thank again @mikelaufenberg.bsky.social and @bentrott.bsky.social for this book. I've just read a great BA Thesis using your translations of these canonical texts, making them more accessible to German-speaking students!
- Reposted by Nikolaos PapadogiannisDrag Raise is back! This year's star-studded event is hosted by RuPaul's Drag Race UK season 5 winner, the amazing @GingerJohnson_! Book the hottest tickets of the summer, now! www.outsavvy.com/eve...
- Reposted by Nikolaos PapadogiannisDespite having the ability to treat and prevent HIV the US still has 30,000 new HIV cases each year. Urgent work to address this has been defunded. US HIV cases are likely to soar as a result. Trump is taking the US back to the 1980s. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
- Reposted by Nikolaos PapadogiannisWhen I told my mother I was gay she said, “Well I expect you’ll get AIDS and die then.” She didn’t mean it cruelly. In 1985 that was normal. She became an outstanding LGBTQ ally, marching at Pride and wearing a red ribbon every day. Love to all mothers who love and support their gay children.
- Reposted by Nikolaos PapadogiannisLauren Stokes’ book on how the fear of family migration shaped German immigration policy in the Cold War remains relevant to understanding the current drift. global.oup.com/academic/pro...
- Reposted by Nikolaos PapadogiannisWhat a wonderful book launch Rachel and I had at the University of Glasgow! Reimagining Citizenship in Cold War Europe just came out last month. It features cutting-edge research from twelve brilliant scholars and is available Open Access: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
- Reposted by Nikolaos Papadogiannis"in FYE 2024, 28% of children in the UK were in material deprivation." Let that sink in. Read this damning report. Then demand better for our children. www.gov.uk/government/s...
- Reposted by Nikolaos PapadogiannisLenin discovering Alexander Kerensky has accidentally added him to the Provisional Government group chat.
- Reposted by Nikolaos PapadogiannisClive has made this super easy! There is not a person in this country who isn't sick to death of raw sewage along our coasts, precious chalk streams in crisis &water company bosses laughing all the way to the bank. Water is a right and rights should NEVER be privatized! Write to your MP below!.
- Privatisation has failed. My Private Members Water Bill is an unmissable chance to put public ownership of our water back on the table as a solution. In less than 2 minutes, you can make sure your MP attends my Bill’s crucial debate on 28th March: actionnetwork.org/letters/ask-...
- Looking forward to discussing how to decenter #histories of the “#sexual #revolution” in Europe with @siobhanhearne.bsky.social , Anita Buhin and Anna Dobrowolska tomorrow at 16.30 at the #ESSHC !
- It was great to run with @sagebrice.bsky.social a workshop on Graphic Research Methods and Queer Medical Humanities! I have learnt so much from the discussion! Many thanks to @durhamimh.bsky.social for making this event a safe space to address sensitive issues.
- Looking forward to running today’s workshop on Graphic Research Methods with @npapadogian.bsky.social for the @durhamimh.bsky.social Queer Methodologies PhD School @geogdurham.bsky.social
- Reposted by Nikolaos PapadogiannisLooking forward to running today’s workshop on Graphic Research Methods with @npapadogian.bsky.social for the @durhamimh.bsky.social Queer Methodologies PhD School @geogdurham.bsky.social
- Reposted by Nikolaos PapadogiannisWe expected 2,000 people out in GOP-held Greeley, Colorado. 11,000 people showed up. Something special is happening, folks. Now is the time to organize in every dimension possible and get to work.
- Reposted by Nikolaos PapadogiannisHospital cleaners who remove deadly infections at a central London hospital have no break room, no proper shower and have to take uniforms soiled with faeces on public transport to wash at home. Photo shows they are mostly people of colour. They are striking on Monday.
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- Reposted by Nikolaos PapadogiannisLol @cardiffuni.bsky.social is just another example of the tragic circus that UKHE has become
- Winnie Sseruma has indeed been a pioneer HIV activist in the UK. Let’s read carefully what she says.
- “And here we are, 20 years on, still talking about HIV, and still talking about the stigma surrounding it. " Winnie Sseruma, an incredible HIV activist and healthcare advocate for over 20 years, shares her advice on combating stigma. nat.org.uk/about-hiv/pe...
- Reposted by Nikolaos Papadogiannis"As a trans woman who has been living with #HIV for a long time, I feel like it’s a privilege to get older. A privilege that many of my friends didn’t have." Rebecca de Havilland, HIV activist and member of our Community Advisory Group, shares her story: nat.org.uk/views/we-all...
- Reposted by Nikolaos PapadogiannisI don’t even know how this could be presented as being in service of anything other than hindering scientific progress.
- I do look forward to working with @histowho.bsky.social !
- February has been an intense month, full of new developments, but I am especially excited to announce that I am joining @npapadogian.bsky.social’s project on the Global History of HIV/AIDS as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Stirling. A new and incredible chapter 🦄.
- Reposted by Nikolaos PapadogiannisFebruary has been an intense month, full of new developments, but I am especially excited to announce that I am joining @npapadogian.bsky.social’s project on the Global History of HIV/AIDS as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Stirling. A new and incredible chapter 🦄.
- A reminder that we are advertising the three #postdoctoral positions below on the global #histories of #HIV and #AIDS activism! Deadline: 16 March 2025.
- Reposted by Nikolaos PapadogiannisLabour MP tells parliament he's living with HIV in a 'body blow to HIV stigma'
- Reposted by Nikolaos PapadogiannisAllow editor @psimonetto.bsky.social to introduce himself and more about the series: youtube.com/shorts/L2IEc... 👋⬇️
- Exciting news!
- It is launch day!!! We can finally announce the new book series with @manchesterup.bsky.social on Queer and Trans Histories. Help spread the word! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/queer...
- Reposted by Nikolaos PapadogiannisDEI explained
- On the project, see: ghiv.stir.ac.uk
