Paul van Trigt
Historicus | Leiden University | History of disability, human rights, global health, welfare, religion
- Reposted by Paul van TrigtCall 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/...
- Reposted by Paul van TrigtHeel mooi nieuws! Alicia Schrikker benoemd tot hoogleraar Geschiedenis van Nederland in de Wereld www.universiteitleiden.nl/nieuws/2026/...
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- 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...
- The results of the ERC Consolidator Grant call have been announced! 📣 349 researchers have been selected for funding. Congratulations to all! #ERCCogG! 👉 buff.ly/uu62uFV #FrontierResearch #EUfunded #HorizonEurope @scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu
- Reposted by Paul van TrigtMy 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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- Records of the International Federation of Persons with Physical Disability available at @archivum.org Great holdings, and they also offer fellowships with stipend. #dishist archivum.org/news/executi...
- 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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- 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...
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CFP: Ethical regimes. Doctors, patients and ethics in colonial and postcolonial medicine hsozkult.de/event/id/event-158042 Leiden, 22.01.2026-23.01.2026, Fenneke Sysling; Caroline Schep, Leiden University, Bewerbungsschluss: 01.11.2025 - Reposted by Paul van Trigt[Not loaded yet]
- @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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- Working on the history of "outlier categories" such as age and disability? Check our Call for Papers: www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025...
- Reposted by Paul van TrigtOur 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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- 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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- 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...
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- 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...
- Reposted by Paul van TrigtExciting 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/...
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- Including my reflection on this pioneering book
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- 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...
- Reposted by Paul van TrigtHot 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.
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- Reposted by Paul van TrigtCall for proposals for a new Handbook of the Histories of Internationalism, deadline 1 March 2025. Looking forward to your proposals! More info here: csi.bbk.ac.uk/blog/call-fo...
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- Reposted by Paul van TrigtHou je van geschiedenis? Hier lees je binnenkort verhalen van historici over hun onderzoek. Daarvoor hebben we eerst wat volgers nodig. Wil je ons helpen? ➡️ Volg ons om op de hoogte te blijven! 🔁 Repost = fijn! (1/4)
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- Sliding into the weekend with Aaron Parks new Little Big III "Parks is now at a stage in his life where acceptance, humility and levity are crucial" www.bluenote.com/spotlight/aa...
- Mooie startbijeenkomst Collelo gehad met op de foto de twee promovendi van het project met mede-organisator Ellen van Heek
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- Woensdag gaat het door NWO gesubsidieerde Collelo project officieel van start: www.prokkel.nl/bijeenkomst/...
- New article out in special issue about Disability and Family Care in Modern European History: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
- Excited to have signed the contract for my monograph on human rights and disability internationalism since the 1960s with Columbia University Press
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- And tomorrow I'll grade student's papers :)
- Today I am discussant at the conference Recolonizing Empire during the Cold War, that addresses the often overlooked role of INGOs www.uu.nl/en/events/in...
- Yesterday I presented a paper on the history of cell therapy for Down Syndrome (online in Sofia: celab.ceu.edu/article/2024...), received very helpful feedback to further elaborate on this topic (that I plan to do as part of a new research project about models of 'human development')
- This afternoon I partipate in a roundtable about migration and disability, very much looking forward to it! www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...
- Happy to see this volume out in the world, including a chapter about archiving disability activism in the digital age by Eline Pollaert and myself networkcultures.org/blog/publica...
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- Een paar gedachten over eenzaamheidsonderzoek/ a few thoughts on loneliness research: www.historyhealthhealing.nl/hhh-column-t...
- Come work with Isaac Scarborough and me on international ageing policies as a postdoc: www.universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/20...
- En voor een nieuw historisch project over de levensloop zoek ik samen met Evelien Walhout en Marlou Schrover een promovendus: www.universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/20...
