We are pleased to announce that Yale University professor of law and history Samuel Moyn will be giving a lecture at Leiden University on June 13th. The renowned scholar in the field of European intellectual history and human rights history will be discussing the relationship of human rights law and movements to their global economic context between the successive eras of national welfare states and of neoliberal globalization.
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Historians without Borders: Writing Histories of International Organizations
Leiden University – 22-23 March 2018
This workshop is organized by the ERC project ‘Rethinking Disability’. It is intended to bring together early-career researchers from different fields working on international organizations, to discuss methodological challenges together with peers and established scholars. A combination of a master class, keynote lectures, and roundtable discussions aims at providing an informal and interactive setting for the exchange of ideas and perspectives. (more…)
CFP: Historians without Borders: Writing Histories of International Organizations
Leiden University – 22-23 March 2018
This workshop is organized by the ERC project ‘Rethinking Disability’. It is intended to bring together early-career researchers from different fields working on international organizations, to discuss methodological challenges together with peers and established scholars. A combination of a master class, keynote lectures, and roundtable discussions aims at providing an informal and interactive setting for the exchange of ideas and perspectives. Confirmed speakers include:
- Davide Rodogno (The Graduate Institute, Geneva)
- Corinne Pernet (University of Geneva)
- Kiran Patel (Maastricht University)
Public lecture: UN Ideas That Changed the World by Prof. Thomas G. Weiss, 14 June
Time and location
14 June 2017
17:00 – 18:00 hrs.
Wijnhaven Building
Turfmarkt 99
2511 DP Den Haag
Room 3.46
Conference Programme ‘Calendar Propaganda’ of Human Rights? Historical Perspectives on the United Nations’ Global Observances
Conference at Leiden University (location The Hague), on 14-16 June, 2017. Venue: https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/locations/wijnhaven-building#tab-1 (Wijnhaven Building, room 318)
A .PDF document with the programme is also available here
“Mindervalide is geen synoniem van zielig, Meryl”
Recently Anaïs van Ertvelde has written opinion piece in Dutch for the Belgian newspaper DeMorgen entitled: “Mindervalide is geen synoniem van zielig, Meryl” (“Disability is not a synonym for pitiable, Meryl”), wherein she critically discusses the treatment of disability by Hollywood.
Click here (pdf.1) and here (pdf.2) to read the article.
Alternatively, you can read the article demorgen.be(paywall).
Introduction of PhD candidates
The PhD candidates of our project are introduced in the newsletter of the Leiden Institute for History: https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2016/12/introducing-phd-candidates-erc-project-rethinking-disability
Preliminary programme
The preliminary programme of our first workshop (19-20 January) is published: https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/binaries/content/assets/geesteswetenschappen/institute-for-history/programme-whose-welfare-prelim.pdf
Save the date 14-16 June
Save the date: on 14-16 June we will organize a conference about the history of United Nations observances, more information will be available as soon as possible!