Time and location
14 June 2017
17:00 – 18:00 hrs.
Wijnhaven Building
Turfmarkt 99
2511 DP Den Haag
Room 3.46
News
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!