Lecture Disability Beyond the 'from Isolation to Integration Narrative' The History of Self-Governing Communities in Europe Add to calendar 2026-03-25 11:00 2026-03-25 12:30 Europe/Rome Disability Beyond the 'from Isolation to Integration Narrative' Sala del Consiglio Villa Salviati - Castle YYYY-MM-DD Print Share: Share on Facebook Share on BlueSky Share on X Share on LinkedIn Send by email Scheduled dates Mar 25 2026 11:00 - 12:30 CET Sala del Consiglio, Villa Salviati - Castle Organised by Department of History EUI Professor Monika Baár will give a talk in the framework of the History Department Monthly Research Meetings. The talk focuses on the local, national and international aspects of the history of Het Dorp, a self-governing, accessible residential community for approximately 400 people with severe physical disabilities which was built in the Netherlands in the 1960s. It will show how the residents of Het Dorp succeeded in becoming vehicles of change, despite the top-down nature of its governance. The community became a point of reference in several countries, including the US, East and West Germany, Austria, Japan and Hungary; both as an inspiration to follow and as a nightmare to avoid. Of these connections, special attention will be paid to a small residential community that came into being in Hungary in the early 1990s and for which Het Dorp provided generous funding and expertise. The overall aim of the talk is to contribute to the diversification of existing explanatory frameworks of disability history, which often oversee developments that do not fit the template of grassroots activism. Register