The Disability History Working Group is conceived as a welcoming and collaborative forum for exploring key texts and emerging ideas in disability history and disability studies. This initiative is deliberately modest in scale: a space for exchanging reflections, engaging with scholarship that informs or challenges our research paths, and approaching disability-related questions freely and creatively.
Although the group originates in our own academic interests, it is open to anyone keen to think more deeply about disability in the present and the past – including those who may not consider their work part of the field but are interested in broader questions of the body, social norms, health, care, inequality, intersectionality, identity or activism from a disability perspective. Our hope is that the group will help foster a stronger presence of disability history and disability studies at the EUI and serve as a meeting point for diverse perspectives and disciplines.
We organise a monthly reading group in which we read and discuss texts related to the history of disability (including, at times, our own research). On occasion, we also invite scholars from outside the EUI to present their work.
For information about upcoming activities, please reach out to us at DisHistWG@eui.eu or email any of the convenors