Two PhD Positions (0.9 FTE) in the transnational history of friendship and disability

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2 PhD Positions in the transnational history of friendship and disability The Institute for History at the University of Leiden invites applications for: Two PhD Positions (0.9 FTE) in the transnational history of friendship and disability The PhD candidates will become part of the ERC-funded project “Bridging Minds: Disability and Friendship since the 1960s from a Transnational Moral History Perspective” (DisFriend), led by dr. Paul van Trigt. The expected starting date is 1 September 2026. Project description: This project will follow and contextualize how influential international organizations and communities in which people with and without disabilities have lived and worked together in countries all over the world, constructed, practiced and strived for friendship as a “moral good” since the 1960s. By analyzing under-investigated archival data, published stories, and by conducting oral history interviews, DisFriend will enrich historiography with the history of overlooked but influential counter-hegemonic internationalisms and a rewriting of the history of community care from the perspective of cognitively disabled people. Moreover, DisFriend’s transnational moral history app...