Pedagogies of Hope and the Leuven DisABILITY Film Festival

by Pieter VerstraeteIntroductionThe discourse surrounding hope in pedagogy has evolved over decades, shaping the way educators conceptualize their roles in fostering optimism and agency among students. This paper explores the seminal ideas of Dutch historian of education Lea...

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Perspectives on the Historical Approach to Dementia

by Laura DietlDementia has, thus far, received little attention in Disability History. This post aims to change that. Firstly, dementia’s relevance to the field will be established, along with key methodological challenges. A brief historical overview of how dementia has been...

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“Thou lump of foul deformity”: Richard III, William Shakespeare, and The Lost King

By Emmeline BurdettThe 2022 film ‘The Lost King’ tells the story of how the remains of the last Plantagenet king of England, Richard III (1452-1485) were rediscovered in a car park in Leicester, in 2012. (The Plantagenet dynasty ruled England from 1154 until 1485 and was succeeded...

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Disability history in the classroom – the LETHE-project

By Sebastian Barsch & Andreas HübnerDisability History is not only an academic subject. The question of the social construction of disability also raises fundamental questions about how power is distributed in a society, how normality and abnormality are defined and how...

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The "Counter-Monument" of the Grey Buses: Emotion Networking as a Method for Public Disability History

By Janneke van der Heide & Jan-Christian WilkeningIntroduction Remembering the crimes committed against people with disabilities during the Nazi era as part of the T4 program is organized in many ways in Germany. Exhibitions and memorial sites are an integral part of this...

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