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Elisa Heinrich

@elisaheinrich.bsky.social

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max weber fellow in history @eui-eu.bsky.social, florence | queer history; disability history; activism; memory politics | current project on disability rights in Central Europe since 1970s | former visiting professor @univie.ac.at

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Elisa Heinrich @elisaheinrich.bsky.social · 6d

I am excited to share this call for papers for a special issue on Conceptualizing Disability in History, which I’m co-editing with Monika Baar for the Austrian Journal of Historical Studies.

Please share among your networks, we are very much looking forward to your contributions!

H-Soz-Kult @hsozkult.bsky.social · 12d

CFA: Conceptualizing Disability in History: Europe in a global context

https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-157618

Fiesole, 15.11.2025, Austrian Journal of Historical Studies; Monika Baar; Elisa Heinrich, Bewerbungsschluss: 15.11.2025

www.hsozkult.de

Elisa Heinrich @elisaheinrich.bsky.social · Aug 13

Also mit Ohr bis Knöchel war ich schon gut dabei. Aber Bodykuss ist offenbar alles, was überbleibt. Der Nicht-Hand/nicht-Wange/nicht-intim-Kuss etc.

Ich frag mich jetzt ob mir diese Widersprüchlichkeit schon als Teenie aufgefallen wär oder ob das die kulturwissenschaftliche Ausbildung ist…

Elisa Heinrich @elisaheinrich.bsky.social · Aug 13

Ich lieb‘s wie der Bodykuss einfach mal eine Kategorie ist. Von Ohr bis Knöchel - es ist und bleibt ein Bodykuss.

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Elisa Heinrich @elisaheinrich.bsky.social · Aug 12

Same!! Ich hatte nr 8. Feeling like a dinosaur now.

Elisa Heinrich @elisaheinrich.bsky.social · Aug 10

I'm just about to finish Who's afraid of gender? It was obviously written before Trump was elected and a lot of terrible things hadn't happened yet, so it also makes me kind of sad sometimes. But it's still a call to action, and as sharp as ever.

Elisa Heinrich @elisaheinrich.bsky.social · Aug 9

Saved this for styling goals but well (at least he wears glasses)

A young man with blond hair, a blue button down shirt, blue jeans, glasses, and a cigarette in his right hand.

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Elisa Heinrich @elisaheinrich.bsky.social · Aug 8

Oh wow, I need this!!

Elisa Heinrich @elisaheinrich.bsky.social · Aug 6

I loved how you emphasised the importance of history in bringing about change today. 'There can be healing in learning that this is not a new fight'. Really powerful!

Elisa Heinrich @elisaheinrich.bsky.social · Aug 6

Finally got around to listening to this episode! I really enjoyed it. Especially liked it when you talked about how queer/trans/disabled communities often feel like they have to reinvent the wheel because it’s so common that the histories of struggles, strategies and resistance have been forgotten.

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Elisa Heinrich @elisaheinrich.bsky.social · Jul 31

This project is fantastic. Reading your interview with Joan Scott (again) and gaining so much from it. Thank you!

Elisa Heinrich @elisaheinrich.bsky.social · Jul 27

Thank you!! I'd completely forgotten that someone had recommended Are You My Mother? to me. I think I'll read that next. And I read Dykes to Watch Out For a long time ago, it was a must-read and kind of a rite of passage when joining my first queer group in Vienna 😀

Elisa Heinrich @elisaheinrich.bsky.social · Jul 26

Can’t wait to read this! Fun Home blew my mind. Never felt this with a graphic novel before. I think I’ll read it again while waiting for Spent.

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Elisa Heinrich @elisaheinrich.bsky.social · Jul 20

I was about to say what they would think …

Elisa Heinrich @elisaheinrich.bsky.social · Jul 16

Can’t wait to read (your review and the book)!

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Elisa Heinrich @elisaheinrich.bsky.social · Jul 15

That’s so great, thank you for the link!

Elisa Heinrich @elisaheinrich.bsky.social · Jul 7

Haha, go Mikael! (Same here.)

Elisa Heinrich @elisaheinrich.bsky.social · Jul 4

Really sad I missed this.

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Elisa Heinrich @elisaheinrich.bsky.social · Jun 10

What a great day, full of inspiring conversations about positionality, agency, and intimacy in oral history. I learnt a lot from the keynote speakers and the researchers' projects. Thank you so much to @zsofia-v.bsky.social and @georgiakat.bsky.social for organising it.

Zsófia Veszely @zsofia-v.bsky.social · Jun 10

THANK YOU to the participants of our Sensitive Matters oral history workshop @georgiakat.bsky.social @eui-history.bsky.social ✨ keynotes Dr Natalya Benkhaled-Vince and Dr Ráhel Turai ✨ chairs @mboluferp.bsky.social @elisaheinrich.bsky.social Monika Baár, Benno Gammerl ✨ poster emeseveszely.com

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Elisa Heinrich @elisaheinrich.bsky.social · Jun 1

Love the cover!!

Elisa Heinrich @elisaheinrich.bsky.social · May 20

I’ve been through that as well. There is a live version in which Dolly Parton sings “who needs Sheena Easton”, getting back at Kenny for having done a duet with her on We’ve got tonight.

Elisa Heinrich @elisaheinrich.bsky.social · May 17

Happy to share that my article on the impending criminalisation of female homosexuality in Germany before WWI is now available open access. I look at the reasons why women's rights activists didn't publicly protest against it, despite many of them living in intimate relationships with each other.

Equal Rights, equal Punishment? German Feminists discuss the impending Criminalisation of Female Homosexuality before World War I

With the Vorentwurf zu einem deutschen Strafgesetz (Proposal for a new German criminal code) in 1909 the “female homosexual” was identified as a criminal category in Germany. Where paragraph 175 had c...

www.academia.edu

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Elisa Heinrich @elisaheinrich.bsky.social · May 10

The papers are not online but the panel convenors are planning to publish them! I will post about that. And thanks so much for pointing out the necessity to use alt text (and posting the link on how to do it here) - I will definitely be doing that from now on!

Elisa Heinrich @elisaheinrich.bsky.social · Mar 30

That would be amazing!

Elisa Heinrich @elisaheinrich.bsky.social · Mar 30

That sounds super exciting!

Elisa Heinrich @elisaheinrich.bsky.social · Mar 30

Excellent papers by Bianca Frohne, Julia Heinemann, Kofi Asihene, and @catsbeck.bsky.social. Our conversation between early modern and modern disability history is only just beginning!

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