The School of Arts and Humanities
The study of eugenics and race is currently undergoing a remarkable transformation - one defined by society's need to engage with scientific advances and the ethical dilemmas they raise on the one hand, and the investigation of hitherto neglected case studies on the other. The inclusion and juxtaposition of national and international histories of race and eugenics lies at the heart of this international collaboration that strives to not only yield original and timely research on these neglected national case studies, but to redefine and diversify the overarching debates on these particularly turbulent periods of modern history.
Both images adapted from The Calendar of Social Assistance, Romania, 1924
The Working Group's ability to innovate and improve upon existing scholarship through a truly international transfer of knowledge is not only evident in the broad geographical diversity of its participants, but the intensity and frequency of scholarly interactions it continuously promotes. The Working Group aims to build an encompassing framework of interpretation that transcends national boundaries that can serve to strengthen academic collaborations between various countries in Europe, the US and Latin America.
Another of the Working Group's core ambitions is to invest in the long-term future of young scholars aspiring towards a genuine trans-national agenda. It is assumed that the success of the Working Group will convince its members' home institutions of the need to provide further financial and logistical support for subsequent events. Thus, by creating a network of international scholars working in the broad area of eugenics and race, the Working Group will help to foster new interdisciplinary agendas that push the frontiers of academic research, while staying connected to political developments concerning racial and gender equality in the twentieth-first century.
Members
Director:
- Dr. Marius Turda (Oxford Brookes University)
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Research Coordinator:
- Dr. Tudor Georgescu (Oxford Brookes University)
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Members:
UK
- Alexandra Barmpouti (Oxford Brookes University)
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Australia
- Prof. Fay Brauer (University of New South Wales)
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Austria
- Dr. Margit Berner (Museum of Natural History, Vienna)
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- Dr. Claudia Spring (Independent Scholar, Vienna)
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Bulgaria
- Gergana Mircheva (St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia)
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Croatia
- Dr. Željko Dugac (Division for the History of Medicine, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Zagreb)
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Czech Republic
- Dr. Michal Šimůnek (Research assistant of history and biology, Charles-University, Prague)
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France
- Dr. Louise Lyle (University of London Institute, Paris)
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Germany
- Dr. Björn Michael Felder (Institut für Kultur und Geschichte der Deutschen in Nordosteuropa e.V., Hamburg)
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- Dr. Sevasti Trubeta (Free University Berlin, Berlin)
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Greece
- Dr. Despina Karakatsani (Department of Social and Educational Policy, University of Peloponnese)
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Hungary
- Dr. Attila Melegh (Demographic Research Institute, Budapest)
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- Dr. Benedek Varga (Semmelweis Museum, Budapest)
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Israel
- Dr. Amos Morris-Reich (University of Haifa)
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Italy
- Dr. Francesco Cassata (University of Turin)
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Lituania
- Dr. Arunas Germanavicius (University of Vilnius)
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Poland
- Dr. Magdalena Gawin (Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw)
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Romania
- Dr. Răzvan Pârâianu (University of Târgu Mures, Târgu Mures)
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Serbia
- Vladimir Petrovic (Phd Candidate, Central European University, Budapest)
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Slovenia
- Ana Cergol (Phd Candidate, University of Ljubljana)
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United States
- Rachel Boaz (Baldwin Wallace College, Berea)
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Further Information:
Relevant Links
'CEU Studies in the History of Medicine' Book Series
International Society for the History of Medicine
International Working Group on Lysenkoism
Upcoming Events
11th Meeting: International Conference: “Crafting Humans: From Genesis to Eugenics and Beyond.” 8-10 September 2011, The Queen's College, Oxford.
Past Events
10th Meeting: International Workshop: "Health and Society: Private and Public Medical Traditions in Greece and the Balkans (1453-1920)." 8 - 10 December 2010, Athens, Greece. (Paper Abstracts)
9th Meeting: International Workshop: "Museums of Medicine in Past and Present: Innovating the use of Medical Collections as Public and Private Academic Resources." 12-14 May 2010, Semmelweis Museum, Budapest, Hungary.
8th Meeting: "Networking the Past: Historical Network Analysis, Eugenics and Biopolitics in the 20th Century." 14 - 16 April 2010, Vienna, Austria.
7th Meeting: "Eugenics, Race and Psychiatry in the Baltic States: A Trans-National Perspective." 7 - 8 May 2009, Goethe-Institut Riga, Latvia. (Conference Report)
2nd Seminar: "Child Welfare, Prostitution and Sexual Politics: Contemporary Perspectives." 22 April 2009, Oxford Brookes University.
6th Meeting: "Medicine within and between the Empires (Habsburg and Ottoman), XVII to early XX Centuries." 21 - 23 November 2008, The Medical University of Vienna, Austria.
5th Meeting: "Eugenics, Modernisation and Biopolitics." 18 - 19 April 2008, Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Science Warsaw, Poland.
1st Seminar: "Criminal Anthropology and Psychiatry in Modern Romania, 1860-1945." 1. April 2008, Oxford Brookes University.
4th Meeting: "Medicine in the Balkans: Evolution of Ideas and Practice to 1945." 24 - 25 January 2008, The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, UK.
3rd Meeting: "Hygiene-Health Politics - Eugenics: Engineering Society in Twentieth Century Southeastern Europe." 31 May - 02 June 2007, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. (Conference Report)
2nd Meeting: "Social Hygiene, Eugenics and Heredity in Central Europe, 1900-1940." 01 December 2006, Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna, Austria.
1st Meeting: "Racial Hygiene and Eugenics in Southeast Europe, 1900-1940." 7 June 2006, Oxford Brookes University, UK.
Book Series
Francesco Cassata. Building the New Man: Eugenics, Racial Science and Genetics in Italy in the Twentieth Century.Budapest: CEU Press, 2011.
Christian Promitzer, Sevasti Trubeta, Marius Turda (eds.). Health, Hygiene and Eugenics in Southeastern Europe to 1945. Budapest: CEU Press, 2011.
Svetla Baloutzova. Demography and Nation: Social Legislation and Population Policy in Bulgaria, 1918-1944. Budapest: CEU Press, 2010.
Forthcoming:
Rachel Boaz. In Search of "Aryan Blood": Serology in Interwar and National Socialist Germany.
Podcasts
Events:
Coverage of the workshop on "Health and Society: Private and Public Medical Traditions in Greece and the Balkans, 1453-1920" (Athens, December 2010)
Coverage of the workshop on "The History of Medicine Museum in Past and Present" (Budapest, May 2010)
Coverage of the conference on "Eugenics, Race and Psychiatry in the Baltic States" (Riga, May 2009)
Individual Podcasts:
Marius Turda, "Ethnic Modernism and Scientific Nationalism: Reflections on Biopolitics in Interwar Romania."
Marius Turda. “Ancients and Moderns: The rise of social history of medicine in the Balkans.”
Tudor Georgescu, "Dreaming of a Eugenic Fortress: The Transylvanian Saxon Eugenic Discourse in Interwar Romania."
Björn Felder, "Eugenics and Racial Identity in Latvia: Scientific Transfer and European Zeitgeist."
Octavian Buda, "From Psychiatry in Dorpat to Eugenics in Munich: The late works of Emil Kraepelin."
Octavian Buda. “Variolation from the Balkans, Through Romanian Territories, to Western Europe, 1678‐1802.”
Valentin-Veron Toma, "Psychiatry, Anthropology, and Legal Medicine in Alexandru Sutzu’s Publications."
Valentin-Veron Toma. “The Migration of Medical Students from the Balkans to Paris in the 19th century: The case of Romania.”
Arunas Germanavicius, "Development of Lithuanian Psychiatry 1918 – 1940."
Paul Weindling, "Eugenics, Race and Psychiatry in the Baltic States: a Trans-National Perspective 1900-1945."
Paul Weindling. “Social History of Medicine in Context.”
Benedek Varga, "The Myth and Cult of Ignaz Semmelweis: Constructing History of Science during the 20th Century."
Maria Nicola-Teschler, “The Intersection of Anthropology and Medicine in Austria: From Weisbach to Pöch.”
Despina Karakatsani. “The Art of Creating Beautiful Children: Considerations on pro‐genetic engineering and eugenics in the early 20th century.”
Further Links:
Call for Papers:
"The Study of Eugenics - Past, Present and Future"
Uppsala University, 10-11 November 2011
