Thursday 24 January 2008

9.00–9.30
Registration and Refreshments

9.30–9.45
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Dr. Marius Turda, Christos Papadopoulos

9.45–12.00
Session A: Medicine and Empire
Chair: Professor Anne Hardy (Wellcome Trust Centre)

Austro-Hungarian Policies of Public Health in the Balkans, 1914-1918
(Dr. Brigitte Fuchs, University of Vienna)

The Imperial Society of Medicine in Constantinople During the Period 1856-1923
(Dr. Constantinos Trompoukis, University of Crete)

Medical Knowledge and Imperial Expansion: The Vienna School of Medicine and the Austrian Rule in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1878–1914
(Dr. Tatjana Buklijas, University of Cambridge)

From Fascination to Shame: Folk Medicine in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
(Dr. Željko Dugac, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Zagreb)

11.25-12.00
Discussion

12.00–13.30
Lunch Break [Lunch not included]

13.30–15.45
Session B:
Professionalisation of Medical Services
Chair: Dr Andrew Wear (Wellcome Trust Centre)

Medical Men against Wise Women: The Imagery of Folk Medicine in the Bulgarian Press at the End of the 19th and Beginning of the 20th Century
(Galina Goncharova, Sofia University, St Kliment Ohridski)

Ηealth Policy and Social Hygiene in Interwar Greece: The Intervention by the League of Nations
Health Organisation
(Dr. Despina Karakatsani, University of Peloponnese and Dr. Vassiliki Theodorou, University of Thrace)

School Hygiene in Bulgaria at the Beginning of 20th Century: Cultural Images, Professional Roles and Practices
(Gergana Mircheva, Sofia University)

Institutional Psychiatric Care in Early Twentieth-century Greece:The Eginitio Hospital, 1904-1920
(Despo Kritsotaki, University of Crete)

15.10-15.45
Discussion

15.45–16.00
Refreshments

16.00–18.15
Session C:
The State and the Health of the Community
Chair: Professor Paul Weindling (Oxford Brookes University)

Fighting Epidemics and Popular Resistance: Sanitary Policy in Southeastern Europe
(Jovan Pesalj, University of Belgrade)

Hospitals and Medical Provision before and during the Food Crisis: Greece, 1938-44
(Dr. Violetta Hionidou, University of Newcastle)

Medical Surveys on a National Scale: Mapping Malaria in Modern Greece
(Dr. Katerina Gardikas, University of Athens)

The Beginnings of Scientific Psychiatry in Romania: The Case of Alexandru Sutzu
(Dr. Valentin-Veron Toma, Romanian Academy, Bucharest)
1740-1815

Discussion

Friday 25 January 2008

09.15-12.30
Session D: Social Hygiene and Eugenics
Chair: Dr Marius Turda (Oxford Brookes University)

Educating Lower Social Classes by Hygienic and Eugenic Means: The Greek Case in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
(Dr. Sevasti Trubeta, Free University, Berlin)

Interwar Transylvanian Saxon ‘National Biology’ and Visions of Racial Regeneration: The Eugenic Attempt to Refashion and Rejuvenate the Saxon ‘Nation’ in Romania
(Tudor Georgescu, Oxford Brookes University)

10.05-10.20
Refreshments

Demographic Policies and Medicine: The Case of Bulgaria (1929-1944)
(Dr Christian Promitzer, University of Graz)

The Disease as the Enemy – the Enemy as the Disease: The Notion of “Cleansing” from Serbia to Yugoslavia
(Vladimir Petrovic, Institute for Contemporary History, Belgrade)

11.10–11.40
Discussion

11.40-12.30
Closing Discussion, ‘The Way Forward’

12.30-12.45
Transfer to The Wellcome Building, 183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE

12.45-13.30
Sandwich Lunch [included]