Heidi Hein-Kircher, Wissenschaftsforum, Herder-Institut für historische Ostmitteleuropaforschung - Institut der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft
OCTOBER 20, 2021
12.30–12.45 pm
Heidi Hein-Kircher (Marburg): Welcome on Behalf of the Organizing Team
Fritz Dross (Erlangen-Nürnberg): Conceptualizing Authority and Medical Expertise
12.45–3.00 pm SECTION 1: Dynamics and Perception of Medical Knowledge Chair: Julia Malitska (Södertörn)
Janka Kovács (Budapest): Protecting the Individual and Society. The Pursuit of Appointing a Place for the Mentally Ill in the Habsburg Monarchy (1780–1830): The Case of Hungary
Vladan Hanulík (Pardubice): Construction of Medical Orientalism in 19th and 20th Century Czech Culture
1.30–1.40 pm Break
Stefan Schmidt (Fribourg): Medicine with Ethnography. L. Krzywicki’s and B. Pilsudski’s Discussions on Obstetrics in Late Partitioned Poland
Łukasz Mieszkowski (Warsaw): Violence and Epidemic in 1918–1922 Poland. An Attempt at Problematization
Discussion
3.00–3.15 pm Break
3.15–5.45 pm SECTION 2: Knowledge and Politization of Women’s Health in SocialismChair: Heidi Hein-Kircher (Marburg)
Anastasiia Zaplatina (Bielefeld): “Herald of Venereology and Dermatology” in 1924–1953 as a Barometer of a Political Climate and Scientifi c Trends
Kateřina Lišková (Brno): Making Marriage Healthy or Equal? Political Authority and Expertise at the Time of Regime Change in Late 1940s Czechoslovakia
4.00–4.10 pm Break
Natalia Jarska (Warsaw): Marriage, Health, and Expertise. Debates on Compulsory Premarital Medical Examination in Postwar Poland (1940 – 1960s)
Andrea Bělehradová (Brno): Indestructible Venus and Vulnerable Man: Ageing Sexuality in Czechoslovak Expert Knowledge during State Socialism
Discussion
5.45–7.00 pm KEYNOTE
Sven Opitz: Ecologies of Breath: Vital Atmospheres in Times of COVID-19
7.30 pm Meeting at wonder.me (link will be sent in the conference chat)
OCTOBER 21, 2021
9.00–11.00 am SECTION 3: Instrumentalizing Medical Expertise in a Stalinist Style Chair: Julia Obertreis (Erlangen-Nürnberg)
Oksana Vynnyk (Alberta): Medical Practices during the Famine of 1932–33 in Soviet Ukraine
Mikhail Pogorelov (Moscow): Diagnosing 58-10: The Role of Forensic Psychiatric Expertise in the Stalinist Repressions
9.40–9.50 am Break
Pavel Vasilyev (St. Petersburg): Soviet Dreams of Rejuvenation: Stalinist Science in Search of a Miracle Drug Against Reproductive Ageing
Isaac McKean Scarborough (Liverpool): Kiev, 1972: The World Congress of Gerontology and Soviet Biomedical Messaging
Discussion
11.00–11.15 pm Break
11.15 am–1.15 pm SECTION 4: Politizing Healthcare and Spreading of Medical Knowledge Chair: Fritz Dross (Erlangen-Nürnberg)
Markus Wahl (Stuttgart): Political Change, Predicaments, and Epidemics. Medical Expertise and Authority in Postwar East Germany
Viola Lászlófi (Budapest): Changing Political Norms of Healthcare in State Socialist Hungary: The Case of the ‘Medical Ethics Committees’
12.00–12.10 am Break
Ewelina Szpak (Warsaw): “When the Word ‘Cancer’ is Uttered, People Begin to Whisper”. Cancer Policy in Polish People’s Republic
Melanie Foik (Münster): Health Promotion and Ideological Education – The Ambivalent Role of Visiting Nurses in Stalinist Poland
Discussion
1.15–1.45 pm Lunch Break
1.45–2.15 pm Irina Andryushchenko / Klaus Gestwa (Tübingen): Project Presentation Envirohealth: The Interplay of Environmental and Health Issues as a Threat for the Late Soviet Empire and as a Legacy for Post-Socialist Transformation
2.15–2.30 pm Break
2.30–4.30 pm SECTION 5: PROMOTING HEALTH Chair: Melanie Foik (Münster)
Illona Kappanyos (Budapest): Defending the Health of the People: The Role of Visiting Nurses in State Socialist Hungary
Ulrike Lang (Dresden): Stretching for Socialism: The Promotion of Modern Postural Yoga as a Preventive Health Practice in Poland, 1956–1981
Julia Obertreis (Erlangen): Smoking in Eastern Europe – Prevalence, Meanings, and Public Health Campaigns
Discussion
4.30–4.45 pm Break
4.45–5.30 pm Final Discussion
Organizers:Fritz Dross (Erlangen-Nürnberg), Melanie Foik (Münster), Heidi Hein-Kircher (Marburg)
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