Thursday 02 December 2021

14:00 to 14:30: Prof. Gabriele Lingelbach: Welcome and Introductory Remarks

14:30 to 18:00: (including a break from 16:30–17:00):

Panel 1: Family Care for Disabilities – a Side Effect of Modern Welfare States? Comparing Entanglements of Pre-Modern Welfare Systems and Domestic Care Arrangements for People with Disabilities

Dr. Bianca Frohne (University of Kiel): Domestic Care and the Intricacies of Cure: Disability, Family, and Futurity in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Germany

Dr. Irina Metzler (formerly Wellcome Trust): Perceptions of „birth defects“ in medieval Britain

Prof. David Turner (Swansea University): Disability and the Family in the British Industrial Revolution (via Zoom)

Chair: Raphael Rössel

18:00 to 19:00/19:15: Abendvortrag/Keynote Lecture by Prof. Andreas Gestrich (formerly GHI London): Family as a Care Unit

Chair: Christina von Hodenberg

Friday 03 December 2021

09:30 to 13:00: (including a break from 11:30–12:00):

Panel 2: The Political in the Private, the Private in the Political I: Tensions and Interactions between Institutional and Family Care in the 20th century

Rachel O’Driscoll (University of Oxford): „Scholarships for the afflicted“: familial care for disabled children in early twentieth century London

Christian Kintner (University of Münster): Care between family, community, and institution in the Federal Republic of Germany

Dr. Ulrike Winkler (Bundeswehr University Munich): „Inside and Outside and the Space between.“ The ambivilent relationship between homes for mentally disabled persons, the family and the society (via Zoom)

Chair: Gabriele Lingelbach

13:00 to 14:00: Lunch

14:00 to 17:30: (including a break from 16:00–16:30):

Panel 3: Love’s Labour’s Lost? Intersections of Disabilities and Gendered Care Expectations in two Post-war Germanys and Great Britain

Raphael Rössel (University of Kiel): Establishing und reforming nuclear family arrangements from below. The agency of caregivers for children with disabilities in West Germany (1950s to 1980s)

Pia Schmüser (University of Kiel): Church seminars for parents with disabled children – insights into familial care challenges and structures in the GDR

Dr. Julie Anderson (University of Kent): „From Darkness to Sunshine: Mothers, Institutions and Blind Babies In Britain 1918–1939“

Chair: Andreas Gestrich

Saturday 04 December 2021

09:30 to 11:30:

Panel 4: The Political in the Private, the Private in the Political II: Welfare Policies and Family Agency in Modern British and German History

Dr. Steven Taylor (University of Kent): Childhood and family agency in the shaping of special education policies at the turn of the twentieth century in Britain

J.-Prof. Dr. Nicole Kramer (Cologne University): Hidden roads and twisted paths: Ideas and structures of community care in (West-)Germany and Great Britain after 1945

Chair: Irina Metzler

11:30 to 12:00 Coffee Break

12:00 to 13:00: Concluding discussion on the periodization of family care for people with disabilities – Chair: Christina von Hodenberg