Thursday, June 6th

9.00 – 11.00 Panel 1 – Genetic Research on Populations
Chair: Isabel Heinemann (Bayreuth)
- Veronika Lipphardt (Freiburg): Genetic Studies with Vulnerable Populations: The Case of the Roma
- Lukas Alex (Bayreuth): Population Genetics and Eugenic Knowledge in the Early Federal Republic of Germany
- Pascal Germann (Bern, CH): Comment

11.30 – 13.30 Panel 2 – Genetic Counselling between State and Individuum
Chair: Julia Reus (Bayreuth)
- Jenny Bangham (London, UK): Affective Registers: Documentation and Genetic Counselling in the UK’s National Health Service
- Susanne Doetz (Berlin): Talking about Risks. Genetic Counselling in the GDR in the 1970s and 1980s
- Heiner Fangerau (Düsseldorf): Comment

15.30 – 17.30 Excursion to Richard Wagner Museum (Richard-Wagner-Str. 48, 95444 Bayreuth)
- Guided tour in English by Museum and Archives Director Sven Friedrich: Wagners Antisemitism and its Impact

18.00 – 20.00 Keynote lecture
Introduction: Isabel Heinemann (Bayreuth)
- Staffan Müller-Wille (Cambridge, UK): From Eugenics to Human Genetics: International Entanglements

Friday, June 7th

9.00 – 11.00 Panel 3 – Heredity or Environment? Aetiological Research
Chair: Lukas Alex (Bayreuth)
- Heike Petermann (Münster): Hereditary Diseases: Tracing the Research of German Human Geneticists
- Alexander v. Schwerin (Berlin): Different Conjunctures of Animal Models in Human Genetics, 1930 – 1990
- Hans-Georg Hofer (Münster): Comment

11.30 – 13.30 Panel 4 – New Perspectives on the Human Genetics and Genetic Counselling in West-Germany
Chair: Julia Eichenberg (Bayreuth)
- Isabel Heinemann (Bayreuth): Happy Healthy Families. Human Genetic Counselling in the 1950s and 1960s in West-Germany and the US
- Felicitas Söhner (Düsseldorf): Understanding the Transformation of a Medical Discipline with Oral History
- Henning Tümmers (Tübingen): Comment