PROGRAMME

Thursday (31 May)

9.30 -10.00 Opening Remarks and Greetings

Organisers

Holm Sundhaussen (Chair for Southeast European History, Department History and Culture, Freie Universität Berlin)

Sybill De Vito-Egerland (International Affairs, Freie Universität Berlin)

10.00 – 10.30 Key Note Speech
"Regenerating Mitteleuropa: Methodological and Theoretical Reflections on Eugenics, Hygiene and Health Politics in Central and Southeast Europe"
Paul Weindling (Oxford Brookes University)

10.30 – 11.00 Discussion
Chair: Marius Turda (Oxford Brookes University)

11.00 – 11.30 Coffee Break

Morning Session: “Epidemics and Diseases”
Chair: Michael Wedekind (University Muenster)

11.30 – 11.50
"Epidemics and Muslims: Typhus and Delousing Campaigns in Bulgaria"
Christian Promitzer (University of Graz)

11.50 – 12.10
"Combating social diseases in Bulgaria 1912 – 1944"
Milena Angelova (American University, Blagoevgrad)

12.10 – 13.00 Discussion

13.00 – 14.30 Lunch

Afternoon Session: “Health Politics and Eugenics”
Chair: Sabine Schleiermacher (Department of Contemporary History, Institute of History of Medicine, Charité/Berlin)

14.30 – 14.50
"The nation and the idea of malaria sanitisation in early 20th century Greece"
Katerina Gardikas (University of Athens)

14.50 – 15.10
"The "Health" Regime of the National Organism and the Eugenics Discourse in Bulgaria, 1900-1944"
Gergana Mircheva (University of Sofia)

15.10 – 15.45 Discussion

15.45 – 16.15 Coffee Break

Afternoon Session: “Hygiene and Social Hygiene”
Chair: Christian Promitzer (University of Graz)

16.15 – 17.35
"Politics, modernization and public health in Greece (1900 -1940): the case of occupational health"
Leda Papastefanaki (University of Ioannina)

16.35 – 17.00
"Public health education and racial hygiene in interwar Yugoslavia"
Zeljko Dugac (Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science, Zagreb)

17.00 – 17.30 Discussion

Friday (1 June)

Morning Session: “Eugenics and the State”
Chair: Gisela Bock (Freie Universität Berlin)

9.30 - 9.50
"Eugenic Sterilisation in Interwar Romania"
Marius Turda (Oxford Brookes University)

9.50 – 10.10
"Prenuptial Health Certificates in Greece in the first half of the 20th century"
Sevasti Trubeta (Freie Universität Berlin)

10.10 – 11.00 Discussion

11.00 – 11.30 Coffee Break

Morning Session: “Eugenics, Art and Gender”
Chair: Maria Bucur (Indiana University Bloomington)

11.30 – 11.50
"From the New Yugoslav Person to “Humanitas Heroica”: Eugenics, Art and the Paradox of Modernity in Inter-War Yugoslavia"
Rory Yeomans (Independent Scholar, London)

11.50 – 12.10
"Gender, Religion, and Hygiene in Bosnia-Hercegovina 1878-1918"
Brigitte Fuchs (University of Vienna)

12.10 – 13.00 Discussion

13.00 – 14.30 Lunch

Afternoon session “The Biological Capital of the Nation”
Chair: Ursula Ferdinand (Technical University Berlin)

14.30 – 14.50
"Public health and Child Mortality in Bulgaria in the 1920s and 1930s"
Kristina Popova (American University, Blagoevgrad)

14.50 – 15.10
"Eugenics and puericulture in Greece in interwar years: medical concerns about the amelioration of the biological capital"
Despina Karakatsani (University of Peloponnese ) and Vaso Theodorou (University of Thrace)

15.10 – 15.45 Discussion

15.45 – 16.15 Coffee Break

Evening Session: “Anthropology and minorities”
Chair: Katerina Gardikas (University of Athens )

16.15 – 16.35
"The Mathematization of the Human Being: Anthropology and Ethnopolitics in Romania in the late 1930s and early 1940s"
Michael Wedekind (University of Muenster)

16.35 – 16.55
"Engineering Ethnicity: The 'Transylvanian Saxon Research Institute' (Forschungsinstitut der Deutschen Volksgruppe) in Word and Print, 1940-44"
Tudor Georgescu (Oxford Brookes University)

16.55 – 17.30 Discussion

Saturday (2 June)

Morning Session: “Colonialism, Eugenics and Hygiene”
Chair: Paul Weindling (Oxford Brookes University)

9.30 -9.50
"Questions About Eugenics and Colonialism in East Europe"
Maria Bucur (Indiana University, Bloomington)

9.50 – 10.10
"Hygienic ideas between Odessa and Vienna - Who will shape the image of the New Jew in Palestine during the British Mandate period (1918-1948)?"
Shifra Shvarts (Ben Gurion University, Israel)

10.10 – 11.00 Discussion

11.00 – 11.30 Coffee Break

11.30 – 12.00 Conclusions by the organisers

12.00 – 13.00 Final Discussion

End of the conference

15.00 Meeting of the “Working Group on the History of Racial Sciences and Biomedicine in Central and Southeast Europe (XIX and XXc.)’