Wednesday May 6, 2009
7:00 pm Reception at the Pharmacy Museum (Riharda Vagnera Str.13)
Thursday May 7, 2009
9:30 am to 10:30 am: Registration and Coffee
10:30 am: Opening & Greetings
11.00 am to 11:30 am Opening Speech
Paul Weindling (Oxford Brookes University)
11:30 am to 1:00 pm: Panel 1 - Eugenics in the Baltic States
Ken Kalling (University of Tartu)
The Application of Eugenics in Estonia
Rita Gravere & Juris Salaks (Museum for the History of Medicine, Riga)
The National Living Power Research Institute in Latvia and its Problems
Björn Felder (University of Tübingen):
Eugenics and Racial Identity in Latvia: Scientific Transfer and European Zeitgeist
Chair: Marius Turda (Oxford Brookes University)
1:00 pm to 2:00 pm Lunch break
2:00 pm to 3:30 pm: Panel 2 - Racial Anthropology in the Baltics
Erki Tammisaar (University of Tartu)
The role of K. E. v. Baer in the birth of Anthropological Scholarship in Russia
Christian Promitzer (University of Graz)
A Lithuanian in the Balkans: Jonas Basanavičius (1851-1927) and Bulgarian Racial Anthropology
Leiu Heapost (University of Tallinn)
The Mongoloid-issue in the Racial Studies of Estonians
Chair: Ken Kalling (University of Tartu)
4:00 pm -5:30 pm: Panel 3 - Psychiatry in the Baltics
Vladimir Kusnetsov (University of Latvia, Riga)
Latvian Psychiatry and Medical legislation of the 1930s and the German Eugenic Law of 1933
Arunas Germanivicius (University of Vilnius)
History of the Lithuanian Psychiatry 1918-1940
Octavian Buda (National Institute of Legal Medicine Bucharest)
From Psychiatry to Eugenics: The late works of Emil Kraepelin and the Eugenic Debates in Interwar Romania
Chair: Volker Roelcke (University of Gießen)
6:30 pm: Dinner
Friday May 8, 2009
9:30 am to 11:00 am Panel 4 – Eugenics, Gender and Minorities in Northeastern Europe
Maija Runcis (Södertörns högskola)
The Swedish Sterilisation Politics from a Gender Perspective
Katrin Steffen (Nordost-Institute Lüneburg)
Jewish Body and Gender politics: the Polish example
Kamila Uzarczyk (University of Wroclaw)
'Germania docet': Polish Eugenics between Social and Racial Hygiene.
Chair: Gisela Bock (Freie Universität Berlin)
11:00 am to 11:30 am Coffee Break
11:30 am to 1:00 pm Panel 5 - Eugenics and Transfer: International Perspectives
Volker Roelcke (University of Gießen)
The Establishment of Psychiatric Genetics in Germany, Britain, the USA, and Scandinavia ca. 1910-1960: on the inseparable History of Eugenics and medical Genetics
William deJong-Lambert (City University of New York)
Out of the Night: Hermann J. Muller and Eugenics in the Soviet Union
Vesevold Bashkuev (University Ulan-Ude)
Soviet Eugenics for National Minorities: Eradication of Syphilis in Buryat-Mongolia as an Element of Social Modernization of a Frontier Region, 1923-1928
Chair: Björn Felder (University of Tübingen)
1:00 pm to 2:00 pm Lunch
2:00 pm to 3:30 pm 5. Panel: Eugenics and Transfer: European Perspectives
Anne Cottebrune (University of Gießen)
Eliot Slater (1904-1983) and the Roots of Psychiatric Genetics in Great Britain: Transfer of German Scientific Concepts in the Context of British Eugenics
Maciej Gorny (Polish Academy of Sciences, Centre of Historical Research Berlin)
First World War and National Characterology in East-Central Europe
Corina Palasan (Oxford Brookes University)
Eugenics and Psychology in Interwar Romania. The case of the ‘Experimental, Compared, and Applied Psychology Institute’ of the Ferdinand I University of Cluj (Romania),
1919 – 1947
Chair: Andreas Lawaty (Nordost-Institute Lüneburg)
3:30 pm to 4:00 pm Coffee Break
4:00 pm to 5:30 pm Panel 6 - Racism and Racial Biology
Florian Mildenberger (Staatsbibliothek Berlin)
The Last of the Dorpat-school: Neo-vitalism, Racism, anti-Semitism and Biology in the Work of Jakob v. Uexküll (1864-1944)
Michal Simunek (University of Prag)
The Avant-garde of the Race: The Racial Office of the RuSHA-SS in Prague, 1943-45
Chair: Sevasti Trubeta (Freie Universität Berlin)
6:00 pm Conclusive Comments: Paul Weindling, Marius Turda
Plenary Discussion
7:30 Closing Dinner
Saturday May 9, 2009: Departure