26th May 2011
Dr. Vincent Lowy, University of Strasbourg, France
Facing Hollywood Golden age aesthetics: John Ford's 'Sex Hygiene' (1941) and the question of singularities, contexts and methods of health education films
I. Campaigns: Strategies and Practices
Dr. Miriam Posner, Emory University, Atlanta, USA
"Educational Prophylaxis" and "Mental Inoculation": Vaccine metaphors in World War One hygiene films
Dr. Anita Gertiser, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Going for the heart strings - how emotions are employed in educational films
Prof. Ursula von Keitz, University of Bonn, Germany
Cinema and health education in West and East Germany from 1945 to 1955
Prof. Susan Lederer, University of Madison Wisconsin, USA
Radiating health: Public health and mass destruction in the 1950s
II. Production and Distribution
Dr. David Cantor, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA
Between movies, markets, and medicine: The Eastern Film Corporation, Frank A Tichenor, and medical and health films in the 1920s.
Dr. Timothy Boon, Science Museum, London, Great Britain
The culture of health education filmmaking and reception in Britain, 1914-1951
Dr. Kirsten Ostherr, Rice University Houston, TX, USA
The biopolitics of animation: Global health and sponsored films in the postwar era
Dr. Paul Theerman Images and Archives Section, History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, USA
The historical medical films of the National Library of Medicine
27th May 2011
III. Reception and Spectatorship
Dr. Alexandre Sumpf, University of Strasbourg, France
Soviet cinema and social hygiene against alcoholism in New Economic Policy -era Russia
Dr. Anja Laukötter, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
Measuring knowledge and emotions. Audience research on educational films in the beginning of the 20th century
Prof. Vinzenz Hediger, University of Bochum, Germany
The smell of poverty. Cinema, olfaction, and the discourse on public hygiene in early cinema
Prof. Scott Curtis, Northwestern University, USA
Acting out: Performance and identification in the postwar mental health film
Dr. Michael Sappol, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, USA
Difficult subjects: Showing, viewing and the moral effects of the medical cinema of disease and suffering
IV. Communication techniques: Information - commercialization - propaganda
Elizabeth Lebas, Middlesex University, London, Great Britain
Where there's life, there's soap': Municipal public health films in Britain, 1920- 1954
Prof. Christian Bonah, University of Strasbourg, France
Propaganda in the service of humanity. Promoting and advertising health in industrial and corporate films from the 1920s to the 1950s
Dr. Odette Wegwarth/Dr. Wolfgang Gaissmaier, Max-Planck-Institute for Human Development Berlin, Germany
Can audio-visual information about health ever be neutral enough to 'educate' rather than 'persuade'?