Wednesday, 29 January 2020
15.00 Welcome and Introduction by Bettina Hitzer (Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin)
15.30 Sensing: Sound
James Kennaway (University of Roehampten, London): Musical Emotions, Health and Disease since the Enlightenment
Tamara Turner (Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin): Moving Feelings: Vibrating Dis-ease through Interoceptive Bodily Practices with Music
Melissa Van Drie (University of Copenhagen): Medical Listening and Its Stages: Of Stethoscopes, Sensory Practice and Sonic Affect
Commentary: Daniel Morat (Freie Universität Berlin)
18.00 Keynote
Joanna Bourke (Birkbeck, University of London): Forensic Sense: Sexual Violence, Medical Professionals, and the Senses
Following Reception with Fingerfood
Thursday, 30 January 2020
9.30 Sensing: Touch and Smell
Melanie A. Kiechle (Virginia Tech): Domestic Environs and the ‘Weaker’ Sex: How the Gendered Sensorium Shaped Nineteenth-Century Public Health
Holly Furneaux (Cardiff University): Treating the Enemy
Commentary: Rob Boddice (University of Tampere)
11.00 Coffee Break
11.15 Narrating Knowledge and Therapy
Volker Hess (Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin): Writing Disease and Medical Recording, 1730–1930
Marietta Meier (University of Zurich): Third Person: Narrating Dis/ease and Knowledge in Medical Texts
Commentary: Kerstin Pahl (Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin)
12.45 Lunch
14.15 Narrating Disease
Franziska Gygax (University of Basel): Feeling (and Falling) Ill: Finding a Language of Illness
Kirsten Ostherr (Rice University): Digital Therapeutics, Virtual Health, and Robot Pathographies
Commentary: Elizabeth J. Donaldson (New York Institute of Technology)
15.45 Coffee Break
16.15 Hybridizations
Irmela Marei Krüger-Fürhoff (Freie Universität Berlin): Balancing Neuroprosthetic Regulation and Individual Agency: Written and Drawn Experiences of Living with Parkinson’s Disease and Deep Brain Stimulation
Magaly Tornay (University of Bern): Dreaming Nurses: A Situated History of Psychoanalysis
Commentary: Sybilla Nikolow (Bielefeld University)
Friday, 31 January 2020
9.30 Constructing Objects
Monika Ankele (University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf): Constructing Objects, Transforming Practices: The Sickbed in Psychiatry
Brenda Lynn Edgar (University of Geneva): Projecting Paradise? Some Questions for the History of Emotions on the Therapeutic Use of Images of Nature, 1930’s–Present
Commentary: Jeanne Kisacky (New York)
11.00 Coffee Break
11.15 Constructing Spaces
Annmarie Adams (McGill University, Montreal): Inside Penfield: Emotions, Neurology and Hospital Architecture
Jennifer Lynn Thomas (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign): Landscape as Treatment: Contextualizing the Insane Asylum Movement in the United States
Commentary: Benno Gammerl (Goldsmiths, University of London)
12.45 Lunch
14.00 Predicting and Securing
Alexa Geisthövel (Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin) / Marcel Streng (University of Düsseldorf): ‘Inner Security’: Psychological Diagnosis and Treatment for Criminal Offenders in the Late 1960s and the 1970s
Anja Laukötter (University of Strasbourg): Fear of Fear? Medicine on TV Screens in Postwar Germany: Some Reflections
Anna C. Zielinska (University of Lorraine, France; Archives Henri Poincaré): Distressing Conception: Reproductive Medicine in Israel and Flexibility of Norms
Commentary: Frank Biess (University of California, San Diego)
16.00 Final Discussion
Chairs: Bettina Hitzer (Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin) & Rob Boddice (University of Tampere)
16.45 End of Conference