International Workshop
Networking the Past
Historical Network Analysis, Eugenics and Biopolitics
in the 20th Century
14-16 April 2010, Vienna
Organisers : Working Group on the History of Race and Eugenics (HRE) at Oxford Brookes University, Department of History of Medicine at the Medical University of Vienna, Department of Contemporary History at the University of Vienna.
Funding : The workshop is organised with generous financial support from the Magistrate of Vienna, “Kulturabteilung der Stadt Wien”, MA 7
Programme
Friday, 16 April 2010
Conference venue: Institut für Ethik und Recht in der Medizin, Seminarraum 8 (Alte Kapelle), Spitalgasse 2-4, Hof 2.8, Campus, Altes AKH, 1090 Wien
- Panel: Eugenic networks after 1945
Chair: Carola Sachse
9:30 - 10:00
Matthis Krischel & Heiner Fangerau: Disentangling Eugenic Networks: Visualizing actors,
cultures and medical practices
10:00 - 10:30
Laura Kepplinger: Theorising the White Feminist Movement as an Actor in Eugenic Networks
10:30 - 11:00
Thomas Mayer: Eugenic Networks in Austria, 1945-1980
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee break
- Panel: Genetic Counselling and Science after 1945
Chair: Mitchell G. Ash
11:30 - 12:00
Herwig Czech: “A Unique Material”: Brain specimens from Euthanasia victims and scientific network building after WW II
12:00 - 12:30
Bernhard Wieser: Prenatal Testing: Continuity or discontinuity of Eugenic Practices?
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch Break
- Final Remarks
14:00 - 15:30