Workshop: Networking the Past

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

4. 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

5. 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

6. Final Remarks

14:00 - 15:30