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

Thursday, 15 April 2010

Conference venue: Seminarzentrum, Liechtensteinstrasse 39 - 41, 1090 Wien

1. Panel: On Methodology

Chair: Paul Weindling

9:30-10:00
Wolfgang Neurath: Historical Science and Network Research

10:00 - 10:30
Katja Mayer: History of Drawing Networks as a Cultural Practice

10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break

11:00-11:30
Marten Düring: Illegal Support Networks for Persecuted Jews During the Third Reich: Relational patterns and Network structures

11:30 - 12:00
Axel C. Huentelmann: Networks and Economies. Paul Ehrlich’s scientific networks

12:00 - 13:30
Lunch break

2. Panel: Eugenic Networks before 1945

Chair: Thomas Mayer

13:30-14:00
Gudrun Exner: The “Sociological Society in Vienna” (1907- 1934): A network of the upper middle class private scholar Rudolf Goldscheid (1870-1931)?

14:00 - 14:30
Paul Weindling: The Outsider as Insider, and the Insider as Outsider: Reflections on Hugo Iltis

14:30 - 15:00
Coffee break

15:00 - 15:30
Marius Turda: Academic Mobility and Networking among Central and Southeastern European Eugenicists, 1900-1945

15:30 - 16:00
Michael Hubenstorf: Nazi Networks and Eugenic Networks

16:00 - 16:30
Coffee break

3. Panel: Anthropology & Criminal Anthropology

Chair: Marius Turda

16:30-17:00
Maria Teschler-Nicola: Rudolf Pöch’s Political and Scientific Networks

17:00 - 17:30
Margit Berner: Institutional Networks in Austrian Anthropology

17:30 - 18:00
Coffee break

18:00 - 18:30
Amos Morris-Reich: Rudolf Martin and the Development of Anthropometric Photography

18:30 - 19:00
Corina-Maria Palasan: Between Environment and Heredity: Criminal anthropology in Romania at the turn of the XXth century