International Workshop: Networking the Past. Historical Network Analysis, Eugenics and Biopolitics in the 20th Century, 14-16 April 2010, Vienna

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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.
Programme
Wednesday, 14 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

  • 17:00-18:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks by Marius Turda, Thomas Mayer and Michael Hubenstorf

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 Ccientific 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 Pcientific 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

Friday, 16 April 2010
Conference venue: Institut für Ethik und Recht in der Medizin
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
Funding: The workshop is organised with generous financial support from the Magistrate of Vienna, “Kulturabteilung der Stadt Wien”, MA 7

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