1-2 July 2015 | Birkbeck College, University of London
Organizers: DFG-Network: Social Welfare and Health Care in EE and SEE during the Long 20th Century, Regensburg University, Germany & The Reluctant Internationalists, Birkbeck College London
Birkbeck College, University of London, July 1st-2nd 2015
Wednesday, 1 July
4-4.15 Welcome Note & Introduction of Speaker
4.15-6 p.m. Public Keynote Lecture and Discussion: Prof. Paul Lerner (University of Southern California, USC): War Trauma and the Historiography of Psychiatry.
Thursday, 2 July
9.00-11.00 a.m. Roundtable I: Disease and Illness
- Indira Duraković (University of Teacher Education Styria/University of Graz): Marginalisation and Public Health in 19th century Serbia.
- Johanna Conterio (Birkbeck College, London): Was there a distinctly socialist approach to natural healing? Examining the transnational roots of Soviet health resort medicine in the 1920s.
- Heike Karge (Regensburg University): Socialist Psychiatry? War trauma in post-World War Two Yugoslavia
- Dora Vargha (Birkbeck College, London): Live Polio Vaccine Development: A Project of Socialism?
- Esther Wahlen (EUI Florence): Alcoholism and the complexities of inner life in late socialism
11.30-1 p.m. Roundtable II: Family and Childhood
- Fanny Le Bonhomme (Potsdam/Rennes University): Politics and family conflicts in the GDR (1960-1968). Psychiatric records as a source for social history
- Ana Antic (Birkbeck College, London): Getting rid of ‘little Stalins’: The politics of children’s mental health in Cold War Yugoslavia and Europe
- Eszter Varsa (Institute for East and Southeast European Studies, Regensburg): The prevention of “unwanted birth”: Racism and the politics of reproduction in Hungary, 1960s-1980s
- Friederike Kind-Kovács (Regensburg University): The Body of the Starving Infant: An Object of Biopolitical Surveillance
- Francesca Piana (Birkbeck College, London): ‘A Pioneer in the Euphrates Valley’: Ruth A. Parmelee and the Armenian Genocide
- Sara Bernasconi (Zurich University): A Letter for Antonia Savić – Women’s Networks around a Midwife during WW1 in Bosnia-Herzegovina
2.30-3.30 p.m. Roundtable III: Scale
- Maria Zarifi (Hellenic Open University, Greece/ Karl Jaspers Centre for Advanced Transcultural Studies, Heidelberg): The role of the “Medical Committee” in controlling, professionalizing and standardizing the medical profession and public health in Greece, 1834-1924
- Angelika Strobel (Zurich University): Sanitary Statistic and Hygiene Education: Public Health in Late Imperial Russia
- Jessica Reinisch (Birkbeck College, London): Relief after the Second World War: the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration and beyond
- Tamara Scheer (Ludwig-Boltzmann-Institute, Vienna): What is typical Habsburg? Medical service and illness in the WWI diaries of k.u.k. soldiers
3.30-4.00 p.m. Coffee Break
4.00-5.30 p.m. Continuation of Roundtable III: Scale
Chair: Esther Wahlen (EUI Florence) with
- Justyna Turkowska (Herder Institute, Marburg): In the battlefield of modernity: discourse controversies on medical modernization in the Prussian Province of Posen between 1900 and 1918
- Katrin Steffen (North-East Institute, Lüneburg): Who belongs to the healthy body of the nation? An anthropological examination in Poland in the 1920ies
- David Bryan (Birkbeck College, London): Franco’s internationalists: humanitarianism and international health under the Spanish dictatorship, 1939-1975
- André Thiemann (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale): Bureaucratic Erring: Struggles over Social Policy in contemporary Serbian Welfare-State Relations
5.30-6.00 p.m. Round-up