International conference: Battling Eugenics: Debates and The Rise of Opposition in Science and Culture

  • International conference: Battling Eugenics: Debates and The Rise of Opposition in Science and Culture

  • This symposium looks to delineate the rise of the international opposition to eugenics as well as explore the debates within the eugenics camp. We are interested in tracing the growing scientific distrust of eugenic thought in the 20th century before its genocidal application in Nazi Germany. Moreover, we will examine how eugenic discourse has resurfaced and been contested in the decades since World War II in science, culture and through political activism.

    What were the turning points that led to the rise of doubt about the scientific value of eugenics and skepticism about its ethical implications? How was the international scientific community engaging in eugenic debates and how did those that were initially sympathetic eugenics—such as Franz Boas or W.E.B. Du Bois—over time separate themselves from eugenic paradigm?

    TO REGISTER: shorturl.at/oqwR9
    For questions: Battlingeugenics@wn.uw.edu.pl

    Date: April 26-27, 2022
    Venue: University of Warsaw (hybrid)

    Confirmed Speakers:

    1. Rosemarie Garland-Thomson (Emory University)
    2. Sue Currell (University of Sussex)
    3. Lennard Davis (University of Chicago)
    4. Tony Platt (University of California, Berkeley)
    5. Marius Turda (Oxford Brookes University)
    6. Maren Linett (Purdue University)
    7. Nora Groce (University College London)
    8. Miroslava Chavez-Garcia (University of California, Santa Barbara)
    9. Kamila Uzarczyk (Wrocław Medical University)
    10. Katarzyna Ojrzyńska (University of Łódź)
    11. Ewa Łuczak (University of Warsaw)

    Accompanying Events:

    • April 25, Book Talk and Lecture
      Lennard Davis (University of Chicago), venue: University of Warsaw
    • April 26, The Screening and Discussion of Film: A Dangerous Idea: Eugenics, Genetics, and the American Dream
      Stephanie Welch, director, and Milton Reynolds (Longmore Institute); venue: University of Warsaw
    • April 27, The opening of the exhibition: “
      We are not alone”: Legacies of Eugenics (1921-2021)
      The exhibit is the result of the collaboration with the Working Group in the History of Race and Eugenics (HRE), Oxford, and the Centre for the History of Eugenics and Racism (CIER), Cluj.
      venue: The University of Warsaw Museum
    • April 28, Book Talk and Lecture
      Rosemarie Garland-Thomson (Emory University); venue: Galeria Zachęta
    Data publikacji: 28 marca 2022