Confront-Eugenics
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#CfP for the Journal of Bioethical Inquiry!
"The Role of the History of Eugenics within Contemporary Ethical Debates over Human Enhancement" (eds. Andrew Moeller, Jose Maria Andres Porras, and Heloise Robinson)
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"The Role of the History of Eugenics within Contemporary Ethical Debates over Human Enhancement" (eds. Andrew Moeller, Jose Maria Andres Porras, and Heloise Robinson)
link.springer.com/collections/...
The Role of the History of Eugenics within Contemporary Ethical Debates over Human Enhancement
This symposium issue invites interdisciplinary contributions examining how the history of eugenics informs current ethical, legal, and social debates on human ...
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November 12, 2025 at 8:27 PM
#CfP for the Journal of Bioethical Inquiry!
"The Role of the History of Eugenics within Contemporary Ethical Debates over Human Enhancement" (eds. Andrew Moeller, Jose Maria Andres Porras, and Heloise Robinson)
link.springer.com/collections/...
"The Role of the History of Eugenics within Contemporary Ethical Debates over Human Enhancement" (eds. Andrew Moeller, Jose Maria Andres Porras, and Heloise Robinson)
link.springer.com/collections/...
Explore the #legacies of #eugenics through the lens of this powerful exhibition.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MigO...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MigO...
“We are not alone”: Legacies of Eugenics
YouTube video by Marius Turda
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November 11, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Explore the #legacies of #eugenics through the lens of this powerful exhibition.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MigO...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MigO...
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“What is now needed is to place eugenics within a new framework, and see it as interconnected with other paradigms within global racism, social and health inequities. We must put an end to the eugenic dehumanisation of many people of colour, of those individuals with learning disabilities and so on”
“Eugenics is an integral aspect of our global scientific and political culture:” interview with Marius Turda “Eugenics is an integral aspect of our global scientific and political culture:” An interview with Marius Turda published in @scielo.org www.scielo.br/j/hcsm/a/k8j...
“Eugenics is an integral aspect of our global scientific and political culture:” interview with Marius Turda
Abstract Despite public condemnation after the defeat of Nazism, eugenic ideas continue to...
www.scielo.br
November 8, 2025 at 9:58 AM
“What is now needed is to place eugenics within a new framework, and see it as interconnected with other paradigms within global racism, social and health inequities. We must put an end to the eugenic dehumanisation of many people of colour, of those individuals with learning disabilities and so on”
This piece by Saskia Baron for @communitylivingmagazine.com has lost none of its relevance!
communitylivingmagazine.com/making-scien...
communitylivingmagazine.com/making-scien...
Making ‘Science and The Swastika’ – Hitler’s war against disabled people
Documentary film-maker Saskia Baron looks back at the production of the Channel 4 series about the Nazi eugenics era, in which she brought to public attention the campaign of mass-killing against peop...
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November 8, 2025 at 9:43 AM
This piece by Saskia Baron for @communitylivingmagazine.com has lost none of its relevance!
communitylivingmagazine.com/making-scien...
communitylivingmagazine.com/making-scien...
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Tonight in London. wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/findin...
Finding Ivy exhibition talk: Disability, Dehumanisation and Extermination, with Prof Marius Turda - The Wiener Holocaust Library
Held as part of the Finding Ivy: a life worthy of life exhibition events series. In this talk Marius Turda will discuss the eugenically-driven and state-sponsored determination to eugenically ‘purify’...
wienerholocaustlibrary.org
November 4, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Tonight in London. wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/findin...
“Eugenics is an integral aspect of our global scientific and political culture:” interview with Marius Turda “Eugenics is an integral aspect of our global scientific and political culture:” An interview with Marius Turda published in @scielo.org www.scielo.br/j/hcsm/a/k8j...
“Eugenics is an integral aspect of our global scientific and political culture:” interview with Marius Turda
Abstract Despite public condemnation after the defeat of Nazism, eugenic ideas continue to...
www.scielo.br
November 3, 2025 at 4:57 PM
“Eugenics is an integral aspect of our global scientific and political culture:” interview with Marius Turda “Eugenics is an integral aspect of our global scientific and political culture:” An interview with Marius Turda published in @scielo.org www.scielo.br/j/hcsm/a/k8j...
Don't miss this important travelling exhibition which tells the stories of disabled British-born victims of Nazi persecution in the wider context of the Nazis’ T4 ‘euthanasia’ programme!
wienerholocaustlibrary.org/exhibition/t...
wienerholocaustlibrary.org/exhibition/t...
Travelling exhibition - Finding Ivy: A Life Worthy of Life - The Wiener Holocaust Library
This important travelling exhibition tells the stories of disabled British-born victims of Nazi persecution in the wider context of the Nazis’ T4 ‘euthanasia’ programme. It features previous unseen do...
wienerholocaustlibrary.org
October 29, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Don't miss this important travelling exhibition which tells the stories of disabled British-born victims of Nazi persecution in the wider context of the Nazis’ T4 ‘euthanasia’ programme!
wienerholocaustlibrary.org/exhibition/t...
wienerholocaustlibrary.org/exhibition/t...
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Upcoming talk by the historian of eugenics Marius Turda!
👉 wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/findin...
🗓 Tuesday 4th November, 6.30pm, London
👉 wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/findin...
🗓 Tuesday 4th November, 6.30pm, London
Finding Ivy exhibition talk: Disability, Dehumanisation and Extermination, with Prof Marius Turda - The Wiener Holocaust Library
Held as part of the Finding Ivy: a life worthy of life exhibition events series. In this talk Marius Turda will discuss the eugenically-driven and state-sponsored determination to eugenically ‘purify’...
wienerholocaustlibrary.org
October 8, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Upcoming talk by the historian of eugenics Marius Turda!
👉 wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/findin...
🗓 Tuesday 4th November, 6.30pm, London
👉 wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/findin...
🗓 Tuesday 4th November, 6.30pm, London
'The F-Word: "Feebleminded" Black Bodies under the Eugenic Gaze', a lecture by dr Shantella Y. Sherman at the University of Cluj (13 Oct. 2025).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dqie...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dqie...
The F-Word: "Feebleminded" Black Bodies under the Eugenic Gaze (dr Shantella Y. Sherman)
YouTube video by Marius Turda
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October 16, 2025 at 2:04 PM
'The F-Word: "Feebleminded" Black Bodies under the Eugenic Gaze', a lecture by dr Shantella Y. Sherman at the University of Cluj (13 Oct. 2025).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dqie...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dqie...
Don't miss this lecture by Dána-Ain Davis!
Thursday 16th October 2025, 1 pm.Seminar Room L, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford!
She will speak about "Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth"
More info about her book, here:
nyupress.org/978147985357...
Thursday 16th October 2025, 1 pm.Seminar Room L, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford!
She will speak about "Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth"
More info about her book, here:
nyupress.org/978147985357...
Reproductive Injustice
Winner, 2020 Senior Book Prize, given by the Association of Feminist AnthropologyWinner, 2020 Eileen Basker Memorial Prize, given by the Society for Medical ...
nyupress.org
October 14, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Don't miss this lecture by Dána-Ain Davis!
Thursday 16th October 2025, 1 pm.Seminar Room L, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford!
She will speak about "Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth"
More info about her book, here:
nyupress.org/978147985357...
Thursday 16th October 2025, 1 pm.Seminar Room L, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford!
She will speak about "Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth"
More info about her book, here:
nyupress.org/978147985357...
Podcast! In conversation with Professor Marius Turda and Dr Mark A. Brandon, author of #ThePerilsofRace-Thinking (CEU Press Studies in the History of Medicine series, 2023)
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Series Spotlight: CEU Press Studies in the History of Medicine - New Books Network
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October 14, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Podcast! In conversation with Professor Marius Turda and Dr Mark A. Brandon, author of #ThePerilsofRace-Thinking (CEU Press Studies in the History of Medicine series, 2023)
newbooksnetwork.com/007-series-s...
newbooksnetwork.com/007-series-s...
Upcoming talk by the historian of eugenics Marius Turda!
👉 wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/findin...
🗓 Tuesday 4th November, 6.30pm, London
👉 wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/findin...
🗓 Tuesday 4th November, 6.30pm, London
Finding Ivy exhibition talk: Disability, Dehumanisation and Extermination, with Prof Marius Turda - The Wiener Holocaust Library
Held as part of the Finding Ivy: a life worthy of life exhibition events series. In this talk Marius Turda will discuss the eugenically-driven and state-sponsored determination to eugenically ‘purify’...
wienerholocaustlibrary.org
October 8, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Upcoming talk by the historian of eugenics Marius Turda!
👉 wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/findin...
🗓 Tuesday 4th November, 6.30pm, London
👉 wienerholocaustlibrary.org/event/findin...
🗓 Tuesday 4th November, 6.30pm, London
The exhibition 'We are not Alone': Legacies of Eugenics was first displayed @wienerlibrary.bsky.social in London 4 years ago. It has since travelled to countries in Europe, South and North America. Here's a short film providing an overview of its main themes and aims.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MigO...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MigO...
“We are not alone”: Legacies of Eugenics
YouTube video by Marius Turda
www.youtube.com
October 1, 2025 at 1:22 PM
The exhibition 'We are not Alone': Legacies of Eugenics was first displayed @wienerlibrary.bsky.social in London 4 years ago. It has since travelled to countries in Europe, South and North America. Here's a short film providing an overview of its main themes and aims.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MigO...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MigO...
Check out this paper by @bobi24.bsky.social & #MariusTurda on #colonialism #eugenics & #race in #Central & #Eastern #Europe published by @gscjournal.bsky.social Here is the link:
bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/gsc/view/jou...
bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/gsc/view/jou...
bristoluniversitypressdigital.com
September 30, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Check out this paper by @bobi24.bsky.social & #MariusTurda on #colonialism #eugenics & #race in #Central & #Eastern #Europe published by @gscjournal.bsky.social Here is the link:
bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/gsc/view/jou...
bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/gsc/view/jou...
Marius Turda's incisive text on the #legaciesofeugenics is published by @tandfresearch.bsky.social and available on #OpenAccess.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Legacies of eugenics: confronting the past, forging a future
The anti-eugenic commemoration of the Second International Congress of Eugenics, held at the American Museum of Natural History in New York between 22 and 28 September 1921, was unprecedented in te...
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September 29, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Marius Turda's incisive text on the #legaciesofeugenics is published by @tandfresearch.bsky.social and available on #OpenAccess.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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To learn more about eugenics in global context check out the Small Beginnings link on the Confront Eugenics platform. There are several recorded academic seminars, which can help to better understand our current political moment and issues. confront-eugenics.org?fbclid=IwZXh...
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March 16, 2025 at 12:25 PM
To learn more about eugenics in global context check out the Small Beginnings link on the Confront Eugenics platform. There are several recorded academic seminars, which can help to better understand our current political moment and issues. confront-eugenics.org?fbclid=IwZXh...
On 13 October 2025 @drshantella.bsky.social will be the guest of #CIER and #BabeșBolyaiUniversity in #Cluj. Her talk will focus on #feeblemindedness and #eugenics among American Blacks. Event co-sponsered by @confronteugenics.bsky.social
September 29, 2025 at 1:53 PM
On 13 October 2025 @drshantella.bsky.social will be the guest of #CIER and #BabeșBolyaiUniversity in #Cluj. Her talk will focus on #feeblemindedness and #eugenics among American Blacks. Event co-sponsered by @confronteugenics.bsky.social
September 24, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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Unsere Datenbank ist jetzt online! Ich bin sehr glücklich ein Teil davon gewesen zu sein, und es nun mit der Welt teilen zu können
Erzwungene medizinische Forschung im Nationalsozialismus: Historiker und Leopoldina-Mitglied Paul Weindling von der Oxford Brookes University spricht über Hirnforschung in der NS-Zeit und die neue Opfer-Datenbank von @maxplanck.de und Leopoldina➡️ www.leopoldina.org/presse/newsl...
August 27, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Unsere Datenbank ist jetzt online! Ich bin sehr glücklich ein Teil davon gewesen zu sein, und es nun mit der Welt teilen zu können
Join Marius Turda for an illustrated talk & Q&A on his book In Search of the Perfect Romanian. Explore history, identity & eugenics.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/carteadevi...
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August 29, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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I'm looking forward to returning to Oxford Brookes University (where I did my BA, MA, and PhD!) on 3rd October for this inspired event marking the 40th anniversary of Dan Kevles' landmark work 'In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity.' All welcome.
#histsci #histbio #STS 🗃️
#histsci #histbio #STS 🗃️
August 21, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Check out Claire Hilton's book Petty Tyranny and Soulless Discipline published today. Read & download free at: bit.ly/43GTPI5
Petty Tyranny and Soulless Discipline?
High expectations for a better world followed the First World War. Many changes took place aligned with ‘progress’, but in England the poorest benefited little from them. This was all too evident in t...
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July 1, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Check out Claire Hilton's book Petty Tyranny and Soulless Discipline published today. Read & download free at: bit.ly/43GTPI5
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Attend if you can. Marius Turda is an absolutely brilliant speaker and thinker - highly recommend!
Join Marius Turda for an illustrated talk & Q&A on his book In Search of the Perfect Romanian. Explore history, identity & eugenics.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/carteadevi...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/carteadevi...
June 30, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Attend if you can. Marius Turda is an absolutely brilliant speaker and thinker - highly recommend!