Confront-Eugenics
@confronteugenics.bsky.social
Public history project: www.confront-eugenics.org
A one-day workshop hosted by the Centre for Medical Humanities (Oxford Brookes University), exploring the history and legacy of eugenics and commemorating Daniel Kevles’ major contribution to the field. 📅 Thursday 19 March 2026
February 6, 2026 at 1:01 PM
A one-day workshop hosted by the Centre for Medical Humanities (Oxford Brookes University), exploring the history and legacy of eugenics and commemorating Daniel Kevles’ major contribution to the field. 📅 Thursday 19 March 2026
The Acumen Group's @drshantella.bsky.social and Dr. Sophia Johnson-Sparks joined Oxford-Brookes professor Marius Turda to discuss the history and global reach of the American Eugenics Society on the anniversary of its founding, 100 years ago. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AP_u...
ACUMEN TALKS - The American Eugenics Society... 100 Years Later
YouTube video by THE ACUMEN GROUP
www.youtube.com
January 30, 2026 at 9:10 AM
The Acumen Group's @drshantella.bsky.social and Dr. Sophia Johnson-Sparks joined Oxford-Brookes professor Marius Turda to discuss the history and global reach of the American Eugenics Society on the anniversary of its founding, 100 years ago. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AP_u...
Marius Turda's major work on the history of #race and #racism in modern #Romania is forthcoming with @amsterdamupress.bsky.social
www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
In Search of the Perfect Romanian
This is the English translation of In cautarea romanului perfect. Specific national, degenerare rasiala si selectie sociala in Romania moderna published in 2024 (second illustrated edition 2025).
The ...
www.aup.nl
January 21, 2026 at 5:38 PM
Marius Turda's major work on the history of #race and #racism in modern #Romania is forthcoming with @amsterdamupress.bsky.social
www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
New article on 'Public Engagement with Eugenics in the Academy Exhibitions and Events across Higher Education Institutions' published in @royalsociety.org's Notes and Records!
royalsocietypublishing.org/rsnr/article...
royalsocietypublishing.org/rsnr/article...
January 8, 2026 at 1:34 PM
New article on 'Public Engagement with Eugenics in the Academy Exhibitions and Events across Higher Education Institutions' published in @royalsociety.org's Notes and Records!
royalsocietypublishing.org/rsnr/article...
royalsocietypublishing.org/rsnr/article...
A very good piece by Megan Molteni and Anil Oza, detailing the the hollowing out of NHGRI’s communication and education programs on the history of eugenics and genetics!
www.statnews.com/2025/12/18/t...
www.statnews.com/2025/12/18/t...
As dangerous eugenic ideas spread, NIH falls silent
Federal research agencies are pulling back from fostering public discussions about science after the hollowing out of government communications offices.
www.statnews.com
January 8, 2026 at 11:42 AM
A very good piece by Megan Molteni and Anil Oza, detailing the the hollowing out of NHGRI’s communication and education programs on the history of eugenics and genetics!
www.statnews.com/2025/12/18/t...
www.statnews.com/2025/12/18/t...
Reposted by Confront-Eugenics
Check out the insightful critique on the racialization of Roma in Europe by Marius Turda and Bolagi Balogun. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The Racialization of Roma as “Black” in Interwar Romania and Beyond | Slavic Review | Cambridge Core
The Racialization of Roma as “Black” in Interwar Romania and Beyond - Volume 84 Issue 3
www.cambridge.org
January 7, 2026 at 12:38 PM
Check out the insightful critique on the racialization of Roma in Europe by Marius Turda and Bolagi Balogun. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Reposted by Confront-Eugenics
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
www.youtube.com
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...
#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/...
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 ...
link.springer.com
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
www.youtube.com
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...
Reposted by Confront-Eugenics
“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...
communitylivingmagazine.com
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...
Reposted by Confront-Eugenics
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...
Reposted by Confront-Eugenics
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
www.youtube.com
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)
newbooksnetwork.com/007-series-s...
newbooksnetwork.com/007-series-s...
Series Spotlight: CEU Press Studies in the History of Medicine - New Books Network
newbooksnetwork.com
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...
www.tandfonline.com
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....