Eugenics, Sex and the State
18-19 January 2007
Clare College, Cambridge
This conference is the second event of the Eugenics group, a project funded
by CRASSH. Set up in October 2005, the group had a workshop in March 2006.
The aim of the project is to bring together those working on eugenics, and
the associated fields of heredity and degeneration, in order to identify
both common ground and specificities that obtain for different national
contexts, and to identify central research questions; to use this as a basis
for solidly based comparative work on these topics.
The project aims to develop work in the field of the history and reception
of eugenics and related subjects. Our main interest is in the period
1900-1950, but extends to the related areas of heredity, degeneration and
psychometrics. Our focus is on how eugenics existed, was received and
developed in specific ways in different countries, according to period,
national context, political climate, interaction with other disciplines, and
other eugenic associations. A core of international thinkers (Wells, Ellis,
Russell) provided works that fostered an interest in eugenics in a variety
of countries such as Spain, Hungary and China, in a way that is distinct
from the development and nature of eugenics in Western and Northern European
countries and the US, already charted by historians. The work of this
project aims to map local variation in a way that allows further nuancing of
mainline research carried out already, highlighting difference, identifying
common points, and raising general questions.
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Programme
Thursday 18 January
11.00-11.30 Registration and coffee
11.30-13.00 Diane Paul (University of Massachusetts, Boston)
J.S. Mill, Hereditarianism, and Eugenics
Lucy Bland (London Metropolitan University)
British Eugenics and 'Race Crossing': an Interwar Investigation
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.30 Richard Cleminson (University of Leeds)
Eugenics without the State: Anarchism and Sex Reform in Catalonia, 1900-1937
Alison Sinclair (University of Cambridge)
Social Imaginaries: the Literature and Discourse of Eugenics
15.30-16.00 Tea break
16.00-18.15 Belén Jiménez (UNED, Spain)
Potential Criminality and Social Prevention: Eugenics and Other
Psychological Measures
Natalia Gerodetti (University of Leeds)
Rational Subjects and the Conundrums of Eugenics
Véronique Mottier (University of Lausanne & Jesus College, Cambridge)
Eugenics, Politics and the State
Discussants Richard Overy (Exeter) and Lesley Hall (Wellcome)
Friday 19 January
09.30-11.00 Emese Lafferton (University of Edinburgh)
Eugenics, Nationhood, and the State in the Hungarian Kingdom, 1890-1918
Magda Gawin (Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw)
Sex Reform and the Eugenics Movement in Poland
11.00-11.30 Coffee break
11.30-13.00 Ivan Crozier (University of Edinburgh)
Havelock Ellis's Eugenic Core
Theo van der Meer (International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam)
Sexual Nowhere Land: Castration of Sex Offenders in Holland (1938-1968) and
the Language of Eugenics
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.30 Alexander Etkind (University of Cambridge)
The Early Bolshevik Project of Hybridizing Humans and Primates
Martin Richards (University of Cambridge)
From Eutelegenesis to Germinal Choice: Robert Graham's "Nobel" Sperm Bank.
15.30-16.00 Tea break
16.00-17.00 Concluding discussion
Discussant Lesley Hall
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Please contact Gemma Tyler (tel: 01223 760487) if you are interested in
attending this event
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