Friday, 21 February, 2014
2:00-2:15 Registration
2:15-2:30 Introduction
2:30-4:45 Otherness, Normativity and the Paradoxes of Russian Science
Nathaniel Knight (Seton Hall University, New Jersey), “Was there a Russian Science? Academic Particularism and the International Circulation of Ideas”
Marina Mogilner (University of Illinois at Chicago), “Racial Psychiatry in the Russian Empire: The Imperial Dialectics of Norm(s) and Deviation(s)”
Karl Hall (Central European University, Budapest), "From the ‘zoological element of culture’ to psychic heritability: Antinomies of race in late-imperial Russia"
5:30-7:00 Keynote lecture
Andrew Zimmerman (George Washington University, Washington, DC.), “Race against Revolution in Central and Eastern Europe: From Hegel to Weber, from Rural Insurgency to ‘Polonization’”
Saturday, 22 February, 2014
9:30-11:00 Concepts of Race and Disciplinary Boundaries in Hungarian Natural and Social Sciences
Katalin Stráner (Central European University, Budapest), “Concepts of ‘race’ in early Hungarian Darwinism”
Emese Lafferton (Central European University, Budapest), “Ecological and Geographical Approaches to ‘Race’ in Hungarian Eugenics and Turanism after 1900”
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-13:00 Measurements and Hierarchies. Physical Anthropology and Ethnography in the Austrian Context
Margit Berner (Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna), “Physical Anthropological Investigations in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy”
Andre Gingrich (Institute for Social Anthropology, Austrian Academy of Sciences), "Science, Race and Empire: Academic Ethnography in Vienna before 1918"
13:00-14:00 Lunch for participants
14:00-16:15 Purity, Degeneration, Eugenics, and Modernity in Central and Eastern Europe
Björn M. Felder (Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich), "Race as Modernisation: Anthropology, Eugenics and the Biologised Nation in the Baltic Provinces, 1880-1914“
Thomas Mayer (University of Vienna), “Early Eugenics in Vienna before 1918”
Keely Stauter-Halsted (University of Illinois at Chicago), “Race Science in Partitioned Poland: How Physicians Defined the Contours of the Modern Nation”
16:15-16:30 Break
16:30-17:10 Closing Discussion. Moderator: Mitchell Ash (University of Vienna)
For further information, please contact the organizer, Emese Lafferton (laffertone@ceu.hu).
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no PIEF-GA-2009-255614.