12 January
Arrival of participants / Accomodation at “Hotel am Ludwigsplatz” in Giessen
19.00: Informal dinner (“warming up”) at “Die Kate”, Bismarckstr. 32, Giessen
Meeting point in hotel lobby at 18.45
13 January
9.00-9.30
Katharina Kreuder-Sonnen and Andreas Renner: Introduction
Panel I – Imperial hygiene
9.30-10.00
Christian Promitzer (Graz): Miasmas unbound: the impact of Western health intelligence on “Turkey of Europe” in the prebacteriological era (1800-1878)
10.00-10.30
Anna Afanas’eva (Jaroslavl’): A Challenge for the Imperial Authorities: Epidemics in the Kazakh steppe in the Nineteenth Century
10.30-11.00
Reinhard Nachtigal (Freiburg): Quarantine as the main means of medical prevention in Russia (1800-1860s)
11.00-11.30: Coffee break
11.30-12.00
Matthias Braun (Berlin): From Colonial Bodies to National Landscapes: Imagining Malaria in a Peripheral Theatre
12.00-12.20
Dmitrii Mikhel’ (Saratov): Commentary
12.20-13.00
Discussion of Panel I
13.00-14.00: Lunch break
Panel II – Building States and Nations
14.00-14.30
Natalia Cherniaeva (Ekaterinburg): Teaching Mothercraft to Village Women: Civilizing Discourse in Russian and Soviet Health Propaganda for Mothers
14.30-15.00
Lenka Fehrenbach (Tübingen): „Tuberculosis, the Workers‘ Enemy“. The Political Exploitation of Soviet Anti-Tuberculosis Campaigns in the 1920s
15.00-15.30
Grégory Dufaud (Paris): Towards local psychiatric services? Psychiatry and mental health in the Soviet Union during the interwar years
15.30-16.00: Coffee break
16.00-16.30
Katrin Steffen (Lüneburg): Public hygiene in Poland in the first half of the 20th century as a stage for debates on modernization of the nation
16.30-16.50
Ute Caumanns (Düsseldorf): Commentary
16.50-17.30
Discussion of Panel II
19.30: Conference Dinner at “Melchiors”, Ludwigstr. 55, Giessen
14 January
Panel III – Travel, Public, Popularization
9.30-10.00
Angelika Strobel (Zurich): Improving Russia’s Health: The „All-Russian“ Hygiene Exhibitions in St Petersburg in 1893 and 1913
10.00-10.30
Axel Hüntelmann (Mainz): Multiple relations. Regulations and research, cooperation and connections: the Institute for Experimental Therapy ‘in’ Eastern Europe 1899-1933
10.30-11.00
Thomas Steller (Bielefeld/Baltimore): The public body – The exhibitions on hygiene by the Deutsches Hygiene-Museum in the 1920s
11.00-11.30: Coffee break
11.30-12.00
Justyna A. Turkowska (Marburg): In the name of hygiene: The Hygiene Institute in Posen between political expectations and scientific standards
12.00-12.20
Daniela Sechel (Wien/Budapest): Commentary
12.20-13.00
Discussion of Panel III
13.00-14.00: Lunch break
Panel IV – Eugenics and Morals
14.00-14.30
Nikolay Kamenov (Zurich): Anti-Alcoholism and Social Hygiene in Bulgaria 1890-1940
14.30-15.00
Björn M. Felder (Göttingen): Racial hygiene as a new mean of public hygiene to „clean“ society. Eugenic debates from late Tsarist Empire to early Soviet Union 1910-1930
15.00-15.30
Birte Kohtz (Giessen): „New men“ from Head to Toe – Russian/Soviet Eugenics between Gender and Ethnicity
15.30-16.00: Coffee break
16.00-16.30
Ekaterina Borozdina (St. Petersburg): Soviet Medical Deontology: Genealogy of Moral Order of Soviet Healthcare
16.30-16.50
Irina Sirotkina (Moscow): Commentary
16.50-17.30
Discussion of Panel IV
17.30-18.00
Final Discussion
19.30: Informal dinner at “Bar Vanilla”, Goethestr. 56, Giessen
15 January
Departure of participants