Puériculture, Biotypology and 'Latin' Eugenics in Comparative Context

One-day Workshop

Friday 20 April 2012, at the Maison Française d'Oxford

Organised by the History of Race and Eugenics (HRE) Research Group Oxford Brookes University

Programme

10.30-11.00 Marius Turda (Oxford Brookes University)
Introductory Remarks

11.00-11.30 Maria Sophia Quine (University of East Anglia)
Positive, Reformist, and Good?: "Latin Eugenics" in European Perspective?

11.30-12.00 Despina Karakatsani(University of Peloponnese)
Eugenics, Puériculture and Child Welfare in Interwar Greece

12.00-13.30 Lunch

13.30-14.00 Louise Lyle (University of London Institute in Paris)
Les grands tarés et l'intérêt national: French Literary Responses to the Nazi Eugenic Legislation of July 1933

14.00-14.30 Richard Cleminson (University of Leeds)
The Reception and Dissemination of Biotypology in Portugal, 1930-1960

14.30-15.00 Coffee Break

15.00-15.30 Yolanda Eraso (Oxford Brookes University)
Puériculture, Biotipologia and Frauenklinik. A Latin eugenics or a Latin-American approach?

15.30-16.00 Paul J. Weindling (Oxford Brookes University)
Concluding Remarks