“The German Archipelago: German Minorities and Interwar Eugenics”
17 - 18 December 2011, Balliol College, Oxford
Programme
Saturday, 17 December (Massey Room)
10:30-12:30: Volksdeutsche Eugenics
Tudor Georgescu: “Transylvanian Saxons Eugenics: Concepts and Practices”
Björn M. Felder: “From Proto-Eugenics to Euthanasia: Baltic GermanEugenicsin Latvia and Estonia 1890-1940“
Paul Weindling: “The Volga Germans as a Focus of Rival Racial Pathologies“
(Chair: Marius Turda)
13:30-15:00: Eugenics and National Identity
Filip Krčmar: “The Swabian-German Kulturbund and Eugenic Issues in Yugoslavia’s Volksdeutsche Periodicals, 1921-1941”
John C. Swanson: “A people with Two Souls: Making Germans in Interwar Hungary”
(Chair: Calin Cotoi)
15:30-17:00: Volksdeutsche in Romania
Hildrun Glass: “Reconceptualisation of German Ethnic Identity in Romania under Nazi influence”
Mariana Hausleitner: “The political radicalization of the Volksdeutsche in Bessarabia, the Bukowina, and the Banat 1933-1935”
(Chair: Tudor Georgescu)
Sunday, 18 December (Old Common Room)
10:30-12:00: Nazi- Racial Hygiene and Volksdeutsche
Susanne Schlechter: “Missing Resettlers: ‘Heim ins Reich’ in the Shadow of Nazi Politics from 1940 to 1944”
Maria Fiebrandt: “Racial Hygienic Mechanisms of Selections during the Resettlement of the Volksdeutsche,1939-45”
(Chair: Björn M. Felder)
13:30-15:00: Volksdeutsche and Nazi Germanys’ Racial Policy
Steffen Werther: “Volk vs. Race: The German Minority in Denmark and the SS idea of a ‘Greater Germanic Empire’”
Stephan Lehnsteadt: “Exercising Germanisation: The Volksdeutsche and Racial Politics in Warthegau and General Government”
(Chair: Paul Weindling)
15:30-16:30: Concluding Remarks, by Paul Weindling followed by discussion
Participants
Tudor Georgescu (Oxford Brookes University): tgeorgescu@brookes.ac.uk
Björn M. Felder (University of Goettingen): bfelder@uni-goettingen.de
Calin Cotoi (University of Bucharest): calincotoi@yahoo.com
Maria Fiebrandt (Technical University Dresden): Maria.Fiebrandt@tu-dresden.de
Hildrun Glass (Ludwig Maximilians Universität, Munich): hildrun.glass@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
Mariana Hausleitner (Ludwig Maximilians Universität, Munich): m.hausleitner@t-online.de
Filip Krčmar (Novi Sad):zrenjanistika@gmail.com
Stephan Lehnsteadt (German-Historical-Institute, Warsaw): lehnstaedt@dhi.waw.pl
Susanne Schlechter (NS-Memorial Alte Pathologie‘ Wehnen/ Oldenburg): SusanneSchlechter@web.de
John C. Swanson (Utica College, New York): jswanso@utica.edu
Marius Turda (Oxford Brookes University): mturda@brookes.ac.uk
Paul Weindling (Oxford Brookes University): pjweindling@brookes.ac.uk
Steffen Werther (Södertörns högskola): steffen.werther@sh.se
For further information please contact the conveners:
Tudor Georgescu: tgeorgescu@brookes.ac.uk or
Björn Felder: bfelder@uni-goettingen.de
Organized by:
Oxford Brookes University and its Working Group on the History of Race and Eugenics
Kindly funded by:
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