Evolution and the Public (1859-2009)
The discussion of a scientific
idea
and its ramifications since Charles Darwin
| Conference programme
Overview  |
Conference programme
Day 1: 03.09.09 |
Conference programme
Day 3: 05.09.09 |
Conference programme, day 2
Friday, September 4, 2009
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Section A (Room AE-A 103)
Images of Scientists and the
Public
Chair: Mita Banerjee, Siegen
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| 10:00am – 10:45am |
Representations of Women Scientists in
Fiction Film
Eva Flicker, Vienna |
| 10:45am – 11:30am |
Animating Darwin in the Public Sphere: Max
Fleischer’s "Darwin’s Theory of Evolution"
(1925)
Scott MacKenzie, Toronto |
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Section B (Room AE-A 102)
Eugenics: Defining an
Ideal
Chair: Eckart Voigts-Virchow,
Siegen
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| 10:00am – 10:45am |
Politics of Negative Eugenics: A Global
Comparative Approach, 1900-1950
Michael Schwartz, Berlin |
| 10:45am – 11:30am |
"Blood will tell": the Eugenics Movement in
Canada Prior to World War II
Lukasz Albanski, Krakow |
| 11:30am – 12:00pm | Coffee Break |
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Section A (Room AE-A 103)
Images of Scientists and the
Public
Chair: Barbara Korte, Freiburg
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| 12:00pm – 12:45pm |
Darwin and Photography
Monika Pietrzak-Franger, Siegen |
| 12:45pm – 01:30pm |
Portrait Photography and Physiognomic
Theory from Darwin to the Third Reich
Leesa L. Rittelmann, Fredonia, NY |
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Section B (Room AE-A 102)
Eugenics: Defining an
Ideal
Chair: Peter Alter,
Duisburg-Essen
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| 12:00pm – 12:45pm |
Eugenics, Race, and Psychiatry in the
Baltic States 1900-1945
Björn Michael Felder, Marburg |
| 12:45pm – 01:30pm |
The Implementation of Eugenic Ideals in
Heinrich Himmler’s SS
Amy Beth Carney, Tallahassee, FL |
| 01:30pm – 02:30pm | Lunch Break |
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Section A (Room AE-A 103)
The Debate on Evolution in the Age
of the Human Genome
Chair: Marianne Sommer, Zurich
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| 02:30pm – 03:15pm |
The Origin of Higher Categories in Cynips:
Alfred Kinsley’s Contributions to the Study of
Evolution
Donna J. Drucker, Indianapolis, IN |
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Section B (Room AE-A 102)
Eugenics: Defining an
Ideal
Chair: Peter Alter,
Duisburg-Essen
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| 02:30pm – 03:15pm |
Teaching the History of Eugenics in the
Multi-Cultural Classroom
Aaron Gillette, Houston, TX |
| 03:15pm – 03:45pm | Coffee Break |
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Section A (Room AE-A 103)
The Debate on Evolution in the Age
of the Human Genome
Chair: Marianne Sommer, Zurich
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| 03:45pm – 04:30pm |
Gould as a Third Culture Thinker: Revising
Darwinism
Curtis D. Carbonell, Jersey City, NJ |
| 04:30pm – 05:15pm |
Tracing "Descent" as Popular History in
Contemporary Britain
Barbara Korte and Ulrike Pirker, Freiburg |
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Section B (Room AE-A 102)
From Darwinism to Social
Darwinism
Chair: Eckart Voigts-Virchow, Siegen
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| 03:45pm – 04:30pm |
Unbroken Strain of Defectives: Social
Articulation of Mental Disability in New York City
in the Early Twentieth Century
Yoshiya Makita, Boston, MA |
| 04:30pm – 05:15pm |
Herbert Spencer and the Discourse of
Evolution
Michael Beetz, Jena |
| 05:15pm – 05:30pm | Break |
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05:30pm – 07:00pm |
Plenary (Room AE-A 102/103) Panel Discussion: Presenting Darwin in the Media Chair: Angela Schwarz, Siegen
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| 08:00pm |
Dinner at Park Hotel in Siegen
(for speakers and chairs) |