Disability
Studies and the Legacies of Eugenics
Director: Sharon Snyder
Co-director: David Mitchell
Sponsors: DAAD, Humanities
Laboratory at UIC, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, PhD Program in
Disability Studies at UIC
July 5 to 30 2004
Monday July 5
10:30: Meet and go over itinerary and plans. Discuss access issues.
1:00: Visit Einstein Forum including research library.
Evening Reading Group:
Burleigh, Michael. The Third Reich: A New History. New York: Hill &
Wang, 2000. Chapter 5: “Extinguishing the Ideas of Yesterday: Eugenics
and Euthanasia.”
Discussion leader: Sandy O’Neill
Tuesday 6
Aly, Gotz. “Medicine Against the Useless” in C. Pross (ed.).
Cleansing the Fatherland: Nazi Medicine and Racial Hygiene. Baltimore:
Johns Hopkins UP, 1994: 22-98.
Bauman, Zygmunt. Modernity
and the Holocaust. Cornell: Cornell UP, 2000 [1981]. Chapter 1: “Sociology
After the Holocaust.”
Discussion leaders: David Mitchell and Sharon Snyder
Wednesday 7
11:00: Tour of the Institute on Bioethics, Berlin
1:00: Katrin Grubar, Genetic Counseling and its Anti-Eugenic Impulses
Today
IMEW Institut Mensch, Ethik und Wissenschaft gGmbH
Thursday 8
11:00: Jewish Museum, Berlin
Museum Blindenwerkstatt Otto Weidt
5:00: Seminar Discussion
Friday 9
Open plans.
Saturday 10
Off. Obtain vans.
Sunday 11
11:00 Vans leave for Brandenberg Memorial
Drive to Halle (2 hours); Kempinski Hotel
7:00:
Biesold, Horst. Crying Hands: Eugenics and Deaf People in Nazi Germany.
Washington, D.C.: Gallaudet UP. Chapter 9: “Euthanasia and Deaf
Germans.”
Session Leader: Brenda Breuggemann
Monday 12
9:00
Lifton, Robert Jay. The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology
of Genocide. New York; Basic Books, 2000 [1986]. Chapter 2: “Euthanasia:
Direct Medical Killing” and Chapter 4: “Wild Euthanasia: The
Doctors Take Over”
12:00 to 6:00 Bernberg
Overnight: Halle, Kempinski
Hotel
Tuesday 13
Drive to Koblenz
View Barrier Free Koblenz Architecture
Wednesday 14
Boat Tour on Mosel (optional)
Castle Tour and Dinner
Thursday 15
Morning: Drive to Hadamar
11:00 Seminar meeting with Uta George, Director, Hadamar
Hadamar Gas Chamber and Memorial
Friday 16
Hadamar Archives
Gravesite Discussion: Uta George
Saturday 17
Drive to Weimar (morning)
Open.
Sunday 18
Buchenwald
Evening: Drive to Potsdam
Monday 19
Official Laundry Day
Tuesday 20
10:00 – 11:00 am: Mid-seminar organizational planning meeting
Presentations of research by seminar faculty.
11:00 –1:00 pm: Swantje
Koebsell, University of Bremen
Presentation: “History of the German Disability Rights Movement”
6:00 – 8:00 pm: Anne
Waldschmidt, University of Koln
Public Lecture: “Disability and Contemporary Genetics in Germany”
Einstein Forum
Wednesday 21
10:00: Seminar Session
Friedlander, Henry. The Origins of Nazi Genocide: From Euthanasia to the
Final Solution. Chapel Hill: North Carolina UP, 1995. Chapter 5: “The
Killing Centers” and Chapter 8: “The Handicapped Victims.”
Mueller-Hill, Benno. Murderous
Science: Elimination by Scientific Selection of Jews, Gypsies, and Others,
Germany 1933-1945, Oxford: Oxford UP, 1988. Chapter 3: “From the
Killing of Mental Patients to the Killing of Jews and Gypsies.”
Facilitator: David Mitchell
11:00 – 2:00 pm: Discussion
with Anne Waldschmidt, University of Koln;
Swantje Koebsell, University of Bremen, and Rebecca Maskos, University
of Bremen
5:00 – 7:00 pm: Discussion
about Surgery as Assimilation and Child Surgery Options
Facilitator: Adrienne Asch
Thursday 22
12:00 -- 1:00 am: Reading Group
Proctor, Robert. Racial Hygiene: Medicine Under the Nazis. Cambridge:
Harvard UP, 1988. Chapter 4: “The Sterilization Law.”
Facilitator: Gerald O’Brien
1:00 – 6:00 pm: Hannelore
Witkofski, Documentary filmmaker, Hamburg
Includes Film showing of Liebe Perla (54 mins.)
Friday 23
10:00 – 11:00: Reading Group
Lifton, Robert Jay. The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology
of Genocide. New York; Basic Books, 2000 [1986]. Chapter 2: “Euthanasia:
Direct Medical Killing” and Chapter 4: “Wild Euthanasia: The
Doctors Take Over”
Facilitator: Adrienne Asch
11:00 – 1:00 pm: Petra
Fuchs, Bundesarchiv, Berlin
Saturday 24
Sunday 25
Monday 26
10:00 – 11:00: Reading Group
McFarland-Icke, Bronwyn Rebekah. Nurses in Nazi Germany: Moral Choice
in History. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1999. Chapter 8: “War, Mass
Murder, and Moral Flight: Psychiatric Nursing, 1939-1945.”
Facilitator: Nicole Markotic
11:30 –-
T4 Memorial at #4 Tiergartenstrasse
Commemoration for Hugh Gallagher, Author, By Trust Betrayed
Celebration of 14th Anniversary of Signing of ADA
Blind Workshop visit (many steps and lacks accessibility focus -- as of
yet)
Tuesday 27
10:00 – 11:00: Reading Group
Weindling, Paul. Health, Race and German Politics Between National Unification
and Nazism, 1870-1945. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1989 [1991]. Chapter 7:
“The Sick Bed of Democracy, 1929-1932.”
Facilitator: Walton Schalick & Kanta Kochler-Lindgren
11:00 –1:00 pm: Research
Projects Group Discussion
Wednesday 28
10:00 – 11:00 Reading Group
Noakes, J. and G. Pridham (eds.). Nazism: A History of Documents and Eyewitness
Accounts, 1919-1945, Vol. 2. New York: Schocken Books, 1988. Chapter 36:
“The ‘Euthanasia’ Programme 1939-1945.”
Facilitator: Sara Vogt
11:00 – 1:00 pm
Frank Oliver Sobich
German Colonies, Racism, and Biologism
Thursday 29
Wannsee Conference Memorial Center
10:00:
11:00 Volker van der Loche, “History of German Psychiatric Institutions
4:00-5:00 Michael Schwartze, The Status of Disabled Persons in Contemporary
Germany
11:00 – 1:00 pm: Volker
van der Loche
Presentation: History of German Psychiatric Institutions
Friday 30
Wrap Up and Departures
1. IMEW Institut Mensch, Ethik und Wissenschaft gGmbH
Warschauer Str. 58A
D-10243 Berlin
fon: +49 (030) 293817-89
+49 (030) 293817-70 (Sekretariat)
fax: +49 (0) 293817-80
email: grueber@imew.de
http://www.imew.de
2. Jewish Museum of Berlin
http://www.jmberlin.de/home_english.htm
Jewish Museum Berlin
Lindenstraße 9-14, 10969 Berlin
Info: +49 30 25993 300
Fax: +49 30 25993 409
General: info@jmberlin.de
Tours: fuehrungen@jmberlin.de
3. Museum Blindenwerkstatt
Otto Weidt
Rosenthaler Strasse 39 10178 Berlin
http://www.blindes-vertrauen.de/introduction.html
4. Gedenkstätte Pirna-Sonnenstein
Schlosspark 11
01796 Pirna
Tel. +49-(0)35 01-71 09 60
Fax +49-(0)35 01-71 09 69
E-mail: gedenkstaette.pirna@stsg.smwk.sachsen.de
Hotels:
1. Steigenberger Hotel Sanssouci
Allee nach Sanssouci 1
10789 Potsdam, Germany
Tel: +49 (33) 190910, Fax: +49 (33) 19091909
2. Kempinski Hotel and Congress
Center
Rotes Ross Halle
Leipziger Strasse 76
Halle Saala, Germany
Double rooms
112 Euros
3. Hotel ImStuffje
Koblenz
0261-915-220
Double rooms: 82 euros
Singles: 60 euros
4. Hadamar Youth Hostel/ 6
per room.
37 euros/person
5. Weimar Hilton
Belvedere Derer Allee 25 Weimar
3643-7220
81 euro/single
95 euro/double
http://www.hilton.com/en/hi/hotels/index.jhtml?ctyhocn=WEIHITW
Sharon L. Snyder, Ph. D.,
Director, "Legacies of Eugenics" Summer Institute, Einstein
Forum
Assistant Professor, Interdisciplinary Ph. D. Program in Disability Studies
Department of Disability and Human Development
University of Illinois at Chicago (MC 626)
1640 W. Roosevelt Rd. #207
Chicago IL 60608-6904 U.S.A.
E-mail: ssnyder@uic.edu Phone: (312) 413-1975 (Voice) Fax: (312) 996-0885
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