Prof Marius Turda won the 2025 essay prize awarded by Romania’s most prestigious literary journal, Observator Cultural, for his book In Search of the Perfect Romanian (Polirom 2024, 2nd. ed. 2025) https://polirom.ro/historia/8557-%C3%AEn-c%C4%83utarea-rom%C3%A2nului-perfect.html
Prof Marius Turda gave a paper at the conference on history, eugenics and human enhancement organised by the Uehiro Oxford Institute at St Anne’s College on 24 March 2025.
Students at Purdue University’s College of Liberal Arts (USA) engage with the exhibition on eugenics curated by Professor Marius Turda in a class entitled “Literature in the Age of Eugenics” taught by Professor Maren Linett, Founder and Coordinator of Critical Disability Studies.
‘We are not Alone’: Legacies of Eugenics now exists as a digital exhibition. It is available here:
https://www.brookes.ac.uk/research/units/hss/centres/centre-for-medical-humanities#flipbook
Professor Marius Turda explores the history and impact of the eugenics movement. He delves into the origins of eugenics, its rise to prominence, and its influence on social and health policies worldwide. The work highlights the visual and public iconographies used to promote eugenic ideologies, examining their role in shaping societal attitudes and reinforcing discriminatory practices. Through this digital exhibition, the text invites reflection on the legacy of eugenics and its ongoing implications in contemporary debates about genetics and human rights.
On 13 November 2024 Professor Marius Turda gave a public lecture to the University of Medicine and Pharmacology ‘Grigore T. Popa’ in Ia?i (Romania). The topic of his talk was “Eugenics and the Dehumanization of People with Disabilities”.
Between 1 November and 13 December 2024, the exhibition ‘We are not Alone’: Legacies of Eugenics is on display at the University of Helsinki, hosted by the Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations and Nationalism and Swedish School of Social Sciences. On 5 November Prof Marius Turda gave a public talk explaining the aims of the exhibitions and the role it plays in today’s debates about the resurgence of eugenics.
On 1 November 2024, Professor Marius Turda gave a talk on “Eugenic Iconographies and the Public Imagination” at the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford. The talk was organised by the University of Oxford’s Festival of Social Sciences and Oxford Brookes University.
Between 23 and 25 October 2024, Professor Marius Turda and a number of students from Oxford Brookes University took part in and co-hosted the First “Eugenics in Society Conference” in partnership with the Acumen Group (USA) and the University of Westminster (UK).
