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).
Listen to Marius Turda in conversation with Dr. Waitman W. Beorn for his The Holocaust History Podcast.
The exhibition ‘We are not alone’: Legacies of Eugenics is on display at ETH Zurich, Honggerberg Campus between 5 October and 1 November 2024. It accompanies the video installation “Eugenik und ANAG Gebildete Handlanger der Macht” by Melinda Nadj Abonji, and the textile work “Ohne Pro kein Contra – Spaltung und Hierarchie im Schweizer Familienhaus” by Paola De Martin with Melinda Nadj Abonji and Lucia Bernini.
More info here: https://ausstellungen.gta.arch.ethz.ch/en/exhibitions/der-elefant-ist-der-raum
Between 6 and 12 June 2024, the ‘We are not Alone’ exhibition’ was on display at Casa Preta da Maré in Nova Holanda favela in Rio de Janeiro.
In this podcast Prof Marius Turda and Dr Jolel Miah discuss the relationship between eugenics and psychology. Watch all three episodes here:
Ep. 1: What is Eugenics in the context of Psychology?
Ep. 2: Evidence, Examples and Impact of Psychologists/Eugenics in the field of Psychology
Ep. 3: Legacy of Eugenics & What do we do now
The exhibition was on display at the Oxford Brookes University between 17 and 18 April and at the Museum of Oxford between 19 and 20 April, during the Think Human festival. Professor Marius Turda also organised two events in connection with the exhibition: he first focused on disability and sterilisation with contributions from Ramandeep Kaur and Terry-Lee (see video below); the second dealt with anti-Roma racism and featured Terezia Rostas and John Henry Phillips.
