A one-day workshop hosted by the Centre for Medical Humanities, exploring the history and legacy of eugenics and commemorating Daniel Kevles’ major contribution to the field.
Racializing the Roma
Marius Turda’s article on “The Racialization of Roma as ‘Black’ in Interwar Romania and Beyond’ has been published in Slavic Review, the journal of Association for Slavic, East European & Eurasian Studies.
The article is available on Open Access here:
The Exhibition’s Impact in the Roma Community in Sheffield
The exhibition was featured on Roma Cultural Awareness Day, organised on 12 November 2025 by Care for Young People’s Future and Welcoming Cultures UK in Sheffield.
With many thanks to Terezia Rostas.
Marius Turda’s Interview for História, Ciências, Saúde
Following the exhibition ‘s successful trip to Rio de Janeiro Marius was interviewed by Vivian Mannheimer for História, Ciências, Saúde – Manguinhos, a quarterly publication of the Casa de Oswaldo Cruz.
Read the interview here:
https://www.scielo.br/j/hcsm/a/k8jTRZBTWxbDGnKPXGGpLnG/?lang=en
On Disability and Eugenics
On 4 November 2025 Prof Marius Turda spoke about disability, eugenics and dehumanisation at the Wiener Holocaust Library in London. The talk as was held as part of the “Finding Ivy: a life worthy of life” exhibition.
On Nazi Medicine and the Holocaust
Between 15 and 17 September 2025, Prof Marius Turda joined a number of scholars and Dr Leon Weintraub, a survivor of the Holocaust, for the 6th International Conference entitled ‘Medicine behind the Barbed Wire’, organised by Medical Review Auschwitz at the Medical College of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. He presented on ‘Confronting Eugenics and Scientific Racism’.
Prof Marius Turda wins prestigious prize
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
Conference on Eugenics at University of Oxford
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.
