Professor Marius Turda and the British Psychological Society (BPS), through its Challenging Histories Group, organised and hosted a symposium at the 18th European Congress of Psychology on July 4th, 2023 which explored the legacies of eugenics in psychology, past and present.
The British Psychological Society confronts eugenics
The ‘We Are Not Alone’ exhibition on the legacies of eugenics is now featured on the British Psychological Society’s website and in the society’s journal, The Psychologist.
https://www.bps.org.uk/history-psychology-centre/exhibition-we-are-not-alone-legacies-eugenics
https://www.bps.org.uk/psychologist/confronting-eugenics
At the Council of Europe
On 22 May 2023 Professor Marius Turda participated as an expert in a meeting organised by the Council of Europe’s Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development. A motion regarding the detention of the “socially maladjusted” was put forward by the said Committee and approved by the Parliamentary Assembly. Mr Stefan Schennach was assigned as the rapporteur.
Minutes of the meeting (external link)
Photos courtesy of Torsten Hjelmar, The European Times
At Harvard Countway Library
The exhibition ‘We are not Alone’: Legacies of Eugenics will be on display at Harvard Countway Library from 18 April to September 2023. How to register for the opening here:
In the Community
The exhibition ‘We are not Alone’: Legacies of Eugenics‘ is now a permanent feature of the ‘Lucian Blaga’ University Library, one of the most popular public spaces in Sibiu (Transylvania).
The Exhibition crosses the Pond
Between 5 and 8 April 2023 the exhibition ‘We are not Alone’: Legacies of Eugenics was on display at Harvard University’s FXB Center for Health and Human Rights and at Boston University’s Centre on Forced Displacement. Prof Marius Turda also participated in the 11th Annual Roma Conference entitled ‘Legacies and Manifestations of Anti-Roma Racism in Health Policies, Practice and Research and gave a public lecture. The lecture was opened by Miriam Asnes, Senior Advisor to the Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues at the U.S. Department of State.
Political Recognition and Historical Reckoning: Eugenics on Trial
On 22 March 2023 Prof Marius Turda took part in the International Mock Trial on Human Rights held in the plenary hall of the Romanian Parliament’s Chamber of Deputies. Marius acted as an expert on the history of eugenics providing context to the development of eugenic thinking in Germany, Britain, the USA and Romania.
More info on the trial here:
Lancet review of ‘We are not Alone’
Read the review of the exhibition ‘We are not Alone’: Legacies of Eugenics published in The Lancet (17 February 2023)
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(23)00330-6/
