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/
How has eugenics influenced and transformed Hungary, Europe and the West?
Watch Marius’ latest podcast. He talks to Gergely Bukovinszki about ‘How has eugenics influenced and transformed Hungary, Europe and the West?’
Article on colonialism and eugenics
Read Marius’ latest article on colonialism and eugenics in Central and Eastern Europe (co-authored with Bolaji Balogun) here:
Interview: ‘Science and Ethnicity III’
Read Marius’ interview with the Museum of Bucharest, following the opening of the exhibition ‘Science and Ethnicity III’ on 18 December 2022.
Blog post on eugenics and the Holocaust
Read Marius Turda’s blog post on the legacies of eugenics and the commemoration of the Holocaust, on the Global Network of Psychologists for Human Rights website.
Science and Ethnicity III exhibition goes to Bucharest
The exhibition ‘Science and Ethnicity III: From Soviet ‘Race Science’ to Romanian Anthropology moves to the Museum of Bucharest on 19 December 2022.
Watch Marius describe the exhibition (in Romanian):
