Watch Marius describe his new project on the history of communism in Romania. In conversation with Sorin Antohi (in Romanian), Museum of Bucharest, 11 November 2022.
Plenary lecture on ‘Nature, Nurture and the Paradoxes of Identity’
Watch Marius’ plenary lecture to the 1st International Congress on Humanities, Society and Identity, University of Warsaw, 9 December 2022.
From Soviet ‘Race Science’ to Romanian Anthropology (Science and Ethnicity III)
A new exhibition devoted to the re-emergence of physical anthropology and human genetics in communist Romania opens in Bucharest at the Romanian Academy’s Institute of History ‘N. Iorga’ on 11 November 2022. It is generously sponsored by the Romanian Government’s Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes and the Memory of the Romanian Exile (IICCMER).


Exploring the Legacies of Eugenics in Psychiatry Part I
Exploring the Legacies of Eugenics in Psychiatry Part II
Blog post on UCL Special Collections site
In connection with the mini-exhibition on ˜Eugenics and Education’, you can read Marius’ latest blog post on the legacies of eugenics in education (co-authored with Nazlin Bhimani) here:
Webinar on ‘A Cultural History of Race’
The webinar ‘A Cultural History of Race’, a discussion about the 6-volume set published by Bloomsbury in 2021 and moderated by Marius Truda, is now available on Youtube.
Read more about A Cultural History of Race
Confronting eugenics and its legacies in psychiatry
On Thursday 29 September 2022 Marius Turda moderated a discussion about ‘Confronting eugenics and its legacies in psychiatry’, hosted by the Royal College of Psychiatrists.







