Excluding the 'Unfit' from Procreation: Politics of Negative Eugenics in Global Perspective, 1900-1950
Monday, June 11th, 2018
| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Monday, June 11, 2018 | 2:00PM - 4:00PM | Seminar Room 208N, Munk School of Global Affairs 1 Devonshire Place M5S 3K7 |
Description
The lecture will focus on then-modern politics of negative eugenics during the first half of the twentieth century. This policy implemented different means of excluding the so-called genetically ‘unfit’ from procreation, e.g. by means of marriage prohibition or sterilization. The lecture will discuss the political cases of the USA, Scandinavia and Germany in a global perspective.
Dr. Michael Schwartz is Senior Fellow at the Institute for Contemporary History Munich-Berlin and Professor for Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Munster. Among his main subjects of research are the history of eugenics, global ethnic ‘cleansing’ and the history of sexuality between 1965 and 2000.
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