Program
5 October – 1 November 2024
Opening: 4 October 2024, 6.30 pm
Symposium: 4 – 5 October 2024
Day 1
Friday, 4 October 2024, 2 – 5.30 pm, Siemens Auditorium, ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg, HIT E 51
Scientific guests in dialogue with interested parties and those directly affected by the ANAG. Open event (free entry)
2 – 5.30 pm
Discussion questions:
There are still many gaps in knowledge about the ANAG and eugenics. The expertise of those directly affected by the ANAG and other groups affected by eugenically motivated violence against their families is not sufficiently recognised. The various research disciplines are fragmented. We are not getting anywhere. We ask: How do we engage a constructive dialogue with each other? How do the different parts relate to each other?
2 – 2.10 pm
Paola De Martin, Melinda Nadj Abonji: Welcome and introduction
2.10 – 2.20 pm
Dr. Thomas Huonker: Opening remarks
2.20 – 3.30 pm
Voices and approaches of science. With:
Pascal Germann, Senior Assistant, Dr., Institute for the History of Medicine, University of Bern
Regina Wecker, Prof. Dr em., Department of History, University of Basel
Simon Teuscher, Prof. Dr, Chair of Medieval History, Department of History, University of Zurich
Cenk Akdoganbulut, PhD student, Department of Contemporary History, University of Fribourg
Torsten Lange, Dr, Lecturer, Technology and Architecture, Lucerne School of Engineering and Architecture
Short break
3.45 – 4 pm
Nora Refaeil, Dr. iur. LL.M., lawyer, expert in mediation, critical re-examination of the past and transformative justice, Basel. Input on the role of historical research in transformative justice processes
4 – 4.15 pm
Statements by affected persons and members of the TESORO association:
Patricia Büttiker, writer, Zurich
Lulzim Kadriu, construction manager, Zurich
Liliana López, architect and mother, Bern
Short break
4.30 – 5 pm
Roundtable: Moderated exchange with the audience in small groups
Guidelines:
Collecting impressions.
What do we expect from future demographic and family policy? What are the big questions we are asking of history?
The answers are recorded on flipcharts.
Languages: GER, ENG, IT
5 – 5.20 pm
Short presentation of the results: A manifesto for future research
5.20 – 5.30 pm
Thanks and closing remarks
Consecutive translation GER/EN:
Jo Baan, Research Assistant at the Chair of History of Art and Architecture (Prof. Dr. Philip Ursprung)
Consecutive translation GER/IT:
Maria A. Satta, lic. romanist, former manager of Ristorante Cooperativo Zurich, TESORO member
6.30 pm
Opening and apéro, ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg, gta exhibitions
Welcome by Prof. Dr. Philip Ursprung, Chair of the History of Art and Architecture at the gta Institute of ETH Zurich, Niels Olsen and Fredi Fischli, curators of gta exhibitions, Paola De Martin and Melinda Nadj Abonji, ETH Zurich/TESORO
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Day 2
Saturday, 5 October 2024, 10 am – 12.30 pm, gta exhibitions, ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg
It’s not a footnote!
Eugenics and architecture, eugenics and migration: What is the state of international research? How can we ensure that these connections become part of common knowledge?
Our international guests will be offering guided tours of their works in the exhibition:
Marius Turda (Professor, School of Education, Humanities and Languages, Oxford Brookes University, UK)
Fabiola López-Durán (Associate Professor of Art and Architectural History, Rice University, USA)
Followed by a discussion with the audience. Open event (free entry). Language: EN.
Moderation: Paola De Martin