Thursday, 2 February 2017

9.30
Opening of the conference
9.45-11.00
Panel: Quarantine in European history I
Chair: Paul Weindling (Oxford Brookes)

Urška Bratož (Koper): Cholera in Trieste in the 19th century: power and impotence of quarantines in a Mediterranean port city

Carlos Watzka (Graz): Steady observation: The attention towards South Eastern Europe within Austria-Hungary’s state reporting system on infectious diseases before WWI

Discussion
Coffee break

11.30-13.00
Panel: Quarantine in European history II
Chair: Nadav Davidovitch (Be’er Sheva)

Sabine Jesner (Graz): Discipline and the territorial state: the quarantines at the Habsburg Cordon Sanitaire until the Austrian Plague Law of 1836

Daniela Teodora Sechel (Graz): Quarantines and the empowerment of nation states: the role of the Moldavian example (1830-1856)
Discussion
Lunch Break

15.00-16.30
Panel: Quarantine during the WWII
Chair: Sascha Topp (Berlin)

Paul Weindling (Oxford Brookes): Quarantine and the Holocaust: Containment for Research

Sabine Schleiermacher (Berlin): Gatekeepers for the Third Reich: Public health officers, forced labour and control of epidemics

Discussion
Coffee break

17.00-18.30
Evening lecture
Amy Fairchild L. (Columbia University, New York)

Reckoning with Fear: Ethics, Politics, and the History of Disease Control at the borders, in 20th Century America

Chair: Christian Promitzer (Graz)

Friday 3 February 2017

9.30 -11.30
Panel: Marital Quarantine: The Mediterranean Sea
Chair: Hani Zubida (Yezreel Valley)

John Chircop (Malta): The Mediterranean under Quarantine in the long 19th century

Sarah Green (Helsinki): Locating disease: quarantine and the movement of people animals and plants across the Aegean Sea

Discussion
Coffee break

12.00-13.30
Panel: Quarantine and Spaces of Isolation
Chair: Roberta Bivins (Warwick)

Christian Promitzer (Graz): Segmented space: pictorial representations of quarantines in the Balkans and in the Middle East (1828-1912)

Sevasti Trubeta (Berlin): Vaccination vs. Quarantine? Humanitarianism and Disease Prevention in Contemporary Refugee Camps in Europe

Discussion
Lunch break

15.30-17.00
Panel: Biometric Screening and border crossing
Chair: John Chircop (Malta)

Nadav Davidovitch (Be’er Sheva): Quarantine in Context: From Mass Immigration to Biosecuritization in Israel

Torsten Heinemann (Hamburg/Berkeley): Cellular Migration: DNA Testing and Family Reunification in the United States and Europe

17.30-19.00
Evening lecture
Natalia Molina (University of California, San Diego)
How Does Medicalized Racialization Shape Immigration Policies in the United States? An Answer from the US-Mexico Borderlands, 1848-present

Chair: Sevasti Trubeta (Berlin)

Saturday, 4 February 2017

10.00-12.00
Panel: National Medical Control to Immigrants: Historical and Comparative perspectives

Chair: Torsten Heinemann (Hamburg/Berkeley):

Sascha Topp (Berlin): Limits of Control - Medical Selection of Migrant Workers in postwar Europe, ca. 1950-1975

Roberta Bivins (Warwick): Screening Suspects and Suspect Screening: Illness, Immigration, and the National Health Service in Britain

Hani Zubida (Yezreel Valley) and Robin Harper (New York): A Question of Cleanliness/Hygiene, Culture or Nationality? Non-Jewish labor migrants, refugees and asylum seekers in Israel

Discussion
Break

12.30-14.00 Conclusions, Round table: New research perspectives and future networking