Symposia Announcement: 'Reassessing Nazi Human Experiments and Coerced Research, 1933-1945: New Findings, Interpretations and Problems' Wadham College Oxford, July 4-7



A limited number of spaces are available with accommodation provided for attendees of the symposia: 'Reassessing Nazi Human Experiments and Coerced Research, 1933-1945: New Findings, Interpretations and Problems' and: 'Reassessing Nazi Psychiatric and Brain Anatomical Research, 1933-1945: New Findings, Interpretations and Concepts,' convened at Wadham College (July 4-7). The symposia will bring together international experts on the study of human medical and psychiatric experimentation carried out during the holocaust.

The following panels have been prepared:
Thursday July 4:
Victims as Populations

Friday July 5:
Concentration Camp Research
Problematic Locations – Transnistria and Romanian Backgrounds

Saturday July 6:
Psychiatric Experiments and Eugenics
Use of the Psychiatric Hospital Patients for Medical Experiments Racial and Reproductive Research

Sunday July 7:
Reading Memoirs, Testimonies and Compensation Claims

A full programme is available for download here:

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The symposia are organized by Prof. Paul Weindling (Oxford Brookes University), Dr. Marius Turda (Oxford Brookes University), and Prof. Volker Roelcke (University of Giessen). Funding has been provided by the Wellcome Trust, the Rabbi Israel Miller Fund for Shoah Research of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, Oxford Brookes University, and the University of Giessen.