Sex, Ethics and Psychology: The Networks and Cultural Context of Albert Moll (1862-1939)

The Centre for the History of Medicine and Disease, Durham University

Sex, Ethics and Psychology: The Networks and Cultural Context of Albert
Moll (1862-1939)

A Conference debating the work of Albert Moll in Medical Ethics, Sexology,
Psychology and Parapsychology
sponsored by the Wellcome Trust and the Wolfson Research Institute, Durham
University and supported by the Northern Centre for the History of
Medicine

Thursday 5th - Friday 6th November, 2009

To be held at Durham University, Stockton on Tees, Queen's Campus, Wolfson
Research Institute, Seminar Room

For a booking form and further information, please visit
http://www.dur.ac.uk/chmd/news/mollconference/

For directions to Queen's Campus, Stockton, please visit
http://www.dur.ac.uk/chmd/maps/

It would be appreciated if the poster on the following link could be
advertised

http://www.dur.ac.uk/resources/chmd/events/mollconference/poster/Posterfinal2.pdf

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Programme

Thursday, 5th November 2009
0945-1000 Welcome (Tea and Coffee)

1000-1045 Heather Wolffram (University of Queensland, Australia).
'"Trick", "manipulation" and "farce": Albert Moll's critique of occultism'

1045-1130 Barbara Wolf-Braun (University of Frankfurt/Main, Germany).
'Albert Moll's fight against occultism and parapsychology'

1130-1145 Tea and Coffee

1145-1230 Andreas Sommer (University College London, UK). 'Pathologising
the occult: Moll, Schrenck-Notzing, and the creation of anomalistic
psychology'

1230-1330 Lunch

1330-1415 Holger Maehle (Durham University, UK). 'Moll's medical ethics:
more theory than practice?'

1415-1500 Boleslav Lichterman (Russian Academy of Science, Moscow).
'Russian critics of "Aerztliche Ethik"'

1500-1515 Tea and Coffee

1515-1600 Rosa Reicher (University of Heidelberg, Germany). 'Beyond
integration and modern self-identification: Albert Moll and his Jewish
heritage'

1600-1645 Discussion of Paper by Volkmar Sigusch (University of
Frankfurt/Main, Germany). 'The sexologist Albert Moll in relation to
Sigmund Freud and Magnus Hirschfeld'

1800 Dinner
Waterside Restaurant, Durham University

Friday, 6th November 2009
0945-1000 Tea and Coffee

1000-1045 Harry Oosterhuis (University of Maastricht, Netherlands).
'Sexual Modernity in the works of Richard von Kraff-Ebing and Albert Moll'

1045-1130 Lutz Sauerteig (Durham University, UK). 'Moll and the invention
of childhood sexuality'

1130-1145 Tea and Coffee

1145-1230 Thomas Schmuck (University of Leipzig, Germany) 'Inconsistencies
and disorder of human sexuality: Mecnikov's views on sexuality by
comparison to Moll'

1230-1330 Lunch

1330-1415 Matthew Conn (University of Iowa, US). 'Moll as Witness:
sexologists and expert testimony in Germany, 1890s-1930s'

1415-1500 Thomas Bryant (Berlin, Germany). 'Sexological deliberation and
social engineering: Albert Moll and the sterilization movement in late
Imperial and Weimar Germany'

1900 Conference Dinner
Parkmore Hotel, Stockton on Tees

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Katherine Smith
Outreach Officer

Centre for the History of Medicine and Disease
Wolfson Research Institute
Durham University
Queen's Campus
University Boulevard
Thornaby
Stockton on Tees
TS17 6BH
Tel: + 44 (0)191 3340700
Email: Katherine.Smith@durham.ac.uk