Socioeconomic Rights in History Leverhulme Network
Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB)
Workshop Organised by:
Dieter Gosewinkel, Paul-André Rosental, and Claudia Stein
This two-day workshop will explore the history of the rights to health and subsistence from the eighteenth century to today from the perspective of governmentality and biopolitics.
The papers (3-5 pages each) will be submitted by November 1 and will be pre-circulated to all participants. During the workshop, each contributor will summarize his or her reflections in 10-15 minutes, followed by 30-40 minutes of discussion. The papers are in English. Our principal aim is to discover underlying themes and problems in the history of the right to health and subsistence over time.
Thursday, 10 November
9.15 Meet at WZB, Reichspietsufer 50, 10785 Berlin, room: TBA
9.30 Opening comments
Session 1: Legal Preliminaries: Right to Health and Subsistence from a Legal Perspective
9.45 Eberhard Eichenhofer, University of Jena
Right to Health: Some Observations from the German Perspective
Session 2: Traditions and Institutions of Care and Subsistence
10.30 Andrew Mendelsohn, Queen Mary, University of London,
Physicians, the Protectable Worker’s Body, the Minable Earth, and the Naturalization of Sustainable Organized Extractive Capitalism
11.15 Coffee Break
11.30 Hilary Marland/Catharine Cox/Margaret Charleroy, University of Warwick/University College Dublin
presentation of two research projects related to the Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award Project: Prisoners, Medical Care and Entitlement to Health in England and Ireland, 1850-2000
Governmentality and Prisoners’ Minds in the late Nineteenth Century: Was there a Prisoners’ ‘Right to Health’?
Understanding Prisoner Rights Through Diet and Health
12.15 Cornelius Torp (FU, Berlin)
Social Justice in Old Age Provision: Germany and the UK since 1945
13.00 lunch WZB
Thursday 10 November, afternoon
Session 3: Standards and Norms of Health and Subsistence
14.00 Andrea Rusnock, University of Rode Island
To Waste Not: Moral and Political Aspects of 18th-Century Population and Mortality Statistics
14.45 Dana Simmons, University of California, Riverside
Anthropometric Measures, Physiological Capital and the Standards of Living Debate
15.30 coffee break
15.45 Philip Lepenies, FU Berlin
TBA
16.30 Marion Hulverscheidt, University of Zurich
Economics and Health Care: Intersex Children in Switzerland, 1950-1960
18.00 keynote
Laura Belmonte, Oklahoma State University
U.S. Global Policy on HIV/AIDS: A History
20.00 dinner at Joseph Roth
Day 2: Friday, November 11
9.30 Meet at WZB, Reichspietsufer 50, 10785 Berlin, room: TBA
Session 4: Health and Subsistence in relation to Subjecthood and Citizenship
9.45 Amy Hinterberger (University of Warwick)
Who, and What, Constitutes the Human Subject in a Right to Health and Well-Being?
10.30 Charles-Antoine Wanecq (CHSP-Sciences Po, Paris)
The Genesis and Development of the Right to Emergency Rescue, France 1920s-1980
11.15 Coffee Break
11.30 Paul-Andre Rosenthal (Science Po, Paris)
Eugenics and Public Health: An Utilitarian Connection
12.15 Sybilla Nikolow (TU, Berlin)
Descending Into One’s Own Intestines Becomes a Sunday Pleasure’
13.00 Lunch at WZB
Session 5: Territory and Security and Health and Subsistence
14.00 Elena Serrano, MPI, Berlin
Making Citizens During the Spanish Epidemics of Yellow Fevers: Guyton’s Fumigating Machine in Napoleonic Times
14.45 Dora Vargha, University of Essex
Polio Eradication as a Socialist Concept: the Cold War Roots of a Global Health Program
15.30 Break
15.45 Natalie Jas, INRA, Paris
Pesticides Systemic Grip. A Socio-Historical Approach
16.30 closing comments