Conference
Papers and Lectures
Commentary. Workshop on "Globalizing Schizophrenia: The
History and Legacy of the WHO Studies of Schizophrenia," 13-14
June 2024, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science,
Berlin, Germany. (87)
Irma Regina Weinberg (14.2.1891–3.10.1944), 8th
International Workshop on the History of Human Genetics (a
satellite symposium of the European Human Genetics Conference) on
“The History of Eugenics, Evolution of Techniques in Human
Genetics and Women in the History of Human Genetics”, 30 May 2024,
Berlin, Germany. (86)
Verpolizeilichung der ‘freiwilligen Liebestätigkeit’? Die
Praxis der Polizeiaufsicht in Berlin vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg,
Workshop on "Ausbildungswege, Verfolgungspraktiken und
Diskriminierung: Polizistinnen in Deutschland in historischer
Perspektive", 9 November 2023, Zentrum für
Antisemitismusforschung, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany.
(85)
Albert Zellers
‘Einheitspsychose’: Psychiatrische Klassifikation im Umfeld des
Württembergischen Pietismus, Conference on "Pietismus in
Württemberg in internationaler Perspektive (1650–1900):
Bestandsaufnahme eines interdisziplinären Forschungsfeldes", 17-19
November 2022, Landeskirchliches Archiv, Stuttgart,
Germany. (84)
Reassessing Emil Kraepelin (1856-1926): The Evolution and
Priorities of a Psychiatric Career, 3 November 2022,
Heritage Museum, National Institute of Mental Health &
Neurosciences [NIMHANS], Bengaluru, India. (83)
Intersectional Expertise and the Rise of Juvenile Courts in
Wilhelmine Berlin (1900-1917): Civic Engagement, Judicial
Process, and Psychiatric Evaluation, 41st conference of the
European Society for the History of the Human Sciences (ESHHS), 2
September 2022, Sigmund Freud Private University, Berlin, Germany.
(82)
Gefangenen- und
Irrenseelsorge: Pastorale Rehabilitationsstrategien im
Kaiserreich, Archivtag, Department of History, Humboldt
University of Berlin, 8 April 2022, Berlin, Germany. (81)
Intersektionale Experten: Die Jugendgerichtshilfe in Berlin,
1905-1914, Colloquium on the History of Knowledge,
Department of History, Humboldt University of Berlin, 5 January
2022, Berlin, Germany. (80)
Susan Sontag's Illness as Metaphor, Colloquium on the
History of Knowledge, Department of History, Humboldt University
of Berlin, 20 May 2020, Berlin, Germany. (79)
Intersectional Expertise: Die Berliner Jugendgerichtshilfe,
1907-1914, Keynote Address, Conference on "Das A(b)normale
in der Pädagogik. Wissenspraktiken – Wissensordnungen –
Wissensregime", Concluding Conference of the DFG Project
"Profession und normative Ordnungen in der Entstehung der urbanen
Hilfsschule: Die Modernisierung der Regierung des Sozialen", 26
March 2020, Trebnitz (Brandenburg), Germany.
(Cancelled due to Covid-19) (78)
'Nach der Art eines modernen Harun al Raschid': Herman
Heijermans’s 1910 Reports on the Herzberge Mental Asylum in
Berlin, German Studies Association Conference, 6 October
2019, Portland OR, USA. (77)
[Session Chair], Conference on "Body and Mind: Self-Help in
1920s/30s U.S. Mass Cultures," 15-17 November 2018, Institute for
English and American Literature and Culture, Humboldt University,
Berlin, Germany. (76)
Appropriating Psychiatric Legacies: Historiographic Reflections
on Wilhelm Griesinger (1817-1868), Workshop on "Faith in
Reform: Anniversaries, Memory and the Asylum in International
Historical Perspective", 5 July 2018, Queen Mary University,
London, United Kingdom. (75)
'Nach der Art eines modernen Harun al Raschid': Herman
Heijermans’s 1910 Reports on the Herzberge Mental Asylum in
Berlin, Follow-up Conference on "Observing the Everyday:
Journalistic Practices and Knowledge Production in the Modern
Era", 14-15 June 2018, Max-Planck-Institute for the History of
Science, Berlin, Germany. (74)
Kraepelin's Clinical Research Methods. Research Seminar,
Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics,
Virginia Commonwealth University, 7 December 2017, Richmond VA,
USA. (73)
Reassessing Emil Kraepelin (1856-1926): Reflections on an
Historical Research Project. Grand Rounds, Department of
Psychiatry, Virginia Commonwealth University, 7 December 2017,
Richmond VA, USA. (72)
The Green Minna: Transporting Police Detainees in Imperial
Berlin. Colloquium, Department of History, Humboldt
University, 21 June 2017, Berlin, Germany. (71)
'Nach der Art eines modernen Harun al Raschid': Herman
Heijermans’s 1910 Reports on the Herzberge Mental Asylum in
Berlin, Conference on "Observing the Everyday: Journalistic
Practices and Knowledge Production in the Modern Era," 2-4 March
2017, German Historical Institute, Washington DC, USA. (70)
Coping
with Contingency: Remarks on Historical Work and Working
Historians, Autumn Seminar on "Historians at
Work", International Students of History Association (ISHA), 20
September 2016, Berlin, Germany. (69) (.pdf
file)
Emil Kraepelin’s Comparative Psychiatry and His Trips to Java
(1904) and America (1925), Workshop on "Significant Figures
in the Formation of Transcultural Psychiatry", Maison des Sciences
de l’Homme Paris-Nord (MSH-PN), 31 March 2016, Paris, France. (68)
Psychiatric Reflections on Courtroom Psychology in Imperial
Berlin (1871-1914), Workshop on "Histories of Forensic
Psychology and Forensic Psychiatry", University of Canterbury,
17-18 March 2016, Christchurch, New Zealand. (67)
Emil Kraepelin's Inaugural Lecture: Contexts and Legacies,
University of Tartu, 19 February 2016, Tartu, Estonia. (66)
Commentary. Section on "Measuring Melancholic Minds:
Competing Paradigms of the Normal and the Pathological" at the
conference "Scales of Knowledge: Zooming In and Zooming Out",
University of Heidelberg, 8 October 2015, Heidelberg, Germany.
(65)
Pastoral Psychiatry and Irrenseelsorge: Religious Aspects of
the Anti-Psychiatry Movement in Germany in the 1890s.
British Psychological Society History of the Psychological
Disciplines Seminar Series, University College London, 20 April
2015, London, United Kingdom. (64)
________. Conference on "Crisis and Religious Madness",
Religionswissenschaftliches Institut, University of Leipzig, 24
February 2015, Leipzig, Germany. (63)
Comment on the Film “Nerven”. Film- und Gesprächsreihe: Der
Erste Weltkrieg im Film, Institut français, 14 October 2014,
Berlin, Germany. (62)
Commentary. Conference on "Melancholy Minds and Painful
Bodies", University of Liverpool, 9-11 July 2013, Liverpool,
United Kingdom. (61)
Commentary. Conference "Madness on Stage -- Staging
Madness", TMF, 7 June 2013, Berlin, Germany. (60)
The History of Psychiatry as Interdisciplinary History: The
Impact of Philosophy and Psychology on Historical Developments
in Psychiatry, 1867-1917. Conference on Philosophical Issues
in Psychiatry III: The Nature and Sources of Historical Change,
University of Copenhagen, 9-11 May 2013, Copenhagen, Denmark. (59)
Die Wilden Männer von Dalldorf: Zur Vorgeschichte der
Irrenstation im Gefängnis Moabit. Colloquium, Department of
History, Humboldt University, 19 December 2012, Berlin, Germany.
(58)
Die forensische Psychiatrie in Berlin vor 1914, Symposium
at the annual Congress of the German Society for Psychiatry,
Psychotherapy and Neurology (DGPPN), 23-26 November 2011, Berlin,
Germany. (57)
New Perspectives in the History of Forensic Psychiatry.
History of Science Society Annual Meeting, 5 November 2011,
Cleveland, Ohio, USA. (56)
Emil Kraepelin on Affective Disorders. Conference on
"Emotions and Medicine in the 20th Century," Max-Planck-Institute
for Human Development, 22-24 September 2011, Berlin, Germany. (55)
Historische Perspektiven auf die klinische Psychiatrie: Zum
zeitgenössischen Kontext von Eugen Bleulers Schizophrenielehre.
Sixth International Zurich Conference: 100 Jahre
Schizophrenieforschung, Psychiatric Clinic, University of Zurich,
30 June 2011, Zurich, Switzerland. (54)
Emil Kraepelin's Correspondence with Brazilian Psychiatrists,
1905-1925. Conference on "Medical and Scientific
Relationships between Brazil and Germany: History and
Perspectives," Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, 23-25 March 2011, Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil. (53)
Topographies of Forensic Practice in Imperial Germany.
Conference on "Crime and Punishment in Modern Europe, 1870-1990,"
German Historical Institute, 10-12 March 2011, Washington DC, USA.
(52)
Richten, Heilen, Strafen: Kulturen der forensischen Psychiatrie
in Berlin (1880-1914). Colloquium, Department of History,
Humboldt University, 10 February 2011, Berlin, Germany. (51)
Commentary. Conference on "The Making of Modern Suicide,"
National University of Ireland, 10-12 December 2010, Maynooth,
Ireland. (50)
Criminal Psychology in Imperial Germany. Wellcome Trust
Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, 6 October 2008, London,
United Kingdom. (49)
Reconciling Laboratory and Clinical Evidence: Emil Kraepelin's
Experimental Research in Tartu. Keynote Lecture, Conference
of the European Association of Personality Psychology, Department
of Psychology, University of Tartu, 16-20 July 2008, Tartu,
Estonia. (48)
Ransacking the Past? Reflections on the Uses and Abuses of the
History of Psychiatry. Symposium on the History of
Psychiatry, 50th Anniversary Conference of the Collegium
Internationale Neuropsychopharmacologicum (CINP), 13-17 July 2008,
Munich, Germany. (47)
Psychiatrie zwischen Psychologie und Philosophie: Wilhelm
Wundt, Moritz Lazarus und Theodore Ziehen. Conference on
"Psychiater und Zeitgeist – Zur Geschichte der Psychiatrie in
Berlin," Berliner Gesellschaft für Psychiatrie und Neurologie,
27-28 June 2008, Berlin, Germany. (46)
Commentary. Conference on "Writing the History of
Psychiatry After 1945," Institute for European Studies, Free
University of Brussels, 30-31 May 2008, Brussels, Belgium. (45)
Researching Racial Selves: Reflexive Practices in the Early
Gesellschaft für Rassenhygiene. Conference on "Der Mensch im
Experiment, 1850-1980," ICI Kulturlabor Berlin, 22-24 May 2008,
Berlin, Germany. (44)
Commentary. Conference on "Genealogical Practices:
Transdisciplinary Cartography of a Style of Thinking," Department
of European Ethnology, Humboldt University, 13-15 December 2007,
Berlin, Germany. (43)
Psychologie als Argument für die Abschaffung des Strafmasses.
Conference on "Psychologie als Argument in der juristischen
Literatur des Kaiserreichs," Institute for German and Rhenisch
Legal History, University of Bonn, 7-8 December, 2007, Bonn,
Germany. (42)
Commentary. Section on "Praktiken der Erforschung von
Vererbung im Bereich der Psychiatrie," Annual conference of the
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geschichte der Medizin,
Naturwissenschaften und Technik (DGGMNT), 28-30 September 2007,
Wuppertal, Germany. (41)
Forensic Psychiatry in Imperial Germany. Conference on
"Criminality and Madness in Germany, 1900-1950," Koebner Center
for German History, The Hebrew University, 27-28 May 2007,
Jerusalem, Israel. (40)
Commentary. Conference on "Psychiatrische Krankenakten als
Material der Wissenschaftsgeschichte: Methodisches Vorgehen an
Einzelbeispielen," Charité, Institute for the History of Medicine,
18-19 May 2007, Berlin, Germany. (39)
Demented Selves: Historical Perspectives on Alzheimer's Disease.
Richardson History of Psychiatry Research Seminar, Department of
Psychiatry, Cornell University, 4 April 2007, New York City, USA.
(38)
Researching Dementia in Imperial Germany: Alois Alzheimer and
the Economies of Psychiatric Practice. Conference on
"Untangling Selfhood: The Experience of Dementia and Other
Cognitive Disorders," Pennsylvania State University, 30 March
2007, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA. Webcast as "Untangling
Selfhood: The History and Experience of Alzheimer’s Disease," Air
Date: 3/30/2007, 9:00 AM EST. (37)
Der neue Instaurationsdiskurs in der Psychiatrie. Plenary
Symposium at the annual Congress of the German Society for
Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Neurology (DGPPN), 22-25 November
2006, Berlin, Germany. (36)
Commentary. Conference "Jenseits von Humboldt: Wissenschaft
im Staat 1850-1990," Charité, Institute for the History of
Medicine, 11 November 2006, Berlin, Germany. (35)
Affective Erkrankungen bei Kraepelin. Symposium on "The
History of Affective Disorders: Diagnosis, Concepts and
Classification," Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy,
Jewish Hospital Berlin, 27 October 2006, Berlin, Germany. (34)
Historie des Unterbringungsrechts. Fall Symposium on
"Rechtliche Aspekte in der Psychiatrie und Neurologie," Berlin
Society for Psychiatry and Neurology, 21 October 2006, Berlin,
Germany. (33)
Forensic Psychiatry in Germany: Historical Perspectives
1880-1933. Workshop on "Psychiatry and Criminal
Responsibility: Legal, Medical, and Historical Perspectives on
Psychiatry in the Courtroom," University of Edinburgh, 9 March
2006, Edinburgh, Scotland. (32)
Academic Psychiatry in Germany, 1867-1900: On Economies of
Knowledge and the Politics of Professional Practice.
Anglo-Dutch Wellcome Symposium, 9 December 2005, Utrecht, The
Netherlands. (31)
Commentary. Conference on "Labor und Seminar: Berliner
Kulturräume der Wissenschaften," 12 March 2005, Berlin, Germany.
(30)
Jurisdictions of Psychiatric Practice. World Psychiatric
Association Regional Meeting, 11 November 2004, Florence, Italy.
(29)
Die Ökonomie klinischer Inskription: Zu diagnostischen und
nosologischen Schreibpraktiken in der Psychiatrie. Conference
"Psyche der Schrift - Medialität des Menschen,”
Bauhaus-Universität, 2 February 2003, Weimar, Germany. (28)
Placing Psychiatric Practices: On the Spacial Configurations
and Contests of Professional Labor in 19th Century Germany.
Conference "Space, Psyche and Psychiatry: Mental Health/Illness
and the Construction and Experience of Space, ca. 1600-2000,"
Oxford-Brooks University, 14 December 2002, Oxford, England. (27)
Assembling Professional Selves: Zeitgeschichte as Disciplinary
History. Annual Meeting of the German Studies Association, 6
October 2002, San Diego, USA. (26)
On Eugenic Practices and Professional Politics. Richardson
History of Psychiatry Research Seminar, Department of Psychiatry,
Cornell University, 18 September 2002, New York City,USA. (25)
Mundane Madness, Urbane Sensibilities, and Scientific Surety:
The Politics of Civic Psychiatry in 19th Century Berlin.
Conference of the European Association for the History of
Psychiatry, 14 September 2002, Madrid, Spain. (24)
Eugenics and the Professionalization of German Psychiatry.
Conference "Psychiatry and Eugenics in the 19th and 20th
Centuries: Switzerland in the European-American Context," Centro
Stefano Franscini, Monte Verità, 19 February 2002, Ascona,
Switzerland. (23)
Current Trends in Kraepelinian Historiography. Richardson
History of Psychiatry Research Seminar, Department of Psychiatry,
Cornell University, 31 October 2001, New York City, USA. (22)
Assembling Professional Selves: On Clinical Instruction in
German Academic Psychiatry. Conference "'Irre' - Ärzte -
Politik: Perspektiven auf die deutschsprachige Psychiatrie des 19.
Jahrhundert," 9 October 2001, Berlin, Germany. (21)
The Psychiatric Clinic in Munich, 1904-1917. Workshop on
American-British-German Relations in Psychiatry, ca. 1870/71-1945,
19 September 2001, Lübeck, Germany. (20)
Halcyon Days? Emil Kraepelin's Early Years in Munich
(1903-1914). The Royal College of Psychiatrists, Annual
Meeting, 10 July 2001, London, England. (19)
On the Professional Economies and Politics of Academic
Psychiatry: The Emergence of University Clinics in 19th Century
Germany. Richardson History of Psychiatry Research Seminar,
Cornell University, 20 September 2000, New York City, USA. (18)
The Politics of the Psychiatric Cadaver: Eduard Hitzig, Carl
Westphal, and Clinical Psychiatry in Germany in the 1880s.
William Griesinger Plenary Lecture. Conference of the European
Association for the History of Psychiatry, 15 September 1999,
Zurich, Switzerland. (17)
The Emergence of University Psychiatric Clinics in Germany,
1867-1914. XI World Congress of Psychiatry, 8 August 1999,
Hamburg, Germany. (16)
Reflexionen über Zeitgeschichte als Wissenschaft und
öffentliche Praxis: Institutionen, Selbstverständnis,
Streitkultur. Zentrum für zeithistorische Forschungen, 14
January 1999, Potsdam, Germany. (15)
Die Normierung des Verbrechers: Emil Kraepelins
Kriminalpsychologie. Congress of the German Society for
Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Neurology (DGPPN), 19 June 1998,
Essen, Germany. (14)
Comment to the Paper of Prof. Peter Schmiedebach (University of
Greifswald): 'Abweichung vom Durchschnitt im Sinne der
Zweckwidrigkeit' -- Vom Bemühen der Psychiatrie, Maßstäbe für
psychische Gesundheit und Krankheit zu entwickeln.
Wissenschaftshistorikertag, 28 September 1996, Berlin, Germany.
(13)
Normalizing the Criminal: Emil Kraepelin's Criminological
Writings. Conference of the European Association for the
History of Psychiatry, 12 September 1996, Munich, Germany. (12)
A Socio-historical View on Kraepelin's Nosology: The Clinical
Conditions of Kraepelin's Research. Symposium at the
Psychiatric Clinic of the University of Heidelberg, 5 September
1996, Heidelberg, Germany. (11)
Clinical Psychiatry in Germany (1868-1917): Power, Knowledge
and Professionalization. Institute for Advanced Study
Berlin, 10 June 1996, Berlin, Germany. (10)
'Das Verbrechen als soziale Krankheit': Die kriminologischen
Schriften Emil Kraepelins (1856-1926). Colloquium of the
Institute for the History of Medicine, Free University of Berlin,
30 May 1996, Berlin, Germany. (9)
Die Normierung des Verbrechers: Emil Kraepelins
Kriminalpsychologie und seine Vorschläge zur Strafrechtsreform.
Colloquium at the Institute for the History of Medicine,
University of Bonn, 29 April 1996, Bonn, Germany. (8)
Die Heidelberger psychiatrische Universitätsklinik am Ende des
19. Jahrhunderts: Institutionelle Grundlagen von Kraepelins
Hauptwerk Psychiatrie (1896). Psychiatric Clinic Spandau, 15
November 1995, Berlin, Germany. (7)
________. Freiburg Colloquium on the History of Medicine, 12 June
1995, Freiburg, Germany. (6)
________. Workshop for the History of 20th Century Psychiatry, 11
June 1994, Hannover, Germany. (5)
________. 4th Symposium of the German Society for the History of
Psychiatry and Neurology, 13 May 1994, Munich, Germany. (4)
The University Clinic in Late 19th Century Psychiatry.
Conference of the European Association for the History of
Psychiatry, 19 August 1993, London, United Kingdom. (3)
Familienpflege in Dirk Blasius' Der verwaltete Wahnsinn.
Workshop for the History of 20th Century Psychiatry, 5 June 1993,
Hannover, Germany. (2)
Die kulturelle Dimension von Psychiatrie und Sozialpsychologie:
Emil Kraepelin und Willy Hellpach. Werner-Reimers-Stiftung
Colloquium on Idealism and Positivism: The Dynamics of Culture and
the Cultural Sciences around 1900, 21 January 1993, Bad Homburg,
Germany. (1)