Conference: Challenging Norms and Narrations. Family Planning and Social Change in Europe (Herder-Institut Marburg, January 27-28)
Final Conference of the project “Family planning” in East Central Europe from the 19th Century until the approval of the “pill”
January 27-28, 2022.
Keynote: Isabel Heinemann (Münster): Family Planning, Reproductive Decision-Making und Health Feminism
Thursday, January 27th
11 am Elisa-Maria Hiemer, Heidi Hein-Kircher, Denisa Nešt’áková: Welcome and Introduction
11.15 am Keynote: Isabel Heinemann (Münster): Family Planning, Reproductive Decision-Making und Health Feminism
1.15-2.45 pm Section I: Publicizing the Privacy (Motherhood on the Stage) / Breaking the taboo
Chair: Heidi Hein-Kircher
Anja Titze (Mannheim): The global journey of a legal concept – Fetal Rights and Women`s. Lives in Ireland and Poland
Tryfonas Lemontzoglou (Athens): “Revisiting the “Illegitimacy” Phenomenon: Evidence from the 20th Century Greek Censuses”
Jakub Gałęziowski (Warsaw): Approaches to Survivors of Conflict Related Sexual Violence in Post-War Poland. Discourses in Polish Press: Political, Religious and Medical, 1945–1946
Natalia Shok (Moscow) , Nadezda Beliakova (Nishni Novgorod): Plurality of Family Planning Concepts (Late Sowjet Period)
3.30- 5 pm Section II: (Transcultural) Transitions of Knowledge and Norms
Chair: Elisa-Maria Hiemer
Allison Rodriguez (Hartford, CT) “Mother, think of me”: Women and Mothers in the Upper Silesian Plebiscite Propaganda
Sylwia Kuzma-Markowska (Warsaw): Conflicts and Interdependencies: Family Planning Narratives and Activisms in Interwar Poland
Eva Škorvanková (Bratislava): Family Planning in Slovakia 1939–1945 and its Ideological Influences
Ieva Balčiūnė (Vilnius): Motherhood and Family Planning Issues in the Soviet Lithuanian Magazine for Women “Tarybinė Moteris”
Friday, January 28th
9 – 10.30 am Section III: Challenging “old” Norms: Between Science, Propaganda and Intimacy
Chair: Denisa Nešt’áková
Gábor Koloh (Szeged): Socioeconomic and Cultural Determinants of Family Planning in Southern Transdanubia (Hungary), 19th Century
Dominika Kleinova (Pardubice): She-Wolves and Children of the Night: Birth Control and Family Planning from the Perspective of Prostitutes in the Interwar Czechoslovakia
Fanni Svégel (Budapest): From “Abortion Culture” to Family Planning. The Continuities and Discontinuities of Birth Control Regimes in 20th Century Hungary
Michael Zok (Warsaw): “Love is a Battlefield”. Sexuality, Reproductive Rights, and Partnership as Areas of Conflict in Post-War Poland
10.45 – 11.15 am Concluding Remarks: Chair: Ivana Dobrivojevic Tomić, Agata Ignaciuk (Granada): Concluding Comment
11.15-12.00 am Elisa-Maria Hiemer, Heidi Hein-Kircher, Denisa Nešt’áková: Final Discussion and further proceeding