June 28 – Paul Julian Weindling: “Victims of Nazi Coerced Research: Identification and Compensation of Serbian/Yugoslav Victims”

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UPDATE: Prof. Weindling will hold different lectures than initially announced. The schedule below has been updated.

The Institute of European Studies is pleased to announce the visit of a professor of the Oxford Brooks University

Paul Julian Weindling

During his visit to Serbia, Prof. Weindling will give the following lectures

  • Victims of Nazi Coerced Research: Identification and Compensation of Serbian/Yugoslav Victims
    June 28 12:00 p.m. (CEST) | Institute of European Studies, Belgrade
  • The Nazi Battle against Epidemics, 1933-45: Ideologies, Practices and Victims
    June 29 2:00 p.m. (CEST) | Matica srpska, Novi Sad

The second lecture can also be followed via the Zoom application, at the link:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81899038990?pwd=Vk1PeUI5ZXZ5YStkZUk1K1ZoY3FuUT09

Professor Weindling is a researcher and professor of the history of medicine and the author of numerous well-known monographs and collections of papers such as:

  • Victims and Survivors of Nazi Human Experiments: Science and Suffering in the Holocaust, London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014.
  • John W. Thompson, Psychiatrist in the Shadow of the Holocaust, Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2010.
  • Medicalising Borders: Selection, Containment and Quarantine since 1800, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2021.

He was from 1999-2004 a member of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft President’s Committee for the History of the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft under National Socialism, and was on the Advisory Boards of the AHRC project on German-Jewish refugees, and on the history of the Robert Koch-Institute. He is currently on the advisory board of the project of the German Society for Psychiatry project on psychiatrists in Nazi Germany, and a member of the project on the history of the German Foundation for Memory, Responsibility and the Future. He has advised the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), Swiss Research Council, and other national funding agencies. He is a Trustee of the Council for Assisting Refugee Academics (CARA).