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Conference at the
German Historical Institute London
in cooperation with the
German Research Foundation (DFG) Collaborative Research Centre 600
“Strangers and Poor People. Changing Patterns of Inclusion and Exclusion from Classical Antiquit
| Location: | United Kingdom |
| Conference Date: | 2010-02-25 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2010-02-12 |
| Announcement ID: |
174061 |
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At the Margins of the Welfare State. Changing Patterns of including and excluding the »deviant« poor in Europe 1870-1933
Conference at the
German Historical Institute London
in cooperation with the
German Research Foundation (DFG) Collaborative Research Centre 600
“Strangers and Poor People. Changing Patterns of Inclusion and Exclusion from Classical Antiquity to the Present Day” at Trier University
25-27 February 2010
Programme
Thursday, 25 February 2010:
13:30 Registration
14:00 Prof. Andreas Gestrich, German Historical Institute London:
Welcome and Introduction
Section I – Transnational Discourses on Poverty and Deviance
Chair: Prof. Andreas Gestrich, GHIL
14:30 Dr. Christina May, University of Münster:
Poverty in Transnational Discourses – Social Reformers’ Debates in Germany and the Netherlands around 1900.
15:20 Dr. Beate Althammer, University of Trier:
Transnational Discourses on Vagrancy around 1900.
16:10 Coffee Break
16:40 Jens Gründler, University of Trier:
›Degeneracy‹ and ›Moral Imbecility‹ - Transnational Discourses of Deviancy
in Local Scottish Poor Relief Administration.
18:00 Dr. Winfried Rudloff, University of Kassel:
Benefit and Intervention. Two Modes of Operation of the Local Welfare Administration in Germany between 1890 and 1939
19:00 Conference Dinner
Friday, 26 February 2010
Section II - Modes of Criminalisation and Rehabilitation
Chair: Prof. Steven King, Leicester University
09:00 Dr. Philipp Müller, University College London:
“But We Will Always Have to Individualise.” Police Supervision in Prussia and Its Reform around 1900
09:50 Dr. Desirée Schauz, Technical University of Munich:
Convicts at the Margins of the Welfare State: Permanent Detention
or Rehabilitation?
10:40 Coffee Break
11:10 Dr. Sigrid Wadauer, University of Vienna:
Defence of Necessity? Begging and Vagrancy in the Context of Social Policy, Police and Legal Practice (Austria, 1920s and 1930s)
12:00 Juliane Hanschkow, University of Trier:
Becoming „Gypsy Like“: the Labelling-Process of Homeless and Itinerant People in the Prussian Rhine Province before 1933
13:00 Lunch
Section III – Workhouses
Chair: Dr. Andrea Tanner, Kingston University
14:30 Dr. Olwen Purdue, Queen’s University Belfast:
‘A Den of Drunkenness, Immorality and Vice’: Public Representation of the Workhouse and the Poor in Late Nineteenth-Century Belfast.
15:20 Inga Brandes, University of Trier:
Survival and Stigmatisation: Poor Relief Recipients in Ireland, 1885-1925.
16:10 Coffee Break
16:40 Dr. Megan Doolittle, Open University London:
Enforcing / Contesting the Duty to Provide: Fatherhood and the Workhouse in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century England.
17:30 Thomas Irmer, Free University Berlin:
Deviant Poor between Preservation, Detention and Annihilation? –The
Municipal Workhouse in Berlin-Rummelsburg 1879-1951.
Saturday, 27 February 2010
Section IV - Colonies and Camps: Places of Inclusion or Exclusion?
Chair: Dr. Matthias Reiss, University of Exeter:
09:00 Dr. Elizabeth B. Jones, Colorado State University:
Labour Colony, Model Village, or Research Station?: The Heimatkolonie Friedrich-Wilhelmsdorf and European Discourses of Social and Environmental Improvement, 1882-1914.
09:50 Edward Snyder, University of Minnesota:
Friedrich von Bodelschwingh and the Vagabond Question: A Transnational Examination of German Protestant Attitudes Towards Poverty and Deviancy, 1880-1923.
10:40 Coffee Break
11:10 Tamara Stazic-Wendt, University of Trier:
Poor People, Basket Makers and ‘Antisocial’ Families. Or how the Barrack Camp between Trier and Euren Became ‘New-Morocco’ (Germany, 1920-1933).
12:00 Prof. Lutz Raphael, University of Trier:
Conclusions: Summary and Further Perspectives.
13:00 End of Conference
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