Stella Lorenz
Universidade de Lisboa
Instituto de Ciências Sociais
PhD Candidate
desiguALdades.net: Visiting Doctoral Researcher (01/07/2010 - 31/12/2010)
P-1600-189 Lisboa, Portugal
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Academic Career
| Since 07/ 2010 | Doctoral Researcher desiguALdades.net, Berlin, Germany |
| 04/2009 | Diplom (equivalent to Master of Sciences) in Biology, Freie Universität Berlin |
| 06/2008 - 04/2009 | Researcher in the binational Project „Science and Sustainability for the Mata Atlântica“, Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco/ Universität Ulm |
| 02/2008 | Magister Artium (equivalent to Master of Arts) in History of Sciences, Political Sciences and Philosophy, Technische Universität Berlin |
| 09/2003 - 03/2009 | Scholarship holder, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Berlin |
Teaching Experience
| 10/2006 - 03/2008 | Student Assistant, Institute for the History of Sciences, Technische Universität Berlin |
| 04/2003 - 03/2005 | Student Assistant, Institute for Zoology, Freie Universität Berlin |
| 05/2002 - 03/2003 | Student Assistant, Institute for Botany and Plant Geography |
Eugenic Conceptions in Brazilian, Portuguese and German Investigations on Human Trypanosomiases in the Beginning of the 20th Century
This project aims at investigating transnational medical collaborations at the beginning of the 20th century, and their repercussions on the constellations of social demarcation in the prevailing countries. These medical practices were framed by interconnected nationalistic and eugenic concepts, originating from the interdependence of the conceptions of “race”, gender and class. By relating Brazilian, Portuguese and German discourses about human Trypanosomiases, the underlying conceptions of national and “racial” identity and especially their mutual influence shall be analyzed; considering the fact that Portuguese and German colonialisms and Brazilian discourses were based on opposing eugenic ideas: ideas of segregation in Germany, ideas of assimilation in Portugal, and ideas of “degeneration” and “whitening” in Brazil. Being a sickness of the lower social classes in Brazil, and a colonial disease in Africa, both types of Trypanosomiases were considered diseases of the “racial other”, thus offering an interesting analysis of contemporaneous concepts of “otherness” and of the alterations they underwent in the transnational context. Concerning Brazil, the impact of its participation in European “white” discourses on inner-social constellations of in- and exclusion shall be analyzed.
Publications
Journal Articles:
2009:
Processos de Purificação- Expectativas ligadas à migração alemã para o Brasil (1880 – 1918).
Espaço Plural N° 19 (2° semestre de 2008), Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná – UNIOESTE (Brasil)
2008:
Protest am Ende der Welt.
Zoll+, N° 12/ June 2008 (Vienna, Austria)
2007:
Das Ende der Welt wird abgerissen – MigrantInnen in Portugal droht die Obdachlosigkeit.
iz3w, N°1/2007 (Freiburg, Germany)
„ ... und gäbe es mehr Welt, wir führen hin“ – In Portugal beginnt langsam eine kritische Debatte über das koloniale Erbe (in collaboration with Nikolai Brandes).
iz3w N°3/2007 (Freiburg, Germany)
2006:
Baracken ohne Alternativen.
ZAG N°48, May 2006 (Berlin, Germany)
2005:
Widerstand in Afrika.
ZAG N° 46, April 2005 (Berlin, Germany)
