Lecture Series

The Science Museum of Minnesota will draw upon regional, national, and international perspectives on the history of eugenics and the Holocaust during its Deadly Medicine lecture series this winter and spring. Presenters include:

Harriet Washington
Author, Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
Thursday, February 28
1 p.m. at the University of Minnesota, Moos Tower
7 p.m. at the Science Museum of Minnesota, Auditorium, level 3

Patricia Heberer, Ph.D.
Historian, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
"Putting Faces to a Faceless Crime: Profiles of 'Euthanasia' Victims"
Thursday, March 13
1 p.m. at the University of Minnesota, Moos Tower
7 p.m. at the Science Museum of Minnesota, Auditorium, level 3

Hans Walter-Schmuhl
Faculty for Humanities, Philosophy and Theology, University of Bielefeld
"Brain Research and Euthanasia in the Third Reich"
Thursday, March 27
1 p.m. at the University of Minnesota, Moos Tower
7 p.m. at the Science Museum of Minnesota, Auditorium, level 3

SOLD OUT! Eva Kor
Survivor of Mengele experiments at Auschwitz
"Forgiving Dr. Mengele"
Thursday, April 10
7 p.m. at the Science Museum of Minnesota, Auditorium, level 3

Mark Soderstrom, Ph.D.
Chair of Liberal Studies, Empire State College, Syracuse, New York
"Race and Eugenics: Minnesota and the University of Minnesota"
Thursday, April 17
1 p.m. at the University of Minnesota, Moos Tower
7 p.m. at the Science Museum of Minnesota, Auditorium, level 3

Presentations at the Science Museum are $12 per person ($8 for Science Museum members). Admission to Deadly Medicine is included in this ticket price. Purchase tickets to four of the lectures and get the fifth one free. For tickets, call (651) 221-9444.