Re-Forming Health
Keynote: Professor Annmarie Adams (McGill University)
On June 11th the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning is hosting a colloquium to coincide with the visit of Prof. Annmarie Adams of McGill University. The keynote speaker for this event Prof. Adams is responsible for a body of innovative research that has connected the history of hospital architecture and other medical buildings to histories of medicine and society more broadly. For details of the event please see the attached flyer.
Program:
Date: Thursday, June 11 2009
Time: 1 - 6 pm
Venue: Japanese Room, Architecture Building, University of Melbourne
"Regenerating Germany: Sports, productivity, and health in the 1920's and 1930's"
Dr. Michael Hau, Monash University
Michael Hau is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Historical Studies at Monash University. He is the author The Cult of Health and Beauty in Germany. A Social History, 1890-1930 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003) as well as several scholarly articles on physical culture in Weimar and Nazi Germany. He is currently working on a project that explores the role of the sports and work sciences in bio-political debates about productivity and performance enhancement in Weimar and Nazi Germany.
"Dream and Machine: Architecture and publicity in the modern hospital"
Dr. Cameron Logan, University of Melbourne
Cameron Logan is a Research Fellow in the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne. He is part of an ARC funded research project that is exploring the architectural history of modern hospitals.
"Sanatoria Grounds in Victoria 1900-1950: The restorative power of nature"
Anne Bourke, University of Melbourne
Anne Bourke began her career as an occupational therapist, working in rehabilitation. A strong interest in landscape led her to undertake post-graduate studies in landscape architecture. In 2007, she commenced a doctorate looking at hospital grounds in Melbourne 1850-1950. The chief focus of this study is the changes in hospital grounds during this period and their relationship to ideas of well-being and medical theories of cure.
"Motherhood Statements: Buildings for maternity, baby health and early childhood education, 1930-1940"
Associate Professor Julie Willis
Julie Willis is an authority on the history of Australian architecture 1890-1950. She is currently involved in major projects examining the development of modern hospital architecture in Australia and the importance of small public buildings in community and civic identity. With Professor Philip Goad, she is an editor of the forthcoming Encyclopaedia of Australian Architecture (Cambridge University Press).
3:00 Afternoon Tea
3:20 - Keynote Address
"The Poor, the Prosperous, and the Pregnant: Locating Patients in the Modern Hospital, 1893-1943"
Professor Annmarie Adams, McGill University
Annmarie Adams is an expert on the history of domestic architecture, hospital design, and gendered space. She is currently a partner investigator on an ARC -funded research project on the history of hospitals being undertaken by researchers in the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne.
In 2008 she was the first Arcus Scholar-in-Residence at the College of Environmental Design, University of California at Berkeley, and she has served as a mentor in the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)-funded program, 'Health Care Technology and Place' at the University of Toronto. She is the author of Architecture in the Family Way: Doctors, Houses, and Women, 1870-1900 and co-author of Designing Women: Gender and the Architectural Profession with sociologist Peta Tancred. Adams' latest book Medicine by Design: The Architect and the Modern Hospital, 1893-1943, was published by the University of Minnesota Press in February 2008.
5:00 Drinks
This colloquium is supported under Australian Research Council's Discovery Projects funding scheme, project number DP0771644.