Scientific Conference
THE FIGHT AGAINST TUBERCULOSIS. POLICIES, EXCHANGES AND REPRESENTATIONS IN EUROPE AND THE COLONIES, 1850s-1970s
Date and venue: 26 May 2026, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Zagreb
Organizers: Michele Mioni (University of Venice) & Francesca Piana (University of Trento)
Co-organizer: Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, under the auspices of the Department of Medical Sciences of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts
PROGRAM
9:00-9:30 Introduction
9:30-11:00 CONTESTED VISIONS OF CARE : TUBERCOLOSIS IN THE COLONIES
Discussant: Lea Delmaire
Isabel Amaral, Alexandra Esteves: Tuberculosis and Empire: Dialogues between Portugal and Africa (1899–1974)
Michele Mioni: Between Mutualism and Public Assistance: Anti-Tubercular Care in French Indochina (1906-1939)
Martin Gorsky: Apartheid, Tuberculosis and Making of Antimicrobial Resistance in Cape Town, South Africa (1950-1989)
11:00-11:15 Coffee break
11:15-12:45 HEALTH INFRASTRUCTURES: WORLDS OF CONTROL AND CARE
Discussant: Cansu Değirmencioğlu
Tilde Ribbentjärn: Constructing Social-hygiene Housing: Hygienic Ambitions and Social Governance in Early Twentieth-Century Sweden
Camelia Zavarache: Students, Tuberculosis and Nutrition. Summer Colonies in Secondary Schools in Interwar Romania
Francesca Piana: The Sanatorium of Sondalo: a Test-Case for Post-War Reconstruction in Italy (1945-1955)
12:45-13:45 Lunch
13:45-14:30 Guided visit to the exhibition The Reverse Side of the City 100 Years Ago: Photographs from the Collections of Doctors Vladimir Ćepulić and Lujo Thaller
14:30-16:00 NON-STATE MOBILIZATIONS AND PLURAL EXPERTISE
Discussant: Martin Kuhar
Nikos Kastrinakis: When Tuberculosis Became a Workplace Hazard: Labour, Illness and Law in Interwar Greece
Alena Lochmannová: The Czechoslovak Anti-Tuberculosis League as a Mass Movement
Heini Hakosalo: Out of Harm’s Way? Institutional Isolation of Infants as a Form of Tuberculosis Control in Mid-Twentieth Century Finland
16:00-16:15 Coffee break
16:15-17:15 SCALES OF CARE: MICRO-HISTORY AS A TEST-CASE
Discussant: Francesca Piana
Gabriele Ruiu, Lucia Pozzi, Michail Raftakis: Anti-Tuberculosis Policies and Their Impact on Mortality in Italy in Early 20th Century: A Regional Structural Break Analysis
Ivan Miskulin: Tuberculosis Prevention in Eastern Croatia: Public Health Infrastructure and Medical Interventions, 1850s-1970s
17:30-18:00 ROUND TABLE
The workshop is generously supported by the EuroHealthHist and GreatLeap Cost Actions.
Illustration: The Housing Misery in Zagreb in 1924 – Wagon Apartments (The Vladimir Ćepulić Collection), Croatian Museum of Medicine and Pharmacy, inv. no. HMMF-4625 (photograph from the exhibition The Reverse Side of the City 100 Years Ago)
