Dora Vargha

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Talks and presentations

• June 18, 2013 – Paper to be presented at the colloquium of the Research Centre for East European Studies at the University of Bremen – "Vaccination and Vacillation. The Cold War Politics of Polio Prevention in Hungary"
• November 5, 2012 – Pre-Doctoral Research Seminar, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin – "The power of polio"
• October 16, 2012 – Colloquium of the Institute and Museum of the History of Medicine, University of Zurich – "Where is the poster child? Communist ideology and disability in Hungary in times of polio"
• June 27, 2012 – ISCHE 34-SHCY-DHA “Internationalization in Education (18th-20th centuries)” conference, Geneva, Switzerland – "Body and mind institutionalized: raising children with polio in Hungary"
• April 20, 2012 – 10th Annual LSE-GWU-UCSB Cold War Graduate Conference, London, UK – "One from the East, One from the West": Vaccine Evaluation and Cold War Politics in Hungary in the 1950s
• January 20, 2012 – Colloquium of the History Department at the University of Regensburg, Germany – "Tirelessly striving for the health of the little ones": polio and the paternal state in Cold War Hungary
• December 1, 2011 – "Making (In)Appropriate Bodies" international conference, Vienna, Austria – "Half-dead bodies reborn: Communist Hungary and creating productive bodies in times of polio"
• April 29, 2011 – Annual Meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine (AAHM), Philadelphia, USA – "Drawing the Iron Curtain: Polio vaccination policies in Cold War Hungary 1957-1960"