Activities
2024
Paper: ‘Your Body Belongs to You’. Bodily Autonomy, Ideology and Abortion 1900-1940, Remarque Institute, NYURuberg, W. (Speaker)
15 Apr 2024
Member of PhD assessment committee of Marian Weevers, Gevangenis of toevluchtsoord? Vrouwen en de rijkswerkinrichtingen in Nederland 1886-1934 (Leiden University)Ruberg, W. (Member of committee)
2024
member of assessment committee PhD thesis Maninder Järleberg, Sati in Britain, 1850-1900: An Evolving Site of MemoryRuberg, W. (Member of committee)
2024
member jury and assessment committee PhD thesis Franco Orlandi, 'Lombrosians after Lombroso. Criminal Anthropology in the Age of Fascism', KU LeuvenRuberg, W. (Member of committee)
2024
2023
Workshop on The History of Bodily IntegrityRuberg, W. (Participant)
22 Jun 2023
keynote 'Het recht op lichamelijke integriteit. Een geschiedenis'Ruberg, W. (Invited speaker)
9 Jun 2023
, Symposium Sirius (students Utrecht Law College) Het recht van top tot teenGastcollege LichaamscultuurRuberg, W. (Invited speaker)
20 Mar 2023
comments on Law as PerformanceRuberg, W. (Invited speaker)
14 Mar 2023
, New Book Symposium on Julie Stone Peters’ Law as Performance, Queen Mary, University of LondonGender and the history of the right to bodily integrity. New Voices Talk Series, Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists PaderbornRuberg, W. (Invited speaker)
2 Mar 2023
'How to write a history of the body', Colloquium Ethics and History of Medicine GöttingenRuberg, W. (Invited speaker)
23 Feb 2023
Vingerafdrukken, DNA en ontoerekeningsvatbaarheid: een cultuurgeschiedenis van forensische experts in de rechtbank in de 20e eeuwRuberg, W. (Invited speaker)
16 Feb 2023
member examination committee and jury PhD thesis Kevin Dekoster, Ghent University (Event)Ruberg, W. (Chair)
2023
, member examination committee and jury PhD thesis Kevin Dekoster, Ghent University2022
Modern forensic cultures in Europe: Researching culture, ideology, and medico-legal expertise in practice’, invited talk for the Sarton Centre for History of Science, Ghent UniversityRuberg, W. (Invited speaker)
15 Dec 2022
The right to bodily integrity: a praxiographical and ontological approach’, Conference Ontologien des Körpers. Neuvermessungen der Körpergeschichte der Neuzeit, BernRuberg, W. (Invited speaker)
26 Nov 2022
, Ontologien des Körpers. Neuvermessungen der Körpergeschichte der Neuzeitpaper on concept 'forensic culture'Ruberg, W. (Invited speaker)
17 Jun 2022
, Forensic Voices: Cultures of Sonic IdentificationBodily integrity and forensic science/medicine in the 20th century. Research Meeting Department of Sociology. FSS MUNI (Masaryk University), BrnoRuberg, W. (Invited speaker)
20 Apr 2022
gastcollege LichaamscultuurRuberg, W. (Invited speaker)
7 Mar 2022
The history of the right to bodily integrityRuberg, W. (Invited speaker)
28 Feb 2022
, UHSK symposium Diving into Diversity. A take on women's historyrecent trends in the (history of the)humanitiesRuberg, W. (Invited speaker)
25 Jan 2022
2021
Repoliticizing the history of the body. Talk for Cultural History Seminar UURuberg, W. (Invited speaker)
29 Apr 2021
gastcollege History of the BodyRuberg, W. (Invited speaker)
23 Apr 2021
Keynote:Forensic bodies: bodily (in)violability in modern criminal investigationRuberg, W. (Invited speaker)
16 Apr 2021
, LUCAS conferences Bodies MatterAuthority and Expertise: Tension Between Psychiatrists’ and Lay Knowledge in Dutch Cases of Infanticide, 1930-1960Ruberg, W. (Invited speaker)
26 Mar 2021
, ESSHC 2021member examination committee and PhD defence Léjon Saarloos, Leiden University (Event)Ruberg, W. (Chair)
2021
, member examination committee and PhD defence Léjon Saarloos, Leiden University2019
Hysteria revisited: diagnosing hysteria in Dutch forensic psychiatry (1900-1960)Ruberg, W. (Invited speaker)
28 Aug 2019
, EAHMH 2019 Lichaamsgeschiedenis na de material turnRuberg, W. (Invited speaker)
23 Aug 2019
, Historicidagen 2019Woudschoten conferentie Gewina (Third Bi-Annual Dutch Conference in the History of Science)Ruberg, W. (Participant)
21 Jun 2019
Guest lecture 'Race and gender in the history of the social sciences'Ruberg, W. (Invited speaker)
9 May 2019
Cultural History SeminarRuberg, W. (Invited speaker)
2 May 2019
college Ouderdag UHSKRuberg, W. (Invited speaker)
22 Mar 2019
, Ouderdag UHSKA cultural history of forensic scienceRuberg, W. (Invited speaker)
19 Mar 2019
, Descartes Centre History of Science colloquiumEmbodiment and Experience:The Relationship Between Phenomenological and Poststructuralist Approaches in Body HistoryRuberg, W. (Invited speaker)
5 Mar 2019
, History of Experience: Theories, Methodologies, and Conceptsinvited talk on 'Forensic Culture'Ruberg, W. (Invited speaker)
22 Feb 2019
, Research Parade UHSKInnocence in Cases of Infanticide: Dutch Forensic Medicine and Psychiatry, 1925-1950Ruberg, W. (Invited speaker)
2019
, History of Science Society Annual Meeting2017
Workshop on how to prepare a PhD proposalRuberg, W. (Participant)
30 Oct 2017
workshop 'Het emotionele zelf'Ruberg, W. (Organiser)
1 Sept 2017
Het criminele zelf. Psychiaters in de Nederlandse rechtbank (ca. 1900)Ruberg, W. (Invited speaker)
1 Sept 2017
, workshop 'Het emotionele zelf'Keynote 'The Criminal's Hair, Body and Mind'Ruberg, W. (Keynote speaker)
1 Jul 2017
, Corpus Historicus. The Body in/of HistoryHysteria in the courtroom: Gender, emotion and Dutch forensic psychiatrists around 1900Ruberg, W. (Invited speaker)
27 Apr 2017
Workshop ‘Evidence of Feeling: Law, Science and Emotions in Modern Europe’Ruberg, W. (Invited speaker)
10 Apr 2017
Human Nature in the HumanitiesRuberg, W. (Invited speaker)
28 Feb 2017
Human Nature in the Humanities: Body HistoryRuberg, W. (Invited speaker)
27 Feb 2017
De forensische wetenschap in Nederland (1811-2000). Cultuurhistorische perspectievenRuberg, W. (Invited speaker)
2017
, Expertmeeting 'De toekomst van de strafrechtsgeschiedenis'2016
Society for the Social History of Medicine 2016 Conference Ruberg, W. (Invited speaker)
8 Jul 2016
2015
Writing the history of Dutch forensic medicine as a history of knowledge practicesRuberg, W. (Invited speaker)
19 May 2015
2014
Menstruatie voor het gerecht. Het vrouwelijke lichaam en de forensische geneeskunde in de negentiende eeuwRuberg, W. (Invited speaker)
12 Dec 2014
, Wel en onwel. Het lichaam in de negentiende eeuwFetishism, empathy, anxiety. The researcher's emotions in the archiveRuberg, W. (Invited speaker)
27 Nov 2014
, Exploring the archiveInternational Journal for History, Culture and Modernity (Journal)Ruberg, W. (Peer reviewer)
2014 → 2017
International Journal for History, Culture and Modernity (Journal)Ruberg, W. (Editor)
2014 → …
2013
The application of praxeography to body history: a critical approachRuberg, W. (Invited speaker)
25 Apr 2013
, Praktiken und ihre Körper. Was für ein Artefakt ist der Leib? Mainzer Symposium der Sozial- und Kulturwissenschaften (Mainz)Overspel in de 18e en 19e eeuwRuberg, W. (Invited speaker)
19 Jan 2013
, Publieksdag UCEMS Seks in de schaduw (Utrecht)International Journal for History, Culture and Modernity (Journal)Ruberg, W. (Editor)
2013
2012
Betwiste expertise over het lichaam. Forensische geneeskunde in Nederland, 1811-1920Ruberg, W. (Invited speaker)
23 Nov 2012
, Forum Cultuurgeschiedenis. KU Leuven (Leuven)SSHM Conference 2012: Emotions, Health, and WellbeingRuberg, W. (Invited speaker)
12 Sept 2012
Constructing expertise. Body, mind and forensic medicine in 19th-century Dutch cases of rape and infanticideRuberg, W. (Invited speaker)
6 Jun 2012
, invited lecture (University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB))New approaches to the history of forensic medicine: Travelling knowledge and body-mind constellations in Dutch cases of infanticide (1800-1920)Ruberg, W. (Invited speaker)
23 Apr 2012
, History of Science, Medicine and Technology Colloquium, UCLA (Los Angeles)2011
Bodily knowledge as tactics. Conflicting stories about menstruation in Dutch cases of rape and infanticide, 1750-1920Ruberg, W. (Invited speaker)
15 Oct 2011
, Congres 'Verkörperungen/Embodiment. Geschlecht und Körper. Diskurse und soziale Praktiken in der Geschichte'Occluding the mind and appropriating the body. Authority and objectivity in forensic science (Dutch cases of infanticide, 1750-1900)Ruberg, W. (Invited speaker)
4 Sept 2011
, Body and Mind in the History of Medicine and Health. Conference European Association for the History of Medicine and Health2010
Trauma and the body-mind dichotomy in 19th-century Dutch rape casesRuberg, W. (Invited speaker)
24 Aug 2010
, 21st International Congress of Historical Sciencesconference 'Knowledge, Ethics and Representations of Medicine and Health: Historical Perspectives'Ruberg, W. (Invited speaker)
9 Jul 2010
2009
'Mother knows best'. The transmission of knowledge of the female body and venereal diseases in 19th century Dutch rape casesRuberg, W. (Invited speaker)
25 Jun 2009
, The transmission of health practices (c. 1500 to 2000) Anglo-Dutch-German Workshop on the History of Medicine