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SUMMARY:Thames & Hudson or Danube & Spree?
DESCRIPTION:To mark the publication of her book\, The Art of the Book: 75 Years of Thames & Hudson\, Dr.Anna Nyburg will give a talk about the history of the internationally famous London-based publishing house founded by refugees from Nazism. \nIn 1949\, Walter and Eva Neurath\, refugees from Vienna and Berlin respectively\, founded Thames & Hudson. Walter Neurath had been a successful publisher in inter-war Vienna\, driven by his urge to explain and show the world to people\, young people in particular. Gradually they progressed to focus on illustrated books\, on archaeology and ancient cultures before specialising in books on art and design. Seventy-five years later\, their original vision of creating a “museum without walls” still resonates. As well as publishing beautifully designed and produced books in collaboration with the world’s leading artists\, writers\, museums\, cultural institutions\, and fashion houses\, Thames & Hudson\, still a successful  independent publisher with contacts to the original family\, continues to evolve and innovate in a fiercely competitive environment. \nDr Anna Nyburg is an Honorary Lecturer at the Centre for Languages\, Culture and Communication at Imperial College London. She is a committee member of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies and a trustee of Insiders/Outsiders. She is the author of Emigrés: The Transformation of Art Publishing in Britain (Phaidon 2014) as well as many other publications. \n  \nTo book\, click here.
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/thames-hudson-or-danube-spree/
CATEGORIES:Literature
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260209T193000
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SUMMARY:Finding Ella Briggs: The Life and Work of an Unconventional Architect
DESCRIPTION:To mark the recent publication by Princeton University Press of a book entitled Finding Ella Briggs: The Life and Work of an Unconventional Architect\, its co-editors Despina Stratigakos and Elana Shapira and one of the other contributors to the volume Barbara Penner will introduce us to the life and work of this talented Austrian-born Jewish architect\, designer and writer whose influence was felt on both sides of the Atlantic. \nElla Briggs (1880–1977) trained with the Viennese Secessionists and brought their radical ideas to Gilded Age New York. She designed modernist housing for the masses in Austria\, was jailed as a suspected spy in Mussolini’s Italy\, and thrived in Weimar Germany before suffering persecution under the Nazis. Fleeing to London in 1936\, she contributed to England’s postwar reconstruction. Yet despite a long and prolific career\, her name is largely forgotten today. Finding Ella Briggs – beautifully illustrated\, drawing on a wealth of previously unpublished research from archives around the world and with contributions from thirteen other international scholars – restores Briggs to her rightful place in the history of modernist design. \nDespina Stratigakos is SUNY Distinguished Professor in the Department of Architecture at the University at Buffalo\, State University of New York. Her books include Where Are the Women Architects? and A Women’s Berlin. Elana Shapira is Lecturer in the Cultural Studies Department at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. She is the author of Style and Seduction and the editor of Design Dialogue and Designing Transformation and (with Anne-Katrin Rossberg) Gestalterinnen. Barbara Penner is Professor in the Architectural Humanities at the Bartlett School of Architecture\, UCL. Her contribution to the present book is ‘London: Struggles\, New Beginnings and a Commission’. \n  \nTo book\, click here. \n  \nImage: book cover (detail)
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/finding-ella-briggs-the-life-and-work-of-an-unconventional-architect/
CATEGORIES:Architecture,Literature
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260119T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260119T193000
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SUMMARY:Paul Hamlyn: Outsider\, Innovator\, Dealmaker
DESCRIPTION:This talk examines the career of Paul Hamlyn (né Hamburger) (1926-2001)\, a story of personal ambition\, publishing innovation\, and industry change. Hamlyn was a visionary who made a lasting impact on twentieth-century publishing\, yet until now his story has received limited recognition in book history. An émigré who moved to the UK with his family at the age of seven from Nazi Germany\, Hamlyn became a publisher who accumulated significant wealth during his lifetime but is now mainly remembered for his philanthropy towards the arts. \nHamlyn’s career had three distinct phases. Initially\, between 1949 and 1970\, as an outsider\, he started selling remainders\, then began publishing reprints from other publishers before creating his own titles. Subsequently\, between 1971 and 1983\, at Octopus\, as an innovator\, he developed an illustrated mass-market publishing model that exploited technological advances\, capitalised on the expanding middle classes in key markets\, and embraced the opportunities presented by globalisation. The final phase was as a dealmaker\, from 1983 to 1987\, when\, in a dizzying fifty-month period\, he floated Octopus on the London Stock Exchange\, merged the youthful Octopus with the venerable Heinemann\, and sold the entire business to Reed International less than two years later. \nNearly twenty-five years after his death in September 2001\, Hamlyn’s legacy remains complex. In the academic field of book history\, he is limited to a small part that acknowledges his commercial success but neither celebrates nor examines it. From a publisher’s perspective\, Hamlyn’s legacy as an innovator in book publishing is underestimated. This talk will analyse both his commercial achievements and his publishing innovations. It will raise Hamlyn’s profile in post-World War II book history as a significant publisher deserving greater recognition for those innovations. It will also recognise the duality of his publishing legacy and why Hamlyn may not have received the reputation he merits. \nSince 2002\, Marcus E. Leaver has been a trade book publisher running businesses on both sides of the Atlantic\, primarily in the illustrated non-fiction and children’s publishing genres\, namely Chrysalis Books\, Barnes & Noble Publishing\, The Quarto Group and Welbeck Publishing Group. Since selling Welbeck in late 2022 to one of the major trade publishers\, he has completed an MA in the History of the Book at the University of London and started a new business\, Gemini Books Group. His dissertation was about Paul Hamlyn. \nImage: Paul Hamlyn\, circa 1985. Photo by Gemma Levine/Hulton Archive/Getty Images \nTo book\, click here.
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/paul-hamlyn/
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Educational events,Lectures,Literature,What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251210T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251210T193000
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SUMMARY:Creativity & Forced Migrations
DESCRIPTION:Burcu Dogramaci & Owen Hatherley in Conversation with Monica Bohm-Duchen \nCan it be a coincidence that two books examining afresh the profound impact of the refugees from Nazi-dominated Europe on British culture have seen the light of day within just a few months of each other? What\, more precisely\, was the nature of that impact? And how\, in particular\, was London changed forever as a result? These will be just three of the questions to be addressed by their authors in conversation with Monica Bohm-Duchen\, art historian and founding director of the Insiders/Outsiders project. \nLondon Exile: Metropolis\, Modernity and Artistic Migration by Burcu Dogramaci of Munich University\, was published by Leuven University Press in September. In the words of one reviewer\, the book “constitutes the definitive history of how the cultural workers who fled Nazi Germany―from artists\, photographers\, designers\, and sculptors to publishers and gallerists―were shaped by their emigration. It also tells the story of how these immigrants left indelible marks on their city of refuge… remaking it into the celebrated modern cultural metropolis that it is today.” \nThe Alienation Effect: How Central European Émigrés Transformed the British Twentieth Century by Owen Hatherley was published by Allen Lane earlier this year to considerable interest and has been described by one reviewer as “a brilliant work of history… Owen Hatherley makes a fierce and elegant case for British culture as a living tapestry made ever brighter by newcomers to our strange island.” \nTo book\, click here.
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/creativity-forced-migrations/
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Educational events,Lectures,Literature,What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251203T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251203T193000
DTSTAMP:20260414T230335
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SUMMARY:The Refugee and the Survivor – a Family Story
DESCRIPTION:This illustrated presentation by Michael Lewis weaves together the story of his parents\, of his father\, a refugee from Nazi persecution and his mother\, a Holocaust survivor. It draws on her memoir\, A Time to Speak (1992) and Michael’s own book\, Flight from Prague – the Making of a Refugee (2025)\, which for the first time tells his father’s story. \nHarry Lewy and Helene Katz came from Trautenau\, today Trutnov\, then in Austria Hungary\, now in the Czech Republic. They were friends from childhood. \nIn 1938 Michael’s father fled for his life when\, after Munich\, his Sudetenland home was incorporated into the Nazi Reich. A refugee\, embarked on a life of uncertainty and fear\, loneliness and isolation\, unwanted and penniless\, he eventually found sanctuary and work in Belfast. \nIn 1938 his mother was married to Paul Herrmann and living in Prague\, having successfully completed professional training as a choreographer\, teacher and dancer. In 1942 she was deported to Terezin / Theresienstadt\, in May 1944 to Auschwitz-Birkenau and in July 1944 to Stutthof. She survived. Widowed and seriously ill\, she returned to Prague in June 1945. \nFinding her name on a list of survivors\, Harry made contact. In 1947 they married in Prague before settling in Belfast. The family changed its name to Lewis in 1949. Helen gradually recovered her health and had a distinguished career as an innovative choreographer and then author\, widely recognized and honoured as an inspirational figure. Behind her achievements against all the odds stood Harry’s quiet unstinting love and support. \nMichael Lewis was born in Belfast. He taught for 35 years in comprehensive schools\, becoming the headteacher of King Edward VII School in Sheffield between 1988 and 2008. After retirement he served for 14 years as a lay Employment Tribunal member\, a member of the Teaching Regulation Agency Teacher Conduct panel and of the Independent Ethics Panel of South Yorkshire Police. In 2009 The University of Sheffield awarded him the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters. He lives in Sheffield\, is married to Petra and has two sons and three grandchildren. \n\nImage: Harry and Helen’s wedding\, Prague 16 June 1947 \n\nTo book\, click here.
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/the-refugee-and-the-survivor-a-family-story/
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Dance,Educational events,Lectures,Literature,What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250527T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250527T193000
DTSTAMP:20260414T230335
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SUMMARY:Rogues and Scholars Boom and Bust in the London Art Market\, 1945–2000
DESCRIPTION:James Stourton’s entertaining\, informative and very readable book Rogues and Scholars: Boom and Bust in the London Art Market\, 1945–2000\, recently published by Bloomsbury and singled out as the Times Best Art Book of the Year\, 2024\, tells the colourful story of the London art market from the immediate postwar period to the turn of the millennium and introduces us to ‘a glorious rogues’ gallery of clever amateurs\, eccentric scholars\, brilliant emigrés\, cockney traders and grandees with a flair for the deal’. For the purposes of this talk for Insiders/Outsiders\, James will pay particular attention to the ‘brilliant emigrés’\, among them Frank Lloyd and Harry Fischer\, Herbert Bier\, Erica Brausen\, Annely Juda and many more… \nJames Stourton is a British art historian\, a former Chairman of Sotheby’s UK and the author of Great Houses of London\, British Embassies\, and the authorized biography of Kenneth Clark. Stourton frequently lectures to Cambridge University History of Art Faculty\, Sotheby’s Institute of Education and The Art Fund\, and is a senior fellow of the Institute of Historical Research. He also sits on the Heritage Memorial Fund\, a government panel which meets to decide what constitutes heritage and should be saved for the nation. \nImage: book cover (detail) \nTo book\, click here. \n  \nFestival supporters can purchase Rogues & Scholars for £20 plus P&P (RRP £30) from the Bloomsbury website\, using the code INSIDERSOUTSIDERS. The code is live now and will work until 27th July. \nOverseas customers can order from the UK site using the code.
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/rogues-and-scholars/
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Educational events,Fine Art,Lectures,Literature,What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250403T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250403T193000
DTSTAMP:20260414T230335
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SUMMARY:**POSTPONED**From Publishing Innovator to Corporate Dealmaker: Paul Hamlyn & the Transformation of UK Publishing
DESCRIPTION:Please check back soon for a new date for this event \nAn émigré who moved to the UK with his family at the age of seven from Nazi Germany\, Paul Hamlyn (né Hamburger\,1926-2001) was an innovative publisher who re-engineered the publishing model and systemised creativity. This approach led him to float his second business\, Octopus Publishing Group\, on the London Stock Exchange\, which arguably transitioned UK publishing from the era of family-owned and eponymous publishers to the conglomerate-dominated landscape of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. No less a democratiser of books than Allen Lane of Penguin and others before him in the nineteenth century\, Hamlyn was a major figure in the industry whose cultural and commercial significance has not been as fully acknowledged by book historians as it should have been. \nHamlyn’s career can be divided into two distinct parts: in the first\, he is the outsider who becomes an innovative publisher; in the second after the float of Octopus floated in 1983\, he acquired insider status owing to his corporate dealmaking prowess. He first merged Octopus with Heinemann in 1985 and then sold it to Reed International in 1987. He would also become a major philanthropist\, setting up the Paul Hamlyn Foundation in the same year. \nSince 2002\, Marcus E. Leaver has been a trade book publisher running businesses on both sides of the Atlantic\, primarily in the illustrated non-fiction and children’s publishing genres\, namely Chrysalis Books\, Barnes & Noble Publishing\, The Quarto Group and Welbeck Publishing Group. Since selling Welbeck in late 2022 to one of the major trade publishers\, he completed the first year of an MA in the History of the Book and started a new business\, Gemini Books Group. In this second year of his MA\, he is writing his dissertation on Paul Hamlyn. \nImage: Paul Hamlyn\, circa 1985. Photo by Gemma Levine/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/from-publishing-innovator-to-corporate-dealmaker-paul-hamlyn-the-transformation-of-uk-publishing/
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Educational events,Lectures,Literature,What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250318T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250318T193000
DTSTAMP:20260414T230335
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SUMMARY:Of Penguins\, Albatrosses\, Pelicans and Kings: Refugees from Nazism at Penguin Books
DESCRIPTION:To mark the 90th anniversary of the founding of Penguin Books\, Dr. Anna Nyburg\, author of Émigrés: The Transformation of Art Publishing in Britain (Phaidon\, 2014)\, will pay tribute to the disproportionately large number of former refugees from Nazi Europe who contributed to the company’s extraordinary success. \nPenguin Books was founded by Allen Lane in 1935 and would radically change British reading habits\, educating\, informing  and entertaining the public for generations through their affordable and widely available books. \nRight from the beginning\, Penguin Books owed a debt to German publishing and book production\, inspired as the company was by the then ultra-modern Hamburg-based Albatross Books. Since William Morris’ Kelmscott Press\, German and British book producers and designers had influenced each other’s work\, with the result that when the National Socialists came to power\, those mainly Jewish book artists\, designers and authors fleeing to Britain could use their existing contacts in Britain to find work. \nAuthors such as Stefan Lorant and François Lafitte wrote Penguin Specials while Jan Tschichold and Hans Schmoller oversaw the important typography and page design that signalled the slim volumes’ modernity. Berthold Wolpe\, Romek Marber and Germano Facetti created the Penguin covers that helped to sell the books\, while Schmoller and Dieter Pevsner (son of Penguin author and editor Nikolaus Pevsner) became major figures in the running of the company. Last but no means least\, it was two Viennese refugees\, Wolfgang Foges and Walter Neurath (later to co-found Thames & Hudson)  who thought up and created the first King Penguins. \n  \nTo book\, click here \nImage: book covers
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/of-penguins-albatrosses-pelicans-and-kings-refugees-from-nazism-at-penguin-books/
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Lectures,Literature,What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250226T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250226T193000
DTSTAMP:20260414T230336
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SUMMARY:In the Future of Yesterday: A Life of Stefan Zweig
DESCRIPTION:Rüdiger Görner\, Professor Emeritus of German with Comparative Literature at Queen Mary University of London\, will be in conversation with writer and critic David Herman about his latest book\, In the Future of Yesterday: A Life of Stefan Zweig. \nIn the Future of Yesterday offers a refreshing approach to the life and work of Austrian-born writer Stefan Zweig\, delving into his considerable contribution to world literature\, rooted in the Austro-Jewish tradition. A world traveller from the outset\, Zweig liked to uproot himself – but whether he stayed in London\, New York\, or eventually Brazil\, his literary baggage continued to contain the flavour and flair of fin de siècle Vienna. \nLooking anew at Zweig’s influential time in England and offering fresh insights into his final years in the United States and Brazil\, Görner discusses Zweig’s prolific literary output in relation to his life and subjects his political views on Europe\, Zionism\, and the world order to deep scrutiny. \nAs one reviewer has put it\, ‘Görner’s meticulous analysis of Zweig’s letters\, his diaries\, and some of his characteristic works greatly enriches the critical debate about the latter’s world-wide legacy. Full of interesting details on Zweig’s quest for freedom\, this is a must-read for anyone interested in the life and work of Europe’s most translated writer of the interwar period.’ \nTo book\, click here \nA discount code for 25% off In the Future of Yesterday: A Life of Stefan Zweig is available to those who which to purchase the book. Use ZWEIG25 at the checkout. \n  \nImage: book cover (detail)
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/in-the-future-of-yesterday-a-life-of-stefan-zweig/
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Lectures,Literature
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250210T193000
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SUMMARY:I Had to Be Present: Oto Bihalji-Merin\, art historian\, editor\, publisher\, art critic and activist
DESCRIPTION:Oto Bihalji-Merin (1904-1993) was a Yugoslav-Jewish art historian\, editor\, publisher\, art critic and activist whose creative life fused multiple languages\, identities and cultures in response to the historical and political contexts of the 20th century and whose legacy lies in his advocacy for art that transcends formal training\, emphasizing human creativity and imagination. \nOto’s youth in Zemun and Berlin deeply shaped his leftist and anti-fascist ideas\, exposing him to avant-garde artistic movements such as Expressionism\, Dada and New Objectivity. In 1928\, with his brother Pavle Bihali\, he co-founded the left-wing publishing house Nolit and the magazine Nova Literatura (New Literature). After spending time in Spain and Paris\, Oto settled in Zürich in 1934\, where he wrote for Die Neue Weltbühne\, Die Deutsche Blätter\, and Savremeni Pogledi\, and associated with artists and writers such as Max Beckmann\, Max Bill\, Wolfgang Langhoff\, Stefan Zweig and Albert Einstein. In the late 1930s he was closely involved with the landmark exhibition Twentieth Century German Art\, shown in London in 1938\, and (under the pseudonym Peter Thoene) wrote the companion volume\, Modern German Art\, the first publication on this subject in English. \nAfter WW2\, Oto Bihalji-Merin wrote extensively about the works of naïve artists. His most famous book\, The World of Naïve Artists (1959)\, is considered to be a foundational text on the subject. He was involved in publishing and editing cultural magazines and books which played a crucial role in shaping the intellectual landscape of Yugoslavia in the mid 20th century. \nThis talk by its curators Senka Latinovic and Miroslav Karic\, introduced by London-based art historian Alexandra Lazar\, coincides with a major exhibition entitled Oto Bihalji-Merin: I Had to Be Present at the Museum of Naive and Marginal Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade. The exhibition celebrates the 120th anniversary of Bihalji-Merin’s birth and runs until 17 February. \nTo book\, click here \nImage: Portrait of Oto Bihalji-Merin\, Photo: Tošo Dabac\, Archive of the Salon Oto Bihalji-Merin
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/oto-bihalji-merin-art-historian-editor-publisher-art-critic-and-activist-i-had-to-be-present/
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Fine Art,Lectures,Literature
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SUMMARY:Karen Gershon (1923-1993) – Writing my mother’s story: a journey of redefinition
DESCRIPTION:The author and poet Karen Gershon\, probably best known for her book We Came as Children (1966)\, arrived in England as the child Kate Loewenthal on a Kindertransport in December 1938. For her daughter Naomi Shmuel\, writing her story has been a harrowing journey of redefinition as she uncovered stark truths in letters written to her sister over a lifetime. The unfolding story includes both the narrative of a child survivor forced to change languages who became the voice of a whole generation\, and the unfolding tragedy of a very English family largely unaware of their Jewish connection struggling with immigration to Israel and inevitable unsolvable conflicts. Some of the themes of her life – rootlessness\, the never-ending search for a viable identity and sense of home\, the aftershock of the Holocaust – are also clearly apparent in the lives of the next generation – her children. Assembling pieces of the puzzle of her mother’s life made Naomi\, whose  book The Legacy of Karen Gershon: Child Survivor to Author and Poet was recently published by Cambridge Scholars\, question her own. \nNaomi\, herself a prize-winning British-Israeli author with a particular interest in anti-bias education and human and cultural diversity\, will talk about Karen Gershon as her mother and about the experience of writing the book. She will be joined by Phyllis Lassner\, Professor Emerita at The Crown Center for Jewish and Israel Studies\, Gender Studies\, and Writing Program at Northwestern University\, Illinois\, who will discuss Gershon’s literary contribution to the understanding of the Kindertransport experience. \nTo book\, click here \nImage: book cover (detail)
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/karen-gershon/
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Lectures,Literature
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SUMMARY:Becoming Kathrine Talbot: A Jewish Refugee and the Novelist She Invented
DESCRIPTION:In 1935\, when she was fourteen years old\, Ilse Gross fled Germany for the safety of England. Alone. Seventeen years later\, she published her audacious first novel Fire in the Sun. Her pen name: Kathrine Talbot. Her German Jewish identity she carefully concealed. Becoming Kathrine Talbot: A Jewish Refugee and the Novelist She Invented\, first published in German in 2022\, recreates the life of a refugee who lost her parents and sister in the Holocaust and who resisted telling their stories until it was almost too late. Only at the end of her life did she turn her family’s fate into prose.\nIn the just-published English translation of his book\, Professor Dr. Christoph Ribbat of the University of Paderborn\, Germany\, traces the life of a once well-known but now nearly forgotten 20th century novelist from an Isle of Man internment camp to postwar Cornwall\, New York\, and California\, and then to a green hill in Sussex. He will be joined for this discussion of the new publication by Professor Sue Vice of the University of Sheffield\, who has written: ‘Christoph Ribbat’s remarkable book is a creative biography and literary retrieval of Kathrine Talbot\, née Ilse Gross … It will make everyone who reads it reconsider what they believe they know about the lives of refugees\, and rush to find copies of Talbot’s fiction.’ \nPlease note that those signed up to attend this event will be able to benefit from a 20% discount on the cover price of the book. \n  \nBooking link here
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/becoming-kathrine-talbot-a-jewish-refugee-and-the-novelist-she-invented/
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Lectures,Literature,What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230427T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230427T213000
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SUMMARY:Iris Murdoch and Harry Weinberger: Imaginations and Images
DESCRIPTION:On Thursday 27 April at 8pm (nb later than usual)\, there will be a talk by Rebecca Moden to mark the publication by Palgrave Macmillan of her new book\, Iris Murdoch and Harry Weinberger: Imaginations and Images\, which examines the fruitful relationship\, both personal and professional\, between the eminent British writer Iris Murdoch and Berlin-born visual artist Harry Weinberger. \nTo book\, click here. \nImage: book cover (detail)
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/iris-murdoch-and-harry-weinberger-imaginations-and-images/
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Educational events,Lectures,Literature,What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230418T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230418T123000
DTSTAMP:20260414T230336
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LAST-MODIFIED:20230330T102132Z
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SUMMARY:The Cultural Impact on Britain of the Refugees from Nazism
DESCRIPTION:On Tuesday 18 April at 11am\, Daniel Snowman\, author of the pioneering The Hitler Emigrés and one of the trustees of the Insiders/Outsiders Arts Foundation\, will give an online talk ‘The Cultural Impact on Britain of the Refugees from Nazism’\, moderated by Paul Smith OBE\, The British Council’s Director for Germany. The event is organised by the Foreign\, Commonwealth and Development Office\, but is open to the public. \nTo book\, contact Lucie Portman. \nImage: Hitler Emigrés book cover (detail)
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/the-cultural-impact-on-britain-of-the-refugees-from-nazism/
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Educational events,Lectures,Literary events,Literature,What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230314T080000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230314T170000
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SUMMARY:Talk: Lore Segal's short stories 'Ladies' Lunch'
DESCRIPTION:Also on Tuesday 14 March at 7pm\, an online event organised by bookshop.org will celebrate the poetry of Pulitizer-nominated author Lore Segal\, who came to England on a Kindertransport but left for the USA in 1951\, to mark the appearance of her sparkling new book of short stories\, Ladies’ Lunch\, which focusses on a group of erudite\, sharp-minded nonagenarians in Upper Manhattan and offers startling insights into friendship\, ageing and mortality. \nClick here for further details or contact uk.support@bookshop.org. \nImage: Bookcover
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/talk-lore-segals-short-stories-ladies-lunch/
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Educational events,Lectures,Literary events,Literature
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230305T133000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230305T150000
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SUMMARY:The Fire and the Bonfire
DESCRIPTION:On Sunday 5 March at 1.30pm\, as part of Jewish Book Week at Kings Place\, there will be a free event in which artist Ardyn Halter son of artist and Holocaust survivor Roman Halter\, will be in conversation with Monica Bohm-Duchen\, to mark the publication by Amsterdam Books of his The Fire and the Bonfire: a journey into Memory.  \nFor further information (no advance booking necessary\, just turn up)\, click here.
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/the-fire-and-the-bonfire/
LOCATION:Kings Place\, 90 York Way\, London\, N1 9AG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Literary events,Literature
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230226T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230226T183000
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SUMMARY:Jewish Book Week 2023: Maurice Bilk
DESCRIPTION:Jewish Book Week 2023 runs from 25 February to 5 March and as always\, features a rich array of fascinating offerings. Of particular relevance to Insiders/Outsiders is the talk by Holocaust survivor and sculptor Maurice Blik on 26 February at 6.30pm and the session about Hungarian-born film director\, producer\, screenwriter and novelist Emeric Pressburger on Sunday 5 March at 6.30pm. \nTo book for the former\, click here and for the latter\, click here. \nImage: Maurice Blik bookcover
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/jewish-book-week-2023-maurice-bilk/
LOCATION:Kings Place\, 90 York Way\, London\, N1 9AG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Educational events,Fine Art,Lectures,Literary events,Literature,What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221110T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20221110T180000
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SUMMARY:The Messels at War: German-Jewish Responses to Twentieth-Century Conflict
DESCRIPTION:In a special online talk to mark Remembrance Day\, John Hilary will look back at the contrasting experiences of German-Jewish immigrants in Britain during the two world wars. Told through the lives of the celebrated Messel family of Nymans\, of which John is a member\, the presentation will examine the waves of violence directed towards naturalised Germans in Britain during the First World War and the personal anguish they faced as they were called upon to disown their heritage. It will also explore the treatment of German Jews who came to Britain in the 1930s\, granted refuge in their flight from Nazi persecution but then rounded up and interned as enemy aliens. Drawing on the family’s artistic talents\, the Messels reacted to the horrors of war with a full range of creative responses that went far beyond the expected. \nJohn Hilary is an honorary professor at the University of Nottingham and a representative of the Messel family to the National Trust. His latest book\, From Refugees to Royalty: The Remarkable Story of the Messel Family of Nymans\, was published in 2021\, and he is currently researching the cultural history of German-Jewish art collectors in Britain during the Edwardian era. \nPLEASE NOTE \nInstead of the £25 RRP plus postage and packaging\, people attending this talk will be able to purchase a copy of John Hilary’s book at the special rate of £20 including p&p\, which equates to a 30% discount. Please contact us on insidersoutsiders2019@gmail.com if you’re interested in benefitting from this offer.
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/the-messels-at-war-german-jewish-responses-to-twentieth-century-conflict/
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Lectures,Literature,What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221006T130000
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SUMMARY:Lucian Freud (1922-2011) Lunchtime Lecture: Freuds’ War
DESCRIPTION:Freud family\, 1898 (Front row: Sophie\, Anna and Ernst; middle row: Oliver and Martha\, plus Minna Bernays; back row: Martin and Sigmund)\nThursday 6 October at 1pm will see the first of a weekly series of events marking the centenary of the birth of celebrated artist\, who came to this country from Berlin with his immediate family in 1933. This first event is an online talk by historian Helen Fry\, based on her fascinating book Freud’s War; the second\, on Thursday 13 October at 2.30pm\, is an in-person guided tour of  the exhibition\, Lucian Freud: The Painter and his Family\, currently on at the Freud Museum\, London; the third\, on Thursday 20 October at 1pm\, an online talk by Elizabeth Lamle about Freud’s very early work and correspondence; the fourth\, on Thursday 27 Octoberat 2.30pm\, an in-person visit to the major Freud retrospective at the National Gallery\, preceded by an introductory lecture by art historian Monica Bohm-Duchen. \n\nLunchtime Lecture: Freuds’ War \nHistorian Dr Helen Fry charts the story of the Freud family following their departure from Austria as refugees during World War II. Despite his worldwide reputation as the father of modern psychology\, Sigmund Freud’s security in his native Vienna changed overnight when Hitler’s forces annexed Austria in 1938. It was after becoming refugees that the Freuds’ story took a fascinating turn. Following their dramatic escape from Austria\, Sigmund’s son Martin and grandson Walter enlisted in the British Forces. In 1943\, Walter volunteered for Special Operations Executive\, a secret British World War II organisation\, which sent him back to Austria to spy behind enemy lines. \nDr Fry has written over 25 books\, including Spymaster: The Man Who Saved MI6\, Churchill’s German Army\, and the bestselling The Walls Have Ears: The Greatest Intelligence Operation of WWII. Freuds’ War draws on previously unpublished family archives and photographs\, including excerpts from Sigmund’s diary\, to give an insight into the renowned family’s life in both pre-war Vienna and WWII Britain. \nThe series is organised jointly by Insiders/Outsiders\, Jewish Renaissance magazine and the Lyons Learning Project. \n  \nFor further details and to book\, click here. \nImage: Reflection with Two Children (Self-Portrait)\, detail\, 1965 © The Lucian Freud Archive
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/lunchtime-lecture-freuds-war/
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Fine Art,Lectures,Literary events,Literature,What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220918T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220918T180000
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SUMMARY:Esther Freud: The Sea House
DESCRIPTION:On Sunday 18 September at 6pm\, as part of the Jewish Renaissance Book Club\, inspired by the life and letters of her grandfather\, the émigré architect Ernst Freud. This session acts as a taster for a more extended series of events planned for 6\,13\, 20 and 27 October\, organised jointly by Insiders/Outsiders\, Jewish Renaissance magazine and the Lyons Learning Project\, to mark the centenary of Esther’s father Lucian Freud. Full details of the latter will follow in the October newsletter. \nTo register\, click here. \nImage: bookcover (detail)
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/esther-freud-the-sea-house/
CATEGORIES:Literary events,Literature
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220915T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220915T200000
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SUMMARY:Émigré Voices: Conversations with Jewish Refugees from Germany and Austria
DESCRIPTION:On Thursday 15 September at 6.30pm\, the Wiener Holocaust Library\, in partnership with  the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies and Insiders/Outsiders\, will host a launch event for Émigré Voices in which its editors Bea Lewkowicz and Anthony Grenville will discuss the oral history interviews with twelve men and women who came to Britain as Jewish refugees from Germany and Austria in the late 1930s\, which form the focus of the book. Among them are author and illustrator Judith Kerr\, actor Andrew Sachs\, photographer and cameraman Wolf Suschitzky\, violinist Norbert Brainin\, and publisher Elly Miller. \nTo book\, click here. \nImage: bookcover (detail)
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/emigre-voices-conversations-with-jewish-refugees-from-germany-and-austria/
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Literary events,Literature,What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220721T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220721T183000
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SUMMARY:Bunce Court: The School That Escaped the Nazis
DESCRIPTION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP \nOn Thursday 21 July at 6.30pm\, a hybrid event organised by the Wiener Holocaust Library in partnership with Insiders/Outsiders and the Association of Jewish Refugees will mark the publication of The School That Escaped the Nazis\, a deeply moving new book about Bunce Court by Deborah Cadbury. \n  \nTo book\, click here. \n  \n*This is a hybrid event\, in person and online*. \nImage: bookcover (detail)
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/the-school-that-escaped-the-nazis/
LOCATION:The Wiener Holocaust Library\, London\, WC1B 5DP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Educational events,Lectures,Literature,What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220629T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220629T180000
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SUMMARY:Erna Pinner's Graphic and Literary Production in London Exile: An Example of Cultural and Ideological Transference
DESCRIPTION:On Wednesday 29 June at 6pm\, Dolors Sabaté Planes will give an online talk entitled ‘Erna Pinner’s Graphic and Literary Production in London Exile: An Example of Cultural and Ideological Transference’. The seminar focuses on German-born artist Erna Pinner’s graphic and literary work\, with particular emphasis on how the ideological discourse that influenced her work during the interwar period was transferred to her artistic production during her years of exile in London. This event is organised by the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies\, University of London. \nTo register\, click here. \nImage: Erna Pinner\, Mounted Puppet from Das Puppenbuch\, 1921 (public domain\, via Wikimedia Commons)
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/erna-pinners-graphic-and-literary-production-in-london-exile-an-example-of-cultural-and-ideological-transference/
CATEGORIES:Design,Educational events,Lectures,Literature,What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220627T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220627T180000
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SUMMARY:Airbrushed: The story of a family lost and found. A talk by Fanny Mills
DESCRIPTION:On Monday 27 June at 6pm\, playwright and author Fanny Mills will speak about the hidden story of her family which had always shadowed her life\, but which the Covid lockdown prompted her to research in detail. In her own words\, “My [as yet unpublished] book charts the dismantling of a mystery. An unravelling of the story of why my fascinating family\, Jewish on one side\, and aristocratic British on the other\, was completely blanked.” In telling the story\, Fanny explores themes of exile\, love and loss and asks why the talented but flawed women of her family were comprehensively written out of history. \nTo book\, click here. \nImage: Sketch of Fanny\, Emmanuel Levy
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/airbrushed-the-story-of-a-family-lost-and-found-a-talk-by-fanny-mills/
CATEGORIES:Educational events,Lectures,Literature,What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220620T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220620T180000
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SUMMARY:Get the Children Out! Unsung Heroes of the Kindertransport
DESCRIPTION:On Monday 20 June at 6pm\, popular Holocaust historian and educator Mike Levy will give an online talk about his latest book\, Get the Children Out! Unsung Heroes of the Kindertransport\, in which he shines a light on the courageous deeds of twenty-two women and men – most of them overlooked until now – who transformed the lives of the Kindertransport children and other refugees to the UK. \nTo book\, click here. \nImage: Get the Children out! Unsung heroes of the Kindertransport\, bookcover (detail)
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/get-the-children-out-unsung-heroes-of-the-kindertransport/
CATEGORIES:Educational events,Lectures,Literature,What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220613T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220613T180000
DTSTAMP:20260414T230336
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LAST-MODIFIED:20220531T080321Z
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SUMMARY:Barbed Wire University – A talk by Dave Hannigan
DESCRIPTION:On Monday 13 June at 6pm UK time\, US-based Dave Hannigan will talk about his new book Barbed Wire University: The Untold Story of the Interned Jewish Intellectuals Who Turned an Island Prison into the Most Remarkable School in the World\, which explores the intellectual and creative life of Hutchinson Camp in Douglas on the Isle of Man. This event is held in partnership with Jewish Renaissance magazine\, and acts as a follow-up to the very successful trip to the Isle of Man organised by Insiders/Outsiders and Jewish Renaissance in March this year. \nTo book\, click here. \nImage: Barbed Wire University: The Untold Story of the Interned Jewish Intellectuals Who Turned an Island Prison into the Most Remarkable School in the World\, bookcover (detail)
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/barbed-wire-university-a-talk-by-dave-hannigan/
CATEGORIES:Educational events,Lectures,Literature,What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220601T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220601T170000
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SUMMARY:Charlotte Salomon: A Life Before Auschwitz Lecture
DESCRIPTION:On Wednesday 1 June at 5pm UK time\, Monica Bohm-Duchen\, founding director of Insiders/Outsiders\, is giving a talk for the US-based Fritz Ascher Society about the remarkable Berlin-born Jewish artist Charlotte Salomon\, creator of Life? or Theatre?\, an ambitious fictive autobiography which deploys both images and text\, and a wide range of musical\, literary and cinematic references. Salomon found illusory refuge in the South of France but perished in Auschwitz in 1943. \nFor further information and to register\, click here. \nImage: Charlotte Salomon\, Leben? oder Theater? [Life? or Theater?] (detail)\, ca. 1940-2. Collection Jewish Museum\, Amsterdam. © Charlotte Salomon Foundation \n  \nThis event is free\, but in order to help us continue our activities\, a donation of at least £5 per booking would be hugely appreciated. To donate\, click here.
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/charlotte-salomon-a-life-before-auschwitz-lecture/
CATEGORIES:Educational events,Lectures,Literary events,Literature,What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220504T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220504T180000
DTSTAMP:20260414T230336
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LAST-MODIFIED:20220404T112640Z
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SUMMARY:Red Sea - Red Square - Red Thread. A Philosophical Detective Story
DESCRIPTION:On Wednesday 4 May at 6pm UK time\, Lydia Goehr\, Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University\, NYC and part of an eminent émigré musical family\, will be in conversation with Steven Gerrard\, Professor of Philosophy at Williams College\, Massachusetts and Daniel Herwitz\, Professor of Philosophy\, History of Art and Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan\, about her startlingly original new book Red Sea – Red Square – Red Thread. A Philosophical Detective Story \nTo book\, click here. \n  \n  \nThis event is free\, but in order to help us continue our activities\, a donation of at least £5 per booking would be hugely appreciated. To donate\, click here.
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/red-sea-red-square-red-thread-a-philosophical-detective-story/
CATEGORIES:Educational events,Lectures,Literary events,Literature,What's On
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220323T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220323T180000
DTSTAMP:20260414T230336
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SUMMARY:Edith and Kim: A Novel by Charlotte Philby
DESCRIPTION:Charlotte Philby\, granddaughter of Kim Philby\, talks about her riveting new novel\, Edith and Kim\, published on 31 March by HarperCollins. \n  \nOn Wednesday 23 March at 6pm\, Charlotte Philby will talk about her brand new and already much-praised novel Edith and Kim\, which focusses on the hitherto unexplored relationship between her grandfather\, Soviet spy Kim Philby and émigré photographer and ardent Communist\, Edith Tudor-Hart. As one reviewer puts it\, “Mother\, lover\, revolutionary\, spy – Edith Tudor-Hart will have you in her thrall from the first page. Philby’s stunning fourth novel thrusts this former bit-player in the Cambridge Spy scandal to the centre stage where she belongs.” \nTo book\, click here.
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/56865/
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Lectures,Literature,Photography
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220303T144500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220303T144500
DTSTAMP:20260414T230336
CREATED:20220228T123239Z
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SUMMARY:Charmian Brinson: Working for the War Effort
DESCRIPTION:On Thursday 3 March at 2.45pm\, there is another opportunity to hear Prof. Charmian Brinson talk about her fascinating new book\, Working for the War Effort: German-Speaking Refugees in British Propaganda during the Second World War. This is an online event organised by the Centre for Languages\, Culture and Communication\, Imperial College London. \nFor further details\, click here. \nImage: cover of Charmian Brinson’s new book\, Working for the War Effort: German-Speaking Refugees in British Propaganda during the Second World War
URL:https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/event/charmian-brinson-working-for-the-war-effort/
CATEGORIES:Artforms,Educational events,Lectures,Literature,What's On
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