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  • Talk: Leon Vilaincour

    Virtual Event

    an online talk about Polish-born artist and teacher Leon Vilaincour

    Free

  • Talk: Erna Pinner in Frankfurt, London, and the World

    Virtual Event

    On Wednesday 29 March at 6pm, cultural historian Astrid Schmetterling, Senior Lecturer in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London, will give an online talk about German-born artist and illustrator Erna Pinner, who found refuge in the UK in 1935. Pinner’s work features prominently in Back into the Light: Four Women Artists – Their Works, […]

  • The Cultural Impact on Britain of the Refugees from Nazism

    Virtual Event

    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 […]

    Free

  • Isokon Ltd: Symposium

    Virtual Event

    On April 21, the Yale Center for British Art is holding one-day online symposium about Isokon Ltd, the 1930s design company that commissioned one of the Britain’s first modernist buildings, and an iconic range of plywood furniture by émigré designers including Marcel Breuer and Walter Gropius. The symposium will explore all aspects of Isokon’s design output […]

  • Iris Murdoch and Harry Weinberger: Imaginations and Images

    Virtual Event

    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 […]

  • My Disappearing Uncle

    Virtual Event

    On Monday 15 May at 6pm, children’s author, artist, illustrator and printmaker Kathy Henderson will be in conversation with Daniel Snowman about her new book, My Disappearing Uncle: Europe, War and the Stories of a Scattered Family. Memoir, detective work and political history come together in this vivid and moving family biography, told through the […]

    Free

  • Arthur Korn: architect and urban planner

    Virtual Event

    On Thursday 18 May at 6pm, art historian and curator Alexandra Lazar will give an online talk about her recent researches into the life and work of German-born architect and urban planner Arthur Korn, who settled in the UK in 1937.   To book, click here.   Image: Arthur Korn teaching at the Architectural Association […]

  • Refugees from Nazism in Trade, Industry and Engineering

    Hybrid Event

    On Wednesday 13 and Thursday 14 September, Refugees from Nazism in Trade, Industry and Engineering, the  2023 Triennial Conference of the Research Centre for German & Austrian Exile Studies at the Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies will take place in person at the University of London Senate House, Malet Street, WC1E 7HU and online […]

  • Refugees from Nazism in Trade, Industry and Engineering

    Virtual Event

    On Wednesday 13 and Thursday 14 September, Refugees from Nazism in Trade, Industry and Engineering, the  2023 Triennial Conference of the Research Centre for German & Austrian Exile Studies at the Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies will take place in person at the University of London Senate House, Malet Street, WC1E 7HU and online […]

  • The Photographs of Zygmunt Bauman

    Virtual Event

    Cultural historian Janet Wolff will introduce a less well-known aspect of the career of eminent sociologist Zygmunt Bauman.

  • Fashion City: How Jewish Londoners shaped global style

    Virtual Event

    Fashion City brings together places and spaces in London with fashion and textiles, oral histories, objects and photography to weave this fascinating history, where every stitch tells a truly unique story.

  • Taking Sides: Bobby Carter, Godfrey Samuel and the Refugee Architects

    Virtual Event

    Valeria Carullo, Curator, The Robert Elwall Photographs Collection at RIBA British Architectural Library, will talk about her ongoing researches into the important role played by Bobby Carter and Godfrey Samuel of the RIBA Refugee Committee in rescuing their fellow architects from the clutches of the Nazi regime during the late 1930s. Following the rise of […]

  • Tribute to Mira Hamermesh

    Virtual Event

    In the centenary year of her birth, Jeremy Coopman will pay tribute to his mother, the remarkable Polish-born film maker and artist Mira Hamermesh, who spent most of her working life in England.

  • Virtual Tour – Modernist Hampstead

    Virtual Event

    In this virtual tour discover the revolutionary Modernist homes and idealistic architecture built in Hampstead in the 1930s onwards.

  • Lubetkin and Goldfinger: Misunderstood Visionaries?

    Virtual Event

    Russian-born Berthold Lubetkin and Hungarian-born Ernö Goldfinger established themselves as two leading British architects who designed high-rise council housing after the Second World War; a type of building that now holds a poor reputation.

  • From Berlin to London: The Industrial Photography of Walter & Rita Nurnberg

    Virtual Event

    Nick Warr and Simon Dell – the curators of a fascinating exhibition Norwich Works: The Industrial Photography of Walter and Rita Nurnberg currently on at Norwich Castle Museum until 14 April – will talk about the too little known German-born émigré photographers Walter and Rita Nurnberg.