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  • September 2023

  • Wed 13

    Refugees from Nazism in Trade, Industry and Engineering

    13 September 2023
    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 […]

  • Thu 14

    Refugees from Nazism in Trade, Industry and Engineering

    14 September 2023
    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 […]

  • October 2023

  • Tue 3

    The Maverick: George Weidenfeld and the Golden Age of Publishing

    3 October 2023 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

    Thomas Harding in conversation with David Herman about The Maverick, his new biography of iconic publisher George Weidenfeld

  • Mon 9

    The Photographs of Zygmunt Bauman

    9 October 2023 6:00 pm
    Virtual Event

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

  • Fri 20

    Creative Sanctuary: Refugees at Dartington in the 1930s and Beyond

    20 October 2023
    Virtual Event

    2 day online symposium exploring little-known fact that Dartington Hall was an important place of sanctuary for refugees from Fascist Europe

  • Sat 21

    Creative Sanctuary: Refugees at Dartington in the 1930s and Beyond (Day Two)

    21 October 2023
    Virtual Event

    2 day online symposium exploring little-known fact that Dartington Hall was an important place of sanctuary for refugees from Fascist Europe

  • November 2023

  • Tue 7

    Fashion City: How Jewish Londoners shaped global style

    7 November 2023 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
    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.

  • Fri 17

    Gardens of Culture: Visionen und experimentelle Projekte für eine Zukunft

    17 November 2023
    Warburg-Haus Heilwigstr. 116, Hamburg, Germany

    Hosted at Warburg Haus, Hamburg this two-day event will present illustrated talks, narrative photography and film screenings. The conference takes place in-person but can also be accessed via Zoom.

  • Thu 23

    Tribute to Mira Hamermesh

    23 November 2023 6:00 pm
    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.

  • January 2024

  • Mon 22

    Virtual Tour – Modernist Hampstead

    22 January 2024 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
    Virtual Event

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

  • Tue 23

    Virtual Tour – A Walk Through Highgate: Experiments in Urban Living

    23 January 2024 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
    Virtual Event

    This is a live virtual tour hosted via Zoom video conferencing where your guide will give an illustrated presentation of the tour route with an accompanying talk.

  • Sat 27

    Walking Tour – Diverse London – City Public Art by Refugees and Immigrants

    27 January 2024 2:00 pm – 4:30 pm

    Walking across the City, we discover the stories behind the people and sculptures of public art by immigrants and refugees

  • February 2024

  • Tue 6

    Lubetkin and Goldfinger: Misunderstood Visionaries?

    6 February 2024 6:00 pm
    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.

  • Sat 10

    Walking Tour: A Walk through Highgate Experiments in Urban Living

    10 February 2024 11:00 am – 1:00 pm

    Discover the experimental 20th century architectural homes in a stroll through Highgate Village, Waterlow Park and the Holly Lodge Estate

  • Mon 12

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

    12 February 2024 6:00 pm
    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.

  • March 2024

  • Mon 4

    The Lives of Edith Hoffmann, Art Historian

    4 March 2024 6:00 pm
    Virtual Event

    Termed “the first woman editor of the Burlington”, Edith Hoffman wrote the first book in English about Oskar Kokoschka.

  • Tue 19

    Peter László Péri (1889-1967) – Péri’s People

    19 March 2024 6:00 pm
    Virtual Event

    This lecture by Arie Hartog will present the results of recent research on Péri and represents a more holistic approach.

  • Mon 25

    Esther Simpson: The True Story of her Mission to Save Scholars from Hitler’s Persecution

    25 March 2024 6:00 pm
    Virtual Event

    Over more than five decades, her work for the Academic Assistance Council and its successor, the Society for the Protection of Science and Learning, ensured refuge for thousands of displaced academics worldwide and had a profound impact on twentieth-century science, philosophy, philology, architecture and art history.

  • April 2024

  • Mon 8

    Memorials, Past and Present: Caren Garfen in conversation with Monica Bohm-Duchen

    8 April 2024 6:00 pm
    Virtual Event

    London-based Caren Garfen is an award-winning artist specialising in textiles and meticulous hand stitching underpinned by extensive research.

    Free
  • Mon 15

    Mid-European Art Exhibition

    15 April 2024 6:00 pm
    Virtual Event

    Andrea Lehmann, senior researcher and associate director of restitution at Christie’s, Brussels, will talk about her ongoing researches into the tactfully named Mid-European Art Exhibition held at Leicester Museum and Art Gallery in 1944.

    Free
  • Mon 29

    Otti Berger: Weaving for Modernist Architecture

    29 April 2024 6:00 pm
    Virtual Event

    To mark the publication by Hatje Cantz of a major new book entitled Otti Berger. Weaving for Modernist Architecture, Berlin-based artist Judith Raum, the book’s contributing editor, will talk about this challenging yet rewarding project.

    Free
  • May 2024

  • Wed 8

    Across the Land and the Water: The Two Journeys of the Family Basch

    8 May 2024 5:00 pm
    Maggs Booksellers 8 Bedford Square, London, United Kingdom

    Film screening at Maggs Bros, London, of ‘Across the Land and the Water: The Two Journeys of the Family Basch’, an intensely moving and beautifully crafted film by Second Generation artist Barbara Loftus.

    Free
  • Sat 18

    Walking Tour – Diverse London – Art and Refugees in Hampstead

    18 May 2024 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm

    Discover how Hampstead’s war-time artistic scene supported and helped save refugee artists from Nazi Europe enabling them to come to London

    £10 – £15
  • Mon 20

    Crossed Wires, Broken Lines: Ernst Schoen and Charlotte Wolff

    20 May 2024 6:00 pm
    Virtual Event

    Professor Esther Leslie and Dr Sam Dolbear, co-authors of the 2023 book Dissonant Waves: Ernst Schoen and Experimental Sound in the Twentieth Century, will first talk about the life of Ernst Schoen (1894-1960)—poet, composer, radio programmer, theorist, and best friend of Walter Benjamin from childhood—as he moves between Frankfurt, Berlin, Paris, and London.

    Free
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Main illustration: Josef Herman, Refugees, c.1941 (detail) © Josef Herman Estate, With kind permission, Ben Uri Collection. Included in the Brave New Visions exhibition hosted by Sotheby’s, 17 July – 9 August 2019

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