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 […]
This live event also features an exclusive screening of the 2017 documentary film, Refuge Britain: Stories of Émigré Designers.
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: […]
Online event organised by bookshop.org will celebrate the poetry of Pulitizer-nominated author Lore Segal
an online talk about Polish-born artist and teacher Leon Vilaincour
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
On Monday 24 April at 6pm, there will be an online event to mark the publication of a new thematic issue of European Judaism, entitled Displacement, Memory and the Visual Arts: Second-Generation (Jewish) Artists. The publication, which brings together contributions by artists, curators and academics, explores second-generation visual art practices in the UK, as well as […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Presentations from archivists, art historians, and artists, broadcast live from the Library and Archive Reading Rooms at Tate Britain
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 […]
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 […]
Thomas Harding in conversation with David Herman about The Maverick, his new biography of iconic publisher George Weidenfeld
Cultural historian Janet Wolff will introduce a less well-known aspect of the career of eminent sociologist Zygmunt Bauman.
2 day online symposium exploring little-known fact that Dartington Hall was an important place of sanctuary for refugees from Fascist Europe
2 day online symposium exploring little-known fact that Dartington Hall was an important place of sanctuary for refugees from Fascist Europe
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.
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 […]
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.
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.
