British Academy: The UK's National Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Reconstituting a Traumatized Community:
The German-Speaking Refugees of the 1930s and their Legacy to Britain
Tuesday 24 June 2008
An afternoon workshop and evening discussion convened by Professor Edward Timms, OBE, FBA, University of Sussex
and organised in partnership with the Centre for German-Jewish Studies, University of Sussex
The British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH
ABOUT THESE EVENTS
NB: Registration is essential for the workshop
Programme
Workshop | |
1.30 | Registration, tea and coffee |
2.00 | Introduction |
2.15 | Presentations
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3.00 | Reconstituting a Traumatized Community A reassessment of the problems of acculturation by Dr Marion Berghahn, author of the recently republished study Continental Britons (followed by a discussion) |
4.00 | Tea |
4.30 | The Impact of Refugee Scientists A paper by Professor Gustav Born FRS, Kings College London, author of The Born Family in Göttingen and Beyond (followed by a discussion) |
5.00 | Doctors and Nurses: Contrasting Responses to the Refugee Crisis of the 1930s A paper by Prof Paul Weindling (Oxford Brookes University) followed by a discussion |
6.00 | Finger buffet for workshop participants |
Evening discussion | |
7.00 | Immigration, Diversity and Integration: Past Experience and Present Trends |