Conference: European political refugees in the UK from 1800 at the British Library

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Conference: European political refugees in the UK from 1800 at the British Library – How bitter the savour is of other’s bread?

  • 15 Nov 2024 — 15 Nov 2024
  • 10:00AM

Join us for a day of discovery and insight into the rich and surprising stories of European exiles in Britain at the British Library! This conference is organised by the European collections section of the British Library in partnership with European Union National Institutes of Culture (EUNIC) London.

The international academics, scholars, and curators will explore how European diaspora communities have woven themselves into the fabric of British society, fostering intercultural exchange and contributing to the shaping of modern Britain.

The conference will be accompanied by the exhibition ‘MUSIC, MIGRATION & MOBILITY. The Story of Émigré Musicians from Nazi Europe in Britain’ and by events run by the conference partners.

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Programme

10:00 Welcome
10:05 Session 1: Artists

Moderator: Olga Topol, British Library

"Leaving Home" – Franciszka Themerson and Her Artistic Community in the UK, Jasia Reichardt, Art Critic and Curator

Austrian Musicians and Writers in Exile in the 1930s and 1940s, Oliver Rathkolb, University of Vienna

On the Rock of Exiles: Victor Hugo in the Channel Islands, Bradley Stephens, University of Bristol

Music, Migration & Mobility, The Story of Émigré Musicians from Nazi Europe in Britain, Norbert Meyn, Royal College of Music, London

12:00 The stone that spoke screening

Introduction by Gail Borrow, ExploreTheArch arts facilitated by EUNIC London;

12:15 Lunch

13:00 Session 2: Governments in Exile
Moderator: Valentina Mirabella, British Library

London Exile of the Yugoslav Government during the Second World War and its Internal Problems, Milan Sovilj, Institute of History of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague

The Spanish Republican Exile in Great Britain: General Characteristics and the case of Roberto Gerhard, Mari Paz Balibrea, Birkbeck, University of London

Fascism and anti-fascism in London's 'Little Italy' and Giacomo Matteotti's secret visit to London in 1924, Alfio Bernabei, Historian and Author

14:30 Break

14:45 Session 3: Building Communities

Moderator: Katya Rogatchevskaia, British Library

Tefcros Anthias: poet, writer, activist, and public intellectual in Cyprus and the Cypriot Community in London, Floya Anthias, University of Roehampton, London

The Journeys in Stories: Jewish emigration from Lithuania via United Kingdom, Dovile Cypaite-Gile, Vilna Gaon, Museum of Jewish History, Vilnius University

Political migration from Hungary, 1918-1956, Thomas Lorman, UCL's School of Slavonic and East European Studies, London

16:15 Break

16:30 – 17:00 Session 4: Writing Diaspora

Moderator: Anthony Chapman-Joy, Royal Holloway, University of London/British Library

Newspapers published by 19th-century German political exiles in England, Susan Reed, British Library Clandestine WWII pamphlets, Marja Kingma, British Library

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