Reconstituting a Traumatized Community Workshop

Reconstituting a Traumatized Community

The German-Speaking Refugees of the 1930s and their Legacy to Britain

A Workshop and Public Discussion at the British Academy

10 Carlton House Terrace. London SW 1

on Tuesday 24th June 2008

This event marks the completion of the project to create a database of ‘British Archival Resources Relating to German-Speaking Refugees, 1933-1950’ (BARGE), undertaken by researchers at the University of Sussex Centre for German-Jewish Studies and funded by Arts and Humanities Research Council. The aim of the Workshop is to promote further discussion and research about processes of acculturation and the contribution of the refugees to all aspects of public life. The evening Public Discussion will consider whether the study of past experiences of immigration and integration may shed light on the very topical issues of cultural diversity and social cohesion in multi-ethnic Britain.

Programme: The German-Speaking Refugees of the 1930s and their Legacy

13.30: welcoming tea, coffee and soft drinks

14.00: Introduction: Professor Edward Timms OBE, FBA (University of Sussex, Principal Investigator for the BARGE project)

14.15: Presentations:

‘Refugee Archives: Theory and Practice’, presented by Dr Andrea Hammel (Sussex)

The BARGE database: online presentation by Ms Samira Teuteberg (Sussex)

15.00: ‘Reconstituting a Traumatized Community’: a reassessment of the problems of acculturation by Dr Marion Berghahn, author of the recently republished sudy Continental Britons (followed by a discussion)

16.00: Tea

16.30: ‘The Impact of Refugee Scientists’: a paper by Professor Gustav Born FRS, author of The Born Family in Göttingen and Beyond (followed by a discussion)

17.00: ‘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

18.00: Finger buffet for workshop participants

19.00: Immigration, Diversity and Integration: Past Experience and Present Trends Public Discussion, chaired by Professor Christian Wiese (Director of the Centre for German-Jewish Studies), with a panel of invited speakers, including Prof. Tony Kushner (University of Southampton) and Prof Stephen Castles (University of Oxford), followed by a Drinks Reception

The Workshop and the Discussion are organized by the University of Sussex Centre for German-Jewish Studies in collaboration with the British Academy.

For further details and to register for the afternoon workshop, please contact the British Academy (http://www.britac.ac.uk/events/2008/barge/index.html or 0207 969 5238).

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