GERMAN HISTORICAL INSTITUTE LONDON
THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH LONDON
THE UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON
European Immigrants in Britain (1933-1950)
7 - 8 December 2000
The Conference will be held in the Seminar Room of the German
Historical Institute, 17 Bloomsbury Square, London WC1A 2NJ
To register, please call (by 30 November):
Inge Weber-Newth (University of North London)
Tel: 020-7753 5108 e-mail: [log in to unmask]
Johannes-Dieter Steinert (University of Wolverhampton)
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
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Programme
Thursday, 7 December 2000
10.00 Welcome
Introduction
Chair: Hagen Schulze
10.15 Keynote address
(Albert Friedlander/London)
11.00 Coffee
11.30 Immigration and Immigration Policy: Britain in the 19th and
20th Centuries
(Andreas Fahrmeir/London)
12.30 Lunch break
Session I: Refugees from Nazi-Germany
Chair: Panikos Panayi
14.00 German Policy of Exclusion, Persecution and Expulsion
(Wolfgang Benz/Berlin)
15.00 British Policy and Refugees from Nazism
(Louise London/London)
16.00 Tea
16.30 Perception and Reaction: Jewish Refugees in Britain
(Marion Berghahn/New York)
17.30 British Politics of Re-Migration
(Lothar Kettenacker/London)
19.00 Reception
Friday, 8 December
Session II: The Impact of War
Chair: Eva Kolinsky
9.30 Displaced Persons in Europe: Repatriation and Emigration
(Wolfgang Jacobmeyer/Münster)
10.30 Coffee
11.00 “Westward Ho”: European Volunteer Workers in Britain
(Diana Kay/The Hague)
12.00 The Polish Resettlement
(Peter Stachura/Stirling)
13.00 Lunch break
Chair: Mary Hickman
14.30 Italians in War and Post-War Britain
(Lucio Sponza/London)
15.30 Germans in Post-War Britain
(Inge Weber-Newth/London & Johannes-Dieter
Steinert/Wolverhampton)
16.30 Tea
17.00 Résumé
(Colin Holmes/Sunderland)
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