Refugee Archives: Theory and Practice
Programme
An International Conference to launch the Online Database of British
Archival Resources Relating to German-speaking Refugees, 1933-1950 (BARGE)
at the University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
Gallery Rooms 1 & 2, Bramber House
11-13 April 2007
Organised by Edward Timms, Andrea Hammel,
Samira Teuteberg and Sharon Krummel
Wednesday 11 April 2007
1:30 pm Conference registration
2:00 pm
Edward Timms (University of Sussex), Welcome
Hamish Ritchie (University of London), Introduction
John Spalek (University of New York, Albany), The Exile Collections in
Albany in the Context of Émigré Archives in the US
3:30 pm Tea
4:00 pm
Duncan Forbes (National Galleries of Scotland), The Politics of the
Archive: The Photography of Edith Tudor-Hart
Christian Cargnelli (University of Southampton), "In the depths of my heart
I am longing to go back to the States": Film exiles in Britain, Paul Kohner
and the Sammlung Paul Kohner Agency
Jutta Vinzent (University of Birmingham), Digitised Exile Newspapers in
Support of Researching Visual Material: Images in Die Zeitung
5:30 pm End
6:00 pm Launch of BARGE Database. Presentation by Samira Teuteberg
(University of Sussex) Reception with Buffet in Gallery Room 2
Thursday 12 April 2007:
9:30 am
Charmian Brinson (Imperial College, London), The Archives of the Anglo-
Austrian Society and Anglo-Austrian Music Society
Paul Weindling (Oxford Brookes University), Problems of Documenting Medical
Refugees: Public, Private and Practice Records
Susan Cohen (University of Southampton), Now You See Them, Now You Don't:
the Papers of the Refugee Committee of the British Federation of University
Women
11:00 am Coffee
11:30 am
Sylvia Asmus (Deutsche Nationalbibliothek), The Deutsches Exilarchiv
1933-1945 and the Collection of Exile Literature 1933-1945 of the Deutsche
Nationalbibliothek
Ursula Seeber (Osterreichische Exilbibliothek), ‘Von Thoor zu Wolf’.
Documents relating to Exile in Britain in the österreichische Exilbibliothek
1:00 pm Lunch
2:00 pm
Bernd Koschland (London), Tylers Green Papers - The Unique Archives of a
Wartime Refugee Hostel
Anna Nyburg (Imperial College, London),"Dein grosser Brief war ein
Ereignis": The Private Correspondence of the Refugee Art Historians Hilde
and Otto Kurz
Boaz Cohen (Bar Ilan University, Israel), Children in the Archive: Archival
Collections of Children’s Post-War Testimonies and their Return to History
3:30 pm Tea
4:00 pm
James McKay (University of Birmingham), DANGO: Database of Archives of UK
Non-Governmental Organisations since 1945
Andrea Hammel (University of Sussex), BARGE in Context: Refugee Archives
and British History
5:00 pm End
Friday, 13 April 2007:
9:30 am
Howard Falksohn (The Wiener Library, London), The Wiener Library: A
Repository of Schicksale
Gisela Holfter, Birte Schulz and Siobhan O'Connor (University of Limerick),
Resources Relating to German-speaking Refugees in Ireland, 1933-1945: Some
Initial Thoughts and Results
10:30 am Coffee
11:00 am
Iris Guske (School of Translation and Interpreting Studies, Kempten,
Germany), Contextual Contingencies of Life History Research: The Case
against Widely Accessible Archival Records of Multivariate Source Material
Bea Lewkowicz (Refugee Voices Archive, London), ‘Refugee Voices’: The
Making of an Oral History Archive
Zibiah Alfred (University of Essex), Impacts of the “Refugee Communities
History Project” (RCHP) on Community Life
1:00 pm Lunch
2: 00pm Conference End
Conference Fee: £65 or £35 for students and Friends of the Centre
A registration form is available
<http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Units/cgjs/barg/programme.html>. Please return it
by 16 March 2007.
For further details, please contact Sharon Krummel
BARGE Conference
Centre for German-Jewish Studies
Arts B121
University of Sussex Brighton
BN1 9QN
Tel ++44(0) 1273 877109
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Dr Andrea Hammel
AHRC Research Fellow and Project Coordinator
Tutorial Fellow in German and Cultural Studies
Centre for German-Jewish Studies
Arts B120
University of Sussex
Brighton BN1 9QN
Tel ++44(0) 1273 877178
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