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>Reminder >Places are still available. Please register by 5 September (details below). > >CONFERENCE >Exile in and from Czechoslovakia >during the 1930s and 1940s > > >Wednesday, 17 September - Friday, 19 September 2008 >Venue <../../contact/findus.html> : >Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, University of London >Stewart House/Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU >Organized by the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies >More about the Centre: http://igrs.sas.ac.uk/research_centres/exilestudies/index.html >PROGRAMME >Wednesday, 17 September 2008 >Room ST 274/275 13.30 >13.30 Registration >14.00 Welcome and Introduction >14.30 Bill Williams (Manchester): Czech Refugees in Manchester, 1938-1945 >15.00 Sylva Simsova (London): Who were the Pre-Second World War Refugees from Czechoslovakia? >15.30 Discussion >15.45 Tea >16.15 Martin D. Brown (London): Is 'Transfer' merely a Euphemism for 'Ethnic Cleansing'? From the Munich to the Potsdam Agreements: The Origins of a Concept and the Evolution of a Debate >16.45 Alice Teichova/Mikuláš Teich (Cambridge): Between the Little and the Big World: A Life Together in the Twentieth Century >17.15 Discussion >Evening Programme >19.15 Reception at the Czech Embassy >Thursday, 18 September 2008 >Room ST 274 - Parallel Session A >9.45 Ursula Adam (Berlin): Feder - Zeichenstift - Fotomontage: Satire und Karikatur im Prager Exil >10.15 Anna Jani>štinova (Prague): Deutsche K>ünstler im Prager Exil, 1930-1940 >10.45 Discussion >11.00 Coffee >11.30 Susan Reynolds (London): 'Briefe und Telegramme aus Prag, welche wahre Notschreie darstellen ...': Thomas Mann's Efforts on Behalf of Refugees in Prague >12.00 Magali Nieradka (Nice): 'Aber Landsmann! Gibt es soviel menschliche Solidarität?': Die tschechische Einbürgerung der Familie Mann durch die Gemeinde Prosec >12.30 Discussion >12.45 Lunch (own arrangements) >14.00 Jens Brüning (Berlin): Hans Jaeger in Prag >14.30 Jana Buresova (London): The Czech Refugee Trust Fund in Britain, 1939-1950 >15.00 Discussion >15.15 Tea >15.45 Susan Cohen (Southampton): Eleanor Rathbone and the British Response to the Czech Plight of 1938 >16.15 Marcela Po>žárek (Limerick): Der gro>ße Unbekannte: Eduard Goldstückers kompliziertes Schicksal und seine englischen Jahre >16.45 Ingrid Hudabiunigg (Chemnitz): Eduard Goldstücker's Twofold Emigration and Remigration from and to Prague >17.15 Discussion >Evening Programme >19.15 Panel Discussion with 'Zeitzeugen' >Thursday, 18 September 2008 >Room ST 275 - Parallel Session B >10.15 Andrea Hammel (Sussex): 'Why is your Czech so bad?': Czech Child Refugees, Language and Identity >10.45 Discussion >11.00 Coffee >11.30 Jutta Raab-Hansen (London): Czech Musicians in British Exile >12.00 Katharina Wessely (Brno): Emigranten und Emigrantinnen im Brünner Kulturleben >12.30 Discussion >12.45 Lunch (own arrangements) >14.00 Christoph Haacker (Wuppertal): 'Die Engländer, die alles so gut eingerichtet haben': Stimmen deutsch-tschechischslowakischer Exilautoren über Großbritannien >14.30 Wilfried Weinke (Hamburg): 'Dieser rothaarige, immer erregte und Erregung hervorrufende Mann': Justin Steinfeld und Die Wahrheit >15.00 Discussion >15.15 Tea >15.45 Devana Pavlik (London): Czechoslovak Publications issued in Britain during World War II >16.15 Ursula Seeber (Vienna): Rudolf Fuchs und sein 'Deutscher Almanach aus der Tschechoslowakei' >16.45 Jennifer Taylor (London): Publication Prospects for German-Bohemian Writers in London >17.15 Discussion >Evening Programme >19.15 Panel Discussion with 'Zeitzeugen' >Friday, 19 September 2008 >Room ST 274/275 >9.45 Milan Hauner (Wisconsin): The Beginnings of the Czechoslovak Exile Government in 1939/40 >10.15 David Kraft (Prague): The Relationship between the Free Austrian Movement in Great Britain and the Czechoslovak Government in Exile> >10.45 Discussion >11.00 Coffee >11.30 Jan Lánicek (Southampton): Czechoslovak Jewish Political Exile in the UK during World War II >12.00 Martina Halamova (Budweis): Activities of the Czech Writer Viktor Fischl during World War II in English Exile >12.30 Discussion >12.45 Lunch (own arrangements) >14.00 Paul Weindling (Oxford): Czechoslovak Medical Refugees in the UK, 1938-1945 >14.30 Deborah Vietor-Engländer (Mainz): Lactobacillus, Fluoride Toothpaste, Blueberries and Birchermuesli: A Circle of Friends from Czechoslovakia in London from 1938 >15.00 Discussion >15.15 Tea >15.45 Jörg Thunecke (Cologne): 'Quamvis sub aqua maledicere temptant'? Johannes Urzidils Stellung zur Frage der Deutschen in der Tschechoslowakei von 1940 bis in die Nachkriegszeit: Eine Stimme im 'grossen Froschteich der Emigration' >16.15 Irene Bruegel (London): Turn Around Again: The Return of Exiles to Czechoslovakia in the Post-War Period. Motives and Experiences >16.45 Concluding Discussion >Further Information/Registration >To obtain further information and register for the conference, contact Jane Lewin <mailto:[log in to unmask]> (tel: 020 7862 8966). Please note the closing date for receipt of registrations is Friday, 5 September 2008. >Conference Fees >All three days >£50.00 Standard Rate >£45.00 Reduced Rate >£30.00 Student Rate >One day only >£30.00 Standard Rate >£25.00 Reduced Rate >£20.00 Student Rate >Note: >The Reduced Rate applies on to fully paid-up Friends of Germanic Studies at the IGRS and paying members of the IGRS >The Student Rate applies on production of a photocopy of a current university of student identity card > >INSTITUTE OF GERMANIC & ROMANCE STUDIES >University of London School of Advanced Study >Room ST272, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU >Telephone: +44 (0)20-7862 8966 Fax: +44 (0)20-7862 8672 >Email: jane.lewin @sas.ac.uk Website: http://igrs.sas.ac.uk > >