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Dear all, the Institute for German Studies (IGS Birmingham) would like to invite you to a seminar by Dr Emily Oliver (King’s College London) on “Fagin in Berlin Provokes a Riot”: Anti-Semitism on Film in Occupied Germany In February 1949, Berliners in the British Sector of the city clashed repeatedly with the police outside a cinema screening David Lean’s adaptation of Oliver Twist. Although the film was eventually withdrawn under claims that its portrayal of Fagin was anti-Semitic, the incident raises questions about Jewish life in occupied Germany, as well as about British film policy at the time. This seminar examines the extent to which Lean’s film could be regarded as anti-Semitic, and how this apparent blunder in British policy came about. Drawing on contemporary newspaper reports and Foreign Office records, it investigates relations between Germans, Jews, and Allies during the late 1940s – a time when perceptions of Germans as enemies, Jews as victims, and Brits as liberators were undergoing important shifts. This is a Modern Languages/IGS joint seminar. WHEN? Wednesday, 9th March 2016, 5.15 p.m. WHERE? University of Birmingham, Strathcona Building, Room LT2 All welcome! Best wishes, Maren ________________________________ Maren Rohe Doctoral Researcher & Project Assistant Institute for German Studies Department of Political Science and International Studies Muirhead Tower University of Birmingham Edgbaston B15 2TT http://bit.ly/1N3SvNH