> 7th Limerick Conference in Irish-German Studies
>
> German-speaking Exiles in Ireland 1933-1945
> International Colloquium 10-12. June 2004
> Centre for Irish-German Studies, University of Limerick
> Organiser: Dr. Gisela Holfter, Head of German, Senior Lecturer
>
> Programme
> Thursday 10. June 2004
> 2-3pm Registration
> Plassey House, University of Limerick
>
> 3.15pm Official opening Prof Noel Whelan, Vice President External Affairs
>
> 3.30-4.45pm Prof Wolfgang Benz, Berlin Keynote address
>
> 4.45-5.15pm Tea & coffee
>
> 5.15-6.30pm
> Raphael Siev, Jewish Museum (Dublin) Admission of Refugees to Ireland
> Dr Wolfgang Muchitsch (Graz) Austrian Refugees in Ireland 1933-1945
>
> 6.30pm Wine Reception sponsored by German Embassy
>
> 7pm Conference Dinner Plassey House
>
> 8.30pm Irish Music Mícheál Ó' Súilleabháin & BA Traditional Irish Music
> (in conjunction with "Nursing & Midwifery in the Holocaust" conference)
> Castletroy Park Hotel
>
>
> Friday 11. June 2004
> 9.15-10.30am Prof Dermot Keogh (Cork) Keynote address
>
> 10.30-11am Tea & coffee
>
> 11-12.45pm
> Dr Colin Walker (Belfast) Robert Weil
> Dr Gisela Holfter (Limerick) Dr Ernst Scheyer
> Dr Horst Dickel (Wiesbaden) & John Cooke (London) Dr Hans Sachs
>
> 1-2.15pm Lunch
>
> 2.15-4pm Personal Reflections
> Eva Gross (Belfast)
> Ruth Braunizer (Alpbach)
> Monica Schefold (Bremen)
>
> 4-4.30pm Tea & coffee
>
> 4.30-5.45pm
> Birte Schulz (Limerick) Questions of Identity
> Siobhán O' Connor (Limerick) "The Obliviousness of the Fortunate"- Policy
> and Public Opinion towards the Refugees 1933-1945
>
> 6.30pm Buffet Dinner & Music, Stables Courtyard
>
> 8.30pm Film
> No More Blooms,
> Producer Louis Lentin, Ireland 1997
> CSIS Building, CSG01
>
>
> Saturday 12 June 2004, Location - Dromroe village
> 9.30-10.45am
> Heidi Tomitz (Limerick) The Strunz Family
> Dr Hermann Rasche (Galway) Dr Ludwig Bieler
>
> 10.45-11.15am Tea & coffee
>
> 11.15-12.30pm Roundtable discussion
> Dr Deborah Vietor-Engländer (Darmstadt/London);
> Prof Anthony McElligott (Limerick);
> Dr Pól Ó Dochartaigh (Coleraine);
> Prof Hamish Ritchie (Sheffield/London)
>
> End of conference
>
> Keynote Speakers:
>
> Professor Wolfgang Benz is President of the German Society for Exile
> Research and Director of the Centre for Anti-Semitism Research. Among his
> numerous seminal publications are: Flucht aus Deutschland - Zum Exil im
> 20. Jahrhundert, München: dtv 2001, Das Exil der kleinen Leute.
> Alltagserfahrung deutscher Juden in der Emigration, München: C.H. Beck
> 1998; (with Marion Neiss): Die Erfahrung des Exils. Exemplarische
> Reflexionen, Berlin: Metropol 1997.
>
> Professor Dermot Keogh, Head of the History Department University College
> Cork is one of the foremost historians of Ireland. His extensive
> publications include: Ireland and Europe 1919-1989, Cork & Dublin:
> Hibernian University Press 1989; Twentieth Century Ireland, Dublin: Gill &
> Macmillan 1994; Jews in Twentieth-Century Ireland: Refugees, Anti-Semitism
> and the Holocaust, Cork: Cork University Press 1998; Ireland: a Journal of
> History and Society (1995).
>
> To avail of reduced conference fee return your booking form by 21st May,
> 2004
> For further information and booking form please go to
> http://www.ul.ie/~lcs/irish-german.html or contact:
> Siobhan O'Connor, Conference Secretary: [log in to unmask]; fax:
> 061/202556
>
> The Centre for Irish-German Studies gratefully acknowledges the support of
> the Austrian Embassy, German Embassy, Goethe-Institut, College of
> Humanities, Irish Research Council for Humanities and Social Sciences,
> University of Limerick Research Funding, Failte Ireland, Rodopi, Beyond
> the Pale Publications, Cork University Press/Attic Press and all those
> individuals who assisted along the way with queries, advice and
> reassurances
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