Dr. Swen Steinberg
Wednesday, 13 September 2017
13.00 Registration
13.45 Welcome (Catherine Davies, IMLR) / Anthony Grenville (RCGAES)
Panel 1: India
14.00 Atina Grossmann (New York): Trauma, privilege, and adventure: Jewish refugees in Iran and India
14.30 Margit Franz (Graz): Exile studies going colonial. A case study on exile to British India
15.00 Jyoti Sabharwal (New Delhi): Memories of life and cultural production in exile: colonial India in the autobiography, essays and film scripts of Willy Haas
15.30 Discussion
16.00 Tea
Panel 2: British Ceylon / British West Indies (Chair: Jennifer Taylor)
16.30 Sebastian Musch (Marbach): The German-Buddhist emigration to British Ceylon and its bifurcation
17.00 Joanna Newman (London): ‘People at Sea’: refugee journeys to the British West Indies
17.30 Discussion
17.45 Book Launch: Yearbook of the Research Centre for German & Austrian Exile Studies, vols. 17 and 18
Thursday, 14 September 2017
Panel 3: Canada (Chair: Jana Buresova)
9.00 Patrick Farges (Paris): Transnational ‘Yekkishkeit’? A Canadian perspective
9.30 Andrea Strutz (Graz): Escape, internment and deportation: experiences of German-Jewish refugees in Canada and subsequent life stories
10.00 Discussion
10.15 Coffee
Panel 4: New Zealand (Chair: Helga Schreckenberger)
10.45 Monica Tempian (Wellington): Passages to the antipodes: flight, resettlement and integration of child refugees in New Zealand
11.15 Paul Weindling (Oxford): Medical refugees in New Zealand: a restricted refuge
11.45 Gerrit-Jan Berendse (Cardiff): The gravity of the ‘Old World’: Karl Wolfskehl’s poetic endeavours in New Zealand
12.15 Discussion
12.45 Lunch (own arrangements)
Panel 5: Australia (Chair: Swen Steinberg)
14.00 Helga Schreckenberger (Birmingham/VT): Exiles or POWs? German and Austrian refugees at the Australian internment camp Hay
14.30 Philipp Strobl (Melbourne): Fin de siècle in Down Under – Australian art scholarship in Australia and the life of Gertrude Langer
15.00 Veronika Zwerger / Ursula Seeber (Vienna): Strauss to Matilda. Österreichisches Exil in Australien. Kultureller und künstlerischer Transfer
15.30 Discussion
16.00 Tea
Panel 6: Singapore and Shanghai (Chair: Margit Franz)
16.30 Albrecht Dümling (Berlin): City organist, teacher and entertainer: the multi-talented Werner Baer (1939- 1940) in Singapore
17.00 Brigitte Mayr / Michael Omasta (Vienna): Kinder der Welt: zwei Wiener Filmpioniere in Shanghai
17.30 Discussion
19.00 Reception/Evening Programme (Chair: Anthony Grenville) at the Wiener Library, 29 Russell Square, WC1B 5DP
Testimonies of Exile in British Territories Overseas and of World Jewish Relief
Lilian Kauders (Vienna) / Peter Fraenkel (London) / Lilian Levy (London)
Friday, 15 September 2017
Panel 7: Palestine (Chair: Atina Grossmann)
9.00 Irene Messinger (Vienna): Marrying for a visa to Palestine
9.30 Rony Alfandary (Ramat Gan): Sons of Holocaust survivors, fathers of immigrants
10.00 Discussion
10.30 Coffee
Panel 8: Africa (Chair: Richard Dove)
10.45 Shirli Gilbert (Southampton): German-Jewish refugees and racism in South Africa
11.15 Sarah Schwab (Constance): ‘No single loyalty’ – processes of identification among German-Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany in South Africa until the 1960s
11.45 Jutta Vinzent (Birmingham): Shifting identities and questioning entangled histories. The case of Valentin G. Braun-Dusemond
12.15 Discussion
12.45 Lunch (own arrangements)
Africa II (Chair: Marian Malet)
14.00 Frank Shapiro (Ramat Gan): Settling Jewish refugees in Northern Rhodesia
14.30 Nadav Heidecker (Haifa): From Central Europe to the Indian Ocean: the exile of Jews in Mauritius, 1940-1945
15.00 Discussion
15.15 Closing remarks
15.30 Tea / Conference ends