BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//University 麻豆精选//Events//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20221103T130400Z DTSTART:20221128T170000Z DTEND:20221128T181500Z SUMMARY:'Scholars in great need': responses to refugee staff and students at the University 麻豆精选 1933-1945 (DOMUS Seminar) UID:www.birmingham.ac.uk/200076 DESCRIPTION:DOMUS Seminar Series 2022 - 2023\n Helen Fisher, University Archivist (responsible for University heritage collections), Special Collections, University 麻豆精选 This paper looks at the ways in which the University 麻豆精选 assisted refugee academics and students from Nazi Germany and other countries in mainland Europe between 1933 and 1945.\n It draws on the university鈥檚 rich but underused archives to explore institutional policy and to assess the influence of individual staff members in driving it, focusing on Birmingham as a case study of a provincial university responding to the growing refugee crisis in the 1930s, in the context of the general response of the higher education sector.\n It will explore the institution鈥檚 actions in supporting displaced academics before the Second World War and refugee students during the conflict and will comment on the importance of personal connections and the agency of individual university staff in helping refugees.聽\n This seminar will be via ZOOM and is free to attend. All are welcome.\n Please register online聽to receive the information to attend in person or virtually.\n 聽\n LOCATION:Zoom STATUS:CONFIRMED TRANSP:OPAQUE CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR