Past Lectures

Past Lectures

CARA's UNIVERSITY SEMINARS

Jeremy Seabrook, the author of CARA's 75th anniversary book, 'The Refuge and the Fortress: Britain and the flight from tyranny', will be speaking at various seminars over the next academic year, in Refugee and Migration University deparments across the UK.

The seminars and lectures are designed to inspire and encourage students to pursue further study around one or more of the following themes: the history of academic refugees and the history of CARA; the varities of persecution academic refugees have faced; the flight of academic refugees and the attitudes of the receiving country; and the role and function of universities in Britain towards academic refugees.

RECENT SEMINARS:

SOAS SEMINAR at the Migration and Diaspora Studies Deparment: 'Refugee Academics in the UK: past, present and future.'

Jeremy's seminar will be availabe on line shortly.

UNIVERSITY of SUSSEX SEMINAR at the Migration Studies Department.

Jeremy's seminar will be availabe on line shortly.

SEMINARS TO TAKE PLACE IN 2010:

January 2010: (date tbc)- Seminar at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford

February 2010: (date tbc) - Lunchtime seminar at the Refugee Studies Deparment, University of East London. Details

March2010: (date tbc) - Lecture at the the Refugee Studies and Human Rights Deparment, City University

If you are interested in CARA organising a seminar at your University, please contact Laura Wintour on wintour.cara@lsbu.ac.uk or 0207 021 0880.

REFUGEE FORUM - May 26th 2009 at the Oxford Union

Hosted by Lord John Krebs, Principal of Jesus College Oxford with guest speakers: Professor Gustav Born, Emeritus Professor of Pharmacology and son of refugee academic and Nobel Prize winner Max Born; Layla, a refugee academic from Libya; and Katie Ghose, Commissioner from the Independent Asylum Commission and Director of the British Institute of Human Rights.

PROFESSOR NIGEL HARRIS- 1st December 2009 6pm, Museum of London

' Refugees, economic migration and the future of the world economy'

To view a video of the lecture or download the audio file, please click here.

DR RALPH KOHN LECTURE - 3rd November 2009 6pm, Imperial College London

'Nazi Persecution - Britain's Gift'

Introduced by the Rector of Imperial College, Sir Roy Anderson FRS.

A presentation about the persecution of scientists in Nazi Germany during the 1930s and the 'unique and dedicated work of extraordinary British subjects' to help persecuted academics find a safe haven for their work and life in the UK.

To download a copy of the Royal Society publication, "Nazi Persecution - Britain's Gift", please click here.

Please RSVP to development.cara@lsbu.ac.uk

RT HON. DAVID LAMMY IN CONVERSATION WITH PERSECUTED ACADEMICS
- 27th April 2009

"I was dismissed from the university and had to flee for my life"

Held in conjunction with The Council for Assisting Refugee Academics
(CARA) and The Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS)

DR RALPH KOHN LECTURE - 3rd December 2008, at The Royal Society

'Nazi Persecution - Britain's Gift'

If you would like to listen again or see a lecture transcript, please click here

NIGEL HARRIS LECTURE- 26th June 2008, The Royal Society

'Refugees, economic migration and the future of the world economy'

ALBIE SACHS LECTURE - 23rd January 2008, UCL

'Why I was not despised and rejected: Justice Sachs on his life in Britain.'

If you would like to listen again or see a lecture transcript, please click here