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SUMMARY:Cambridge: City of Scholars\, City of Refuge (1933-1945) - See web
 site for full listing
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DESCRIPTION:The British rescue of scholars and scientists from Fascist Eur
 ope in the 1930s and 1940s rightly belongs among the most inspiring chapte
 rs in modern academic history. In these years\, the catastrophe of the mid
 -twentieth century crystallised a sense of international academic solidari
 ty and rejuvenated an ideal of the university as a sanctuary for the free 
 pursuit of learning. Thousands of scholars and their family members fled r
 egimes bent on their murder and on the destruction of those ideals. In tur
 n\, these refugees went on to enrich British life and society in countless
  ways.\n\nBut much is lost in both the popular mythology of the period and
  in extant scholarship about it: for all who made it to safety\, there wer
 e many more who did not\, and the survival of thousands depended upon the 
 tireless work of a small number of dedicated individuals. Largely ignored\
 , too\, are the ways the history of refugee scholarship is embedded in loc
 al communities and households\, and how the nation-wide effort to rescue p
 ersecuted academics was largely conceived in and run from Cambridge.\n\nTh
 is conference is the first attempt to begin to reconstruct the story of th
 e way Cambridge -- university\, colleges\, and town -- became a sanctuary 
 for persecuted academics from Fascist Europe in the years 1933-1945. Paper
 s will range widely across the arts\, humanities\, social and natural scie
 nces\, both focusing on well-known refugee academics and also drawing atte
 ntion to the experience of those marginalised or neglected: students\, wom
 en\, and scholars who never found their way here professionally. We will a
 lso look at the individuals\, institutions and households that enabled esc
 ape and rescue\, as well as at the evacuation from Nazi Germany to Cambrid
 ge of material resources of scholarly value.\n\nConfirmed speakers include
 : Nicolas Bell\, Monica Bohm-Duchen\, Amanda Hopkinson\, William Horbury\,
  Marion Kant\, John Krebs\, Mike Levy\, Samuel Llano\, Rosamond McKitteric
 k\, Katarina Mihaljević\, Daniel Snowman\,  Annette Vogt and Stephen Word
 sworth.
LOCATION:Winstanley Lecture Theatre\, Trinity College
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