Lectures, talks and symposia archive

Face to Face: Otto Deutsch

Face to Face: Otto Deutsch

26 January 2012, 7.00pm | Austrian Cultural Forum London
In this special evening, organised on the occasion of the UK Holocaust Memorial Day, Anthony Grenville, who edits the Association of Jewish Refugees (AJR) Journal, will be joined by Otto Deutsch to discuss Jewish life ...
Beyond camps and forced labour: current international research on survivors of Nazi persecution.

Beyond camps and forced labour: current international research on survivors of Nazi persecution. . Fourth international multidisciplinary conference

4 – 6 January 2012 | Imperial War Museum
The conference brings together more than 100 speakers from all over the world from a variety of disciplines including several prominent academics from Austria. It is jointly organised by Suzanne Bardgett (Imperial War Museum), Johannes-Dieter ...

Book presentation Anglo-Ethiopian Society. (Work and Life at the Court of Haile Selassie I. Lore Trenkler: Memoirs 1960-1975)

7 December 2011 | SOAS
Lore Trenkler (* Berlin 1914 + Vienna 2002), an Austrian, had since 1956 been a dietician in the German spa of Bad Nauheim when she learned in 1960 that Emperor Haile Selassie I. of Ethiopia was looking ...
Michael Haneke’s Adaptation Who Was Edgar Allan? (Wer war Edgar Allan?)

Michael Haneke’s Adaptation Who Was Edgar Allan? (Wer war Edgar Allan?)

22 November 2011 | Austrian Cultural Forum London
Seminar 3pmFilm screening 7pm Who Was Edgar Allen?, produced in 1985, is a television adaptation of Peter Rosei's post-modern thriller of the same name in which a student travels to Venice to study ...
From the Euphrates to the Thames and the Mur

From the Euphrates to the Thames and the Mur

10 – 11 November 2011 | Austrian Cultural Forum London
This two-day conference celebrates the 200th anniversary of the founding of the Joanneum Museum in Graz by Archduke John of Austria (1782–1859). Thanks to Graz Orientalist and translator Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall (1774-1856) the ...
Österreich Tag

Österreich Tag

22 October 2011 | Austrian Cultural Forum London
This annual day on Austria presents topical information for German language teachers and others interested in Austrian life and culture. The event is free to members of the Association for Language Learning (ALL) and guests ...

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