Past Events

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Wednesday Sept 27, 2023, MUSIC, MIGRATION and MOBILITY - Concert, RCM Performance Hall, with pre-concert talk by members of the research team.

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Study Day, Music, Mobility and Migration: exhibiting the life and movement of migrant musicians. Royal College of Music, 27th January 2023.

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We invited academic researchers and practitioners to attend a workshop ‘study day’ on the theme of Music, Mobility and Migration: exhibiting the life and movement of migrant musicians. The workshop took place in person at the Royal College of Music on January 27th 2023.

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12th-14th September 2022 - Music, Migration and Mobility: An Interdisciplinary International Conference - Online, hosted by the Royal College of Music

This conference discussed music as a mobile phenomenon and reflected critically on methodological approaches and theoretical framings of music, especially the music of migrants. It featured 25 speakers from all over Europe, the United States, Asia and Australia who explored music and musical history through the lens of mobility, as opposed to static, rigid categories of national or geographical belonging.

 

Sunday June 13, 2021at 6pm - 'Music and the Émigré Photographers: Companions in Creativity'

Norbert Meyn chairs an online event in collaboration with the Insiders Outsiders Festival.

 

January 29 2020, 4.15pm - Belonging and Not Belonging

Sir John Manduell Research Forum Series, Forman Lecture Theatre, Royal Northern College of Music Research Forum and Performance with Monica Bohm-Duchen, Eva Fox-Gal, Norbert Meyn and  David Fligg, including performances of songs by Peter Gellhorn and Karl Rankl. This event will focus on how to celebrate the work of artists who came to Britain as refugees from Nazi Europe, based on the experience of the 'Insiders-Outsiders Festival' and the 'Singing a Song in a Foreign Land' project at the Royal College of Music. Free, no tickets required. Click here for more information.

 

Wednesday December 9 2020, 6.30pm - Live Stream Concert, Ensemble ÉMIGRÉ supported by the Austrian Cultural Forum, London

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Thursday December 3 2020 - Inaugural Symposium 'Music, Migration and Mobility - The Legacy of Migrant Musicians from Nazi Europe in Britain' Papers can be viewed below until 31st January, 2021

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