On Friday November 15, 2024, the RCM’s recent ‘Music, Migration and Mobility’ (MMM) project will be represented at the international conference ‘European Political Refugees in Britain from 1800’, organised by the European Union National Institutes of Culture (EUNIC) and the British Library. During the conference, the library will show the MMM project’s mobile exhibition about the legacy of migrant musicians from Nazi Europe in Britain, with former team members Alison Garnham and Norbert Meyn on site to answer questions. The conference will explore how European diaspora communities have woven themselves into the fabric of British society, fostering intercultural exchange and contributing to the shaping of modern Britain. MMM Principal Investigator Norbert Meyn will contribute a paper, highlighting how studying migration history and celebrating fluid, transnational identities and cultural hybridity in the arts can help to bring different nations and communities closer together and overcome the influence of historical and contemporary xenophobia and protectionism. The conference will include four sessions: Artists, Governments in Exile, Building Communities and Writing Diaspora.
Why not join us? Please book your free place here:
The Music, Migration and Mobility exhibition at Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Cologne in December 2023, Foto: N. Meyn
Image of British Library at the top: Christine Matthews/British Library, London WC1
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