Book your place here for the symposium at St. John's Waterloo, Wednesday, September 9, 2026 The symposium is initiated and organised by Monica Bohm-Duchen, founding director of Insiders/Outsiders, an ongoing celebration of the contribution made by refugees from Nazi Europe to British culture, in partnership with St John’s Waterloo. Restored after being bombed during WWII, it became the official church for the Festival of Britain and home to two major paintings by German-Jewish émigré artist...

A newly released animation tells the stories of migrant musicians from Nazi-Europe, demonstrating how composers forced into exile went on to reshape Britain’s musical life, based on research of the MMM project. The video celebrates the continuing impact of the four-year research project Music, Migration and Mobility: The Legacy of Migrant Musicians from Nazi-Europe in Britain (2019-2023). It brings together archival research from the UK, Germany, Austria and the Isle of Man to tell the...

The Research of the Music, Migration and Mobility project helped to inform UK for UNHCR’s winter campaign Hope on Repeat , which focused on the importance of music for refugees and intercultural understanding. Former MMM Principal Investigator Norbert Meyn advised the campaign team on the connection between music and migration, using examples from the project’s historical and interdisciplinary research. On December 2, 2025, a group of refugee storytellers and team representatives visited the...