Events not hosted by LBI London, but which may be of interest.
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A world premiere from writer and director Julia Pascal (Blueprint Medea; Crossing Jerusalem) that blends satire, physical theatre and cabaret to reveal forgotten histories of women caught between exile, imprisonment and survival.
Established in January 2026, this research group focuses on the history of liberalism and liberal thought in exile, in particular in the British and Anglophone context more generally.
London became a meeting point for numerous exiled German-speaking intellectuals, many of them with Jewish backgrounds, who sought to rethink the foundations of liberal democracy. Among them were figures who would later become distinguished scholars and writers: sociologists like Karl Mannheim and Viola Klein, economists including Friedrich Hayek and Karl Polanyi, and writers and…
Writing a history of modern Britain and Germany necessarily encompasses reflections on exile and emigration. How should we think of those who have moved and were forced to move between the two countries in the past? For many of the refugees who escaped Nazi Germany, there remained a tension between assimilation into British society and their own sense of identity. In this lecture, Jan Rüger explores this tension through a series of biographical studies. His focus is on the 1930s and 40s, but he places the experiences of these decades within a longer timeframe,…
Established in January 2026, this research group focuses on the history of liberalism and liberal thought in exile, in particular in the British and Anglophone context more generally.
London became a meeting point for numerous exiled German-speaking intellectuals, many of them with Jewish backgrounds, who sought to rethink the foundations of liberal democracy. Among them were figures who would later become distinguished scholars and writers: sociologists like Karl Mannheim and Viola Klein, economists including Friedrich Hayek and Karl Polanyi, and writers and…
Jewish law is often presented as a comprehensive, self-contained, and all-encompassing legal system. Yet beyond the classics on the bookshelf and in the classroom, lived experience and theoretical inquiry challenge this conception. To explore these tensions and their implications, the Jewish Law Association invites scholars from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives to reflect on the theme of the Jewish Law Association’s International 2027 Conference, Inside/Outside: Jews, Law,
and Jewish Law.
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