Very excited for this event Gwasg Honno Press Polity

Join us online on Fri 21 June at 2pm for an insightful discussion/Q&A with Andrea Hammel (author of Finding Refuge and The Kindertransport) and guests with lived experience to discuss the experiences of refugees past and present Welsh Refugee Council 🧡 eventbrite.co.uk/e/refugee-week…

Teachers in #Wales #Cymru #CfW #CwricwlwmiGymru

This Friday for #RefugeeWeek, join Prof Dr Andrea Hammel from Centre for the Movement of People (CMOP/CASP) and guests for a webinar to explore the themes of migration and the experiences of refugees now and in the past. More information👇

YouTube The Kindertransport has long been celebrated as a humanitarian success, but research has shown that the circumstances of the scheme and its implementation were complex and not always motivated by altruism Prof Dr Andrea Hammel discusses the scheme in this talk: bit.ly/45m4uY2

Refugees, asylum support organisations, policy makers and academic researchers gathered in Aberystwyth today for a celebration of art, music, poetry and diverse communities to mark #RefugeeWeek. 🖱️bit.ly/3RyLPm4 International Politics, Aberystwyth AberEnglishDept Naji Bakhti katy budge

Thanks to all who came to our #Holocaust resources workshop yesterday! We enjoyed speaking about the project and hearing feedback from teachers in #Wales about our bilingual resources #CurriculumforWales Resources: wp-research.aber.ac.uk/nsrefugeeswale… Feedback form: forms.gle/UDMUNdTnpLraZM…

Very proud of my colleagues in @au_dges Aberystwyth University! This is an outstanding achievement 👏👏👏

Work has started in earnest and I am off from Aberystwyth University to Leeds for the annual conference of the Association for #GermanStudies after the big rain

We have two more updated resources available on People's Collection Wales looking at the Welsh Language and refugees as domestic servants. These are suitable for Progression Steps 3&4 peoplescollection.wales/learn/holocaus… peoplescollection.wales/learn/holocaus… #cymraeg #history #hanes #holocaust #refugees

Today is the 85th anniversary of the last #Kindertransport to reach Britain. 250 children left Berlin on September 1, arriving on September 2. Hannah Wurzburger, age 5, was on board. "It's a bottomless pit. So absolutely appalling. Children are so vulnerable…" 1/13

And the 2024 AGS conference begins! After a welcome from Prof Helen Finch (Professor Helen Finch) and an introduction from AGS president Prof Peter Davies (Peter Davies), now the German Ambassador to the UK, His Excellency Miguel Berger, is “making the case for German”…

Dankeschön for welcoming me at this year's conference of the Association for German Studies in Leeds! Important to discuss with experts and friends how to better "Make the Case for German" - and for German studies.

⏯️ Listen again to Prof Dr Andrea Hammel and Dame Esther Rantzen speaking on BBC Radio Wales this morning about Sir Nicholas Winton and Kindertransport. 🖱️ bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0… (listen from 1 hr 53 mins)

After three wonderful days at #AGS2024 in Leeds, it was back to work as normal this morning. Thanks to all colleagues who attended and presented their work & huge thanks to the organisers - both the local team at University of Leeds (German at Leeds) and to our VP Anna Saunders 🙏🙏

Just out. Huge thanks to Stephanie Homer and all the contributors

Conference - ‘Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow: Narrating Stories of Child Evacuees and Refugees’ 🗓️19-20 September 📍Aberystwyth More info: bit.ly/47h7pCm

Cynhadledd - 'Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow: Narrating Stories of Child Evacuees and Refugees' 🗓️19-20 Medi 📍Aberystwyth Mwy o wybodaeth: bit.ly/4dQE3x8

Saw this very inspiring performance dance production in London yesterday which reflected on connections between the #kindertransport and refugee experiences today. Thanks to Dr Amy Williams 🎗️ who also advised on the project.

Migration Research Wales Network (Migration Research Wales Network) is pleased to announce an early career researcher and postgraduate seminar to be held online between 10.00 and 11.30 on Thursday 12th September. Register here: bit.ly/3WT9Q9s