Central and Eastern European Diasporas in History and Today

A Workshop funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Promoting German Studies in the UK and Ireland, the event will be at the Arts building G37

Speakers: Jana Stöxen (Regensburg) – Bakers, Butchers, but not Britons: German ante-WW I and Romanian post-Brexit entrepreneurship in the urban hospitality sector

Rahat Shah (Frankfurt) – German Diaspora Living in the UK: Exploring Experiences of Female Breadwinning Couples Post-Brexit Stefanie Populorum (Rutgers) – Workflows: Narratives of Female Identity Building Through Migration, Memory, and Labour

Florian Probst (Münster) – In Search of Opportunities: Motivations for the Migration of Labourers from Central Europe to England and their Integration into the English Labour Market, 1830–1900

Cristian Cercel (Tübingen) – ‘Danube Swabians’: A History of Multiple Diasporic Possibilities