About NewVIc lectures

Each term NewVIc invites a major educational speaker to lead a lecture on a topic that is at the heart of education and the heart of our work. The lectures take place at NewVIc, Prince Regent Lane, Plaistow. If you would like to book a place at the lecture please use the form. Nearer to the event we will send you a confirmation email. If you have any queries, please contact marketing@newvic.ac.uk

Autumn lecture 2011

‘Immigration, multiculturalism and politics in Britain’
Professor David Feldman, Director of the Pears Institute for the study of Antisemitism

Date: Wednesday 28 September
Time: 4.00 - 5.30 pm
Location: Main hall, Prince Regent Lane 

Throughout its history, London’s East End has been a destination for generations of migrant communities. These have included the Huguenots, Irish, Jewish and Muslim communities, African, Afro-Caribbean and migrants from Eastern Europe.

Professor David Feldman will explore continuity and change in migration and the responses to it; the myths and debates and how we can better understand of society the communities we are all part of and in which we live and work.
David Feldman is a foremost authority on immigration in Britain and has specialist knowledge of its impact on the East End of London.

This staff lecture will take place against the 75th Anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street on 4th October 1936, when the British Union of Fascists was prevented by the community in East London from marching through its Jewish quarter.

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