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The White Rose and the Uses of Culture

Posted on March 30, 2021 by White Rose Project Team

A colloquium at the University of Oxford 7 May 2021, 9.30am-4pm BST | Free online event on Zoom Organisers: Dr Alex Lloyd and Dr Karolina Wątroba (University of Oxford) Registration required: either sign up using this form – https://forms.office.com/r/BKCpg1c6S6 – or email whiteroseoxford@gmail.com. 2021 marks the 100th anniversary of Sophie Scholl’s birth on 9 May 1921. As part of its commemoration events this year, the Oxford White

LIVE READING: THE WHITE ROSE PAMPHLETS

Posted on February 21, 2021 by White Rose Project Team

To mark the 78th anniversary of the first White Rose trial on 22 February 1943, there will be a live reading of the White Rose circle’s resistance pamphlets in English. Dr Alex Lloyd will give a short introduction to the pamphlets, followed by a reading by current and former students and academics, mirroring the membership of the original group. The

sophie scholl (1921-1943) – the oxford german olympiad 2021

Posted on February 10, 2021 by White Rose Project Team

Image credit: © George (Jürgen) Wittenstein / akg-images This year we celebrate the 100th anniversary of Sophie Scholl’s birth on 9 May 1921. Sophie (in the photograph above) was a central member of the White Rose resistance circle. She had been active in the Hitler Youth as a teenager, but she came to reject Nazism as she understood more about its

white rose project and sansara receive university funding for podcast series

Posted on February 10, 2021 by White Rose Project Team

We are thrilled to announce that the White Rose Project has received a Public Engagement with Research Seed Fund Award from the University of Oxford. Dr Alex Loyd will be working with the award-winning vocal ensemble SANSARA choir and its Artistic Director, Tom Herring, to develop and produce a new podcast series: ‘Resistance – The Story of the White Rose’.

LIVE READING OF THE WHITE ROSE PAMPHLETS – 22 FEBRUARY 2021

Posted on February 9, 2021 by White Rose Project Team

To mark the 78th anniversary of the first White Rose trial on 22 February 1943, there will be a live reading of the White Rose circle’s resistance pamphlets in English by students, former students, and academics at the University of Oxford.

Launch of ‘Translation Conversations’

Posted on October 13, 2020 by White Rose Project Team

Translation is at the heart of the White Rose Project’s work. We’ve just launched our third annual Translation Project for undergraduate students at the University of Oxford after two very successful years of running the programme. In this video series, we explore aspects of translation and the White Rose, including catching up with current and former members of the project

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A Visit to Munich

Posted on September 9, 2020 by White Rose Project Team

Last week one of our former White Rose Project student translators, Poppy Robertson, visited the DenkStätte Weiße Rose in Munich, a permanent exhibition in the university’s main building, established and maintained by the Weiße Rose Stiftung (White Rose Foundation). Poppy studies German at the University of Oxford and was one of the first student members of the White Rose Project. She worked

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White Rose Translation Project 2020-2021

Posted on August 12, 2020 by White Rose Project Team

Following the success of the White Rose Translation Project in its first and second years, we will be running the programme again this coming academic year! We are also delighted to announce that Jenny Lemke (DAAD-Lektorin, University of Oxford) will join Alex Lloyd in coordinating the project. The White Rose Translation Project is open to undergraduate students at the University

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Translating Sophie Scholl and Alexander Schmorell

Posted on August 5, 2020 by White Rose Project Team

Two of this year’s White Rose Project translators, James Cutting and Amira Ramdani, talk about the experience of translating excerpts from the letters of White Rose members Sophie Scholl and Alexander Schmorell. Why did you want to get involved in the project? James: Inge Scholl’s Die weiße Rose was one of the first German books I ever properly read and thoroughly moved

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Working on Texts by Hans Scholl and Willi Graf

Posted on July 15, 2020 by White Rose Project Team

Two of this year’s White Rose Project translators, Benjy Fortna and Beth Molyneux, talk about the experience of translating excerpts from the letters and diaries of White Rose members Hans Scholl and Willi Graf. Why did you want to get involved in the project? Benjy: As a linguist, translation features fairly heavily in my work both in- and outside of

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