A research and engagement initiative at the University of Oxford (UK) exploring the story of the anti-Nazi resistance circle 'The White Rose'
We are delighted to announce that our Graduate Committee has been awarded generous support from TORCH’s Critical-Thinking Communities Fund for a new project entitled ‘Rethinking Resistance’! The Critical-Thinking Community ‘Rethinking Resistance’ will investigate questions about the nature of resistance, its agents, and its place in communities of memory across different media, genres, geographical contexts, and …
Call for Student Writers and Translators In 1943 five students and a professor at Munich University were executed. They were members of The White Rose (‘Die Weiße Rose’), a group that wrote and distributed pamphlets calling on Germans to resist Hitler. To mark the 80th anniversary of the first White Rose pamphlets, and a new publication of the …
Collaboration between students and academics is at the heart of the White Rose Project. We are delighted to announce that this academic year (2021-2022) we have a new graduate committee. Our four committee members will be co-organising this year’s events and helping to supervise undergraduates’ work on the Project. Shivani Chauhan is pursuing a D.Phil. …
We are delighted to share the winning entries for this year’s White Rose Project Prizes as part of the Oxford German Olympiad. The Olympiad is an annual nationwide competition run by the Oxford German Network, an initiative by the German department of the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford, dedicated to productive …
We are delighted to announce that the winners of this year’s Oxford German Olympiad Round 2 White Rose Project prizes have now been chosen! Congratulations to everyone who took part. The judges were extremely impressed by the submissions. The winning entries are available to view here. They will also be posted here on the White …
On Friday 7 May 2021 the White Rose Project hosted a colloquium at the University of Oxford on the White Rose and the Uses of Culture. The aim was to explore the resistance pamphlets of the White Rose in detail, from different scholarly perspectives, and to use this as a way to consider the role …
This year the translators of the White Rose Project have been working with the published correspondence between Sophie Scholl and Fritz Hartnagel. The students were once again drawn from across the University of Oxford: Christopher Gothard, Gemma Craig-Sharples, Alexander Fuss, Adam McMeekin, Anna Taira, Sofia Justham Bello, Helena Koch, Timothy Powell, Yannis Baur, George Newton, …
9 May 2021 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Sophie Scholl, certainly the most famous member of the White Rose resistance circle. Sophie had been active in the Hitler Youth as a teenager, but she came to reject Nazism as she understood more about its ideology and saw how it marginalized and persecuted …
The student translators of the White Rose resistance pamphlets introduce their experiences and approach. Over the course of eight months, from October to May 2019, we worked together to produce a new translation of the White Rose resistance pamphlets. We approached this project from a number of different backgrounds and perspectives. Some of us had …
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) **The deadline to register for this event has passed.** 2021 marks the 100th anniversary of Sophie Scholl’s birth on 9 May 1921. As part of its commemoration events this year, …