A research and engagement initiative at the University of Oxford (UK) exploring the story of the anti-Nazi resistance circle 'The White Rose'
From the 15th to 27th February 2022 the White Rose Project will again follow the events as they happened in real time through daily posts on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. This year marks the 79th anniversary of the first White Rose trials. You can find the posts under the hashtag #whiteroserealtime. Why this initiative? The aim of the White Rose Project is …
We are delighted to be working with the Oxford German Network again this year as part of their annual nationwide German competition, the Oxford German Olympiad! There is one White Rose Project Prize this year, focusing on the resistance leaflets of the White Rose. 2022 marks the 80th anniversary of the first four White Rose leaflets, …
Dr Alex Lloyd (Fellow by Special Election in German, St Edmund Hall) will be taking part in this year’s Oxford Literary Festival on 30 March, speaking about her new book, ‘Defying Hitler: The White Rose Pamphlets’ (Bodleian Library Publishing, 2022). Find further information and book tickets here. The White Rose (‘die Weiße Rose’) resistance circle was …
On Tuesday 18 January we held our first student translation seminar of the year! Sixteen students from eleven colleges across the University of Oxford successfully applied to participate in this year’s project. This year’s students will work on translating the pamphlets into new written forms, such as poetry, song lyrics, and short prose. Students will …
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 …