A research and engagement initiative at the University of Oxford (UK) exploring the story of the anti-Nazi resistance circle 'The White Rose'
This year we celebrate the 100th anniversary of Sophie Scholl’s birth on 9 May 1921. Sophie 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 ideology and saw how it marginalized …
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 …
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.
The White Rose Project was delighted to be part of this year’s Being Human Festival of the Humanities. This year’s theme was ‘New Worlds’. The White Rose Project was selected to host one of the festival’s café events. Dr Karolina Watroba moderated the proceedings, and Dr Alex Lloyd gave a presentation on the White Rose …
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 …
The White Rose Project – Call for Translators 2020 In 1943 five students and a professor at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich were arrested, interrogated, tried, and executed. They were members of The White Rose (‘Die Weiße Rose’), a clandestine group who wrote and distributed pamphlets calling on Germans to resist Hitler. To mark …
The White Rose Project is delighted to be part of this year’s Being Human Festival of the Humanities. ‘Led by the School of Advanced Study, University of London, in partnership with the Arts & Humanities Research Council and the British Academy, Being Human is a national forum for public engagement with humanities research. The festival …
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 …
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 …
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 …