The White Rose and the Uses of Culture

The White Rose and the Uses of Culture programme flyer depicting different colour bound open books as if thrown from a hight.

A day exploring the resistance pamphlets of the White Rose in detail.

 

With speakers from the University of Oxford, University of Reading, and University of Vienna:

Lea Cantor  |  Kevin Hillard  |  Constanze Güthenke  |  Alexandra Lloyd  |  Daniel Lloyd  |  Ellen Pilsworth  |  Joanna Raisbeck  |  Karolina Wątroba

 

Free online event on Zoom |  Registration required  |  Please register by 01 May 2021 at https://forms.office.com/r/BKCpg1c6S6 or email whiteroseoxford@gmail.com

 

Organisers: Alex Lloyd and Karolina Wątroba (University of Oxford)

 

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 Rose Project will hold a one-day colloquium focusing on the White Rose resistance pamphlets on Friday 7 May 2021. The pamphlets were inspired by literature and philosophy, and include quotations from Goethe, Schiller, Novalis, Laozi, Aristotle, Cicero, and St Augustine. The colloquium will explore these references in detail and bring fresh perspectives to bear on this remarkable set of resistance texts.

 

09:30 - 10:00   |   Welcome and 'The Pamphlets of the White Rose: An Introduction'  (Alex Lloyd, Oxford)

10:00 - 11:15   |   Papers on Goethe  (Ellen Pilsworth, Reading)   |   Schiller & Körner  (Kevin Hilliard, Oxford)   |   Novalis  (Joanna Raisbeck, Oxford)

11:15 - 11:30   |   Break

11:30 - 12:45   |   Papers on Laozi  (Lea Cantor, Oxford)   |   Cicero & Aristotle (Constanze Güthenke, Oxford)   |   Ecclesiastes & St Augustine (Daniel Lloyd, Vienna)

12:45 - 14:00   |   Lunch 

14:00 - 15:00   |   Discussion with all presenters on the role of the references in the pamphlets 

15:00 - 15:15   |   Break 

15:15 - 15:45   |   'Culture in Times of Crisis'   (Karolina Wątroba) 

15:45 - 16:00   |   Questions and Final Comments

 

 

You can read more about Alexandra Lloyd's KE Fellowship project 'The White Rose' on the TORCH webpage.