German, SLLC

February 23, 2023; All Welcome! Please RSVP by February 20 to claire.oreilly@ucc.ie.

Dora Allman Lecture Room, The Hub, University College Cork

The 22nd of February 2023, marking the 80th anniversary of Sophie Scholl’s death, is the decisive starting point for this symposium on ‘Understanding the Past to (re-)Inform the Future: The role of NS-Resistance yesterday and its Relevance today’. Sophie Scholl was a German student and an anti-Nazi political activist within the White Rose resistance group, and with this in mind the aim of the symposium is: To commemorate firstly the important voice of resistance activists in their varied roles, and secondly, move the discussion closer to home linking it with Ireland and with Cork more specifically. With inspiration from Sophie Scholl, questions will be asked such as what can we learn from resistance biographies today? How can archives and archival research help to reconstruct the experience and motivations of resistance activists, shedding light on the complex context and meaning of ‘resistance’ or similar?

Programme

• 2.30PM WELCOME AND OPENING WORDS Dr Silvia Ross, Head of School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, UCC Dr Claire O’Reilly, Department of German, UCC I SOPHIE SCHOLL AND HER LEGACY
• 2.40pm Alexandra Lloyd, (University of Oxford) (virtual contribution) Reading, Writing, Resistance: Sophie Scholl and the White Rose II CONNECTIONS TO HOME
• 3.10pm Bernard Wilson (Canterbury) Mary Elmes: Collaboration or Resistance - The Angel’s Dilemma
• 3.40pm Clodagh Finn and John Morgan (Dublin) A Promise to Keep: Irish People in the Allied Resistance in World War II – and Connections to Munster Coffee and Refreshments
• 4.20pm Claire O’Reilly (UCC) Resistance activist Fritz-Dietlof von der Schulenburg: Lessons from the Past? 4.50pm Marnina Winkler (UCC) The Shadows of Experiences and Memories: Investigating Gerald Goldberg through Archives and Silence III FAMILY NARRATIVES: THE LONGER LEGACY UP TO AND UNTIL TODAY
• 5.20pm Lina Jacob (Sydney) (virtual contribution) Every Family has a Legacy – the Intergenerational Impact of Perpetratorship and ‘Non-Resistance’ in post-World War II Germany
• 6pm Close of Symposium

All Welcome!

Please RSVP by February 20 to claire.oreilly@ucc.ie.