Under the auspices of the German Studies Library Group and in association with the British Library, a Lecture in memory of Graham Nattrass (1940–2012) will be delivered on Thursday, 13 July 2023 at the British Library, St Pancras, London. The event is held in the Foyle Suite; refreshments will be served.
16.00: GSLG AGM at The British Library—GSLG members to meet no later than 16.00
17.30: Refreshments will be served prior to the Lecture
18.00: Lecture: Dr Alexandra Lloyd, University of Oxford—‘Writing Resistance: The White Rose Circle’
Graham Nattrass was Chair of the German Studies Library Group from 2003 till 2007, and a founding member of the Group. He enjoyed a long and distinguished career at the British Library, becoming Head of Germanic Collections in 1996 and retiring from the Library in 2005, as its Head of West European Collections, having worked at the British Library (and its antecedents) since 1971. He also enjoyed classical music and attending performances by the British Library and British Museum Singers.
Dr Alex Lloyd is Fellow by Special Election in German Studies at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, and also a lecturer in German at Magdalen College, Oxford. Alex’s main research interests are in post-1945 literature and film, particularly cultural memory, depictions of children and childhood, and intersections between literature and visual culture. She has published widely on German-language literature and film, and is the author of Childhood, Memory, and the Nation: Young Lives under Nazism in Contemporary German Culture (2020) and Defying Hitler: The White Rose Pamphlets (2022). She is also a singer, and is interested in the relationship between language, translation, and music. Alex is delivering her Lecture on the White Rose Circle on the 80th anniversary of the execution of Alexander Schmorell, a student at Munich University, who together with others formed the White Rose, a resistance group in opposition to the Nazi regime.
There is no charge to attend the Lecture—which is open to all—but places are limited.
If you intend to come, please email Dorothea Miehe, Chair of the German Studies Library Group—dorothea.miehe@bl.uk.
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