Nearly 12 years ago, ISIS carried out a genocide against Iraq’s Yezidis community.
In 2023, Dr Rebecca Jinks travelled to Sinjar to document survivors’ experiences, and we are honoured to host her on 27 May. Register below to join the discussion.
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Genocidal Captivity: Retelling the stories of Armenian and Yezidi women.
Dive into powerful stories of resilience from Armenian and Yezidi women who survived unimaginable hardships.
![Eighty-one years ago, Adolf Hitler retreated into the study of his Berlin bunker and shot himself in the head. Yet, despite the efficacy of that bullet, his fate has been shrouded in speculation and mythmaking. A protracted search for definitive proof of death has helped keep him very much 'alive' in the public imagination, and there have been various efforts to reenact, or reimagine, Hitler's demise across popular culture. As one film critic once put it, 'every decade or so . . . the dictator has to be hauled out of the ground, propped up and slain again, just to make sure he’s [truly] dead'.
To enlighten our understanding, Dr Caroline Sharples (Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Roehampton), will explain the persistence of public discourse around the death of Adolf Hitler. She will speak on how his demise was anticipated by Allied audiences during the Second World War, mourned by loyal National Socialists in 1945, and subsequently represented in postwar popular culture. She will also demonstrate how applying a cultural history lens to this topic exposes the emotional investment that ‘ordinary people’ had placed in the prospect of Hitler meeting a ‘fitting end’, and the meanings that his death held for different audiences.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xkbwljq3wtneufqbs6umqd32/bafkreibsr2j7p7277flmufqd5e3kw36yllbng2f4pipi6nsioxds3apkiy)
