Dr Arddun Arwyn
BA (Aberystwyth) MA (Aberystwyth) PhD (Aberystwyth)
Lecturer in Modern History (Welsh Medium)
Department of History & Welsh History
Contact Details
- Email: aha08@aber.ac.uk
- Office: 3.05, International Politics Building
- Research Portal Profile
Profile
Dr Arddun Hedydd Arwyn BA, MA, PHD (Aberystwyth) is a lecturer in Modern History. She is a historian of modern German history, focusing on social and cultural history. Dr Arwyn studied for a BA and MA in European History, specialising in Germany, at Aberystwyth University. She completed her PhD thesis entitled 'The Flight from East Prussia. The Social Memory of East Prussians in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1945-2010' in 2013, also at Aberystwyth University. After working as a research assistant on the AHRC funded project 'European Travellers to Wales 1750-2010' for Bangor University she returned to Aberystwyth to take up a lectureship in modern History.
Teaching
Tutor
- HA20120 - Llunio Hanes
- HY11820 - The Modern World, 1789 to the present
- HY12420 - Europe and the World, 1000-2000
- HQ38420 - The Third Reich (Part 2): The German Home Front, 1939-1945
- HYM6320 - Representations of the Holocaust 1945-2020
- HA10420 - Cydio mewn Hanes: Ffynonellau a'u Haneswyr
- HQ38320 - The Third Reich (Part 1): The Holocaust, the Eastern Front and the Nazi Occupation of Eastern Europe
- HA11420 - Ewrop a'r Byd, 1000-2000
- HYM0120 - Research Methods and Professional Skills in History
- HYM0520 - Key Themes in Modern History
Aspire Admin
Lecturer
- HY12420 - Europe and the World, 1000-2000
- HY30340 - Dissertation
- WH11720 - People, Power and Identity: Wales 1200-1999
- HA11420 - Ewrop a'r Byd, 1000-2000
- HC11820 - Cymdeithas, Pobl a Gwleidyddiaeth: Cymru, 1800-1999
- HY11820 - The Modern World, 1789 to the present
- HY20120 - Making History
- HA20120 - Llunio Hanes
- HYM1220 - Sources for Postgraduate Research in the Modern Humanities and Social Sciences
- HA12120 - Cyflwyno Hanes
- HA30340 - Traethawd Estynedig
Moderator
Arddun teaches a variety of history modules through both the mediums of Welsh and English.
Undergraduate:
- See Modules List
Masters:
- The Two Germanies and the Cold War, 1945-1975
PhD supervision:
- Post 1933 German History, Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide, World War Two in Germany, Memory, Oral History.
Research
Dr Arwyn specialises the history of Germany in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Her current research project is centred on the ethnic cleansing of Germans from Eastern Europe after the Second World War, with particular focus on the history of the province of East Prussia. Her main interests include the oral history and memory of individuals forced to flee or migrate from East Prussia and the way in which these experiences have been portrayed. Other topics also covered are individual memories of the Third Reich and the end of the Second World War. She also has a strong interest in the German concept of Heimat and the ways in which memory and myth making have shaped a particular version of East Prussian history. Using a range of sources including oral history interviews, memoirs, published and documentary material Dr Arwyn is interested in addressing wider questions not only German history but also in memory and migration studies.
Office Hours (Student Contact Times)
- Monday 14:00-16:00