Month: June 2013
Helen has been invited to the Freie Universität Berlin as a Visiting Lecturer affiliated with the TOPOI Excellence Cluster: The Formation and Transformation of Space and Knowledge in Ancient Civilizations. TOPOI is a research network hosted by the FU and the Humboldt Universität, and forms part of the newly-constituted Berliner Antike-Kolleg.Read more...
Visiting Lecture, given to the TOPOI Excellence Cluster: The Formation and Transformation of Space and Knowledge in Ancient Civilizations, Freie Universität Berlin, 27 June 2013.Read more...
On 22 June 2013, Helen presented a paper entitled 'Philhellenism and Laconophilia in Nineteenth-Century Germany: Some nationalist perspectives' at an international conference on Graeco-Roman Antiquity and the Idea of Nationalism in the 19th Century, University of Durham.Read more...
'Inhumane propaganda, humanely analysed?'Review of David B. Dennis' Inhumanities. Nazi Interpretations of Western Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), in Reviews in History.
For the past few years, David B. Dennis has had the unenviable task of steeping himself in the (turgid, yet strangely compelling) prose of the Völkischer Beobachter, the Nazi party’s major propaganda organ, and the Third Reich’s dailyRead more...
Presented at an international conference on Graeco-Roman Antiquity and the Idea of Nationalism in the 19th Century, University of Durham, 22 June 2013.Read more...
On 17 June 2013, Helen presented a paper entitled '"Anti-Enlightenment": National Socialist Educators’ Troubled Relationship with Humanism and the Philhellenist Tradition' at a conference on 'Post-Classicisms', University of Cambridge.Read more...