Year: 2013
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...
On 29 May 2013, Helen presented a paper to the Classics Department at Reading University.Read more...
Presented at an international conference on 'Post-Classicisms', University of Cambridge, 17 June 2013.Read more...
On 24 May 2013, Helen gave a public lecture at the Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, Russell Square, London.Read more...
Review of 'Contested Commemorations' by Benjamin ZiemannReview of Veterans and Weimar Political Culture, by Benjamin Ziemann (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), in The English Historical Review 131 (553), December 2016, pp. 1569-71.
Views of the Weimar Republic as essentially anarchic, unloved and unmourned have been extensively questioned in recent scholarship. Still, popular pronouncements tend to perpetuate such impressions – witness one critic of a recent exhibition, who began with the statement that ‘Nobody in Germany liked the Weimar Republic’. Read more...
On 17 May 2013, Helen presented a paper entitled '"Blüte und Zerfall"?: "Schematic Narrative Templates" of Decline and Fall in National Socialist Racial Ideology' at an international conference held at the Central European University, Budapest.Read more...