Year: 2017
Helen's review of Johanna Hanink's The Classical Debt: Greek Antiquity in an Era of Austerity (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2017), has just been published in Reviews in History.
Just out: MACAT Analyses of 'Bloodlands' and 'The Hitler Myth'Helen's analyses of Ian Kershaw's The Hitler Myth and Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands have recently been published by Routledge in the Macat Library series of guides to classic works of scholarship.
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Helen's review of Philanthropy, Civil Society, and the State in German History, 1815-1989, by Thomas Adam (Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2016), has just been published in the Modern Language Review.Read more...
On 15 June 2017, Helen presented a paper entitled '"Welchen Gang die alte Klosterschule gehen wird, scheint leider noch nicht festzustehen...": NS-Machtdurchsetzungsprozesse in der Nationalpolitischen Erziehungsanstalt Ilfeld' at a two-day conference organised by the Leibniz Universität Hannover's Institut für Didaktik der Demokratie, entitled 'Die Klosterkammer Hannover im Nationalsozialismus'.Read more...
On 13 June 2017, Helen presented a paper at the the Historisches Seminar, Leibniz Universität Hannover, entitled 'NS-Eliteerziehung in den Nationalpolitischen Erziehungsanstalten: Ausgeprägte Entbürgerlichung oder "Verbürgerlichung im braunen Mantel"?'Read more...
Invited paper, presented at an expert workshop entitled 'Die Klosterkammer Hannover im Nationalsozialismus', Institut für Didaktik der Demokratie, Leibniz Universität Hannover, 15 June 2017.Read more...
Invited lecture, presented at the Historisches Seminar, Leibniz Universität Hannover, 13 June 2017.Read more...
Presented at a workshop on 'Politicizing the Social and the Cultural in the Histories of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany', Magdalene College, University of Cambridge, 9 June 2017.Read more...
On 9 June 2017, Helen presented a paper at a workshop entitled 'Politicizing the Social and the Cultural in the Histories of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany', organised by Christian Goeschel (University of Manchester) and Hannah Malone (University of Cambridge), and sponsored by the German History Society, the Association for the Study of Modern Italy, and the Trevelyan Fund.Read more...
Helen's review of Damian Valdez, German Philhellenism: The Pathos of the Historical Imagination from Winckelmann to Goethe (2014), has just been published in the Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies.Read more...