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Month: June 2018

'From Winckelmania to the Wehrmacht'

On 29 June 2018, Helen presented a paper entitled 'From Winckelmania to the Wehrmacht: Receptions of Winckelmann in the German-speakingworld' at an international workshop entitled 'Ideals and Nations: New perspectives on the European reception of Winckelmann’s aesthetics', Christ Church College, Oxford.Read more...

Understanding Perpetration and Complicity – AHRC project workshop at UCL IAS

On 28 June 2018, Helen helped to organise an AHRC-funded project workshop at the UCL Institute of Advanced Studies, entitled 'Understanding Perpetration and Complicity'.Read more...

'National Socialist Elite-School Pupils on the Move'

On 23 June 2018, Helen presented a paper entitled 'National Socialist Elite-School Pupils on the Move: The Nazi Exchange Programmes with British Public Schools' at the second biennial conference of the Children's History Society, Children and Youth on the Move, which was held at the University of Greenwich.Read more...

New Publication: New Publication: 'The Peculiarities of German Philhellenism'

Helen's article 'The Peculiarities of German Philhellenism' has just been published in The Historical Journal.

This review essay surveys historiographical developments in the literature on German philhellenism which have emerged in the past dozen years (2004–16), drawing on research in German studies, classical philology and reception studies, Modern Greek studies, intellectual history, philosophy, art history, and archaeology.Read more...

'Fascist Antiquities and Materialities' Workshop

On 8 June 2018, Helen organised a one-day interdisciplinary workshop entitled 'What Remains? Fascist Antiquities and Materialities from the Interwar Era to the Present Day', at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.Read more...

Philhellenism and the Reception of Winckelmann during the Third Reich

Presented at an interdisciplinary workshop entitled 'What Remains? Fascist Antiquities and Materialities from the Interwar Era to the Present Day', Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, 8 June 2018.Read more...