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Year: 2018

Claiming the Classical 'Mapping Workshop'

On 9 November 2018, Helen and Naoise Mac Sweeney organised a Mapping Workshop for the recently-founded 'Claiming the Classical' Research Network at the Institute of Classical Studies, London.Read more...

Critical acclaim for 'Brill Companion' in 'Fascism' and 'History of Humanities'

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Invitation to speak at Aberystwyth University

On 10 October 2018, Helen presented a paper entitled 'The Third Reich's Elite Schools and Nazi Imperialism' at Aberystwyth University's History Research Seminar.Read more...

The Third Reich's Elite Schools and Nazi Imperialism

Presented at the History Research Seminar, Department of History and Welsh History, Aberystwyth University, 10 October 2018.Read more...

'The Austrian Bundeserziehungsanstalten'

On 15 September 2018, Helen presented a paper entitled 'The Austrian Bundeserziehungsanstalten, 1919-1933: Hotbeds Of Radicalism Or Seedbeds Of Reaction?' at an international conference entitled 'Aftermath: German and Austrian Cultural Responses to the End of World War I', held at King's College London.Read more...

New Book Review: 'Making Prussians, Making Germans'

Helen's review of Making Prussians, Raising Germans: A Cultural History of Prussian State-Building after Civil War, 1866-1935, by Jasper Heinzen (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017) has recently appeared in German History.Read more...

The Austrian Bundeserziehungsanstalten, 1919-1933: Hotbeds Of Radicalism Or Seedbeds Of Reaction?

Presented at an international conference entitled 'Aftermath: German and Austrian cultural responses to the end of World War I', King's College London, 15 September 2018.Read more...

'Nazi Elite-School Pupils' Anti-Semitic Activism'

On 24 July 2018, Helen presented a paper entitled 'Nazi Elite-School Pupils' Anti-Semitic Activism and the Holocaust' at the fifth annual conference of the British Association for Holocaust Studies, University of Leeds.Read more...

New Publication: New Publication: 'Schulische Erziehung und Entbürgerlichung'

Helen's article 'Schulische Erziehung und Entbürgerlichung' has just been published in a volume edited by Norbert Frei, entitled Wie bürgerlich war der Nationalsozialismus?.

This article uses the elite education provided by the Napolas, the Third Reich's most prominent elite schools, as a case study of the manifold ways in which elements of a bürgerlich habitus were cultivated during the Third Reich, despite the Nazi movement’s claims to embody socialist principles.Read more...

Nazi Elite-School Pupils' Anti-Semitic Activism and the Holocaust

Presented at the British Association for Holocaust Studies Annual Conference, University of Leeds, 24 July 2018.Read more...