Year: 2018
Presented at an international conference entitled 'The Politics of Amnesia: Germany and Beyond, 1800-2018', Pembroke College, Cambridge, 4 July 2018.Read more...
Presented at an international workshop entitled Ideals and Nations: New perspectives on the European reception of Winckelmann’s aesthetics, Christ Church College, Oxford, 29 June 2018.Read more...
Presented at an AHRC-funded workshop on 'Understanding Perpetration and Complicity', UCL Institute of Advanced Studies, 28 June 2018.Read more...
Presented at Children and Youth on the Move: The Children's History Society Biennial Conference, University of Greenwich, 23 June 2018.Read more...
On 2-4 July 2018, along with colleagues Philipp Ebert and Henning Grunwald, Helen co-organised an international conference funded by the DAAD Cambridge Research Hub, entitled 'The Politics of Amnesia: Germany and Beyond, 1800-2018'.Read more...
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...
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...
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: '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...
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...