Year: 2018
On 1 March 2018, Helen presented a lecture entitled 'Fascism and the Classics' to pupils at Cranleigh School, Surrey.Read more...
Invited lecture, given at Cranleigh School, 1 March 2018.Read more...
On 11 February 2018, Italian daily paper Il Manifesto featured Brill's Companion to the Classics, Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany in an article entitled 'L'antichità smontata e ricomposta: Nazismo/Fascismo - un "Companion" da Brill'.Read more...
Invited lecture, presented as part of the Churchill Archives Centre History Lecture Series, 8 February 2018.Read more...
On 8 February 2018, Helen presented a lecture entitled 'Appropriations of Antiquity in Mussolini's Italy and Hitler's Germany' as part of the Churchill Archives Centre History Lecture Series.Read more...
On 7 February 2018, Helen presented a paper entitled 'New Perspectives on Education during the Third Reich' at the Institute of Historical Research's Modern German History Seminar.Read more...
Invited paper, presented at the Modern German History Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, 7 February 2018.Read more...
Presented to the Pförtner Bund (Schulpforta Old Boys' Association) at their annual autumn reunion, Hotel Albrechtshof, Berlin, 10 November 2017.Read more...
'Schulische Erziehung und Entbürgerlichung'in Wie bürgerlich war der Nationalsozialismus?, ed. Norbert Frei, Göttingen (Wallstein), 2018, pp. 154-72.
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 bourgeois habitus were cultivated during the Third Reich, despite the Nazi movement's claims to embody socialist principles. Given sufficient time, the Napolas could well have become instrumental in consolidating a new, National Socialist caste structure.Read more...
Helen's review of Wilhelm Müller und der Philhellenismus, edited by Marco Hillemann and Tobias Roth (Berlin: Frank & Timme, 2015), has recently appeared in German Quarterly.Read more...