Month: December 2019

Fascism: Journal of Comparative Fascist Studies, 8 (2), 2019, pp. 127-52.

While it is generally acknowledged that fascist movements tend to glorify the national past of the country in which they arise, sometimes, fascist regimes seek to resurrect a past even more ancient, and more glorious still; the turn towards ancient Greece and Rome. This phenomenon is particularly marked in the case of the two most powerful and indisputably ‘fascist’ regimes of all: Benito Mussolini’s Italy and Adolf Hitler’s Germany.Read more...

Helen’s guest-edited special issue of Fascism: Journal of Comparative Fascist Studies, entitled ‘Fascist Antiquities and Materialities from the Interwar Era to the Present Day’, has just been published by Brill. The edition includes Helen's article, ‘Mussolini’s ‘Third Rome’, Hitler’s Third Reich and the Allure of Antiquity: Classicizing Chronopolitics as a Remedy for Unstable National Identity?’ This special issue is based on contributions to an interdisciplinary workshop which was held at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, on 8 June 2018.Read more...

Presented at an international conference entitled Classics and the Spectacular under Fascism: Classical Performance in the ‘Ventennio Fascista, Ioannou Centre, University of Oxford, 16 December 2019.Read more...

On 16 December 2019, Helen presented a keynote paper entitled ‘Theorising the Use and Abuse of the Classical Past in Mussolini’s Third Rome and Hitler’s Third Reich’ at an international conference on Classics and the Spectacular under Fascism: Classical Performance in the ‘Ventennio Fascista’, held at the Ioannou Centre, University of Oxford, and hosted by the Archive of Performances of Greek andRead more...