Presented at the German History Society Annual Conference, King’s College London, 4 September 2019.
Year: 2019
Appointment to Academic Advisory Board, 'Nordhausen April 1945'
Helen has been appointed to the academic advisory board of a project entitled ‘Nordhausen April 1945: Hintergründe, Opfer, Erinnerung’, initiated by Nordhausen Town Council and its Mayor, Kai Buchmann, to research the genesis of the Allied bombing raid which took place in April 1945 and destroyed the whole of Nordhausen’s medieval city, and its ramifications in post-war GDR memory culture.Read more...
Invitation to speak at the Freie Universität Berlin
On 22 March 2019, Helen presented a paper entitled ‘Nazi elite-school pupils as youth ambassadors between Fascist Italy and the Third Reich’ at an international conference on Comparing the Cultural History of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, Freie Universität Berlin.Read more...
Invitation to speak at Durham University's Institute of Advanced Studies
On 19 March 2019, Helen presented a paper entitled ‘Back to the Ancient Future! Classicising National Imaginaries in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany’ as part of a seminar series entitled ‘We the People? Community Beyond the State’, hosted by Durham University’s Institute of Advanced Studies.Read more...
Invitation to speak at Durham's Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies
On 8 February 2019, Helen presented a paper entitled ‘Archival Violence and Violent Institutions: Researching the Royal Prussian Cadet-Corps (1818-1920)’ at an international interdisciplinary conference on The Nineteenth-Century Archive as a Discourse of Power, hosted by Durham University’s Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies.Read more...
Nazi Elite-school Pupils as Youth Ambassadors between Fascist Italy and the Third Reich
Presented at an international conference entitled Comparing the Cultural History of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, Freie Universität Berlin, 22 March 2019.Read more...
Invitation to speak at Durham University
On 30 January 2019, Helen presented a paper entitled ‘Nazifying the Classics? Humanistic Education in Hitler’s Germany’ to the Work-in-Progress Seminar, Department of Classics, Durham University.Read more...
Archival Violence and Violent Institutions: Researching the Royal Prussian Cadet-Corps (1818-1920)
Presented at an international interdisciplinary conference entitled The Nineteenth-Century Archive as a Discourse of Power, Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies, University of Durham, 8 February 2019.Read more...
Back to the Ancient Future! Classicising National Imaginaries in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany
Presented as part of a seminar series entitled ‘We the People? Community Beyond the State’, Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Durham, 19 March 2019.Read more...
Nazifying the Classics? Humanistic Education in Hitler's Germany
Presented at the WiP Research Seminar, Department of Classics, University of Durham, 30 January 2019.Read more...