Author: Helen Roche
New Publication: Fascist Antiquities and MaterialitiesHelen’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...
'Die Klosterschule Ilfeld als Nationalpolitische Erziehungsanstalt'in Die Klosterkammer Hannover 1931-1955: Eine Mittelbehörde zwischen wirtschaftlicher Rationalität und Politisierung, ed. Detlef Schmiechen Ackermann et al., Göttingen (Wallstein), 2018, pp. 605-26.
This chapter delineates the history of the Klosterschule in Ilfeld, and its transformation into a Nationalpolitische Erziehungsanstalt (Napola). The Klosterkammer Hannover's role in the running of the school and its support of the Napola after 1935 is explored, as well as its involvement with other putative Napola foundation projects.Read more...
On 14 November 2019, Helen presented a paper entitled ‘Aryan Antiquity? The Rhetoric of Race in Nazi Pedagogy (and beyond)’ at an international conference on the theme Is Europe Inclusive? Politics, Discourses and Practices, held at Radboud Universiteit, Nijmegen.Read more...
Helen's review of The Oxford Illustrated History of the Third Reich, edited by Robert Gellately (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), has just been published in History journal.Read more...
Presented at an international conference entitled Is Europe Inclusive? Politics, Discourses and Practices, Radboud Universiteit, Nijmegen, 14 November 2019.Read more...
On 14 September 2019, Helen gave a talk at the Wewelsburg as part of a symposium entitled “Demokratie und Diktatur in Deutschland aus britischer Sicht”, alongside historians Mary Fulbrook, Caroline Pearce and Helen Boak.Read more...
Presented at the 11. Wissenschaftliches Symposium: Demokratie und Diktatur in Deutschland aus britischer Sicht, Kreismuseum Wewelsburg, 14 September 2019.Read more...
'The Peculiarities of German Philhellenism'The Historical Journal 61 (2), 2018, pp. 541-60.
Studies of German philhellenism have often focused upon the idealization of Greece by German intellectuals, rather than the political relationship which existed between contemporary Germans and the Greek state from the Greek War of Independence onwards. This review essay explores the extent to which recent research affirms or rebuts the notion of a Hellenophile Sonderweg when interpreting the vicissitudes of the Graeco–German relationship.Read more...