Author: Helen Roche

Helen's article 'Schulische Erziehung und Entbürgerlichung' has just been published in a volume edited by Norbert Frei, entitled Wie bürgerlich war der Nationalsozialismus?.
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 bürgerlich habitus were cultivated during the Third Reich, despite the Nazi movement’s claims to embody socialist principles.Read more...
Presented at the British Association for Holocaust Studies Annual Conference, University of Leeds, 24 July 2018.Read more...
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...