Author: Helen Roche
On 29 September 2017, Helen presented a paper entitled 'German Philhellenism and the Making of Western Humanism' at the sixth annual conference of the Society for the History of the Humanities, Somerville College, University of Oxford.Read more...
Presented at 'The Making of the Humanities VI', the sixth annual conference of the Society for the History of the Humanities, Somerville College, University of Oxford, 29 September 2017.Read more...
Public lecture in Nordhausen makes a media splashOn 24 October 2016, Helen gave a public lecture at Nordhausen's Museum Tabakspeicher, entitled 'Napola Ilfeld and other Nazi Elite Schools in Central Germany', organised by Town Archivist Dr. Wolfram Theilemann, in conjunction with the Nordhausen Society for History and Antiquity. The lecture also attracted attention in the local media.Read more...
Helen's review of Johanna Hanink's The Classical Debt: Greek Antiquity in an Era of Austerity (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2017), has just been published in Reviews in History.
Just out: MACAT Analyses of 'Bloodlands' and 'The Hitler Myth'Helen's analyses of Ian Kershaw's The Hitler Myth and Timothy Snyder's Bloodlands have recently been published by Routledge in the Macat Library series of guides to classic works of scholarship.
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Helen's review of Philanthropy, Civil Society, and the State in German History, 1815-1989, by Thomas Adam (Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2016), has just been published in the Modern Language Review.Read more...
On 15 June 2017, Helen presented a paper entitled '"Welchen Gang die alte Klosterschule gehen wird, scheint leider noch nicht festzustehen...": NS-Machtdurchsetzungsprozesse in der Nationalpolitischen Erziehungsanstalt Ilfeld' at a two-day conference organised by the Leibniz Universität Hannover's Institut für Didaktik der Demokratie, entitled 'Die Klosterkammer Hannover im Nationalsozialismus'.Read more...
On 13 June 2017, Helen presented a paper at the the Historisches Seminar, Leibniz Universität Hannover, entitled 'NS-Eliteerziehung in den Nationalpolitischen Erziehungsanstalten: Ausgeprägte Entbürgerlichung oder "Verbürgerlichung im braunen Mantel"?'Read more...
Invited paper, presented at an expert workshop entitled 'Die Klosterkammer Hannover im Nationalsozialismus', Institut für Didaktik der Demokratie, Leibniz Universität Hannover, 15 June 2017.Read more...
Invited lecture, presented at the Historisches Seminar, Leibniz Universität Hannover, 13 June 2017.Read more...