Author: Helen Roche
Outreach: Leicester University Distance-Learning CourseHelen has recently contributed to a distance-learning course which is currently offered by the University of Leicester, entitled 'Deconstructing Sparta'. The coursebook contains ten thematic chapters, which aim to synthesise the most up-to-date scholarship on Sparta in an engaging and readable fashion.
Helen's chapter, entitled 'Later Reception and Modern Recreation of Sparta', charts the development of Spartan reception through the ages.Read more...
Presented at an international conference entitled Children and War: Past and Present, University of Salzburg, 10 July 2013.Read more...
On 10 July 2013, Helen presented a paper entitled 'Fight or Flight? Narrating the fate of Nazi elite-school pupils during the collapse of the Third Reich' at an international conference on Children and War: Past and Present, University of Salzburg.Read more...
On 5 July 2013, Helen presented a paper entitled "Conducting Correspondence and Oral History Interviews with former Napola-pupils: Some methodological perspectives" at a workshop on 'Formen und Medien der Erinnerung' which was held at the Zentrum Jüdische Studien Berlin-Brandenburg.Read more...
Presented at a workshop on 'Formen und Medien der Erinnerung', hosted by the Arbeitsgruppe ZeugInnenschaft, Zentrum Jüdische Studien Berlin-Brandenburg, 5 July 2013.Read more...
Helen has been invited to the Freie Universität Berlin as a Visiting Lecturer affiliated with the TOPOI Excellence Cluster: The Formation and Transformation of Space and Knowledge in Ancient Civilizations. TOPOI is a research network hosted by the FU and the Humboldt Universität, and forms part of the newly-constituted Berliner Antike-Kolleg.Read more...
Visiting Lecture, given to the TOPOI Excellence Cluster: The Formation and Transformation of Space and Knowledge in Ancient Civilizations, Freie Universität Berlin, 27 June 2013.Read more...
On 22 June 2013, Helen presented a paper entitled 'Philhellenism and Laconophilia in Nineteenth-Century Germany: Some nationalist perspectives' at an international conference on Graeco-Roman Antiquity and the Idea of Nationalism in the 19th Century, University of Durham.Read more...
'Inhumane propaganda, humanely analysed?'Review of David B. Dennis' Inhumanities. Nazi Interpretations of Western Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), in Reviews in History.
For the past few years, David B. Dennis has had the unenviable task of steeping himself in the (turgid, yet strangely compelling) prose of the Völkischer Beobachter, the Nazi party’s major propaganda organ, and the Third Reich’s dailyRead more...
Presented at an international conference on Graeco-Roman Antiquity and the Idea of Nationalism in the 19th Century, University of Durham, 22 June 2013.Read more...