Author: Helen Roche
Helen has been selected as a finalist for the BBC Radio 3/AHRC New Generation Thinkers Scheme 2021.
The scheme showcases early-career academics who can bring the best of university research and scholarly ideas to a broad audience through the media and public engagement.Read more...
Presented at the History Department Research Seminar, Durham University, 20 October 2021.Read more...
On 7 December 2020, Helen took part in a zoom panel discussion on 'Monuments and Memory', as part of the Gala Theatre's 'History Now' lecture series.Read more...
On 3 December 2020, Helen acted as a discussant for a postgraduate workshop organised by the Memory Studies Association's 'Memory and Populism' working group.Read more...
On 23 November 2020, Helen gave a public lecture on zoom as part of the Durham Gala Theatre's 'History Now' lecture series, entitled 'Nazi Elite-School Exchange Programmes with British Public Schools during the 1930s'.Read more...
Keynote presentation, presented virtually at the launch conference of the European Classical Reception Research Network, St. Andrews, 29 May 2021.Read more...
Helen has been appointed as a member of the advisory board and organising committee for the online conference Thermopylae 2500, commemorating the 2,500th anniversary of the Battle of Thermopylae.Read more...
On 11 November 2020, Helen Roche and Sam Agbamu hosted a round table discussion on behalf of the 'Claiming the Classical' Research Network, as part of an international zoom conference on 'Classical Controversies', held at Leiden University, Netherlands.Read more...
On 6 November 2020, Helen organised the annual Durham-Münster Postgraduate Workshop - part of an ongoing collaboration between the History Departments at Durham and the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster.Read more...
Helen's review of Martin Gutmann's monograph Building a Nazi Europe: The SS's Germanic Volunteers (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017), has just been published in History: The Journal of the Historical Association.Read more...