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On 11 November 2013, Helen presented a paper entitled 'Narrating the Fall of Empires in Weimar and National Socialist Racial Ideology' to the Fieldnotes Seminar at the Cambridge Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH).Read more...
On 24 October 2013, Helen presented a paper entitled 'Herrschaft durch Schulung: The "Nationalpolitische Erziehungsanstalten im Osten" and the Third Reich's Germanising Mission' at an international conference on 'Nationalsozialismus und Regionalbewußtsein im östlichen Europa: Ideologie - Machtausbau - Beharrung'.Read more...
New publication: "Wanderer, kommst du nach Pforta"Helen's article, '"Wanderer, kommst du nach Pforta": The tension between Classical tradition and the demands of a Nazi elite-school education at Schulpforta and Ilfeld, 1934–1945' has just been published in the latest issue of the European Review of History / revue européenne d'histoire. The paper explores the tensions which arose when Schulpforta, Germany’s most renowned humanistic boarding-school, was forcibly turned into a Nazi elite-school (a Nationalpolitische Erziehungsanstalt, or Napola).Read more...
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...
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...
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...
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...
On 17 June 2013, Helen presented a paper entitled '"Anti-Enlightenment": National Socialist Educators’ Troubled Relationship with Humanism and the Philhellenist Tradition' at a conference on 'Post-Classicisms', University of Cambridge.Read more...
On 29 May 2013, Helen presented a paper to the Classics Department at Reading University.Read more...