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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...
On 24 May 2013, Helen gave a public lecture at the Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, Russell Square, London.Read more...
On 17 May 2013, Helen presented a paper entitled '"Blüte und Zerfall"?: "Schematic Narrative Templates" of Decline and Fall in National Socialist Racial Ideology' at an international conference held at the Central European University, Budapest.Read more...
On 4 May 2013, Helen co-organised a one-day colloquium on 'Greece and/or Rome', which was held at the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge, as part of the Faculty's regular series of 'Classical Reception Discussion Group' seminars and colloquia.Read more...
On 30 April 2013, Helen presented a talk on her recent research at one of Lucy Cavendish College's Anna Bidder Research Evenings.Read more...