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On 13 February 2013, Helen presented a paper entitled '"Neither Political nor National Socialist": Former Nazi elite-school pupils' conflicts with their contested pasts' at an international conference on Memories of Conflict, Conflicts of Memory, which was held at the Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of London.Read more...
New publication: 'The Leaders of the Third Reich and the Spartan Nationalist Paradigm'Helen's article, '"In Sparta fühlte ich mich wie in einer deutschen Stadt" (Goebbels): The Leaders of the Third Reich and the Spartan Nationalist paradigm' has just been published in a volume entitled English and German Nationalist and Antisemitic Discourse, 1871-1945, edited by Felicity Rash, Geraldine Horan and Daniel Wildmann.
The article is based on a paper presented at an eponyomous conference which took place at Queen Mary, University of London, in November 2010.Read more...
On 15 December 2012, Helen co-organised a colloquium on 'German Philhellenism' at the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge. The proceedings of the event have since been published in the journal Publications of the English Goethe Society.Read more...
On 8 December 2012, Helen presented a paper entitled '"Recreating a shared Graeco-German Aryan heritage": The ideal of Greek education for citizenship in National Socialist pedagogy' at the Legacy of Greek Political Thought Workshop, University of Bristol.Read more...
On 20 November 2012, Helen gave a talk on her current research to the Fitzwilliam History Society, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge.Read more...
New Publication: 'Go, tell the Prussians…'Helen's article, '"Go, tell the Prussians...": The Spartan paradigm in Prussian military thought during the long nineteenth century', has just been published in New Voices in Classical Reception Studies e-journal.
Helen’s article ‘"Spartanische Pimpfe": The Importance of Sparta in the Educational Ideology of the Adolf Hitler Schools’, in Sparta in Modern Thought, ed. Stephen Hodkinson, Ian Macgregor Morris (Swansea: Classical Press of Wales), has been acclaimed as a 'lucid analysis' by the Bryn Mawr Classical Review.Read more...
On 6 July 2012, Helen presented a paper entitled 'Xenophon and the Nazis, or: How to Read the Anabasis in the Third Reich, and other Classical classroom propaganda' at the 81st Anglo-American Conference of Historians, Institute of Historical Research, University of London.Read more...
On 12 April 2012, Helen presented a paper at the Classical Association annual conference, University of Exeter, entitled 'Youth of Sparta and of Mars: Uses and Abuses of Classics at the Royal Prussian Cadet-Corps'.Read more...
On the 2nd of April 2012, Helen presented a paper entitled '"Wanderer, kommst du nach Preußen....": Sparta as a model in Prussian military thought during the long nineteenth century' at the Association for German Studies annual conference, University of Edinburgh. Read more...