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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...
Helen was recently interviewed about her PhD-research by Dr. Jessica Hughes of Classics Confidential, the Open University’s vodcasting site for Classical ‘news, gossip and curiosities’. The interview has now been featured in an article on the Open University's website, entitled 'Bitesize interviews take a closer look at Classical Studies'.Read more...
On 14 February 2012, Helen presented a paper entitled '"Go, tell the Prussians": The Spartan Paradigm in Prussian Military Thought during the Long 19th Century' at The Guild, Cambridge University's Interdisciplinary 19th-century Forum.Read more...