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On 16 December 2019, Helen presented a keynote paper entitled ‘Theorising the Use and Abuse of the Classical Past in Mussolini’s Third Rome and Hitler’s Third Reich’ at an international conference on Classics and the Spectacular under Fascism: Classical Performance in the ‘Ventennio Fascista’, held at the Ioannou Centre, University of Oxford, and hosted by the Archive of Performances of Greek andRead more...
On 14 November 2019, Helen presented a paper entitled ‘Aryan Antiquity? The Rhetoric of Race in Nazi Pedagogy (and beyond)’ at an international conference on the theme Is Europe Inclusive? Politics, Discourses and Practices, held at Radboud Universiteit, Nijmegen.Read more...
Helen's review of The Oxford Illustrated History of the Third Reich, edited by Robert Gellately (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), has just been published in History journal.Read more...
On 14 September 2019, Helen gave a talk at the Wewelsburg as part of a symposium entitled “Demokratie und Diktatur in Deutschland aus britischer Sicht”, alongside historians Mary Fulbrook, Caroline Pearce and Helen Boak.Read more...
Helen has been appointed to the academic advisory board of a project entitled ‘Nordhausen April 1945: Hintergründe, Opfer, Erinnerung’, initiated by Nordhausen Town Council and its Mayor, Kai Buchmann, to research the genesis of the Allied bombing raid which took place in April 1945 and destroyed the whole of Nordhausen’s medieval city, and its ramifications in post-war GDR memory culture.Read more...
On 22 March 2019, Helen presented a paper entitled ‘Nazi elite-school pupils as youth ambassadors between Fascist Italy and the Third Reich’ at an international conference on Comparing the Cultural History of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, Freie Universität Berlin.Read more...
On 19 March 2019, Helen presented a paper entitled ‘Back to the Ancient Future! Classicising National Imaginaries in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany’ as part of a seminar series entitled ‘We the People? Community Beyond the State’, hosted by Durham University’s Institute of Advanced Studies.Read more...
On 8 February 2019, Helen presented a paper entitled ‘Archival Violence and Violent Institutions: Researching the Royal Prussian Cadet-Corps (1818-1920)’ at an international interdisciplinary conference on The Nineteenth-Century Archive as a Discourse of Power, hosted by Durham University’s Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies.Read more...
On 30 January 2019, Helen presented a paper entitled ‘Nazifying the Classics? Humanistic Education in Hitler’s Germany’ to the Work-in-Progress Seminar, Department of Classics, Durham University.Read more...
New Publication: Die Klosterschule IlfeldHelen's article ‘Die Klosterschule Ilfeld als Nationalpolitische Erziehungsanstalt’ has just been published in Die Klosterkammer Hannover 1931-1955: Eine Mittelbehörde zwischen wirtschaftlicher Rationalität und Politisierung, ed. Detlef Schmiechen Ackermann et al., Göttingen (Wallstein).
The volume was published as part of a long-standing investigation of the history of the Klosterkammer Hannover under National Socialism, funded by the Volkswagen-Stiftung.Read more...