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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...
November 2018, Helen gave a public lecture entitled ‘Die Klosterschule Ilfeld als Nationalpolitische Erziehungsanstalt’ at the concluding conference of the Volkswagen-funded research project ‘Die Klosterkammer Hannover in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus’, which was held at the Volkshochschule in Hannover.Read more...
On 26 November 2018, Helen presented a paper entitled ‘Mussolini’s “Third Rome”, Hitler’s Third Reich, and the Allure of Antiquity’ at Professor Arnd Bauerkämper’s Historical Research Seminar, Freie Universität Berlin.Read more...
On 14 November 2018, Helen presented a paper entitled 'Nazi Elite Schools and the Third Reich's Germanisation programme' to the Modern History Seminar at the University of East Anglia.Read more...
On 10 November 2018, Helen presented a paper entitled 'Reactionary Violence, the Freikorps, and the Legacy of War and Revolution for the Royal Prussian Cadet-Corps' at an international conference entitled 'Make Revolution Great Again: The Context and Legacy of the 1918-19 German Revolution', All Souls College, Oxford.Read more...