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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...
On 9 November 2018, Helen and Naoise Mac Sweeney organised a Mapping Workshop for the recently-founded 'Claiming the Classical' Research Network at the Institute of Classical Studies, London.Read more...
Helen's most recent edited volume, the Brill Companion to the Classics, Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany (2018) has received rave reviews in Fascism: Journal of Comparative Fascist Studies and in History of Humanities journal.Read more...
On 10 October 2018, Helen presented a paper entitled 'The Third Reich's Elite Schools and Nazi Imperialism' at Aberystwyth University's History Research Seminar.Read more...
On 15 September 2018, Helen presented a paper entitled 'The Austrian Bundeserziehungsanstalten, 1919-1933: Hotbeds Of Radicalism Or Seedbeds Of Reaction?' at an international conference entitled 'Aftermath: German and Austrian Cultural Responses to the End of World War I', held at King's College London.Read more...