News
Helen's review of Making Prussians, Raising Germans: A Cultural History of Prussian State-Building after Civil War, 1866-1935, by Jasper Heinzen (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017) has recently appeared in German History.Read more...
On 24 July 2018, Helen presented a paper entitled 'Nazi Elite-School Pupils' Anti-Semitic Activism and the Holocaust' at the fifth annual conference of the British Association for Holocaust Studies, University of Leeds.Read more...
Helen's article 'Schulische Erziehung und Entbürgerlichung' has just been published in a volume edited by Norbert Frei, entitled Wie bürgerlich war der Nationalsozialismus?.
This article uses the elite education provided by the Napolas, the Third Reich's most prominent elite schools, as a case study of the manifold ways in which elements of a bürgerlich habitus were cultivated during the Third Reich, despite the Nazi movement’s claims to embody socialist principles.Read more...
On 2-4 July 2018, along with colleagues Philipp Ebert and Henning Grunwald, Helen co-organised an international conference funded by the DAAD Cambridge Research Hub, entitled 'The Politics of Amnesia: Germany and Beyond, 1800-2018'.Read more...
On 29 June 2018, Helen presented a paper entitled 'From Winckelmania to the Wehrmacht: Receptions of Winckelmann in the German-speakingworld' at an international workshop entitled 'Ideals and Nations: New perspectives on the European reception of Winckelmann’s aesthetics', Christ Church College, Oxford.Read more...
On 28 June 2018, Helen helped to organise an AHRC-funded project workshop at the UCL Institute of Advanced Studies, entitled 'Understanding Perpetration and Complicity'.Read more...
On 23 June 2018, Helen presented a paper entitled 'National Socialist Elite-School Pupils on the Move: The Nazi Exchange Programmes with British Public Schools' at the second biennial conference of the Children's History Society, Children and Youth on the Move, which was held at the University of Greenwich.Read more...
Helen's article 'The Peculiarities of German Philhellenism' has just been published in The Historical Journal.
This review essay surveys historiographical developments in the literature on German philhellenism which have emerged in the past dozen years (2004–16), drawing on research in German studies, classical philology and reception studies, Modern Greek studies, intellectual history, philosophy, art history, and archaeology.Read more...
Helen has just published an article entitled 'Antisemitismus und Eliteerziehung in den Nationalpolitischen Erziehungsanstalten' in the newsletter of the Stiftung niedersächsische Gedenkstätten (2017).
This year's newsletter, edited by Jens Wagner, is entitled Schwerpunktthema – Kindheit im Nationalsozialismus. The edition features articles on childhood under National Socialism.Read more...
On 8 June 2018, Helen organised a one-day interdisciplinary workshop entitled 'What Remains? Fascist Antiquities and Materialities from the Interwar Era to the Present Day', at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.Read more...