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On 13 March 2018, Helen presented a paper entitled 'Classicising Chronopolitics: Appropriating Antiquity in Mussolini's "Third Rome" and Hitler's “Third Reich”' at the University of Oslo.Read more...
On 1 March 2018, Helen presented a lecture entitled 'Fascism and the Classics' to pupils at Cranleigh School, Surrey.Read more...
On 11 February 2018, Italian daily paper Il Manifesto featured Brill's Companion to the Classics, Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany in an article entitled 'L'antichità smontata e ricomposta: Nazismo/Fascismo - un "Companion" da Brill'.Read more...
On 8 February 2018, Helen presented a lecture entitled 'Appropriations of Antiquity in Mussolini's Italy and Hitler's Germany' as part of the Churchill Archives Centre History Lecture Series.Read more...
On 7 February 2018, Helen presented a paper entitled 'New Perspectives on Education during the Third Reich' at the Institute of Historical Research's Modern German History Seminar.Read more...
Helen's review of Wilhelm Müller und der Philhellenismus, edited by Marco Hillemann and Tobias Roth (Berlin: Frank & Timme, 2015), has recently appeared in German Quarterly.Read more...
New Book: Brill's Companion to the Classics, Fascist Italy and Nazi GermanyBrill's Companion to the Classics, Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, edited by Helen Roche and Kyriakos Demetriou, has just been published by Brill.
The volume provides the first ever guide to the manifold uses and reinterpretations of the classical tradition in Mussolini’s Italy and Hitler’s Germany. The essays contained within explore how political propaganda manipulated and reinvented the legacy of ancient Greece and Rome in order to create consensus and historical legitimation for the Fascist and National Socialist dictatorships.Read more...
On 10 November 2017, Helen spoke to around 80 members of the Pförtner Bund, the Schulpforta Old Boys' association, about the school's incarnation as a Napola, at their annual autumn reunion in Berlin.Read more...
New Publication: 'Blüte und Zerfall'Helen's article, 'Blüte und Zerfall: "Schematic Narrative Templates" of decline and fall in völkisch and National Socialist racial ideology', has just been published by Berghahn books in a volume entitled The Persistence of Race: Continuity and Change in Germany from the Wilhelmine Empire to National Socialism, edited by Lara Day and Oliver Haag.
“This is an impressively coherent and highly engaging volume.” · Dan Stone, Royal Holloway, University of London.Read more...
On 29 September 2017, Helen presented a paper entitled 'German Philhellenism and the Making of Western Humanism' at the sixth annual conference of the Society for the History of the Humanities, Somerville College, University of Oxford.Read more...