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'Distant Models: Italian Fascism, National Socialism and the lure of the Classics'

in Brill's Companion to the Classics, Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, ed. Helen Roche, Kyriakos Demetriou, Leiden (Brill) 2018, pp. 3-28.

This introduction to Brill's Companion to the Classics, Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany sets the other contributions to the volume in context.

The ideas in this introduction have been more fully explored in a recent article in Fascism: Journal of Comparative Fascist Studies.Read more...

'Blüte und Zerfall: "Schematic Narrative Templates" of decline and fall in völkisch and National Socialist racial ideology'

in The Persistence of Race: Continuity and Change in Germany from the Wilhelmine Empire to National Socialism, ed. Lara Day, Oliver Haag, Oxford (Berghahn) 2017, pp. 65-86.

At the turn of the 20th century, the idea that the destinies of races, nations and empires were universal and biologically determined (whenever in human history they existed) was the preserve of a minority of racial theorists and academics. However, within a few decades, such ideas came to dominate National Socialist thought, and were propagated in ideological and educational material throughout the Third Reich.Read more...

German Philhellenism and the Making of Western Humanism

Presented at 'The Making of the Humanities VI', the sixth annual conference of the Society for the History of the Humanities, Somerville College, University of Oxford, 29 September 2017.Read more...

Public lecture in Nordhausen makes a media splashPublic lecture in Nordhausen makes a media splash

On 24 October 2016, Helen gave a public lecture at Nordhausen's Museum Tabakspeicher, entitled 'Napola Ilfeld and other Nazi Elite Schools in Central Germany', organised by Town Archivist Dr. Wolfram Theilemann, in conjunction with the Nordhausen Society for History and Antiquity. The lecture also attracted attention in the local media.Read more...

"Welchen Gang die alte Klosterschule gehen wird, scheint leider noch nicht festzustehen…": NS-Machtdurchsetzungsprozesse in der Nationalpolitischen Erziehungsanstalt Ilfeld

Invited paper, presented at an expert workshop entitled 'Die Klosterkammer Hannover im Nationalsozialismus', Institut für Didaktik der Demokratie, Leibniz Universität Hannover, 15 June 2017.Read more...

NS-Eliteerziehung in den Nationalpolitischen Erziehungsanstalten: Ausgeprägte Entbürgerlichung oder "Verbürgerlichung im braunen Mantel"?

Invited lecture, presented at the Historisches Seminar, Leibniz Universität Hannover, 13 June 2017.Read more...

'Distant models?' Fascism, National Socialism and the lure of the Classics

Presented at a workshop on 'Politicizing the Social and the Cultural in the Histories of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany', Magdalene College, University of Cambridge, 9 June 2017.Read more...

Eine Vergangenheit, die lieber vergessen wird? Scholarly habitus-forming, professional amnesia, and postwar engagement with Nazi classical scholarship

Presented at an expert workshop entitled 'A Fresh Look Backwards: "Scholarly Forgetting" in the History of the Classics', Institut für klassische Philologie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 7 April 2017.Read more...

'Ultimate Palingenesis'? Nazism, Fascism, and the lure of mythic antiquity

Presented at an international conference entitled 'Protagonists of Political Mythology: How do Individuals and Collectives become History?', House of Commons, Palace of Westminster, 25 March 2017.Read more...

'Places of Amnesia' and Postwar German Memory Culture

Presented at 'Thinking through the Future of Memory', the inaugural conference of the Memory Studies Association, University of Amsterdam, 5 December 2016.Read more...