Presented at the German History Society Annual Conference, King’s College London, 4 September 2019.
Work
"Zwischen Freundschaft und Feindschaft": Austauschprogramme zwischen den Nationalpolitischen Erziehungsanstalten und den Britischen “Public Schools”– eine Fallstudie
Presented at the 11. Wissenschaftliches Symposium: Demokratie und Diktatur in Deutschland aus britischer Sicht, Kreismuseum Wewelsburg, 14 September 2019.Read more...
'The Peculiarities of German Philhellenism'The Historical Journal 61 (2), 2018, pp. 541-60.
Studies of German philhellenism have often focused upon the idealization of Greece by German intellectuals, rather than the political relationship which existed between contemporary Germans and the Greek state from the Greek War of Independence onwards. This review essay explores the extent to which recent research affirms or rebuts the notion of a Hellenophile Sonderweg when interpreting the vicissitudes of the Graeco–German relationship.Read more...
Nazi Elite-school Pupils as Youth Ambassadors between Fascist Italy and the Third Reich
Presented at an international conference entitled Comparing the Cultural History of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, Freie Universität Berlin, 22 March 2019.Read more...
Archival Violence and Violent Institutions: Researching the Royal Prussian Cadet-Corps (1818-1920)
Presented at an international interdisciplinary conference entitled The Nineteenth-Century Archive as a Discourse of Power, Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies, University of Durham, 8 February 2019.Read more...
Back to the Ancient Future! Classicising National Imaginaries in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany
Presented as part of a seminar series entitled ‘We the People? Community Beyond the State’, Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Durham, 19 March 2019.Read more...
Nazifying the Classics? Humanistic Education in Hitler's Germany
Presented at the WiP Research Seminar, Department of Classics, University of Durham, 30 January 2019.Read more...
Die Klosterschule Ilfeld als Nationalpolitische Erziehungsanstalt
Presented at the Abschlusstagung des Forschungsprojekts “Die Klosterkammer Hannover in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus”, Volkshochschule Hannover, 28 November 2018.Read more...
Mussolini's “Third Rome”, Hitler's Third Reich, and the Allure of Antiquity
Presented at Professor Arnd Bauerkämper’s Historical Research Seminar, Freie Universität Berlin, 26 November 2018.Read more...
Nazi Elite Schools and the Third Reich's Germanisation programme
Presented at the Modern History Research Seminar, School of History, University of East Anglia, 14 November 2018.Read more...