Presented at the German History Society Annual Conference, King’s College London, 4 September 2019.
Talks
Napola Exchanges with U.S. Academies
Zoom presentation, given to upper-level history pupils at St Andrew's School, Delaware, 21 April 2020.Read more...
Back to the Ancient Greek Future? Greek Antiquity as Paradigm in National Socialist Classical Education
Presented at an international conference entitled Writing Ancient History in the Interwar Period (1918-1939), Newcastle University, 24 January 2020.Read more...
Theorising the Use and Abuse of the Classical past in Mussolini's Third Rome and Hitler's Third Reich
Presented at an international conference entitled Classics and the Spectacular under Fascism: Classical Performance in the ‘Ventennio Fascista, Ioannou Centre, University of Oxford, 16 December 2019.Read more...
Aryan Antiquity? The Rhetoric of Race in Nazi Pedagogy (and beyond)
Presented at an international conference entitled Is Europe Inclusive? Politics, Discourses and Practices, Radboud Universiteit, Nijmegen, 14 November 2019.Read more...
"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...
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...