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Talks

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...

Spartan pedagogy, German style? Prussian military education and the Spartan paradigm

Presented at an international conference entitled 'Married to the Military: Soldier's Families in the Ancient World and Beyond', The Open University in London, 12 November 2016.Read more...

Researching Children's Histories under the Third Reich: Some challenges explored

Invited lecture, presented to the Wolfson College Humanities Society, Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, 8 November 2016.Read more...

Die Napola Ilfeld und andere NS-Eliteanstalten in Mitteldeutschland

Public lecture, presented at the Museum Tabakspeicher, Nordhausen am Harz, 24 October 2016.Read more...

Erziehung und Entbürgerlichung, oder: Wie bürgerlich war die NS-Elitebildung eigentlich?

Presented at an international symposium entitled 'Wie bürgerlich war der Nationalsozialismus?', Jena Center for 20th-century History, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, 22 October 2016.Read more...

Living History: Is the history of the recent past different?

Presented to the Cambridge Teacher Seminar as part of a series of invited lectures on 'Why History Matters', Westcott House, University of Cambridge, 7 July 2016.Read more...

Childhood under National Socialism: A truly "Horrible History"?

Presented at the inaugural conference of the Children's History Society, 'Horrible Histories? Children's Lives in Historical Contexts', King's College London, 16 June 2016.Read more...

Contested Youth? The instrumentalisation of testimony in life-writing by former Nazi elite-school pupils

Presented at an international conference entitled 'Life of Testimony / Testimony of Lives: A Life-Writing Conference', Queen Mary, University of London, 6 May 2016.Read more...