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Talks

Spartan Ideals of Self-Sacrifice and German Military Propaganda

Presented at the Classics Department, University of Nottingham, in association with the Centre for Spartan and Peloponnesian Studies, 11 February 2014.Read more...

The Leaders of the Third Reich and the Spartan Nationalist Paradigm

Guest lecture, presented at the Centre for History and Culture of the Eastern Mediterranean (Centrum für Geschichte und Kultur des östlichen Mittelmeerraums), Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, 23 January 2014.Read more...

Narrating the Fall of Empires in Weimar and National Socialist Racial Ideology

Presented at the Cambridge Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) Fieldnotes Seminar, 11 November 2013.Read more...

Herrschaft durch Schulung: The 'Nationalpolitische Erziehungsanstalten im Osten' and the Third Reich's Germanising mission

Presented at an international conference entitled 'Nationalsozialismus und Regionalbewußtsein im östlichen Europa: Ideologie - Machtausbau - Beharrung', organised by the Europäisches Netzwerk Erinnerung und Solidarität and the Institut für Zeitgeschichte, 24 October 2013.Read more...

Fight or Flight? Narrating the fate of Nazi elite-school pupils during the collapse of the Third Reich

Presented at an international conference entitled Children and War: Past and Present, University of Salzburg, 10 July 2013.Read more...

Conducting Correspondence and Oral History Interviews with former Napola-pupils: Some methodological perspectives

Presented at a workshop on 'Formen und Medien der Erinnerung', hosted by the Arbeitsgruppe ZeugInnenschaft, Zentrum Jüdische Studien Berlin-Brandenburg, 5 July 2013.Read more...

Wanderer, kommst Du nach Sparta oder nach Stalingrad? Thermopylaean topoi in the twentieth-century imagination

Visiting Lecture, given to the TOPOI Excellence Cluster: The Formation and Transformation of Space and Knowledge in Ancient Civilizations, Freie Universität Berlin, 27 June 2013.Read more...

Philhellenism and Laconophilia in Nineteenth-Century Germany: Some nationalist perspectives

Presented at an international conference on Graeco-Roman Antiquity and the Idea of Nationalism in the 19th Century, University of Durham, 22 June 2013.Read more...

"Anti-Enlightenment": National Socialist educators' troubled relationship with humanism and the philhellenist tradition

Presented at an international conference on 'Post-Classicisms', University of Cambridge, 17 June 2013.Read more...

"Why we knew nothing about Auschwitz": Former Nazi elite-school pupils' attempts to come to terms with the Holocaust

Public lecture, given at the Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide, London, 24 May 2013.Read more...