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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...

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

Presented at Declines and Falls: Perspectives in European History and Historiography - Twenty Years of the European Review of History / Revue européenne d'histoire - An Anniversary Conference, Central European University, Budapest, 17 May 2013.Read more...

Goebbels' Grecian Obsession: Philhellenism and the leaders of the Third Reich

Presented at the Classical Association Conference 2013, University of Reading, 5 April 2013.Read more...

Zwischen Freundschaft und Feindschaft: Exploring relationships between pupils at the Napolas and British public schoolboys

Presented at an international conference on Anglo-German Perceptions and Prejudices since 1800, University of Cambridge, 21-22 March 2013.Read more...

Kadettengeschichten: Exploring the Prussian cadet-school story

Presented at Approaching War (Europe): Childhood, Culture and the First World War, 1880-1919, University of Newcastle, 16-17 March 2013.Read more...

"Neither Political nor National Socialist": Former Nazi elite-school pupils' conflicts with their contested pasts

Presented at an international conference on 'Memories of Conflict, Conflicts of Memory', Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of London, 13 February 2013.Read more...

Problematising German Philhellenism in the Twentieth Century and Beyond: Some informal reflections

Presented at the Classical Reception Discussion Group Colloquium on German Philhellenism, University of Cambridge, 15 December 2012.Read more...