School of Languages, Cultures, Art History and Music
Position:Faculty Member
Nick added themselves to the department School of Languages, Cultures, Art History and Music.
Nick updated a paper
Nick started following the work of Vanda Wilcox, John Cabot University, History and Humanities.
- 20th Century German History
- Ernst Jünger
- European intellectual history
- Experience of WW1 for artists and intellectuals
- First World War
- Friedrich Hölderlin
- German History
- German Literature
- German Literature and Culture
- Goethe
- Great War
- History
- Intellectual History
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Nietzsche
- Philosophy
- Political Violence
- Political Violence and Terrorism
- War Studies
- Weimar Republic
Talks
Nietzsche - American Idol?
| Where: | Loyola University Maryland. Cardin Faculty Seminar - Nietzsche's Challenges to the Judaeo-Christian Tradition |
| When: | 19th April 2012, 3pm - 5pm |
Nietzsche in France
| Where: | Loyola University Maryland. Cardin Faculty Seminar - Nietzsche's Challenges to the Judaeo-Christian Tradition |
| When: | 15th March 2012, 3pm - 5pm |
Nietzsche and Nazism
| Where: | Loyola University Maryland. Cardin Faculty Seminar - Nietzsche's Challenges to the Judaeo-Christian Tradition |
| When: | 16th February 2012, 3pm - 5pm |
Nietzsche, Christ and Superman
| Where: | Loyola University Maryland. Cardin Faculty Seminar - Nietzsche's Challenges to the Judaeo-Christian Tradition |
| When: | 19th January 2012, 3pm - 5pm |
Nietzsche's "Good European"
| Where: | Loyola University Maryland. Cardin Faculty Seminar - Nietzsche's Challenges to the Judaeo-Christian Tradition |
| When: | 17th November 2011, 3pm - 5pm |
Beyond Good and Evil
| Where: | Loyola University Maryland. Cardin Faculty Seminar - Nietzsche's Challenges to the Judaeo-Christian Tradition |
| When: | 20th October 2011, 3pm - 5pm |
"God is dead" - Long live nihilism?
| Where: | Maryland Hall, Loyola University Maryland, (Cardin Faculty Seminar - Nietzsche's Challenges to the Judaeo-Christian Tradition) |
| When: | 15th September 2011, 3pm - 5pm |
Nietzsche's Dialectic of Enlightenment
| Where: | Keynote address – "Between Reason and Unreason: Nietzsche – The Enlightenment – Romanticism". 18th International Conference of the Friedrich Nietzsche Society, Centre for Anglo-German Cultural Relations, Queen Mary, University of London |
| Dates: | 9th September 2011 - 11th September 2011 |
| When: | 10th September 2011, 11am - 12pm |
"The Execrable Neech": Nietzsche in Britain, 1914-1945
| Where: | The Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, Royal Northern College of Music |
| When: | 17th May 2011, 7pm - 8pm |
‘Stranger than Fiction: Literary Transformations of War Experience in the Weimar Republic’
| Where: | "Beyond Glitter and Doom. New Perspectives of the Weimar Republic", Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, London |
| When: | 30th September 2010 |
‘"The Magic Mountain" in the German Literary Landscape after the First World War’
| Where: | "Aftermath: Legacies and Memories of War in Europe, 1918–1945–1989", University of Birmingham |
| When: | 23rd September 2010 |
‘Reluctant Recruits? Schiller and Shakespeare in the Trenches, 1914–1918’
| Where: | Who is this Schiller [now]? Friedrich Schiller 1759-1805-2009 California State University, Long Beach, California |
| Dates: | 10th September 2009 - 11th September 2009 |
| When: | 10th September 2009 |
‘"Ecce Homo": How One Reviews One’s Self’
| Where: | "Nietzsche’s ‘Ecce Homo’ – A Centenary Conference", Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, London |
| When: | 27th November 2008 |
'Langemarck 1914: The Battle and the Myth’
| Where: | Western Front Association, York Branch |
| When: | 6th October 2007 |
‘In Sickness and in Health: Nietzsche’s Goethe’
| Where: | English Goethe Society, IGRS, London |
| When: | 19th April 2007 |
‘The German War Horse: Ernst Johannsen’s "A Horse's Memoir of the Front" (1929)'
| Where: | "The Horse in the Great War". Spring Day School. Centre for First World War Studies. University of Birmingham. |
| When: | 24th February 2007, 3pm - 4pm |
The talk examines Ernst Johannsen’s thematising of the role and plight of the horse – in this case, a German mare – on the Western Front.
Some 53 years before the publication of Michael Morpurgo’s “War Horse”, Johannsen’s "A Horse's Memoir of the Front" (1929) creates an equine (narrator-)protagonist as an ingenious device with which to expose the madness of (the) war.
‘“Er war einer der Unseren“: Schillerbilder, Dr. Goebbels and Wilhelm Tell’
| Where: | "Schiller: National Poet – Poet of Nations" - International Schiller Symposium, University of Birmingham |
| When: | June 2005 |
'Thomas Mann’s Nietzschean Bargain'
| Where: | "The Thomas Mann Colloquium", English Goethe Society, Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, London |
| When: | March 2005 |
‘Schiller’s Great War: “Im Kriege selber ist das Letzte nicht der Krieg”’
| Where: | "Friedrich Schiller: Poetry, Drama, Ideas", English Goethe Society Conference, Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, London |
| When: | January 2005 |
'Nietzsche's American Dream'
| Where: | Valedictory Lecture, California State University, Long Beach |
| When: | May 2004 |
‘Inviting Barbarism: Nietzsche’s Will to Russia’
| Where: | "Germany and the Imagined East" - 12th Annual Interdisciplinary German Studies Conference, University of California, Berkeley |
| When: | March 2004 |
‘”Nur das Jüngste Gericht, das war sie nicht”: Suffering and Closure in German Literary Treatments of Allied Bombing’
| Where: | "German Suffering / Deutsches Leid: Re(-)presentations" - International Interdisciplinary Conference, Cornell University |
| When: | March 2004 |
‘”Revolution is eternally justified only as an aesthetic phenomenon”: Schiller and the Ugliness of the Political World’
| Where: | 35th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Boston, MA |
| When: | March 2004 |
‘Rocking the Boat: Günter Grass’ "Crabwalk" and Postwar German Memory’,
| Where: | "Nations and Narrations: War and Narrative in 20th-Century Europe" - 7th Annual Conference of the Group for War and Culture Studies, University of Westminster |
| When: | May 2003 |
‘Breeding Greeks: Nietzsche and Classical Theories of Race’
| Where: | "Nietzsche and the Classical Tradition" - 12th Annual Conference of the Friedrich Nietzsche Society, University of Glasgow |
| When: | September 2002 |
‘Fighting over a Philosophy: Nietzsche in Britain, 1900–1915’
| Where: | "Peacemakers and Warmongers: Anglo-German Interactions in Politics and Letters before World War I" - International Conference, University of Leeds |
| When: | April 2002 |