[MGSA-L] Forthcoming CHS events at King's College London

[Beaton, Roderick]

Dear Friend of CHS,

The Arts & Humanities Festival 2014: underground begins this week, with there being a few tickets still available for the events hosted by the Centre for Hellenic Studies. Below are details of these events, as well as a couple of upcoming seminars:

Saturday 18 October, 19.30-21.00
Rebetika & the Eastern Mediterranean underground
Presented by the Centre for Hellenic Studies & the Department of Music
Tutu’s, Macadam Building, Strand Campus
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/ahri/eventrecords/2014-2015/Festival/rebetika.aspx
Roderick Beaton (Director, CHS) and Martin Stokes (King Edward Professor of Music) will explore the musical underground, focusing on rebetika and broader Eastern Mediterranean soundscapes. With performances by Cigdem Aslan & Friends and Oxford Maqam. Part of the Arts & Humanities Festival 2014: underground.

Monday 20 October, 17.30-18.30
“Honoured prisoners of the Reich”: the Rizos Rangavis family, 1941-1945
Small Committee Room (K0.31), King’s Building, Strand Campus
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/ahri/eventrecords/2014-2015/CHS/prisoners.aspx
George Vassiadis (Royal Holloway) will draw upon unpublished archive materials to show how the harsh realities of World War II affected a family belonging to the Greek elite. Part of the Modern Greek seminar series.

Friday 24 October, 18.30-20.00
Hellish persons: personifications of the underworld from antiquity to the present
Presented by the Centre for Hellenic Studies & the Departments of Classics and Theology & Religious Studies
Nash Lecture Theatre (K2.31), King’s Building, Strand Campus
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/ahri/eventrecords/2014-2015/Festival/hellishpersons.aspx
Emmanuela Bakola (Department of Classics) will examine personifications of Hades in the classical Greek tradition, and Emily Pillinger (Departments of Classics & Liberal Arts) will then investigate the Roman expressions of this figure. Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe (Department of Classics) will explore the Christian Sheol/Hades of late antiquity and the early middle ages, and David Ricks (Centre for Hellenic Studies) will consider the figure of Charos in modern Greek poetry. Part of the Arts & Humanities Festival 2014: underground.


Best wishes,



Centre for Hellenic Studies
Arts & Humanities Research Institute
Faculty of Arts & Humanities
King’s College London

Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 2375
Email: chsevents at kcl.ac.uk<mailto:chsevents at kcl.ac.uk>
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Roderick Beaton
Koraes Professor of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and
Literature
Director, Centre for Hellenic Studies
King's College London
Strand
London WC2R 2LS
UK
tel. 0044 20 7848 2517

Webpage:
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/chs/people/academic/beaton/index.aspx

Byron's War: Romantic Rebellion, Greek Revolution (CUP, April 2013), now in paperback:
www.cambridge.org/9781107470385


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