[MGSA-L] Forthcoming events in the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's College London

[Beaton, Roderick]

*Tonight*
Monday 16 March, 17.30-18.30
Engonopoulos’ poetry from Pindar to Abraham Lincoln
Council Room (K2.29), King’s Building, Strand Campus
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/ahri/eventrecords/2014-2015/CHS/engonopoulos.aspx
Liana Giannakopoulou will explore the relevance of antiquity in the poetry of Nikos Engonopoulos. Part of the Modern Greek seminar series.

Tuesday 24 March, 17.30-18.30
Non extinctus est fons musarum: the production & dissemination of Greek scientific manuscripts in the late Palaeologan period & after 1453
Council Room (K2.29), King’s Building, Strand Campus
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/ahri/eventrecords/2014-2015/CHS/illustratedmanuscripts.aspx
Francesca Marchetti will show how contacts with western scholars and universities, different approaches to the production of manuscripts, and the fascination exerted by the botanical and medical manuscripts, contributed to the transmission of a visual heritage that had a significant impact on western manuscripts and printed books. Part of the Late Antique & Byzantine seminar series.

Friday 8 - Sunday 10 May
Music, language & identity in modern Greece: defining a national art music in the nineteenth & twentieth centuries
Athens Conservatoire & the British School at Athens, Athens, Greece
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/ahri/eventrecords/2014-2015/CHS/music.aspx
This three-day conference will be of interest to those studying or with an interest in modern Greek poetry and music; ‘the autonomy of music’ and ‘national music’; ‘musical poetics’ of poets; the role of music in the construction of national identity; Balkan music; and more generally cultural approaches to poetry and music. Hosted by the Centre for Hellenic Studies & the Department of Music at King’s College London, Athens Conservatoire and the British School at Athens.


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>
Web: www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/chs/events/index.aspx<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/chs/events/index.aspx>
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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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