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

[Beaton, Roderick]

Monday 23 November, 17.30-19.00

The Caryatids’ lament: the ‘Elgin Marbles’ in modern Greek literature<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/ahri/eventrecords/2015-2016/CHS/elginmarbles.aspx>

Council Room (K2.29), King’s Building, Strand Campus

A seminar with Georgia Gotsi (University of Patras). For the past two centuries, the tale of the ‘Caryatids’ Lament’ has generated different forms of telling and retelling, measuring up to a national ‘myth’. The talk will outline the tale’s biography pointing to crucial episodes of ideological translation. It will show that it was only at the end of the 19th century, and by virtue of literary discourse (neglected by recent anthropological/archaeological studies of Greek identity), that this mnemonic tale of cultural violence was reshaped into a metaphor of Greece’s mutilated cultural wholeness, and an allegedly living proof of the Hellenes’ essential bond with the works of their forefathers. More crucially, in Palamas’ poetry the tale was rewritten as an expression of the resistance of the modern Greek spirit to Western European cultural supremacy.
This event is open to all and free to attend. Booking is not required.
Part of the Modern Greek Studies seminar series.



Tuesday 24 November, 19.00-21.00

Greek Archaeological Committee Annual Lecture<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/ahri/eventrecords/2015-2016/CHS/gac2015.aspx>

‘Unearthing the past and engaging the present at Eleutherna, Crete’
Great Hall, King’s Building, Strand Campus

Prof. Nicolaos Stampolidis (University of Crete; Director, Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens) presents a lecture on the archaeological site of Eleutherna, Crete. Eleutherna’s historic zenith is the period between the 9th and 6th centuries BC as attested by the archaeological finds. The excavations in the necropolis of Orthe Petra on the Prine hillside have revealed ample evidence of Eleutherna’s social and economic structure and its trade and cultural relations with other Cretan towns, the Cyclades, the Greek mainland, Asia Minor, Cyprus, the Syropalestinian coast and Egypt. Of exceptional importance are depictions on tomb walls from the necropolis, of scenes from the Iliad. Other periods of prosperity such as the Hellenistic, Roman and Early Christian will also be mentioned. Finally, a review of the restoration, maintenance and landscaping of this prime archaeological site will be presented, as well as the creation of the new local museum whose exhibits’ theme is ‘the presence of Homer in Crete’.
Followed by a reception.
This event is open to all and free to attend. Booking is not required.



Please note that the following event is CANCELLED
Saturday 21 November, 11.30-18.00
Prosopa: persons real or imagined<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/ahri/eventrecords/2015-2016/CHS/prosopa.aspx>
The launch of the next version of the online Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire, and this accompanying event, have had to be postponed; an announcement will be made in early 2016.



Forthcoming Conference:



Friday 4 December 2015, 9.15-18.00
Visions and realities: Cypriot experience in the transition from empire<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/ahri/eventrecords/2015-2016/CHS/visionsandrealities.aspx>
Council Room (K2.29), King’s Building, Strand Campus
A one-day international conference under the auspices of the High Commissioner of the Republic of Cyprus, Mr Euripides L. Evriviadis, in honour of ProfessorRobert Holland, sponsored by the A. G. Leventis Foundation and the Cyprus High Commission, London.
The conference will bring together scholars specializing in modern Cypriot History and will create the forum for new findings on the island’s colonial and post-colonial experience, with a strong focus on Cyprus’s transition from a colony to an independent state. Simultaneously it will witness how modern Cypriot History has evolved in British historical academia over recent years.
Keynote speakers:
Professor Paschalis M. Kitromilides (University of Athens)
Professor John Darwin (University of Oxford)
Click here to view the programme.<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/ahri/centres/CHS/Documents/2015.12.04.-updated-programme.pdf>
This event is open to all and free to attend, but please book in advance using the link https://visionsandrealities.eventbrite.co.uk<https://visionsandrealities.eventbrite.co.uk/>






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Roderick Beaton
Koraes Professor of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and
Literature
Department of Classics
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/classics/people/academic/beaton/index.aspx<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/chs/people/academic/beaton/index.aspx>

Byron's War: Romantic Rebellion, Greek Revolution
www.cambridge.org/9781107470385


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