[MGSA-L] CENTRE for HELLENIC STUDIES, King's College London events in semester 2

Tue Jan 5 02:00:18 PST 2016

Please find below the CHS events for Semester 2 and advance notice of some of our summer events:

Monday 18 January 2016, 17.30

Theodore Stephanides, poet-translator extraordinary: his work (known and unknown) on Greek poets from Sappho to Palamas<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/ahri/eventrecords/2015-2016/CHS/stephanides.aspx>
Council Room (K2.29), King’s Building, Strand Campus

A seminar with Anthony Hirst (King’s College London), followed by a book launch.
Part of the Modern Greek Studies seminar series

Tuesday 26 January, 17.30-19.00

The Laskarids and the Seljuks: material cultural evidence for contact and exchange<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/ahri/eventrecords/2015-2016/CHS/Laskarids-Seljuks.aspx>

SW1.09, Somerset House East Wing, Strand Campus

A seminar with Scott Redford (SOAS)
Part of the Late Antique & Byzantine seminar series

Thursday 4 February 2016, 18.00

The 25th Annual Runciman Lecture
<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/ahri/eventrecords/2015-2016/CHS/runcimanlecture2016.aspx>
Professor Lord Renfrew, ‘Who were the Greeks? New insights from Linguistics and Genetics’
Great Hall and Entrance Hall, King’s Building, Strand Campus
Followed by a Reception

Monday 8 February, 18.30 (Date changed from 1 February)

Hazardous operations: British SOE agents in Nazi-occupied Greece and the strain of clandestine warfare<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/ahri/eventrecords/2015-2016/CHS/hazardousoperations.aspx>

Anatomy Lecture Theatre (K6.29), King’s Building, Strand Campus

A seminar with Roderick Bailey (Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, Oxford).
A joint event with the Society for Modern Greek Studies<http://www.moderngreek.org.uk/society/>, followed by a reception in the Anatomy Museum
Part of the Modern Greek Studies seminar series

Tuesday 9 February, 17.30-19.00

‘The Shape of Water’: Rewriting virgin martyrs in Byzantium<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/ahri/eventrecords/2015-2016/CHS/Metaphrasis.aspx>

SW1.09, Somerset House East Wing, Strand Campus

A seminar with Anne Alwis (University of Kent)
Part of the Late Antique & Byzantine seminar series

Monday 15 February, 17.30-19.00

Trust, faith and confidence in times of crisis<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/ahri/eventrecords/2015-2016/CHS/trustfaith.aspx>

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

A seminar with Maria Couroucli (CNRS, Paris)
Part of the Modern Greek Studies seminar series

Tuesday 1 March, 17.30-19.00

Four miniatures recently rediscovered: Christian Art in Muslim Anatolia and manuscript trade in 20th-century Europe<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/ahri/eventrecords/2015-2016/CHS/Miniatures.aspx>

SW1.09, Somerset House East Wing, Strand Campus

A seminar with Ioanna Rapti (École pratique des Hautes Études, Paris)
Part of the Late Antique & Byzantine seminar series

Monday 7 March, 17.30-19.00

Attributing an identity to a language: the Greek case<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/ahri/eventrecords/2015-2016/CHS/attributing.aspx>

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

A seminar with Pietro Bortone (University of Oxford)
Part of the Modern Greek Studies seminar series

Tuesday 15 March, 17.30-19.00

Egyptian Bishops in the Twilight of Rome<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/ahri/eventrecords/2015-2016/CHS/EgyptianBishops.aspx>

SW1.09, Somerset House East Wing, Strand Campus

A seminar with Philip Booth (University of Oxford)
Part of the Late Antique & Byzantine seminar series

Wednesday 16 March 2016, 18.30-19.30

The Third Annual Rumble Fund Lecture: ‘Queering Classical Art’

Great Hall, King’s Building, Strand Campus

Whitney Davis (University of California, Berkeley), will explore modes of ‘queering’ ancient Greek art and will re-examine some standard interpretive modes in the aftermath of J. J. Winckelmann’s 1764 History of the Art of Antiquity.

Monday 21 March, 17.30-19.00

Ottoman diplomacy, humanist fiction and diplomatic poetics in the 18th-century Balkans<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/ahri/eventrecords/2015-2016/CHS/balkans.aspx>

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

A seminar with Miltos Pechlivanos (Freie-Universität, Berlin)
Part of the Modern Greek Studies seminar series and also part of the Greek-Turkish Encounters series, with SOAS

Wednesday 8 June, 13.00 - Friday 10 June, 19.00

The art of Hegel’s Aesthetics: Hegelian philosophy and the perspectives of Art History<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/ahri/eventrecords/2015-2016/CHS/hegel.aspx>

River Room, King’s Building, Strand Campus

An international conference, hosted in partnership with the Internationales Kolleg Morphomata (Universität zu Köln) and the New School for Social Research (New York)

Wednesday 15 June 2016, 16.00-17.00

Centre for Hellenic Studies Annual General Meeting
Council Room (K2.29), King’s Building, Strand Campus

Wednesday 15 June 2016, 18.00-20.00

Katie Lentakis Memorial Fund Award<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/ahri/eventrecords/2015-2016/CHS/lentakis2016.aspx>

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

In association with the Anglo-Hellenic League, followed by a book launch

Best wishes,

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

Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 7963
Email: chsevents at kcl.ac.uk<mailto:chsevents at kcl.ac.uk>
Web: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/ahri/centres/CHS/Events/events.aspx
Twitter: @kingschs<https://twitter.com/kingsCHS>

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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