Events & lectures 2009-10

All its activities are free, open to the public and designed to be accessible to a wide audience.

Neither Jew nor Greek? Greek Jews after the War
^{Monday 17 May 2010 at 18.00 in the Edmond J Safra Lecture Theatre, Strand Campus}
An illustrated lecture by KE Fleming, author of Greece: A Jewish History, winner of the 2009 Runciman Award.
Other awards and distinctions for Greece: A Jewish History include:

• Winner of the Prix Alberto Benveniste for 2010
• Winner of the 2008 National Jewish Book Award in the category of Sephardic Culture, Jewish Book Council
• Honourable Mention, 2009 Edmund Keeley Book Prize

^{This event is in conjunction with the Anglo-Hellenic League.}

Nineteenth Annual Runciman Lecture
^{Thursday 4 February 2010 at 18.00 in the Great Hall, Strand Campus}
Professor Robert Hillenbrand (Edinburgh): Byzantine Architecture reconfigured in early Islamic Syria.
Preceded by a Service of Orthodox Vespers in the Chapel of King’s College London at 17.15.
 

Anniversary Celebration & Book Launch
^{Monday 5 October 2009 at 18.00 in the Great Hall, Strand Campus}
The 20th anniverary of the Centre and launch of The Making of Modern Greece, Standard Languages and Language Standards – Greek Past and Present, and El Greco – the Cretan Years. Presentation of the Schilizzi scholars, and exhibition of archive material on Hellenic Studies at King’s. Speakers include Professor Dame Averil Cameron, Professor Robert Holland, Professor Geoff Horrocks, Dr Angeliki Lymberopoulou, Dr Victoria Solomonidis.
 
First Annual Cyprus Lecture
^{Monday 9 November 2009 at 18.00 in the Great Hall, Strand Campus}
Professor Paschalis Kitromilides (Director, Institute for Neohellenic Research, Athens): Before the Holy Office: Cypriots at the Venetian Inquisition & the question of identity.
^{Warm thanks to the generosity of the Cyprus Ministry of Education and Culture and support of the Cultural Department of the Cyprus High Commission for this lecture.}
 
Greek Archaeological Committee (UK) lecture
^{Wednesday 18 November 2009 at 19.00 in the Great Hall, Strand Campus}
Professor Panagiotis Vokotopoulos (Academy of Athens): Byzantine Architecture & Art in the Despotate of Epirus during the 13th century.
^{Note: the time stated in our printed events programme is incorrect - this starts at 19.00, not 18.00.}