Archive: events 2007-8
Print versionEmperor Manuel II Palaiologos - 'Dialogue with a Persian’
Saturday 17 May 2008: A one-day workshop on Emperor Manuel II Palaiologos and his ‘Dialogue with a Persian’ (the text quoted by Pope Benedict XVI in his Regensburg speech which caused such antagonism in September 2006).
Joint event: CHS & Greek / Turkish Encounters
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Joint event: CHS & Greek / Turkish Encounters
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Seventeenth Annual Runciman Lecture
Thursday 7 February 2008 at 18.00 in the Great Hall, Strand Campus
Dr Fani-Maria Tsigakou (Curator of the Department of Paintings, Prints & Drawings at the Benaki Museum, Athens): Philhellenic Images as Pictorial & Political Statements
Preceded by a Service of Orthodox Vespers in the Chapel of King’s College London at 17.15.
Dr Fani-Maria Tsigakou (Curator of the Department of Paintings, Prints & Drawings at the Benaki Museum, Athens): Philhellenic Images as Pictorial & Political Statements
Preceded by a Service of Orthodox Vespers in the Chapel of King’s College London at 17.15.
Colloquium
Colloquium - Aspects of Albania
Saturday 26 January 2008 at 14.00 in Room 2C, Strand Campus
Speakers: John Mitchell (University of East Anglia): Between Earth and Heaven: The Mosaic Pavements of Butrint; Rupert Smith (Butrint Foundation): Cultural Heritage in Albania: Butrint and beyond; James Pettifer (Conflict Studies Research Centre): Hellenism in contemporary Albania; Gillian Gloyer: Four British Travellers to Albania.
There will also be an exhibition of mid-19th century drawings of northern Greece and Albania recently bequeathed to the College.
Saturday 26 January 2008 at 14.00 in Room 2C, Strand Campus
Speakers: John Mitchell (University of East Anglia): Between Earth and Heaven: The Mosaic Pavements of Butrint; Rupert Smith (Butrint Foundation): Cultural Heritage in Albania: Butrint and beyond; James Pettifer (Conflict Studies Research Centre): Hellenism in contemporary Albania; Gillian Gloyer: Four British Travellers to Albania.
There will also be an exhibition of mid-19th century drawings of northern Greece and Albania recently bequeathed to the College.
Greek Archaeological Committee (UK) Lecture
Monday 19 November 2007 at 19.00 in the Great Hall, Strand Campus
Professor Petros G Themelis (Professor Emeritus of Classical Archaeology, University of Crete): The Agora of Ancient Messene
Professor Petros G Themelis (Professor Emeritus of Classical Archaeology, University of Crete): The Agora of Ancient Messene
Special Lecture & Book Launch
Socrates from Antiquity to the Twentieth Century
Wednesday 14 November 2007 at 18.00 in the Council Room, Strand Campus
A lecture by Professor Malcolm Schofield (Cambridge) to mark the publication of Michael Trapp’s edited volumes for the CHS series, Socrates from Antiquity to the Enlightenment and Socrates in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Wednesday 14 November 2007 at 18.00 in the Council Room, Strand Campus
A lecture by Professor Malcolm Schofield (Cambridge) to mark the publication of Michael Trapp’s edited volumes for the CHS series, Socrates from Antiquity to the Enlightenment and Socrates in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Interview & Film Screening
Michael Cacoyannis: Interview & Screening of the film Zorba the Greek (based on the novel by Nikos Kazantzakis)
Monday 12 November 2007 at 18.00 in the Edmond J Safra lecture theatre, Strand Campus
In collaboration with the International Society of Friends of Nikos Kazantzakis (UK).
A video interview (in English) recorded especially for the Centre for Hellenic Studies with the director of Zorba the Greek followed by a screening of the film.
Monday 12 November 2007 at 18.00 in the Edmond J Safra lecture theatre, Strand Campus
In collaboration with the International Society of Friends of Nikos Kazantzakis (UK).
A video interview (in English) recorded especially for the Centre for Hellenic Studies with the director of Zorba the Greek followed by a screening of the film.
Lunchtime talk
13.00, Thursday 8 November 2007 in Room B3, Department of Byzantine & Modern Greek Studies, Strand Campus
Dr Lorenzo Calvelli, (Università Ca'Foscari, Venice): Aboute III myle from Famagust is an olde Castell wherin saynt Katheryne was borne - The Material Traces of the Legend of Saint Catherine in Late Medieval Cyprus
Dr Lorenzo Calvelli, (Università Ca'Foscari, Venice): Aboute III myle from Famagust is an olde Castell wherin saynt Katheryne was borne - The Material Traces of the Legend of Saint Catherine in Late Medieval Cyprus
Book launch
Monday 22 October 2007 at 19.00 in the Great Hall, Strand Campus
Book launch: Peter Bien, Nikos Kazantzakis: Politics of the Spirit, vol. 2 (Princeton University Press), to mark the 50th anniversary of Kazantzakis’s death
Presentations by: Lewis Owens (Cambridge), Peter Mackridge (Oxford and King’s), Dimitris Tziovas (Birmingham) & Peter Bien (Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH)
This event is supported by the Cretan Association of Great Britain
Book launch: Peter Bien, Nikos Kazantzakis: Politics of the Spirit, vol. 2 (Princeton University Press), to mark the 50th anniversary of Kazantzakis’s death
Presentations by: Lewis Owens (Cambridge), Peter Mackridge (Oxford and King’s), Dimitris Tziovas (Birmingham) & Peter Bien (Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH)
This event is supported by the Cretan Association of Great Britain
Book launch
Thursday 4 October 2007 in the Weston Room, the Maughan Library, Chancery Lane, London WC2 A 1LR, from 18.30 to 20.30.
Penguin Books and the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's College London, invite you to celebrate the publication Byzantium. The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire by Judith Herrin.
Penguin Books and the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's College London, invite you to celebrate the publication Byzantium. The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire by Judith Herrin.
