Forthcoming Events:
18 March 2010: Visit of MA and research students to Lambeth Palace Library to examine original Greek manuscripts. This annual visit is part of a close collaboration between RHUL Hellenic Institute and Lambeth Place Library over the cataloguing and study of its Greek Manuscript Collection. For further information, please contact Dr Charalambos Dendrinos.
25 March 2010: Ninth Annual Hellenic Institute Lecture on "The Greek Mind in the Modern World" by the leading neuroscientist Baroness Susan Greenfield, Professor of Pharmacology at Oxford University and former Director of the Royal Institution of Great Britain. The lecture will be held at Royal Hooloway College Egham Campus, Windsor Building Auditorium at 6pm, to be followed by a reception. All welcome. For further information please contact Dr Charalambos Dendrinos and Mrs Marta Baker.
27-29 March 2010: “Byzantium behind the Scenes: Power and Subversion”, XLIII Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, University of Birmingham. For further information, including the programme and registration, please visit the Symposium's website.
14-15 June 2010: Joint Newton Fellowship & Annual ICS Byzantine Colloquium on “Liquid and Multiple: Individuals and Identities in the Thirteenth-Century Aegean” to be held in Room G 22/26, Senate House, Malet Street, London. For updated information please visit the Colloquium's webpage.
21-22 June 2010: “Revelry, Rhythm and Blues”, Tenth Annual Postgraduate Symposium on Performance of Ancient Drama organised by RHUL Centre for the Reception of Greece and Rome. For further information please visit the CRGR webpage.
1-2 July 2010: Conference on “Classics and Social Class” hosted by the British Academy and organised by RHUL Centre for the Reception of Greece and Rome (CRGR) to be held at The British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1. For further information please visit the Conference's webpage.
9 July 2010: A one-day conference ‘Contact and conflict in Frankish Greece and the Aegean: crusade, trade and religion amongst Latins, Greeks and Muslims,1204-1453’, is organized at the Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Malet Street, London, under the auspices of the SSCLE. Sponsored by RHUL Department of History and the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, the conference will be dedicated in memory of Konstantinos Ikonomopoulos. The aim of the conference is to explore new aspects of the interaction between Byzantine Greeks, Latins and Turks in the period between the Fourth Crusade (1204) and the fall of Constantinople in 1453. It will combine the participants' original research on crusading in the Greek East in the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, with the latest advances in Byzantine and Crusade historiography. A broad range of themes will be examined, including the implementation and evolution of the crusade in the area, the religious landscape and political balance of a land shared by Orthodox Greeks, Catholic Latins and Muslim Turks, and the role of trade in fostering closer contact between the three sides. The conference brings together both established academics and postdoctoral research students from Britain and abroad. There is no registration fee. For further information please contact the organizers Mr Michael Carr and Dr Nikolaos Chrissis.
14-17 September 2010: Papers on “Theological encounters and cultural identity in Late Byzantium: Demetrios Chrysoloras’ (ca. 1350-1414) fictitious dialogue among Thomas Aquinas, Neilos Kabasilas, Demetrios Kydones and the author himself’ by Mr Vasos Pasiourtides, and on “Prochoros Cydones’ De essentia et operatione Dei” by Dr Christos Triantafyllopoulos, at the 37. Kölner Mediaevistentagung, “Intersection Byzantium”, Cologne.
Recent Events:
24 February 2010: Paper on "Medieval hymn adaptations in East and West; their theological and poetic implications" by Dr Eugenia Russell at Leeds Trinity and All Saints University College, Brownberrie lane, Horsforth, Leeds. For further information please contact Dr Eugenia Russell.
5 February 2010: The University of London Working Seminar on Editing Byzantine Textsresumed its weekly meetings this term (Fridays 4.30-6.30) at the Institute of Historical Research, Pollard Room, second floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London. Scholars and graduate students are welcome to attend. For further information please contact Dr Charalambos Dendrinos.
3 February 2010: MA and research students of the University of London visited the British Library and examined original Greek manuscripts and documents. For further information, please contact Dr Charalambos Dendrinos.
18 October 2009: A Memorial for the Late Julian Chrysostomides was held at The British School at Athens, Upper House, 52 Souedias Street, 106 76 Athens, Greece, at 5pm. The event, hosted by The Bristish School at Athens courtesy of its Director, Professor Catherine Morgan, was attended by a large number of Julian's friends, former students and colleagues from Greece, Cyprus, Britain and USA. Among the distinguished guests were Julian's brother Mr John Delakourides, Professor Evangelos Chrysos, Secretary General of the Hellenic Parliament Foundation for Parliamentarism and Democracy and Secretary General of the Association Internationale des Études Byzantines, Professor Constantinos Pitsakis, secrétaire suppléant of the Association Internationale des Études Byzantines, Dr Katia Plyta representing the Hellenic Ministry of Foregn Affairs, Mrs Anna Kretsa, Director of the Directorate of Greek Diaspora and Intercultural Education of the Hellenic Ministry of Education, Mrs Eugenia Vosou of the Directorate of International Educational Relations of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture, Dr Maria Georgopoulou, Director of the Gennadius Library, Mrs Kalliope Samonas-Skinitis, President of the Orthodox Cultural Association, Dr Pedro Olalla and Mr Angelos Dendrinos, Director and General Secretary, respectively, of the International Society for Arcadia. The College was represented by Dr Yari Pakkanen. Professor Elizabeth Zachariadou (Institute for Mediterranean Studies) spoke about Julian as a close friend and colleague, Professor Costas Constantinides (University of Ioannina) talked about Julian as a scholar and teacher, Ms Vaso-Athene Spanos, former student of Julian, recited sections of Emperor Manuel II Palaeologus' Funeral Oration on his brother Theodore in Julian's translation, Dr Charalambos Dendrinos gave an appeciation of Julian's vision and work as Director of the Hellenic Institute, and finally a vote of thanks was given by Mr Robert Pitt, Assistant Director of The British School at Athens. Musical interludes from J.S. Bach in solo cello were performed Ms Myrto Talakoudi. Donations were made by those present towards The Julian Chrysostomides Bursaries Fund, established last year by The Friends of the Hellenic Institute to honour memory of Julian. At the invitation of the Society for Cypriot Studies the Second Annual Memorial for Julian Chrysostomides will be held in Cyprus in October 2010. For further information please contact Dr Charalambos Dendrinos.
2 October 2009: Induction session of MA students attending the MA programmes in Ancient History, Classical Art & Archaeology, Classics, Late Antique & Byzantine Studies, and History: Hellenic Studies, at the Institute of Classical Studies (ICS), Senate House, University of London, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU, at 2-4pm. For further information, please contact Dr Charalambos Dendrinos.
28 September 2009: College Enrolment (ID check) for MA students was held in the Windsor Building at 9.15am-11am. For details on enrolment and sign-up process please consult the Registry.
26 September 2009: Paper on "Magicians, Spells and Talismen: From Antiquity to Early Modern Europe" (in Greek) by Alexandra Melita, at the Colloquium "Magic in space and time" organised by The Solomos and Distinguished Zakynthians Museum as part of the European Heritage Day 2009 at the Amphitheatre of the Ionian Technical University, Zakynthos, Greece, at 7pm. For further information, please contact Alexandra Melita.
25 September 2009: Induction session of MA Late Antique and Byzantine Studies students at The Hellenic Institute, International Building, Room 236 and Seminar Room 245 at 11am-12, followed by IT Induction session at the College's HITT Lab in the Horton Building at 1-2pm, and Welcome Meeting for all new MA students of the History Department in the School of Management Building, Room MX001, at 2.30pm.
Past Events:
Colloquium on Greek Concepts of Political Friendship and Enmity, June 2008
Colloquium on Manuscripts, Scholars and Teachers in the Palaeologan Period, June 2007
Lectures on The History and Culture of Cyprus, Autumn 2003
Conference: Reconstructing Byzantine Constantinople, October 2002
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