Friends of the Hellenic Institute: Newsletter 2006
Note from the Director
25th January 2007
Dear Friend,
With the beginning of the New Year I would like to take the opportunity to thank you for your continued support and inform you about the progress of the Institute. 2006 was a decisive year. The most important development was the decision taken by the College authorities last November, to place the Institute under the History Department in order to secure its financial viability. I have accepted this decision with relief, after more than two years of indecision as to its future. I am most grateful to the Vice-Principal Mr David Sweeney, The Dean of the Faculty of Arts Mrs Máire Davies, the Heads of Classics and History Departments Professors Jonathan Powell and Justin Champion, the members of the Review Committee including the external assessors, and last but not least the members of our Steering Group, especially Professor John Barron, Mr Michael Heslop, H.E. Mrs Edmée Leventis and Marina Lady Marks for their support.
The decision of the History Department to include the MA in Hellenic Studies as a pathway in the new MA in Advanced History secured the revival of this unique multidisciplinary MA programme which gives a diachronic view and appreciation of Greek history, tradition and culture. The programme is currently being re-designed. With the co-operation of the Departments of History and Classics we hope that it will be offered in the next academic year.
In addition, new undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Greek and Byzantine History and Palaeography are now offered, including BA courses on “Gods, Men and Power: An Introduction to Ancient Greece, Rome and Byzantium”, “Byzantium and its Neighbours, 602-1071”, and “The Causes and Consequences of the Fall of Constantinople (1453)” by Dr Jonathan Harris; and MA courses on “Byzantine Autographs (13-15th century)” and “Byzantine Hands of the Palaeologan Period” by Dr Charalambos Dendrinos, while newly-designed unit courses in Modern Greek Language and Literature are now offered in the Classics Department by Dr Polymnia Tsagouria, seconded by the Greek Ministry of Education.
With the contribution of the Classics and History Departments we are able to cover aspects of Greek language, history and culture from the Classical age and Late Antiquity to the Byzantine period and Modern Hellenism. Our next priority is the establishment of a Lectureship in Modern Greek History with emphasis on Anglo-Hellenic Relations. So far we have secured almost half of the necessary funds, thanks to the support of the Greek Ministry of Culture. We shall now intensify our efforts to secure the remainder so that we can advertise the post as soon as possible.
Last year was marked by the death of Professor Joan Mervyn Hussey (1907-20.II.2006). Emeritus Professor of History in the University of London and former Head of the History Department at RoyalHollowayCollege, Joan Hussey was an internationally renowned Byzantine scholar and a dedicated teacher. She will be greatly missed, in particular by her friends and former students. In her memory “The Joan Mervyn Hussey Memorial Prize in Byzantine Studies” is established to be awarded to Hellenic Institute’s students who complete their MA in Late Antique and Byzantine Studies with the mark of distinction. Unfortunately, Professor Hussey did not live to see the 21st International Congress of Byzantine Studies held in London last August, forty years after the 13th International Congress of Byzantine Studies convened in Oxford (1966), which she organized together with the late Steven Runciman and Dmitri Obolensky. An important aspect of her scholarly work was the study of the ecclesiastical relations between Byzantium and the West. The cataloguing of the Greek Manuscript Collection of LambethPalace Library by a team of our graduate students last year, on the occasion of the Byzantine Congress, reflects in a sense her legacy.
All that has been achieved this year was due to the dedication and enthusiasm of our staff, colleagues and students, and the support of our College, Friends and sponsors, the Greek Ministries of Culture and Education, the Ministry of Education and Culture of the Republic of Cyprus, The A.G. Leventis Foundation, The Hellenic Foundation, the London Hellenic Society, the Orthodox Cultural Association and the Friends of the Hellenic Institute, to whom I would like to express our deep gratitude.
Among our private donors I would like to thank in particular Mrs Angelike Frangou for her continued support towards the funding of “H.A.H. The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomaios I Postgraduate Studentship in Byzantine Studies”, and Mrs Politeia Katekou for her generous donation towards the establishment of “The Panagiotis and Eleni Xenou Postgraduate Studentship in Hellenic and Byzantine Studies” in memory of her late parents. Such generosity gives us strength to double our efforts in promoting Greek Paideia and its ideals among the new generation of students and future scholars.
With best wishes for a Happy and Peaceful New Year,
J. Chrysostomides
About the Hellenic Institute
Established in 1993, The Hellenic Institute at Royal Holloway, University of London is a research centre of the History Department maintaining strong links with the Department of Classics. It brings together two areas of teaching and research in which Royal Holloway has long excelled: the study of the language, literature and history of Ancient Greece, and Byzantine Studies. It aims to consolidate these strengths and to extend them by promoting further the study of Hellenic tradition across the centuries, from the archaic and classical Greece, through the Hellenistic times, Byzantium and the Post-Byzantine period, to the modern world. The Hellenic Institute hosts a number of research projects and organises seminars, lectures and conferences addressed to students, scholars and to a wider public.
The Hellenic Institute also seeks to bring together at a national and international level all those who share its interests. It collaborates closely with other institutions in the University of London and The Hellenic Centre, a cultural meeting place for the Greek community in London. It maintains links with Universities overseas, especially in Greece and Cyprus.
As part of its teaching activities The Hellenic Institute runs the taught MA degree course in Late Antique and Byzantine Studies. It is hoped that the MA in Advanced History: Hellenic Studies, currently being re-designed, will be offered in the next academic year. The Institute also offers supervision to research students.
In 1999 The Friends of the Hellenic Institute were established with the aim to provide funding for The Nikolaos Oikonomides Studentship, to enable gifted students to pursue postgraduate studies in Byzantine History and Literature at the Institute.
The Hellenic Institute is currently receiving funding from the Greek Ministries of Culture and Education, the Ministry of Education and Culture of the Republic of Cyprus, The A.G. Leventis Foundation, The Hellenic Foundation, the London Hellenic Society, the Orthodox Cultural Association, the Friends of the Hellenic Institute, and private donors.
For updated information on the Institute’s activities, including forthcoming events, see http://www.rhul.ac.uk/hellenic-institute/
Students news
The Hellenic Institute currently has 16 registered research students:
Maria Argyrou (PhD), The printed Greek book production and trade in the eastern Mediterranean in the sixteenth century: the case of the editio princeps of St Basil’s Συγγράμματά τινα. Opera quaedam beati Basilii Caesariensis episcopi by Stefano de Sabio (Venice, 1535)
Stella Chrysochoou (MPhil/PhD), The chartographical tradition of Claudius Ptolemaeus’ Γεωγραφική Ὑφήγησις in the Palaeologan period and the Renaissance
Nikolaos Chrissis (PhD), Crusading in Romania: a study of Byzantine-Western relations and attitudes, 1204-1276
Konstantinos Ikonomopoulos (MPhil/PhD), Byzantine perceptions of Orthodox Jerusalem and its impact on the Crusades, 1099-1280
Georgios Liakopoulos (MPhil/PhD), The historical geography of the late Byzantine and early Ottoman Peloponnese
Alexandra Melita (PhD), Magic and healing and the Greeks in seventeenth-century Venice
Fevronia Nousia (PhD), Byzantine textbooks of the Palaeologan period
Konstantinos Palaiologos (MPhil/PhD) An annotated critical edition of the treatise On the Errors of the Latins by Matthaios Vlastares
Eugenia Russell (MPhil/PhD), Fourteenth-century Byzantine encomia to St Demetrius
Quentin Russell (MPhil/PhD), The Greek community in London, 1830-1914
George Siderountios (MPhil/PhD), Early Christian and Byzantine uses of the term Hellene
Dawn Thomas (PhD), Galen’s Περὶ Ὑγιεινῆς in context
Dmitri Tolstoy-Miloslavski (MPhil/PhD) The Italian policy of Manuel I Comnenus, 1143-1180
Christos Triantafyllopoulos (MPhil/PhD), An annotated critical edition of the treatise On the Errors of the Latins and the Heresy of Barlaam and Akindynos by Macarios, Metropolitan of Ancyra, 1397-1405
Two new research students enrolled in 2006. Anastasia Vatoussiadi is embarking on her MPhil/PhD research on The influence of Byzantine legislation on Slavic family law, and Laura Franco was transferred from King’s College London to complete her PhD thesis on A study of the Metaphrastic process: the case of the unpublished Passiones of Sts Eleutherios, Hilarion, Iakovos and Platon by Symeon Metaphrastes.
Congratulations to Christopher Wright who was awarded his PhD degree from the University of London in November 2006. His thesis is entitled The Gattilusi of Lesbos: diplomacy and lordship in the late medieval Aegean.
Five new students enrolled for the MA in Late Antique and Byzantine Studies this year: Maria Charalambous, Ekaterini Hadjistylli, Christina Kakkoura, Vasos Pasiourtides and Alex Rodriguez Suarez.
Grants and awards to students of the Hellenic Institute/History Dept. (2006-7)
H.A.H The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomaios I Studentship:
Maria Charalambous (£1,584)
Ekaterini Hadjistylli (£1,584)
The Nikolaos Oikonomides Postgraduate Studentship:
Vasos Pasiourtides (£1,584)
Alex Rodriguez Suarez (£1,584)
George of Cyprus Bursaries:
Laura Franco: £500 towards the purchase of microfilms of Greek manuscripts for her PhD research
Christina Kakkoura: £250 towards her MA studies and the purchase of books
Fevronia Nousia: £200 towards the purchase of microfilms of Greek manuscripts for her PhD research
Konstantinos Palaiologos: £1,000 towards the purchase of microfilms of Greek manuscripts for his MPhil/PhD research and maintenance expenses
Maria Panayide: £200 towards her tuition fees (MA in Women, Gender and Culture, History Dept.)
Anastasia Vatousiadi: £1,545 towards her tuition fees
Grants awarded to Hellenic Institute students by other donors and institutions (2006-7)
Ekaterini Hadjistylli (£2,000) grant from Mrs Matrona Egon
Christina Kakkoura (£4,000) A.G. Leventis Foundation Grant towards her MA in Late Antique and Byzantine Studies
Erasmus/Socrates programme: Following the visit of Dr Konstantinos Belezos, Dimitrios Panagiotopoulos, Dora Vovou and Dimitrios Stathis over the last four years, as part of the Erasmus/Socrates staff and graduate student exchange programme agreement between the Hellenic Institute and the University of Athens, Department of Theology (2003/4-2006/7), Eirini Kasapi conducted her doctoral research in London on the History of the Russian Orthodox Church, between September and March 2006.
Visiting scholars: Dr Zoë Papastylou, Assistant Professor in the Department of History and Archaeology of the University of Ioannina visited the Institute in Spring 2006, to continue her research on Polybius and the Institutions in Ancient Sparta. Mr Apostolos Spanos, Assistant Professor in the Department of History, Agder University College, Norway, visited the Institute between February and March 2006 to conduct research on Byzantine Hymnography and Greek Palaeography.
December 2005: The Institute received a donation of £5,891.36 from the Ministry of Education and Culture of Cyprus in support of its activities for the academic year 2005/6.
18 and 23 January 2006: Papers given by Georgios Liakopoulos at the University of Athens, “A geographical approach to the Ottoman conquest of Bithynia” and “The evolution of the Ottoman funerary inscriptions: a study of stelae from Greece”, as part of the Greek Scientific Society of Middle Eastern Studies Lecture Series and the Postgraduate Interdisciplinary Seminar in memory of Nikolaos Oikonomides, respectively.
14 February 2006: Lecture on “The Search for the mediaeval defensive systems of southern Rhodes” by Michael Heslop, as part of the Royal Holloway History Society Seminar series.
20 February 2006: † Professor Joan Mervyn Hussey (1907-2006). See below obituary by J. Chrysostomides.
February-March 2006: The London University Seminar on Editing Byzantine Texts held its regular meetings at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London, Senate House on Fridays, 4.30-6.30pm. Directed by Miss Julian Chrysostomides and Dr Charalambos Dendrinos, the Seminar is preparing a new annotated critical edition and translation of the voluminous correspondence of the thirteenth-century scholar and theologian George of Cyprus, later Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Gregory II (1283-9). The Seminar was attended by scholars and graduate students of London University Colleges as well as visiting scholars.
6 March 2006: Lecture on “Ancient philosophy's contribution to the understanding of anger” by Dr Kostas Kalimtzis, organised jointly by the Hellenic Institute and the Institute of Classical Studies at the University of London, Senate House, as part of the Ancient Philosophy Seminar Series. In his lecture Dr Kalimtzis attempted to give an answer to the question why mēnis, anger, was important to the polis civilization of the Greeks and traced the philosophical framework for its understanding from Homer to Aristotle.
23 March 2006: The Hellenic Institute’s Steering Group Meeting, chaired by the Vice-Principal Mr David Sweeney was held at Royal Holloway College Campus, Egham.
4 April 2006: The College Review Panel Meeting for the Hellenic Institute was held at Royal Holloway College Campus, Egham.
28 April 2006: An interdisciplinary symposium entitled “The mask in classical Greek theatre” was organised by Professor David Wiles at the Theatre and Drama Department.
10 May 2006: At the invitation of the Librarian of Lambeth Palace the University of London classes in Greek Palaeography and members of the Seminar on Editing Byzantine Texts visited Lambeth Palace Library and examined Greek manuscripts.
12 May 2006: The Sixth Annual Hellenic Institute Lecture on “Poetry and performance in classical Greece” was given by Professor Chris Carey. The lecture was, held at Royal Holloway College Campus in the presence of His Grace the Archbishop Gregorios of Thyateira and Great Britain, H.E. the High Commissioner for the Republic of Cyprus in Britain Mr Petros Eutychiou, Mrs Edmée Leventis, Ambassador of Cyprus to UNESCO, The Vice-Consul of Greece Mr Dimitris Gioldasis, the Educational Counsellor of the Embassy of Greece Mr Vasileios Anagnostou, the Cultural Counsellor of the Cyprus High Commission Dr Niki Katsaouni, Marina Lady Marks, Mr Martin Royalton-Kisch, Curator at the British Museum, the Vice-Principal Mr David Sweeney, Professors John and Pat Easterling, Professors John and Caroline Barron and other fellow-scholars, colleagues from the Departments of History and Classics, students and Friends of the Institute and members of the public.
25 May 2006: The Hellenic Institute’s volumeSweetLand ...": Lectures on the History and Culture of Cyprus was launched at The Hellenic Centre in London. The High Commissioner for Cyprus in Britain Mr Petros Eutychiou gave an appreciation of the volume. Among our guests were the representative of H.E. Archbishop Gregorios of Thyateira and Great Britain, The Most Revd. Stavros Solomos, Dr Nike Katsaouni and Dr Sotiris Georgallis, Cultural and Press Counsellors of the Cyprus High Commission, respectively, the Vice-Consul of Greece Mr Dimitris Gioldasis, the Educational Counsellor of the Greek Embassy Mr Vasileios Anagnostou, Mrs Edmée Leventis, members of the academic community of the University of London, members of the Cypriot and Greek community in London, friends and supporters.
The volume, dedicated to the memory of Constantine Leventis (1938-2002), contains the papers of the series of public lectures sponsored by the Ministry of Education and Culture of the Republic of Cyprus, organized jointly by The Hellenic Institute and The Hellenic Centre in London in autumn 2003, to celebrate the then imminent accession of Cyprus to the European Union. The themes of the papers centre on perceptions and self-perceptions of the ‘Cypriot’ through the ages. The contributors, scholars of Cypriot origin or attached to the University of Cyprus, covered the whole period of Cypriot history, from the prehistoric age, through the classical Greek and Hellenistic times, to the Roman, Byzantine, Frankish and Venetian periods, and finally the Ottoman and British rule to the present. The papers comprise a variety of themes, from history, archaeology and linguistics, to art and literature, manuscripts and travel, hagiography and religion, sociology and psychology. Copies of the volume can be ordered from the Hellenic Institute.
21-26 August 2006: London hosted the 21st International Congress of Byzantine Studies. Organised under the auspices of the Association Internationale des Études Byzantines, the Congress was held at the Institute of Education of the University of London. In his message of welcome to the participants, its Patron H.R.H. The Prince of Wales emphasized that ‘Byzantium … represents a period of historical inspiration and a reviving spiritual dimension, which I feel are of increasing importance for life in the twenty-first century.’ Over 1,000 delegates from over forty countries attended the Congress, while over 800 participants contributed formally with Papers and Communications. The Proceedings, edited by Elizabeth Jeffreys and others, were published by Ashgate in three volumes. Parallel events included concerts and receptions held in the British Museum, the British Library, Lambeth Palace, St Pancras church, Somerset House and King's College London. Two special exhibitions were organised on this occasion, Encounters. Travel and Money in the Byzantine world by Eurydice Georganteli and Barrie Cook at the British Museum, and The Greek Manuscript Collection of Lambeth Palace Library by John Barron, Clare Brown, Julian Chrysostomides, Charalambos Dendrinos and Judith Herrin, at Lambeth Palace Library. The 22nd International Congress of Byzantine Studies will take place in 2010 in Sofia, Bulgaria.
The exhibition comprised the following sections: Doctrine; Liturgy and Spirituality; Byzantium, its Provinces and Neighbours; Before and after Byzantium; From Manuscript to Print. The last section, on Anglicanism and Orthodoxy, included printed books, documents and photographs illustrating the dialogue, past and present, between the two Churches.
The catalogue of the exhibition comprises a summary of the history of “Lambeth Palace Library (1610-2006)” by Dr Richard Palmer; a history of the relations between the Anglican and Orthodox Churches, entitled “Constantinople and Canterbury: contact and collaboration” by Professor John Barron and Mrs Clare Brown; and finally a history of “The Greek Manuscript Collection of Lambeth Palace Library” by Miss J. Chrysostomides and Dr Charalambos Dendrinos. This is followed by the first complete inventory of the collection, which is part of an on-going research project between The Hellenic Institute and Lambeth Palace Library for the study and cataloguing of this Collection by a team of scholars and graduate students consisting of Maria Argyrou, Laura Franco, Dr Maria Kalli, Fevronia Nousia, Konstantinos Palaiologos and Christopher Wright under the guidance of Miss Chrysostomides and Dr Dendrinos.
To order copies of the exhibition catalogue please contact Mrs Clare Brown, Assistant Archivist, Lambeth Palace Library, London SE1 7JU.
10 September 2006: Dr Charalambos Dendrinos represented the Hellenic Institute in the memorial service for our late student Kallistratos-Konstantinos Oikonomou, in the Orthodox Cathedral in Eleusina, Greece. Kallistratos-Konstantinos is greatly missed and always remembered with affection by all his friends, teachers and fellow-students.
October 2006: The Greek Ministry of Culture renewed its annual grant (£16,347.90) for the academic year 2006/7, towards the establishment of a Lectureship in Modern Greek History with emphasis on Anglo-Hellenic Relations.
2 October 2006: Paper on “Emotional responses to the fall of Thessalonike in 1430 by John Anagnostes in his Narration and Monody”, given by Eugenia Russell as part of the Bedford Centre Postgraduate Seminar.
10 November 2006: At the invitation of the Librarian of Lambeth Palace Library the students of the Greek Palaeography classes and members of the Seminar on Editing Byzantine Texts visited the Library to examine original Greek manuscripts. The session was attended also by Dr Mura Gosh, Manuscript Studies Librarian and Mr Alun Ford Academic Liaison Librarian at the University of London Senate House Library. Under the guidance of the Assistant Archivist Ms Clare Brown, some important codices were examined, including the famous Octateuch’s catena codex 1214 , copied by John Koulix for the duke of Cyprus Leo Nikerites in November 1103. This visit was part of a close collaboration between the Hellenic Institute and Lambeth Place Library over the cataloguing and study of the Greek Manuscript Collection.
27 November 2006: At the invitation of Dr Mura Gosh, MA and research students of Greek Palaeography visited the Palaeography Room of Senate House, where they were introduced to one of the best printed collections on Palaeography internationally. They familiarised themselves with the most important bibliographical and research tools in Greek Palaeography and Codicology, concentrating on fundamental studies and reference books, catalogues of Greek manuscripts and scribes, as well as more specialised studies and collections of facsimiles.
13 November 2006: Paper “Romania and the lost Crusades: the use of crusading for the justification and the preservation of the Latin conquest of Byzantium”, given by Nikolaos Chrissis at the Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, as part of the University of London Crusades and the Eastern Mediterranean Research Seminar.
15 November 2006: A Workshop designed for University of London MA and research students who pursue research in Classical and Byzantine texts preserved in manuscripts, was organized for a fourth year by Dr Charalambos Dendrinos at The Warburg Institute in London. The workshop presented research methods and techniques used in tracing published texts, manuscripts and scribes. Students were given the opportunity to familiarize themselves with Warburg Institute’s superb collection of printed books and electronic resources, including the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae, a CD-ROM containing a vast amount of Greek texts, from early papyri fragments to Byzantine authors of the fifteenth century. The workshop was attended by MA and research students from Royal Holloway and the Courtauld Institute of Arts.
17 November 2006: Paper on “St Demetrius and Byzantine ideology in Thessalonike towards the end of the Empire”, given by Eugenia Russell at the Institute of Classical Studies as part of the Work-in-Progress Seminar.
11 December 2006: Paper on “Magical healing as an everyday reality in seventeenth-century Venice: the case of Maddalena greca”, given by Erika Melita as part of the Bedford Centre Postgraduate Seminar.
December 2006: The Institute received a donation of £7,020 from the Ministry of Education and Culture of Cyprus in support of its activities for the academic year 2006/7.
December 2006: The Panagiotis and Eleni Xenou Postgraduate Studentship in Hellenic Studies was established thanks to a generous donation (£9,600 over three years) by Mrs Politeia Katekou in memory of her parents.
15 January 2007: Paper on “A study of Ottoman funerary inscriptions from the Pella and Imathia Prefectures in Central Macedonia” (in Greek) by Georgios Liakopoulos at the Open University of Giannitsa Lecture Series.
Forthcoming Events
1 February 2007: Dabis Lectureon “Greek tragedy and the ethics of revenge” by Professor Pat Easterling at Royal Holloway College Campus, Egham, Main Lecture Theatre at 17.30, followed by a Reception in the Picture Gallery. For further information please contact Mrs Marta Baker, Events Manager, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, tel. +44 (0)1784 443824.
2 February 2007: The University of London Working Seminar on Editing Byzantine Texts resumes its regular meetings at the Institute of Historical Research, Seminar Room, third floor (on Fridays) 16.30-18.30. For further information please contact Miss Julian Chrysostomides and Dr Charalambos Dendrinos.
19 February 2007: Inaugural Lecture “Epic & Novel in Antiquity: Genre, Historical Time, & the Ethics of Progress”, by Professor Ahuvia Kahane, Director of the Humanities & Arts Research Centre, to be held at Royal Holloway College Campus, Main Lecture Theatre at 17.30.
5 March 2007: Seventh Annual Hellenic Institute Lecture on “Classics and International Politics: Past, Present (and Future?)” by Sir Andrew Burns, Chairman of the College Council, to be held at Royal Holloway College Campus, Main Lecture Theatre at 17.30. The lecture will be followed by reception in the Picture Gallery. All are welcome. For further information, please contact Dr Charalambos Dendrinos.
11 June 2007: Institute of Classical Studies (ICS) Colloquium on “Byzantine Manuscripts, Scholars and Teachers in the Palaeologan Period”, organised by Miss J. Chrysostomides, Professor Pat Easterling and Dr Charalambos Dendrinos, to be held at ICS, North Block, Room 336, between 9.30-19.00. The Colloquium is sponsored by ICS and the Hellenic Foundation. For further information please contact Dr Charalambos Dendrinos.
18 June 2007: Conference “Spirituality in late Byzantium”, organized by Mrs Eugenia Russell, to be held at 2 Gower Street, Boardroom, London WC1E. Delegates will have to sign in first at 11 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3RA. Sponsored by The Hellenic Society, The Hellenic Foundation and the London Hellenic Foundation. Deadline for registration: 20 February 2007. A number of student bursaries will be available to help with expenses. For further information please contact e.russell@rhul.ac.uk.
The H.A.H. Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomaios I Studentship in Byzantine Studies, established by the Orthodox Cultural Association of Athens in honour of His All-Holiness the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomaios I, thanks to the generous donation by Mrs Angeliki Frangou in memory of her late mother Stela N. Frangou.
The Nikolaos Oikonomides Studentship in Byzantine Studies, established by the Friends of the Hellenic Institute in memory of the distinguished Greek Byzantinist Nikolaos Oikonomides (1934-2000), in recognition of his outstanding contribution to Byzantine Studies.
For students who pursue the MA in Late Antique and Byzantine Studies or MPhil/PhD research in Byzantine Studies at the Hellenic Institute.
The Panagiotis and Eleni Xenou Postgraduate Studentship in Hellenic and Byzantine Studies, established by Mrs Politeia Katekou in memory of her late parents.
For students who pursue the MA in Late Antique and Byzantine Studies, or the MA in Advance History: Hellenic Studies, or MPhil/PhD research in Byzantine and Hellenic Studies at the Hellenic Institute.
All three Studentships cover the tuition fees for one year and are open to UK/EU students. They are awarded on the basis of proven academic achievement. Candidates should meet the normal entrance requirements of the University of London. The closing date for submission of applications is 31 August 2007.
Hellenic Institute’s bursaries and awards to be offered in 2007/8
George of Cyprus Bursaries in Hellenic and Byzantine Studies. Sponsored by the Ministry of Education and Culture of the Republic of Cyprus, these grants are for assisting Hellenic Institute’s part-time and full-time students with general expenses of studying. These bursaries were established in honour of George of Cyprus (later Ecumenical Patriarch Gregory II, 1283-9). Born in Cyprus, in 1240, then under Latin occupation, at the age of seventeen he fled to Nicaea, the Byzantine Empire in exile, in order to pursue his studies. After the restoration of the Byzantine Empire in 1261, he settled in Constantinople, where he completed his higher education and subsequently taught the eminent scholars of the next generation. One aspect of his personality was his tenacity and dedication to his studies, despite enormous adversities.
The Joan Mervyn Hussey Memorial Prize in Byzantine Studies (£500) in memory of the late Professor J.M. Hussey (1907-2006), to be awarded to Hellenic Institute’s students who complete their MA in Late Antique and Byzantine Studies with the mark of distinction.
The Hellenic Institute
Director: Miss J. Chrysostomides
Chairman of the Steering Group: Vice-Principal Mr David Sweeney
Members of the Steering Group:
Head of Classics Department: Professor Jonathan Powell
Head of History Department: Professor Justin Champion
Senior Lecturer in Byzantine History: Dr Jonathan Harris
Lecturer in Byzantine Literature and Greek Palaeography: Dr Charalambos Dendrinos
Members of Steering Group (in alphabetical order):
Professor John Barron
Mrs Máira Davies, Dean of the Faculty of Arts
Mr Michael Heslop, Honorary Research Associate
(representing the Friends of the Hellenic Institute)
Her Excellency Mrs Edmée Leventis, Ambassador
and Permanent Delegate of the Republic of Cyprus in UNESCO
Marina, Lady Marks
Dr Anne Sheppard (Classics)
Associated staff:
Professor Richard Alston (Classics)
Dr Samuel Barnish (History)
Dr Georgios Borovilos (Honorary Research Associate)
Dr Lia Chisacof (Honorary Research Fellow)
Dr Kara Hattersley-Smith (Honorary Research Associate)
Dr Richard Hawley (Classics)
Mr Peregrine Horden (History)
Professor Ahuvia Kahane (Classics)
Dr Kostas Kalimtzis (Honorary Research Associate)
Dr Christos Kremmydas (Classics)
Dr Nick Lowe (Classics)
Dr Anthony Luttrell (Honorary Research Associate)
Dr Vanessa Martin (History)
Professor Nikolaos Moschonas (Honorary Research Fellow)
Dr Jari Pakkanen (Classics)
Dr Kiriakos Papoulidis (Honorary Research Associate)
Professor Boris Rankov (Classics)
Professor Francis Robinson (History)
Dr Lene Rubinstein (Classics)
Dr Polymnia Tsagouria (Instructor of Modern Greek)
Professor David Wiles (Drama & Theatre)
Visiting Scholars:
Professor Costas N. Constantinides (University of Ioannina)
Professor Athanasia Glycofrydi-Leontsini (University of Athens)
Professor Zoë Papastylou (University of Ioannina)
Mr Apostolos Spanos (Agder University College, Norway)
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