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We are happy to share our 2024 Newsletter, along with our warmest wishes for the holidays: https://21in21.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/chs-newsletter-2024-3.pdf

We are delighted to share the CHS’ annual newsletter for 2023. Please click on the image below to read.

A recent fully funded five-day visit to Greece for fourteen students of the Classics Department was made possible by the generosity of the Jamie Rumble Memorial Fund. The student trip took place in late June 2023, and focused on the highlights of Athens, ancient through modern. Koraes Professor Gonda Van Steen led the fieldtrip, whichContinue reading “Rumble Trip 2023”

Prominent professor and Hellenist Roderick Beaton took the oath to become a Greek citizen at a ceremony held at the Bank of Greece on Tuesday. Beaton, who joined the faculty at King’s College London in 1981, became Koraes Professor of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and Literature in 1988. He retired from the collegeContinue reading “Roderick Beaton Sworn in as Greek Citizen”

Dr Vally Lytra is Reader in Languages in Education in the Department of Educational Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is an alumna of King’s Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies. This interview features the 2022 collective volume, Liberating Language Education, published by Multilingual Matters.

The annual Katie Lentakis Memorial Fund Award was established by the Anglo-Hellenic League in memory of the late Mrs Katie Lentakis, and was first awarded in 2002. Katie Lentakis (1920-2000) was a devoted member of the Anglo-Greek community of London for many years and Vice-Chair of the Anglo-Hellenic League, who loved music and art –Continue reading “The Katie Lentakis Memorial Fund Award 2022”

Call for Submissions: The 2022 Niki Marangou Translation Prize The Niki Marangou Prize was first established in 2016 to honour the memory of the inspirational Cypriot poet, novelist and painter Niki Marangou, who died in 2013. From 2019 onwards, the prize has been awarded annually for a literary translation from Modern Greek into English ofContinue reading “Announcement: Niki Marangou Translation Prize 2022”

The 2022 Rumble Fund Lecture in Classical Art was delivered by Professor Dimitris Plantzos from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, with the title Acropolis Adieu: Popular Images of Greece in the 1950s and ’60s. The Centre for Hellenic Studies at King’s and Department of Classics is delighted to share a recording of theContinue reading “Rumble Fund Lecture Examines Greek Portrayal in 50s and 60s Pop-culture”

By Professor Charlotte Roueché, Professor Emerita, CHS Greek communities have flourished on the northern shore of the Black Sea for more than two millennia. King’s academics have been actively involved in studying and publishing the history of the ancient and medieval settlements: see the Ancient Inscriptions of the Northern Black Sea project. In the laterContinue reading “Mariupol and King’s College London”

Prof. Roderick Beaton (KCL) discusses his latest book with Prof. John Bennet (Director, BSA), Prof. Paul Cartledge (University of Cambridge), Bruce Clark (Author, Journalist and Lecturer), and Prof. Peter Frankopan (University of Oxford), hosted by the British School at Athens. Prof. Roderick Beaton, Emeritus Koraes Professor of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and LiteratureContinue reading “The Greeks – A Global History”