Adoption, Memory, and Reform: How Is Greece Shaping Policy for Its Diaspora?
Wednesday 19th November, 2-3.30pm. At The Exchange, Bush House, 30 Aldwych, Strand Campus, London WC2B 4BG You are warmly invited to a special event hosted by Prof. Gonda Van Steen to celebrate a significant development in Greek policy that allows Greeks forcibly adopted abroad to reclaim their Greek citizenship. Prof. Van Steen’s work has centred…
Cavescapes: web presentation by Professor Catherine Morgan, Oxford University.
Monday 5th May, 6pm. The Anglo-Hellenic League warmly invites you to their web presentation, given by Professor Catherine Morgan of the University of Oxford, on Monday 5th May at 6pm. Cavescapes, an initiative of the Ephorate of Palaeoanthropology and Speleology , aims to map and publish its large collection of legacy data from caves across northwest Greece. Catherine’s talk draws…
Modern Greek Translation Workshop at Princeton University
Application deadline: Friday 21st February, 2025. The Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies at Princeton University invites applications for a two-day Translation Workshop, to be held on April 28-29, 2025, focusing on the translation of Modern Greek texts into English. The goal of the workshop is to encourage collaborative, creative thinking about specific projects, and also…
Lecture: ‘Antigones in Dispossessed or Occupied Lands: Elias Venezis’ Antigone and the Nazi Occupation of Greece’
Wednesday 27th November, 3pm – 5pm. Bush House room SE 1.01. This lecture by Prof. Efi Karakantza (University of Patras) will discuss how Antigone is plural, for with every retelling of the original, Sophoclean version of the myth, a new version of Antigone is created. The new version is sometimes closely and sometimes loosely connected to…
‘Nikos Kazantzakis: The Last Voyage’: film screening and panel discussion
Monday 25th November, 6.30pm. An evening dedicated to the renowned Greek author Nikos Kazantzakis will be hosted by King’s College London’s Centre for Hellenic Studies, in collaboration with the International Society of Friends of Nikos Kazantzakis (UK) and under the auspices of the Greek Embassy in London. The free event starts at 6.30pm in the historic…
Invitation to a Reading.
Friday 25th October, 5pm-6.15pm, Taylor Institute Oxford. Three scholars and translators of Modern Greek poetry will read a selection of their translations and their own poems. Sarah Ekdawi, Anthony Hirst and David Ricks wrote doctoral theses on Modern Greek poetry and are also published poets. Their engagement with Greek poetry stretches back over several decades;…
Fifth Annual Niki Marangou Memorial Lecture: ‘Life before Birth’
Speaker: Professor Kypros Nicolaides, Doctor of Medicine and Professor at King’s College London, Co-organised with King’s Centre for Hellenic Studies and held at the Spiti tis Kyprou, Athens (Xenophontos St. 2A & Amalias Ave.). The award of the Niki Marangou Translation Prize will also be announced on this occasion. Register for this event here.
100 Years of Askitiki: The Centenary Conference
The conference, under the auspices of the Cambridge Centre for Greek Studies, takes place at Queens’ College, Cambridge, on 30 June and 1 July 2023. The programme is now available (attached). Advance registration is required. To register, please click here: https://forms.office.com/e/SZcFxja0Lm Participants are kindly asked to note that, for financial reasons, lunch is only offered to…
Princeton Hellenic Studies Translation Workshop: Modern Greek to English
Princeton Hellenic Studies Fifth Translation Workshop, 3-4 May 2023. https://hellenic.princeton.edu/opportunities/fifth-translation-workshop Deadline for applications: February 24, 2023
Philhellenism and the Greek Revolution of 1821: Towards a Global History
The British School at Athens (BSA) and the National Library of Greece (NLG), with the generous support of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF), are organizing the international conference, Philhellenism and the Greek Revolution of 1821: Towards a Global History. The conference will take place at the premises of the National Library of Greece in the Stavros Niarchos…
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