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Diaspora and Rebetiko Music

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Co-organised with Konstantinos Trimmis and the Society for Modern Greek Studies.

Join us for an evening dedicated to exploring the songs and music of the Greek diasporic world with the Rebetiko Carnival ensemble. The Rebetiko Carnival musicians are a group brought together by the Rebetiko Carnival festival, representing some of the UK’s most beloved Greek bands. For this evening’s performance, they bring together musicians from Plastikes Karekles, Amalgama, and the Icons of Greek Music project. They have performed at festivals in Greece, France, Italy, Scotland, Wales and Qatar. In the UK they have performed at the Purcell Room, Royal Festival Hall, Royal Albert Hall, St David’s Hall as part of the Proms, as well as more at intimate venues such as the Green Note, Vortex and the Forge, London.

13 November, 7-9.30pm

Great Hall, KCL Strand Campus

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Workshop at the British School at Athens: The Greek language after Antiquity

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 “The Greek language after Antiquity: recent research and future directions in historical linguistics”

Friday, 5th & Saturday 6th November 2021

This two-day workshop promises to be a landmark in the study of post-classical Greek. It rests on the achievements to date of five major projects in the history of the Greek language: the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae, the Vienna Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität, the “Kriaras Lexicon” of Medieval Vernacular Greek, the Cambridge Grammar of Medieval and Early Modern Greek, and the Historical Lexicon of the Academy of Athens. Representatives of all these projects will participate in the workshop, together with experts in historical linguistics, dialectology, syntax and literary studies. The universities represented by the speakers include: Athens, Thessaloniki, the Aegean, Patras, Cyprus, Vienna, and California (Irvine). The Academic Committee consists of David Holton (University of Cambridge), Despina Chila-Markopoulou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) and Angela Ralli (University of Patras).

For the programme and registration instructions, please go to: https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/the-greek-language-after-antiquity-recent-r...

Series 'Greek Writers in English', co-organised by the SMGS and The hellenic Centre

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GREEK WRITERS IN ENGLISH
A series of online talks in English, organised by The Hellenic Centre and The Society for Modern Greek Studies every Wednesday at 7pm (UK time) from 10 February until 3 March. The series will present four women writers from Greece and Cyprus: Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke, Kiki Dimoula, Jenny Mastoraki and Niki Marangou. The first lecture of the series was initially presented in the Summer of 2020. To obtain the links for the talks please email press@helleniccentre.org

Diaspora and Rebetiko Music

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Co-organised with Konstantinos Trimmis and the Society for Modern Greek Studies.

Join us for an evening dedicated to exploring the songs and music of the Greek diasporic world with the Rebetiko Carnival ensemble. The Rebetiko Carnival musicians are a group brought together by the Rebetiko Carnival festival, representing some of the UK’s most beloved Greek bands. For this evening’s performance, they bring together musicians from Plastikes Karekles, Amalgama, and the Icons of Greek Music project. They have performed at festivals in Greece, France, Italy, Scotland, Wales and Qatar. In the UK they have performed at the Purcell Room, Royal Festival Hall, Royal Albert Hall, St David’s Hall as part of the Proms, as well as more at intimate venues such as the Green Note, Vortex and the Forge, London.

13 November, 7-9.30pm

Great Hall, KCL Strand Campus

Register here

Sounds of the Hellenic World, Ancient and Modern: 4-5 July 2016

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The Department of Classics, the Centre for Hellenic Studies and the Department of Music at King’s College London are delighted to announce ‘Sounds of the Hellenic world, ancient and modern’ (4-5 July 2016), an afternoon and evening celebrating the musical traditions of Greece, followed by a morning workshop on music and the current crisis in Greece.

The event is organized with the collaboration of the Onassis Cultural Centre and the Athens Conservatoire.

It is a special pleasure to welcome to King’s College London

  • the poet Alicia (A.E.) Stallings for the keynote lecture and a reading of poetry
  • the Sokratis Sinopoulos Quartet in their first appearance in the UK

Other speakers and contributors:

  • Roderick Beaton (Director, Centre for Hellenic Studies, KCL)
  • Armand D’Angour (Oxford)
  • William Fitzgerald (Classics, KCL)
  • Korina Giaxoglou (Open University)
  • Dionysis Kapsalis (poet and Director, Cultural Foundation of the National Bank, Athens)
  • Pavlos Kavouras (University of Athens)
  • Katerina Levidou (Centre for Hellenic Studies, KCL)
  • Maria Margaronis (journalist)
  • Emily Pillinger (Classics, KCL)
  • Dimitrios Skyllas (composer)
  • Martin Stokes (Music, KCL)
  • Polina Tambakaki (Centre for Hellenic Studies, KCL)
  • Filippos Tsalahouris (composer, Athens Conservatoire)
  • Nikos Tsouchlos (President, Athens Conservatoire)

For further details and booking visit:

http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/ahri/eventrecords/2015-2016/CHS/Sounds-of-...

Birmingham Modern Greek Translation Series: launch of book by Thanasis Valtinos

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The Society for Modern Greek Studies invites you to a Celebration of 20 years of the Birmingham Modern Greek Translation Series and a Launch of the translation of The Last Varlamis by Thanasis Valtinos.

The event will take place at 7:00 pm on Friday 13 May 2016, at the Hellenic Centre, 16-18 Paddington Street, London W1U 5AS. Admission is free, but please let the Secretary know if you wish to attend, by sending an email to: liana.giannakopoulou@pobox.com

Speakers will include:
Professor Dimitris Tziovas (series editor, University of Birmingham)
Dr Dimitris Paivanas (independent scholar, Athens)
Professor Stathis Gauntlett (in absentia) (translator, University of Melbourne)
and Thanasis Valtinos (writer and President of the Academy of Athens)

Information about all the volumes in the Birmingham Series can be found here.

This event, which is sponsored by the Ouranis Foundation and the A.G. Leventis Foundation, will be recorded and streamed by Livemedia.com.

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You can watch the video here.

"The First Greek Debt Crisis": lecture by Prof. Mark Mazower, 1 March 2016

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The Annual Nicolai Rubinstein Lecture at Queen Mary University of London will be given by Professor Mark Mazower (Columbia University). The title of his lecture is: "The First Greek Debt Crisis: Liberalism and Capitalism in the 1820s". For further information see the attached poster. Booking essential.

Modern Greek Seminars at King's College London: January-March 2016

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Modern Greek Studies seminars take place every other Monday between 17.30-19.00 in the Council Room, except where indicated. Convened by Roderick Beaton.
Semester 2

Monday 18 January 2016, 17.30
Theodore Stephanides, poet-translator extraordinary: his work (known and unknown) on Greek poets from Sappho to Palamas
Council Room (K2.29), King's Building, Strand Campus
A seminar with Anthony Hirst (King’s College London), followed by a book launch.

Monday 8 February, 18.30-20.00 (NB: please note the later start time and change of date)
Hazardous operations: British SOE agents in Nazi-occupied Greece and the strain of clandestine warfare
Anatomy Lecture Theatre (K6.29), King's Building, Strand Campus
A seminar with Roderick Bailey (Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, Oxford). A joint event with the Society for Modern Greek Studies, followed by a reception in the Anatomy Museum.

Monday 15 February, 17.30-19.00
Trust, faith and confidence in times of crisis
Council Room (K2.29), King's Building, Strand Campus
A seminar with Maria Couroucli (CNRS, Paris).

Monday 7 March, 17.30-19.00
Attributing an identity to a language: the Greek case
Council Room (K2.29), King's Building, Strand Campus
A seminar with Pietro Bortone (University of Oxford).

Monday 21 March, 17.30-19.00 CANCELLED
Ottoman diplomacy, humanist fiction and diplomatic poetics in the 18th-century Balkans
Council Room (K2.29), King's Building, Strand Campus
A seminar with Miltos Pechlivanos (Freie-Universität, Berlin). Also part of the Greek-Turkish Encounters series, with SOAS.

Further information:
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/ahri/centres/CHS/Events/events.aspx

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