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