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A celebration of 100 years from the founding of the Koraes Chair

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Channel: King's College London · 2018 · Education

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The Koraes Chair of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and Literature commemorates the ‘founding father’ of the Greek nation-state that came into existence with the Revolution of 1821. It was established during another period of turbulence that would shape the future of the entire European continent, the First World War. 
 
Since the 1970s the Chair has become the focal point and impetus for an expanding programme of teaching and research in Modern Greek and Byzantine studies at King’s College London, now a leading centre for these fields worldwide.

Programme:
Welcome by the President and Principal of King’s College London, Professor Edward Byrne
Introduction by Professor Roderick Beaton (Koraes Professor 1988 - 2018)
Introduction by the Chairman of the Anglo-Hellenic League, Mr John Kittmer (former UK Ambassador to Athens)
Presentation of the Katie Lentakis Prize for 2018, awarded by the Anglo-Hellenic League to a final-year student of King’s College London by Mr John Kittmer (former UK Ambassador to Athens)
Professor Paschalis Kitromilides (University of Athens), Adamantios Koraes and the vision of a free society
Professor Sir Michael Llewellyn-Smith (former UK Ambassador to Athens and Visiting Professor, CHS), Eleftherios Venizelos and the Koraes Chair
Professor Dame Averil Cameron (University of Oxford, founding Director of CHS), Why Byzantium matters
Vote of thanks by the Koraes Professor-designate, Professor Gonda Van Steen
Closing remarks: Mrs Lydia Koniordou, Minister for Culture and Sport, Hellenic Republic (introduced by H.E. the Ambassador of the Hellenic Republic, Mr Dimitrios Caramitsos-Tziras

Find out more: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/ahri/centres/chs/about%20us/the-koraes-chair.aspx

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