The Centre for Hellenic Studies are running a series of events over the coming weeks. For those of you that can make it to London you might find the first of particular interest to be held at 7.00pm on 26 January.

The event will be held in the Great Hall of King’s College London (Strand campus), where we will embark on a journey exploring Lord Byron’s life and part of his work through a variety of approaches. The event will open with Byron’s poem, ‘The isles of Greece’, set to music by composer Stamatis Chatziefstathiou – sung by Andriana Mpampali in the album ‘Έλληνες Φιλέλληνες’. The three parts of the event will be:

A talk by Roderick Beaton, Emeritus Koraes Professor, titled ‘From London to Missolonghi – and back in a barrel of rum: Byron’s life in Greece’;
A documentary called ‘From Messolonghi to London: 200 years later’; and
A performative work-in-progress on Byron’s Manfred called ‘Manfred Echoes’, presented by the actors Konstantinos Delidimoudis and Vassileia Kenanoglou and the cellist Thodoris Papadimitriou.
A wine reception will follow. The event will be in English and in Greek.

Further details of this and their other events can be found here.