All four of these books won the prestigious Runciman Award for best book on the Hellenic world. A Biography (2003) Byron’s War: Romantic Rebellion, Greek Revolution (2013), and Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation (2019, now a Penguin paperback). Roderick is the author of many books and articles about aspects of the Greek-speaking world from the twelfth century to the present day, including An Introduction to Modern Greek Literature (1994) George Seferis: Waiting for the Angel. From 2012 to 2018 he also served as Director of the Centre for Hellenic Studies at King’s. After a three-year postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Birmingham he embarked on a long career at King’s College London, first as Lecturer in Modern Greek Language and Literature (1981-88), later as Koraes Professor of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and Literature (1988-2018), and since then as Emeritus. Roderick Beaton grew up in Edinburgh and studied English Literature at Peterhouse, Cambridge, before turning to Modern Greek as the subject of his doctorate, also at Cambridge – and at the British School at Athens.
– Kostas Tampakis (National Hellenic Research Foundation) – Efi Gazi (University of the Peloponnese) – Antonia (Ada) Dialla (Athens School of Fine Arts)
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Should it not prove possible to host these events in person, they will be delivered virtually registration information will be added approximately one month before the event.Īlexandros Ypsilantis crosses the Pruth by Peter von Hess, Benaki Museum, Athens Speakers will focus on the transmission, or ‘migration’, of such ideas across the European continent in the wake of 1789 Revolution in France and their impact in creating the climate in which a Greek revolution became possible in 1821. Ideas about making a revolution – ideas that are in themselves revolutionary: these two back-to-back panel discussions, one in Athens, the other in London, will revolve around both concepts, as ways of understanding the outbreak of revolution by Orthodox Christian, Greek-speaking subjects of the Ottoman empire in the spring of 1821, that would lead to the creation of Greece as a modern nation-state in 1830. Two Panel Discussions chaired by Roderick Beaton, Emeritus Koraes Professor of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and Literature, King’s College London, co-organised with the British School at Athens.īritish School at Athens, Monday 15 February 2021Ĭentre for Hellenic Studies, King’s College London, Monday 22 February 2021, 18.00-20.00.
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