Katie Lentakis Memorial Fund Award 2022
Award Ceremony
and
Katie Lentakis Memorial Fund Lecture 2022
Roderick Beaton In Conversation On:
The Greeks: A Global History
* Given by the Anglo-Hellenic League and organised jointly with the Centre for Hellenic Studies, KCL *
The Council Room, King’s College London, The Strand, London WC2R 2LS
Monday 27 June 2022, 6pm
We are pleased to announce the annual award ceremony and lecture for the Katie Lentakis Memorial Fund Award 2022. The Award is given annually by the League in memory of Katie Lentakis, for many years a stalwart of the London Greek community and a longstanding Vice-Chair of the League. The competition is open to final-year undergraduates at King’s College London for an essay on a Greek subject.
The ceremony will be an opportunity to meet and applaud the winner of this year’s competition. After the ceremony, the annual Katie Lentakis Memorial Fund Lecture will take the form of a conversation between Prof. Roderick Beaton FBA FKC and Dr John Kittmer, Chair of the League, about Prof. Beaton’s latest book: The Greeks: A Global History.
Roderick Beaton grew up in Edinburgh and studied English Literature at Cambridge, before specialising in Modern Greek studies. For thirty years until his retirement he held the Koraes Chair of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and Literature at King’s College London, and is now Emeritus.
Roderick is the author of several books of non-fiction, one novel, and several translations of fiction and poetry, all of them connected to Greece and the Greek-speaking world. He is a four-time winner of the Runciman Award, and his books have been shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize and the Cundill History Prize.
He is a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), a Fellow of King’s College (FKC), and Commander of the Order of Honour of the Hellenic Republic. From 2019 to 2021 he served as a member of the Committee “GREECE 2021”, charged by the Greek government with overseeing events commemorating the 200th anniversary of the start of the Greek Revolution in 1821, and from September to December 2021 as A.G. Leventis Visiting Professor in Greek at the University of Edinburgh. His latest book, The Greeks: A Global History, was published by Faber in November 2021 (hardback) and (paperback) in June 2022.
This event will not be livestreamed or recorded.
