Dear friends and colleagues, 

We hope your September is off on a good start. Please mark your calendars for the following events coming up in September and October:

24-25 September: ‘Ideas of Exile, Refugees and Displacement in the Ancient and Modern Mediterranean’: Workshop at Birkbeck College, U. of London (exact room TBD). Main organizer: Ian Sideris, Birkbeck College (iansideris@outlook.com).

For more information about times and speakers, and a link to register:

https://www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event/64452/ideas-of-exile-refugees-and-displacement-in-the-ancient-and-modern-mediterranean

5 October: King’s Strand campus, River Room (KIN227), 18:00-20.00: Lecture by Dr Spyros Tsoutsoumpis: ‘A Violent Middle Class: Paramilitaries, Gangs, and State Formation in Modern Greece, 1912-1949‘. More info at https://21in21.co.uk/events/ .

Register  here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1990799716543?aff=oddtdtcreator

20 October: ‘Unveiling Byzantium: An Evening Remembering  Dame Averil Cameron’: Strand, Council Room KIN 214, 18:30-21:00. Preceded by Vespers in the King’s Chapel, 17:15-18:15 (with choir and music by Rachmaninoff).

The evening will feature three speakers and short remembrances, and is hosted in collaboration with SPBS, King’s Classics, History, and CLAMS. To register, please click here 

https://event.fourwaves.com/d52e344f-f00b-4ce0-849a-8c815bb1dad6