Dear friends and colleagues,
We hope this update finds you well. After a very successful trilogy of lectures by Professor Emerita Judith Herrin, we have more events to share:
19 March 2026, Bush House (NE) -1.01: 18:30-20:00: A book presentation by Prof. Gail Holst Warhaft, My Father and the Silver King (Colenso Books), introduced by Dr Anthony Hirst and Timothy Ashplant (KCL). For Bush House NE, please enter from 30 Aldwych, London, WC2B 4BG.
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gail-holst-warhaft-and-anthony-hirst-book-presentation-tickets-1981963048832?aff=oddtdtcreator
23 March 2026, Bush House Lecture Theatre 1 (BH S1.01): 19:00-20:30: Book launch of Sir Roderick Beaton‘s latest book: Europe. Interlocutor: Prof. Georgios Varouxakis (Queen Mary, University of London, author of The West: The History of an Idea (2025)).
For more about the book, click here: https://www.penguin.co.uk/authors/132124/roderick-beaton . To register, click here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1977022348063?aff=oddtdtcreator
25 March 2026, Seminar 15:00-17:00, Bush House (SE) 2.10: Professor Emeritus Michael Silk will speak on the topic of ‘Poetic Language in Theory and Practice: Greek Archetypes and Modern Dilemmas’. By way of introduction, David Ricks will say a few words about the volume Poetry and Poetics, Greek and Beyond: Essays in Honour of M.S. Silk (2026), co-edited with Fiona Macintosh: https://www.routledge.com/Poetry-and-Poetics-Greek-and-Beyond-Essays-in-Honour-of-MS-Silk/Macintosh-Ricks/p/book/9781032585086.
Also, if you find yourself in Athens on 21 April, please join us at the Spiti tis Kyprou, on Xenophontos Street, in the city centre: 18:00-20:00: The Eighth Niki Marangou Memorial Lecture will be given by Manolis Savvidis on ‘Ο ορισμός της ποίησης’, in Greek.
More events, through 10 June 2026, appear on our 21in21.co.uk/events/ page (button below).
Again, we look forward to seeing you soon,
Gonda Van Steen
