Centre for Hellenic Studies (CHS) at King's College London

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Dear friends, Note this feature in The Guardian about the topic of our 7th Niki Marangou lecture at King's. The lecture will be given by specialist Euphrosyne Doxiadis on 13 MARCH, at 6.30pm in the Council Room (2nd floor King's building on the Strand campus). You can still sign up via the link in the comments.

Fresh doubt cast on authenticity of Rubens painting in National Gallery Exclusive: Art historian points to ‘bad craftsmanship’ in 17th-century work entitled Samson and Delilah

We look forward to welcoming you to the 7th Niki Marangou Lecture, which will take place at King’s College London on 13 March 2025, at 6:30 pm.

Please register here: https://www.simpletix.com/e/7th-niki-marangou-memorial-lecture-euphros-tickets-196148

Dr Catia Galatariotou’s talk has had to be postponed, due to personal reasons.

We are delighted that Euphrosyne Doxiadis has been able to step in at short notice. Her lecture, which is titled “The Eye of the Beholder: From the Fayum Portraits to a Painting in Trafalgar Square”, will focus on the two areas of research to which she has dedicated her life: the Fayum Portraits, the postclassical Greco-Roman painted portraits found in the Egyptian deserts and their importance as works of art, and the painter Peter Paul Rubens. She will present the findings of her decades-long attempts to show why the painting “Samson and Delilah” in the National Gallery is a 20th-century copy of the 17th-century original.

Euphrosyne Doxiadis was born in Athens in 1946. She studied at the Oscar Kokoschka School of Seeing in Salzburg, the Slade School of Fine Art in London, the Cranbrook Academy of Art in the USA, and at the Wimbledon School of Art, London. In 1995, she published The Mysterious Fayum Portraits: Faces from Ancient Egypt (new edn. 2024), which was awarded the Bordin Prize by the Institut de France, Académie des Beaux Arts (1996) and an Academy of Athens prize. Since 1987, Euphrosyne has been researching the problems of the painting “Samson and Delilah” in London’s National Gallery (inventory number NG6461), which, she argues, was wrongly attributed to the great Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens. Her book NG 6461: The Fake National Gallery Rubens is hot off the press (2025, Eris Press, London and New York). Euphrosyne’s paintings have seen numerous international solo exhibitions. She has been artist-in-residence and lecturer at the Aegean Centre for the Fine Arts on the Aegean Island of Paros since 1990.

Dear friends, join us on 13 March for the 7th Niki Marangou Memorial Lecture, to be delivered by Euphrosyne Doxiadis:

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Sixth Translation Workshop Translators of Modern Greek into English are invited to a two-day workshop

Our Runciman Lecture is coming up. Join us in person on Th. 6 February, in King's Great Hall on the Strand. Please do register in advance:

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We are delighted to announce that the 7th Niki Marangou Lecture, "REALITY AND TRUTH IN THE WRITINGS OF NIKI MARANGOU", will be delivered by Dr Catia Galatariotou on 13 March 2025 in London.

You can register for free now, here: https://www.simpletix.com/e/7th-niki-marangou-memorial-lecture-dr-cati-tickets-196148

The lecture explores the multiple layers of Reality in the writings of Niki Marangou. Unlike the island of Cyprus where she comes from, Marangou’s work has no hard dividing lines: within a framework of shifting Memory and Time she merges fact and fiction, subjectivity and objectivity, Past and Present, Conscious and Unconscious, human will and Fate. In the process, the author emerges as an unreliable yet supremely true witness – a paradox which is as subtle as it is subversive.

Catia Galatariotou was born in Cyprus; England has been her second home since 1972. She took a degree in the history of art and English literature in 1976, before studying law and being called to the Bar. Returning to academic study, she took a PhD in Byzantine Studies at the University of Birmingham and held a Research Fellowship in history at Selwyn College, Cambridge. In 1997 she was elected Member and later Fellow of the British Institute of Psychoanalysis. For decades she worked concurrently as a researcher on the cultural history of Byzantium and Cyprus, and as a practising psychoanalyst and university lecturer in psychoanalysis. Her publications, usually interdisciplinary in nature, include The Making of a Saint (Cambridge University Press, 1991), translations, and numerous papers in international journals and collective volumes on the cultural history of Byzantium and of Medieval and modern Cyprus, art, and psychoanalysis.

We look forward to seeing you there.

The Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies and the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA) are pleased to announce a new opportunity, a graduate fellowship for midcareer Greek professionals in public service.

Our fellowship will cover the full cost (tuition, health insurance, and a generous stipend towards living expenses) of the one-year SPIA Master of Public Policy (MPP) program, academic year 2025-26. This opportunity is made possible by the Paul Sarbanes ’54 Fund for Hellenism and Public Service.

The deadline is December 15, 2024.

Learn more and view the application here: https://tinyurl.com/58unya85

Nikos Kazantzakis, The Last Voyage King's Centre for Hellenic Studies will host an evening dedicated to Nikos Kazantzakis, co-sponsored by the International Society of Friends of Nikos Kazantzakis for the UK.

Dear friends, join us on Wednesday, in-person, if you can: