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Friends of the Hellenic Institute: Newsletter 2008 Friends of the Hellenic Institute: Newsletter 2008 Letter from the Acting Director 31tst January 2009 Dear Friend, Last year was marked by the death of our Director Julian Chrysostomides (†18.X.2008), and our Friend and member of the Steering Group Professor John Barron (†16.VIII.2008), while more recently the Friend of the Institute Professor Zaga Gavrilović (†19.I.2009) also passed away. They all belonged to the generation of dedicated scholars and teachers who left an indelible mark on Hellenic and Byzantine Studies internationally. They shall be remembered with deep affection, respect and admiration for their scholarship, integrity and humanity. The Institute extends its deepest sympathy to their families and close friends. In her last Letter to you on 31st January 2008, Julian Chrysostomides celebrated the fifteenth anniversary of the establishment of the Hellenic Institute at Royal Holloway College, and reflected on the past achievements and the future of the Institute. Through her dedication and determination she was able to meet most of the aims and objectives she identified when she assumed the directorship of the Institute in December 1998. Under her inspiring leadership and perseverance, despite some difficult periods, the Institute succeeded in establishing itself as a research centre for the diachronic and interdisciplinary study of Hellenism, expanding its teaching and research activities. The securing of external funding, especially for the re-establishment of the Lectureship in Byzantine History and the establishment of the Lectureship in Byzantine Literature and Greek Palaeography as well as of a number of studentships, bursaries and other awards, was essential for the development of the Institute. As Julian stressed, nothing would have been achieved without the dedication of our students and staff and the support of the College, in particular the Departments of History and Classics, the members of the Steering Group, the sponsors and Friends of the Institute. Julian is in many respects irreplaceable. Her loss is deeply felt among the international academic community, especially by those who are fortunate to have been taught by, and co-operate closely with her over the years. This is testified by the number of friends, colleagues and students who attended the funeral service, and the hundreds of messages of sympathy we have been receiving from all over the world. Obituaries appeared in the national Press and the College Alumni Journal Higher (December 2008). An appreciation of her life, personality and work is included in our Newsletter. To honour the memory of our distinguished scholars and teachers, the Institute is establishing “The Julian Chrysostomides Bursaries” and “The John Penrose Barron Prize in Hellenic Studies”. A memorial event to celebrate Julian‟s life and achievements will be held in the Picture Gallery at Royal Holloway on Monday 16 March 2009, at 4-5pm. We do hope you will be able to join us on this occasion. Last November, Professor Adam Tickell assumed the post of Chairman of the Steering Group in his capacity as Vice-Principal for Research, Enterprise & Communications, succeeding his predecessor Mr David Sweeney, who was appointed Director for Research, Innovation, and Skills at the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE). David and Adam‟s support has been decisive for the survival and further development of the Institute, as has been that of Professor Justin Champion, Head of the History Department, and Professor Jonathan Powell, former Head of Classics, who is now succeeded by Dr Anne Sheppard. As Julian reminded us in her Letter last year, “much has been achieved, but much remains to be done”. Raising external funds for further teaching and research posts, and scholarships for our students is the only way that the future of the Institute will be secured. With this in mind, we shall intensify our efforts to raise the remaining funds for the establishment of a full-time Lectureship in Modern Greek History, placing emphasis on Anglo- Hellenic Relations (19th-20th c.), which is our next priority. Through the continued active support of the College, our sponsors, Members of the Steering Group and Friends, I am confident that we shall be able to fulfil the tasks that lie ahead, building on the firm foundations Julian has laid. With warm wishes for a Happy and Peaceful New Year, Charalambos Dendrinos About the Hellenic Institute Established in 1993, The Hellenic Institute at Royal Holloway, University of London is a research centre of the History Department maintaining strong links with the Department of Classics. It brings together two areas of teaching and research in which Royal Holloway has long excelled: the study of the language, literature and history of Ancient Greece, and Byzantine Studies. It aims to consolidate these strengths and to extend them by promoting further the study of Hellenic tradition across the centuries, from the archaic and classical Greece, through the Hellenistic times, Byzantium and the Post-Byzantine period, to the modern world. The Hellenic Institute hosts a number of research projects and organises seminars, lectures and conferences addressed to students, scholars and to a wider public. The Hellenic Institute also seeks to bring together at a national and international level all those who share its interests. It collaborates closely with other institutions in the University of London and The Hellenic Centre, a cultural meeting place for the Greek community in London. It maintains links with Universities overseas, especially in Greece and Cyprus. As part of its teaching activities The Hellenic Institute runs the taught MA degree course in Late Antique and Byzantine Studies and the MA History: Hellenic Studies. The Institute also offers supervision to research students. Tutorials, formal and informal courses in Modern Greek Language and Culture are also offered by Dr Polymnia Tsagouria, seconded by the Greek Ministry of Education. For further information please visit http://www.rhul.ac.uk/ Hellenic-Institute/Studying/Modern-Greek.html In 1999 The Friends of the Hellenic Institute were established with the aim to provide funding for The Nikolaos Oikonomides Studentship, to enable gifted students to pursue postgraduate studies in Byzantine History and Literature at the Institute. The Hellenic Institute is currently receiving funding from the College, the Greek Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of Education and Culture of the Republic of Cyprus, The A.G. Leventis Foundation, The Hellenic Foundation, the London Hellenic Society, the Orthodox Cultural Association, the Friends of the Hellenic Institute, and private donors. For updated information on the Institute‟s activities, including forthcoming events, please visit http://www.rhul.ac.uk/hellenic-institute/ Students’ news The Hellenic Institute currently has 15 research students registered with the History Department: 1. Maria Argyrou (PhD), The printed Greek book production and trade in the eastern Mediterranean in the sixteenth century: the case of the editio princeps of St Basil‟s ΢πγγξάκκαηά ηηλα. Opera quaedam beati Basilii Caesariensis episcopi by Stefano de Sabio (Venice, 1535) 2. Stella Chrysochoou (PhD), The chartographical tradition of Claudius Ptolemaeus‟ Γεωγξαθηθή Ὑθήγεζηο in the Palaeologan period and the Renaissance 3. Konstantinos Ikonomopoulos (MPhil/PhD), Byzantine perceptions of Orthodox Jerusalem and its impact on the Crusades, 1099-1280 4. Laura Franco (PhD), A study of the Metaphrastic process: the case of the unpublished Passiones of Sts Iakovos and Platon and the Vita of St Hilarion, by Symeon Metaphrastes 5. Christina Kakkoura (MPhil/PhD), An annotated critical edition of Emperor Manuel II Palaeologus‟ Seven Ethico-political Orations 6. Alexandra Melita (PhD), Magic and healing and the Greeks in seventeenth-century Venice 7. Konstantinos Palaiologos (PhD) An annotated critical edition of the treatise On the Errors of the Latins by Matthaios Vlastares 8. Kenneth Scott Parker (MPhil/PhD) The Impact of the Crusades on the Christian Churches of the Near East, 1291-1402 9. Vasos Pasiourtides (MPhil/PhD) An annotated critical edition of Demetrios Chrysoloras‟ Dialogue on Demetrios Kydones‟ Antirrhetic against Neilos Kabasilas 10. Eugenia Russell (MPhil/PhD), Fourteenth-century Byzantine encomia to St Demetrius 11. Quentin Russell (MPhil/PhD), The Greek community in London, 1830-1914 12. George Siderountios (PhD), Early Christian and Byzantine uses of the term Ἕιιελ. 13. Dawn Thomas (PhD), Galen‟s Πεξὶ Ὑγηεηλῆο in context 14. Christos Triantafyllopoulos (PhD), An annotated critical edition of the treatise On the Errors of the Latins and the Heresy of Barlaam and Akindynos by Macarios, Metropolitan of Ancyra, 1397-1405 15. Anastasia Vatoussiadi (MPhil/PhD), The influence of Byzantine legislation on Slavic family law Two students successfully completed the MA degree in Late Antique and Byzantine Studies in September 2008: Alex Rodriguez Suarez (dist.) and Augustine Hideiko Kobayashi. Irina Chesnokova, and George Gassias are continuing their studies for the same MA, while four new students enrolled this year: Praxoula Aresti, Gary Pitts, Brian Walker and Dimitrios Zoukas. Congratulations to the following students who were awarded the PhD degree by the University of London in 2008: Nikolaos Chrissis, Crusading in Romania: a Study of Byzantine- Western Relations and Attitudes Georgios Liakopoulos, A Study of the Early Ottoman Peloponnese in the Light of an annotated editio princeps
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