Annual Katie Lentakis Memorial Fund Award

  • June 18, 2024 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

  • Council Room, KCL Strand Campus

    London, London WC2R 2LS
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Description

Co-hosted by the AHL, CHS, Classics, and the Foundation for Platonic Studies, which will be handing out the second Mary Margaret McCabe Dissertation Prize in Ancient Philosophy.

 

The evening will feature a lecture by Professor Emerita Mary Margaret McCabe, on the topic of 'Socrates in Prison'.

 

Mary Margaret McCabe (‘MM’) works on ancient philosophy, on ethics and on epistemology: her most recent book is Platonic Conversations (OUP 2015). She is Professor of Philosophy Emerita and Fellow of King’s College London, a Fellow of the British Academy, and Honorary Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge. In 2022-3 she was the President of the Aristotelian Society and the Honorary President of the Classical Association; she was previously President of the Mind Association (2016) and the British Philosophical Society (2009-12). She has been a visiting professor at Princeton University and Yale University; in 2017 she gave the Sather Lectures at the University of California at Berkeley, and in 2024 she will give the Hägerström Lectures at the University of Uppsala. MM is a co-founder and the Chair of Trustees of the charity Philosophy in Prison, which provides and supports philosophical discussion for prisoners in the UK (www.philosophyinprison.com).

Date & Time

Tue, Jun 18, 2024 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Venue Details

Council Room, KCL Strand Campus

London, London WC2R 2LS Council Room, KCL Strand Campus
Centre for Hellenic Studies

The Centre for Hellenic Studies at King's College London is a unique grouping of academics in different disciplines and departments, with interests and expertise covering more than three millennia, from Aegean prehistory to the history, language, literature and culture of Greece, Cyprus and the worldwide Greek diaspora today.

Our work and our international prestige are supported by a distinguished International Advisory Board, with external members from the USA and Greece as well as the UK. The Centre's members participate in research projects funded by such prestigious bodies as the European Research Council (ERC) and the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC). Many of our projects have attracted generous sponsorship from leading Greek and Cypriot charitable foundations, including A.G. Leventis, Stavros Niarchos and Alexander S. Onassis.

Founded in 1989, the Centre is committed to promoting knowledge and understanding of Greek history, language, and culture of all periods, and in particular the fostering of research with a comparative focus, whether cross-cultural or exploring the diachronic spectrum of Hellenism itself.

In close partnership with the Department of Classics (ranked 1st in the UK in the 2021 Research Excellence Framework) the Centre builds upon the expertise of a membership drawn from a range of departments and central services across the Faculties of Arts & Humanities and Social Sciences & Public Policy, and from the neighbouring Courtauld Institute of Art. Visiting Fellows and Visiting Professors are also affiliated to the Centre for periods of between six months and three years.

The director of the Centre is Gonda Van Steen. For a full list of members please email chs@kcl.ac.uk.