The Wednesday Lecture
13 October 2021
Temporary Exhibitions Hall, 19.30

Title: The Greek Revolution of 1821 and European Philhellenism
Speaker: Roderick Beaton, Emeritus Professor at Koraes’ Chair of Modern Green and Byzantine History, Language and Literature, King’s College London

Introduction by Prof. Gonda Van Steen, Professor at Koraes’ Chair of Modern Green and Byzantine History, Language and Literature, King’s College London
Q&A session coordinated by Dr. Diana Markides, Historian

With the hope that the pandemic will soon be over, allowing us to return to safety and usual routine, the A. G. Leventis Galler is resuming the Wednesday Lecture series, starting on 13 October 2021 with the lecture ‘The Greek Revolution of 1821 and European Philhellenism’ by Prof. Roderick Beaton.

The year 2021 marks the bicentenary of the outbreak of the Greek Revolution, or War of Independence. As that anniversary year evolves, this talk takes a long view, beginning with the European settlement reached at the Congress of Vienna in 1814-15, known as the ‘Concert of Europe’, and continuing with the disappearance of multi-national empires and their replacement throughout the continent by the nation states that we are familiar with today. International recognition for Greece as a sovereign nation-state, sealed by the Protocol of London in February 1830, according to Professor Beaton’s analysis, represents a pivotal point in this continent-wide transition, and one that has been unjustly overlooked by historians. The talk will focus on those aspects of the Greek Revolution that explain how events in Greece in the 1820s contributed to this far-reaching change, whose consequences are still being played out today as the UK has left the European Union and its constituent nations to contemplate separate futures for themselves.

Reservations by Monday 11/10/2021, tel. 22668838 / rsvp@leventisgallery.org.
The lecture will be given in Greek.
The lecture will also be live-streamed on the A. G. Leventis Gallery’s Facebook page.

Free entrance.

The A. G. Leventis Gallery, following the decree of the Ministry of Health, requires all visitors to present a valid safe pass and wear a face mask during their visit.