We are delighted to invite you to attend The Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award Ceremony 2024, under the joint sponsorship of the Athanasios C. Laskaridis Charitable Foundation and the A. G. Leventis Foundation, and in partnership with the Centre for Hellenic Studies at King’s College London.
Since 1986, the Award has rewarded annually the best book or books published the previous year in English about some aspect of Greece. The Award this year goes to the winner of the best book published in 2023.
You are warmly invited to join us at our award ceremony, at which our chair of judges, Prof. Judith Mossman, will announce the winner. The winner will attend the event and speak about the winning book. The keynote speech will be given by Prof. Alexander Lingas on ‘Recovering the Lost Voices of Hagia Sophia’. The event will be hosted and addressed by Dr John Kittmer, chair of the Council of the League, and Prof. Gonda Van Steen, director of the Centre for Hellenic Studies. A reception will follow.
Because of the attendance at our event of a VIP, we ask that all guests take their places in the Great Hall of King’s College London no later than 6.50pm.
It is also possible to watch the event live online by Zoom.
Attendance in person and viewing by Zoom are free but you must register for either in advance.
To reserve your place(s) in the Great Hall at King’s College London, please register here. You must register no later than 12 noon on Friday 14 June.
To reserve your place(s) to watch online on the Zoom webinar, please register here. You may register until the start of the event.
A recording of the event will be posted live on our YouTube channel in the days after the ceremony.
Alexander Lingas, Music Director and founder of Cappella Romana, is Professor Emeritus of Music at City, University of London, and a Research Fellow of the Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies (Cambridge, UK). He formed and directed the Byzantine Chant Ensemble for the Coronation of Their Majesties King Charles III and Queen Camilla in 2023. His present work embraces not only historical study but also ethnography and performance. In 2018, His All-Holiness, Bartholomew I, Archbishop of Constantinople-New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch, bestowed on him the title of Archon Mousikodidáskalos. Having been Spring 2023 Artist in Residence at St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary in Yonkers, New York, he has returned there during 2023–24 as Professor of Music and Associate Director of its Institute of Sacred Arts.
