We are pleased to announce the annual award ceremony and lecture for the Katie Lentakis Memorial Fund Award 2024. The Award is given annually by the League in memory of Katie Lentakis, for many years a stalwart of the London Greek community and a longstanding Vice-Chair of the League. The competition is open to final-year undergraduates at King’s College London for an essay on a Greek subject.

The ceremony will be an opportunity to applaud and, we hope, meet the winner of this year’s competition. In addition, the Department of Classics at King’s College London will be awarding the annual dissertation prize of the Society for Platonic Studies.

After the two ceremonies are over, the annual Katie Lentakis Memorial Fund Lecture will be given by Prof. M. M. McCabe with the title “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). 

This event will not be livestreamed or recorded.

If you with to attend, please register online here.

This event is organised jointly with the Centre for Hellenic Studies at King’s College London.