The Anglo-Hellenic League, the Centre for Hellenic Studies at King’s College London & the Association of Constantinopolitan Greeks in the UK present The Significance of the Lausanne Treaty: International Dimensions
The Great Hall, King’s College London, The Strand, London WC2R 2LS
Saturday 4 November 2023
The programme is as follows:
4pm: Screening of Venizelos, the Struggle for Asia Minor (2022, National Research Foundation “Eleftherios K. Venizelos”, ERT, EKOME)
Introduction and post-screening Q&A
Leonidas Liambeys and Helen Katsiadakis
Break
6.40pm: The League’s new logo and website
Introduction
John Kittmer and Roula Konzotis
7pm: Papers and panel discussion
Chair & Discussant, Bruce Clark
Helen Katsiadakis, “The Treaty of Lausanne: an overview”
Maria Fafalios, “Social and gender dimensions of the refugees’ conditions - Eyewitnessed accounts”
Ceyda Karamursel, “The Treaty of Lausanne as the Dawn of a New Economic Order”
Panel Discussion. Q&A
8.30pm: Reception
Entry is free though registration (by 1 November) is required:
The event will not be livestreamed or recorded.
With our especial thanks to the National Research Foundation “Eleftherios K. Venizelos”and the A.G. Leventis Foundation
Notes on the participants
Βruce Clark is an author, journalist and broadcaster with a lifelong interest in the history and language of Greece. He is the author of Athens, City of Wisdom, a narrative history of the city over 3,000 years and Twice A Stranger, a prize-winning study of the Greek-Turkish population exchange and its consequences. He spent more than three decades as a roving foreign correspondent, with postings in Paris, Athens, Moscow and Washington. He became the Economist’s first religion correspondent in 2004 and in 2006 he set up a new section of the paper devoted to broad global topics, from disarmament to development. In 2022 he was honoured by the Greek government with the Grand Cross of the Order of the Phoenix. In 2018 he was honoured by the Ecumenical Patriarch with the title of Archon-Interpreter.
Maria Fafalios, MSc (Social Psychology) is founder and chairperson (1995-2014) of “Kaleidoscope Social Enterprise” for people with disabilities in Greece. Author of over 15 books (some jointly with C.N. Hadjipateras, Athens Academy Award) covering a wide range of social history topics, with emphasis on personal testimonies.
Helen Katsiadakis studied history at the University of Athens and received her Ph.D. at King’s College, London. She was a researcher at the Modern Greek History Research Centre of the Academy of Athens between 1981 and 2016. She is now a Researcher Emerita of this Institution. She is also a scientific advisor of the Eleftherios Venizelos Research Foundation of Chania, Crete.
Ceyda Karamursel is a Lecturer in History at SOAS, University of London, with research interests focusing on the economic, political, and legal history of the late Ottoman Empire and early Turkish Republic. She holds a B.A. degree in Economics from Boğaziçi University and received her M.A. and Ph.D. in History from the University of Pennsylvania.
Leonidas Liambeys founded Long Run Productions in 2020 after more than 12 years’ experience working in some of Greece’s leading production companies on non-fiction projects. Long Run’s productions include the award-winning Venizelos, the Struggle for Asia Minor (2022 Venizelos Foundation, ERT, EKOME) and The Secrets of the Owl (iMEdD, GFC, ERT, 2024), as well as several other productions and co-productions for the Greek and European TV and film markets. With a focus on non-fiction productions, he has created short films, animation and educational content for cultural institutions such as the British School at Athens, as well as ERT and the Greek Film Centre. He read PPE at the University of Oxford and Political Theory (MSc) at the LSE, before completing a Diploma in Painting and Sculpture from the Athens School of Fine Art with Distinction.
