Hellenic Institute

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The Hellenic Institute at Royal Holloway, University of London (RHUL), is a research centre for the interdisciplinary and diachronic study of Hellenism.

Based in the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of History, it maintains close links with the Department of Classics and cooperates with other RHUL Departments and Centres. The Institute has a long history of working with other institutions in the University of London and with The Hellenic Centre, the main cultural hub of the Greek and Cypriot communities in London.

It promotes the study of Greek language, literature, history and thought from the archaic and classical age, through the Hellenistic and Roman times, Byzantium and the Post-Byzantine period, to the establishment of the Modern Greek State and the modern world. The Hellenic Institute hosts a number of research projects and organises seminars, lectures and conferences addressed to students, scholars and to a wider public. The Institute houses the Centre for Greek Diaspora Studies, which examines the history and contribution of Greek and Cypriot migrants to their host communities and countries internationally.

The Hellenic Institute currently runs two taught postgraduate degree courses: MA in Late Antique and Byzantine Studies and MA History: Hellenic Studies. It also offers supervision to students who pursue MPhil/PhD research in various subjects within the field of Hellenic, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies. Staff of the Institute also contribute to undergraduate courses on Byzantine and Modern Greek history and language at RHUL.

To honour the memory of the Institute’s former director Julian Chrysostomides, the Friends of the Hellenic Institute established The Julian Chrysostomides Bursaries Fund. She will be remembered as a true scholar and an affectionate and inspiring teacher.

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Royal Holloway, University of London
Egham

Partner Infrastructures

Hellenic Centre London

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London

Partner Universities

Birkbeck, University of London

King's College London (KCL)

University College London (UCL)

Additional Partnerships

Lambeth Palace Library