Centre for Hellenic Studies: a new future

King's College London has today announced plans to enhance its Centre for Hellenic Studies by significantly broadening the scope of its activities to include for the first time teaching as well as research. The Centre will be focused on the Koraes Chair of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and Literature (inaugurated in 1919), and will bring together academics, students, alumni and friends from a growing number of disciplines to study all aspects of the history and culture of the Greek-speaking world over four millennia. The College's plans build on its long history of teaching and research in these areas and are designed to ensure that options in the study of the Hellenic world are widely available to students in the School of Arts & Humanities, and across the College generally. The new arrangements will come into place on 1 September 2010. King's College London has operated a Centre for Hellenic Studies since 1989. As a research centre it has until now co-ordinated the activities of several departments, but has not had its own dedicated staff or registered students. Under the new arrangements, the Centre for Hellenic Studies will incorporate the Department of Byzantine & Modern Greek Studies, including its staff.