The Katie Lentakis Memorial Fund Award
Credit: Julian Anderson
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In partnership with the Centre for Hellenic Studies at King’s College London, the annual award ceremony and lecture for the Katie Lentakis Memorial Fund Award 2023 was held on 13 June 2023.
This year's prize of £500 was won by Oliver Graham for the dissertation 'Guilt and Sickness: Reading an Addiction Narrative in Euripides' Orestes'.
Congratulations to Oliver, shown above with Prof. Gonda van Steen, Koraes Chair of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and Literature in KCL's Centre for Hellenic Studies and Department.
Following the ceremony, the annual Katie Lentakis Memorial Fund Lecture took the form of a conversation between Prof. Kevin Featherstone, Director of the Hellenic Observatory at the LSE, and Dr John Kittmer, Chair of the League, about Prof. Featherstone’s academic career tracking the ins and outs and the ups and downs of the Greek political scene.
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Katie Lentakis (1920-2000) was a devoted member of the Anglo-Hellenic community of London and served as Vice-Chairman of the League for many years.
After her death, the Katie Lentakis Memorial Fund was established by the League out of donations given in memory of Katie Lentakis. The Fund is charitably invested and the annual interest goes towards an award, which, since 2002, has been made every year to a final-year undergraduate studying in the Faculty of Arts & Humanities at King’s College London.
The Katie Lentakis Memorial Fund Award rewards the writer of the best submitted essay on a topic related to any field of Hellenic Studies.
