BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//EUNIC UK - ECPv6.16.3//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://euniclondon.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for EUNIC UK REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20240331T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20241027T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20250330T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20251026T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20260329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20261025T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20270328T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20271031T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260528T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260528T200000 DTSTAMP:20260530T175359 CREATED:20260429T131124Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260429T131126Z UID:10005533-1779994800-1779998400@euniclondon.org SUMMARY:Penthesilea: Queen of the Amazons – Screening and Q&A with Laura Mulvey DESCRIPTION:Penthesilea: Queen of the Amazons (1974) is a defining work of the radical filmmaking of the 1970s. The first collaboration between Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen\, the film interrogates myth and spectatorship through its engagement with the fierce Amazonian queen of Greek mythology\, offering a sharply theorised feminist reworking of classical narrative forms.  \nPenthesilea has been understood\, from its earliest reception\, as a landmark work of feminist counter-cinema and avant-garde experimentation. Contemporary critics noted its rigorously structured five-part design and its exploration of alternative didactic methods that challenged conventional cinematic language. Emerging from the early Mulvey–Wollen collaboration\, the film quickly came to be seen as a ‘theory film’\, deeply intertwined with the feminist and psychoanalytic debates shaping their writing and signalling a decisive turn towards radical aesthetic and political critique.  \nMulvey uses the Greek myth as the perfect terrain on which to expose how patriarchal culture constructs and contains female figures. The film stages a contrast between classical mythic representation and feminist counter-cinema\, ultimately revealing how myth itself becomes a tool of ideological control.  \nIn more recent decades\, retrospectives and scholarly reassessments have emphasised the film’s enduring relevance as a bold feminist reworking of classical mythology and a sustained inquiry into representation\, spectatorship\, and cinematic form\, affirming its status as a significant and still challenging experiment within the history of avant-garde film.  \nThe screening will be followed by a Q&A with Laura Mulvey and film curator Georgia Korossi.  URL:https://euniclondon.org/event/penthesilea-queen-of-the-amazons-screening-and-qa-with-laura-mulvey/ LOCATION:The Hellenic Centre London\, 18\, 16 Paddington St\, ONLINE\, W1U 5AS\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Film,Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://euniclondon.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Penthesilea-still1.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="The Hellenic Centre":MAILTO:info@helleniccentre.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260519T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260519T210000 DTSTAMP:20260530T175359 CREATED:20260324T162421Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260324T162422Z UID:10005479-1779217200-1779224400@euniclondon.org SUMMARY:Cyprus as a Crossroads of Art: From Antiquity to the Medieval Period DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening of talks and discussion exploring Cyprus’ artistic heritage as a bridge between East and West\, from antiquity to the\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for an evening of talks and discussion exploring Cyprus’ artistic heritage as a bridge between East and West\, from antiquity to the medieval period.\n\nThis event features two research presentations by Alexis Kyriacou and Dr Mark Merrony\, whose work examines how Cypriot art absorbed and transformed external influences while maintaining a distinct local identity. Both studies are forthcoming publications in ANTIQVVS magazine.\n\nAlexis Kyriacou\, archaeologist and PhD researcher at the University of Reading\, will present Sculpture and Identity in Archaic Cyprus (740–475 BC)\, examining limestone votive figures from across the island. His talk explores how Greek\, Phoenician\, Egyptian\, and native traditions fused to create hybrid forms that reflect Cyprus’ central place in the ancient Mediterranean.\n\nDr Mark Merrony\, Editor in Chief of ANTIQVVS magazine and Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries\, will focus on the mosaics of Kykkos Monastery\, demonstrating how Cypriot art continued to negotiate influences from East and West into the Byzantine and later periods.\n\nThe evening will include time for audience questions and discussion\, followed by a wine and snack reception\, offering further opportunities for exchange among academics\, students\, and enthusiasts of Cypriot history and art. URL:https://euniclondon.org/event/cyprus-as-a-crossroads-of-art-from-antiquity-to-the-medieval-period/ LOCATION:The Cyprus High Commission\, 13 St. James’s Square \, London\, SW1Y 4LB\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Art,Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://euniclondon.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Main-Image-Eventbrite-Image.png ORGANIZER;CN="Cyprus High Commission - Cultural Section":MAILTO:info@culturalchc.co.uk GEO:51.5074366;-0.1364896 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=The Cyprus High Commission 13 St. James’s Square London SW1Y 4LB United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=13 St. James’s Square:geo:-0.1364896,51.5074366 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260514T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260514T200000 DTSTAMP:20260530T175359 CREATED:20260429T125306Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260429T125307Z UID:10005529-1778785200-1778788800@euniclondon.org SUMMARY:The Fumes of Mars by Katerina Angelopoulou: Presentation and Q&A DESCRIPTION:‘A large wildfire has a very distinctive sound. No one can tell you unless they have been in one. It is a sound that can haunt you…’  \nThe Fumes of Mars is a book investigating the 2018 Mati wildfire near Athens — one of the deadliest in recorded history. On 23 July 2018 wildfires swept through Mati\, Greece\, 30 kilometres from Athens. Over 100 lives were lost and victims were left to fight for survival alone. Artist Katerina Angelopoulou survived the fire\, fleeing with her three-year-old child.   \nThe book acts as a counter-archive — a forensic and deeply personal investigation into how official narratives of catastrophe are constructed and enforced. It brings together Angelopoulou’s photographs taken during and after the disaster\, survivor testimonies\, aerial maps marking where each victim died\, weather reports\, CCTV footage and personal artefacts recovered from the ruins: jewellery\, books\, glasses. The work challenges the official narrative\, one that persists and blames residents and victims.  \nIts structure is non-linear\, mirroring how trauma fractures narrative\, fragmentary\, refusing easy resolution. Though rooted in a specific catastrophe\, the work speaks to something universal: the failure of institutions\, the invisibility of survivors\, and the struggle for accountability in an era of compounding climate catastrophe.  \nThe artist will be in conversation with publisher Stuart Smith (GOST Books). A Q&A will follow the presentation.  \nImage: Katerina Angelopoulou URL:https://euniclondon.org/event/the-fumes-of-mars-by-katerina-angelopoulou-presentation-and-qa/ LOCATION:The Hellenic Centre London\, 18\, 16 Paddington St\, ONLINE\, W1U 5AS\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://euniclondon.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/AngelopoulouKaterina_TheFumesOfMars_3.jpeg ORGANIZER;CN="The Hellenic Centre":MAILTO:info@helleniccentre.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260424T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260424T200000 DTSTAMP:20260530T175359 CREATED:20260408T144459Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260408T144500Z UID:10005538-1777055400-1777060800@euniclondon.org SUMMARY:The Song of the Cosmos – Attila József Selected Poems (Shearsman Books\, 2026) DESCRIPTION:Book Launch and Conversation with Editor and Translator Ágnes Lehóczky and Adam Piette \nThe translations by Piette and Lehóczky form a five-year-long project with an ambition to translate a significant selection of the poems of the modernist\, socialist\, working-class Hungarian poet\, Attila József (1905-1937). József lived a poverty-stricken\, passionate\, and unstable life as a wanderer\, a bohemian\, a poet\, a thinker\, a non-conformist\, a hobo\, and a lover till his untimely death by suicide\, struck by a train\, in Balatonszárszó on Lake Balaton\, aged only 32. His poetry is surrealist\, existentialist\, Villonesque\, tough-minded\, quasi anarchist\, deeply drenched in Hungarian folklore and the folk song\, passionate\, lyrical\, elegiac\, marked by his solitary wandering\, his keen observation of the lives of the people\, by his psychoanalytically inflected gaze into the unconscious\, into the mind and body of lovers\, his philosophical focus on dialectic and social injustice. \nThe lyrics\, free verse and formal\, in an astonishing number of experimental forms\, range from the metaphysical to the memoir\, have filiations to French medieval\, post-symbolist and surrealist poetry\, fuse Nietzsche\, Marx\, Hegel and Freud in daring raids on the inarticulate\, sing with haunting vernacular and ancient beauty and rise to extraordinary heights and flights of the imagination\, yet are always grounded in the real\, in the concrete particulars of the metropolis\, the dark streets of the underclasses of this world. \nThis bilingual volume presents a chronological selection of József’s poetry\, featuring both English translations and the original Hungarian texts. With introductions and afterwords by Ágnes Lehóczky\, George Szirtes\, György Tverdota\, Aranka Kemény and Adam Piette\, the book aims to recreate ‘The Song of the Cosmos’\, an unpublished collection József envisioned in the early 1920s. ‘Cosmos’ here isn’t the physical universe but rather the soul expanded to cosmic proportions\, a ‘universe imbued with a political subject’. The volume incorporates a faithful and playful reconstruction of the original graphic design\, conceived by József’s artist friend György Békeffi in the 1920s. \nÁgnes Lehóczky \nÁgnes Lehóczky’s poetry collections published in the UK are Budapest to Babel (Egg Box\, 2008)\, Rememberer (Egg Box\, 2012)\, Carillonneur (Shearsman\, 2014)\, Swimming Pool (Shearsman\, 2017)\, Lathe Biosas\, or on Dreams & Lies (Crater Press\, 2023) and Apropos Paradise Square (Pamenar Press\, 2025). She also has three full poetry collections in Hungarian published in Budapest: Ikszedik stáció (Universitas\, 2000)\, Medalion (Universitas\, 2002) and Palimpszeszt (Magyar Napló\, 2015). \nShe is the author of the academic monograph Poetry\, the Geometry of Living Substance – comprising four essays on the poetry of Ágnes Nemes Nagy (2011). Her pamphlet Pool Epitaphs and Other Love Letters was published by Boiler House Press (2017). She co-edited major international anthologies: the Sheffield Anthology (Smith/Doorstop\, 2012) with Adam Piette\, The World Speaking Back to Denise Riley (Boiler House\, 2018) with Zoë Skoulding\, Wretched Strangers (Boiler House\, 2018) with J. T. Welsch and most recently the ‘Monk Collective’ with Adam Piette (Blackbox Manifold\, 2023). Fission of Being – Endnotes on Earthbound was commissioned by The Roberts Institute of Art\, London in 2021. She is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing and Director of the Centre for Poetry and Poetics at the University of Sheffield. Lehóczky edited The Song of the Cosmos – Attila József Selected Poems (Shearsman Books\, 2026) which she co-translated with Adam Piette. \nAdam Piette \nAdam Piette is Professor of Modern Literature at Sheffield. He is the co-editor of the international contemporary poetry journal Blackbox Manifold with Alex Houen. He is author of Remembering and the Sound of Words: Mallarmé\, Proust\, Joyce\, Beckett; Imagination at War: British Fiction and Poetry\, 1939-1945\, and The Literary Cold War\, 1945 to Vietnam. He edited the special issue of Translation and Literature on “Modernism and Translation”\, The Salt Companion to Peter Robinson with Katy Price (2007) and The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century British and American War Literature with Mark Rawlinson (2012). His poetry collections are: nights as dreaming (Constitutional Information / earthbound press)\, CCCLXV with Crater Press (October 2025)\, and Lies Blurring Here with Broken Sleep (2026). He is the co-translator\, with Ágnes Lehóczky\, of The Song of the Cosmos: Selected Poems of Attila József (Shearsman Books\, 2026). He is currently co-editing an edition of Australian poet Catherine Vidler’s work with Amelia Dale and A.J. Carruthers for Puncher & Wattman. URL:https://euniclondon.org/event/the-song-of-the-cosmos-attila-jozsef-selected-poems-shearsman-books-2026/ LOCATION:Hungarian Cultural Centre\, 10 Maiden Lane\, London\, London\, WC2E 7NA\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Literature,Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://euniclondon.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/TSTC_Eunic.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Liszt Institute Hungarian Cultural Centre London":MAILTO:info@hungary.org.uk GEO:51.5102115;-0.1232743 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Hungarian Cultural Centre 10 Maiden Lane London London WC2E 7NA United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=10 Maiden Lane:geo:-0.1232743,51.5102115 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260423T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260423T220000 DTSTAMP:20260530T175359 CREATED:20260408T142445Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260408T142446Z UID:10005511-1776974400-1776981600@euniclondon.org SUMMARY:Fanfares for Leoš Janáček\, with special guest Jakub Hrůša DESCRIPTION:An evening devoted to the electrifying late music of Leoš Janáček\, marking 100 years since the premiere of his jubilant masterpiece\, the Sinfonietta.\n\nConductor Jakub Hrůša\, writer and broadcaster Nigel Simeone\, and leading Janáček scholar Jiří Zahrádka explore the composer’s extraordinary creative surge in the final decade of his life. From his transformative meeting with Kamila Stösslová in 1917 to the radiant\, defiant energy of works like the Sinfonietta\, the discussion traces how personal passion and an unmistakably original musical language combined to produce some of the most compelling music of the 20th century.\n\nInterwoven with musical examples and personal reflections\, this is above all a celebration of Janáček’s enduring voice – alongside the launch of two new publications: Janáček’s Sinfonietta by Nigel Simeone and Jiří Zahrádka (Boydell\, 2026) and Káťa Kabanová and The Cunning Little Vixen: Janáček’s New Lease of Life by Jiří Zahrádka (Host\, 2026).\n\nJakub Hrůša is Music Director of the Royal Opera\, Covent Garden\, Chief Conductor of the Bamberg Symphony and Music Director Designate of the Czech Philharmonic (from 2028). Born in Brno\, he has been an ardent champion of Czech music around the world. The production of Janáček’s Makropulos Case at Covent Garden in 2025 has been nominated for an Olivier Award\, and many of his recordings have won international recognition\, including the Gramophone Opera Award for Káťa Kabanová at the Salzburg Festival. His complete cycle of Bohuslav Martinů’s symphonies will be released later this year by Deutsche Grammophon.\n\nNigel Simeone is a writer and broadcaster with a lifelong interest in Janáček. He is the author of several books on the composer including The Janáček Compendium (2019) and he is co-author the standard catalogue of Janáček’s works (1997). He appears regularly on BBC Radio 3 (Record Review\, Opera on 3\, and the Proms)\, and has written programme notes for the Royal Opera House\, London Symphony Orchestra\, Salzburg Festival\, Glyndebourne Festival and others.\n\nJiří Zahrádka is Director of the Janáček Archive in Brno and a musicologist. He is the editor of critical editions of many works by Janáček including the Sinfonietta\, Taras Bulba\, Káťa Kabanová\, The Cunning Little Vixen and The Makropulos Affair\, and he is the author of several books on Janáček including acclaimed full-length studies of the operas\, most recently Káťa Kabanová and The Cunning Little Vixen.\n\nAdmission: £5 (+ Eventbrite fee)\nBook Here URL:https://euniclondon.org/event/fanfares-for-leos-janacek-with-special-guest-jakub-hrusa/ LOCATION:Czech Centre at the Czech Embassy Cinema\, 26 Kensington Palace Gardens\, London\, Select a State\, W8 4QY\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://euniclondon.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/c6a4eeea082f67c2664bac558e69dace.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Czech Centre":MAILTO:blues@czechcentre.org.uk END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260423T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260423T200000 DTSTAMP:20260530T175359 CREATED:20260408T144123Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260408T144125Z UID:10005939-1776970800-1776974400@euniclondon.org SUMMARY:Exclusive Screening Premiere: Lord Elgin and Some Stones of No Value (40-Year Anniversary) DESCRIPTION:Join us for an exclusive premiere screening of the newly restored film Lord Elgin and Some Stones of No Value (1986)\, celebrating 40 years since its release. Directed by Christopher Miles and featuring Hugh Grant’s first screen appearance\, the film is a nuanced and imaginative exploration of the Parthenon Sculptures’ removal from Athens\, drawing heavily on Lord Elgin’s own letters.  \nStarring Nigel Havers and Julian Fellowes\, the film has been meticulously researched and crafted with an unorthodox structure. Lord Elgin’s own words form the backbone of a narrative that shifts between past and present\, offering an experience that is at once informative\, thought-provoking\, and above all\, profoundly human.  \nThe screening will be followed by a Q&A session\, mediated by George T. Lemos\, with a panel that will include film cast and crew members Suzy Miles and Alberto Bona\, who will speak about the restoration of the film. More special guests might join the event\, depending on their availability.  URL:https://euniclondon.org/event/exclusive-screening-premiere-lord-elgin-and-some-stones-of-no-value-40-year-anniversary/ LOCATION:The Hellenic Centre London\, 18\, 16 Paddington St\, ONLINE\, W1U 5AS\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Film,Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://euniclondon.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/LE-CMElgins-1-1.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="The Hellenic Centre":MAILTO:info@helleniccentre.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260416T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260416T200000 DTSTAMP:20260530T175359 CREATED:20260408T144032Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260408T144034Z UID:10005527-1776366000-1776369600@euniclondon.org SUMMARY:Modern Poetry in Translation – The Antidote to Agony: Focus on the Poetry of Greece and Cyprus DESCRIPTION:Join us for the presentation of Modern Poetry in Translation’s latest issue\, The Antidote to Agony: Focus on the Poetry of Greece and Cyprus\, featuring 30 contemporary poets who expand the boundaries of Modern Greek\, Bulgarian and Arvanitika in English translation. The event will include poetry readings by issue contributors Kostya Tsolakis\, Calliope Michail\, Phoebe Giannisi and Brian Sneeden\, and will be introduced by guest editor Jessica Sequeira. \nThe Antidote to Agony features 30 selections of poems by contemporary poets\, translated into English\, expanding the linguistic boundaries of Modern Greek\, Bulgarian and Arvanitika\, reflecting on migrant crossings in the Mediterranean\, female friendship\, the transcription of orality\, imagined plagues\, the encounters of bodies\, the AIDS pandemic\, and artistic ruin\, among other themes. \nJoin us for an evening of poetry readings from issue contributors\, including readings by Kostya Tsolakis of his translations of Nikolas Koutsodontis and George Le Nonce\, Calliope Michail of her translations of Argyris Chionis and Iliassa Sequin\, and Brian Sneeden and poet Phoebe Giannisi will perform poems from Giannisi’s recent collection Goatsong\, as featured in this issue of MPT. \nModern Poetry in Translation was founded by Ted Hughes and Daniel Weissbort in 1965. They published poetry that dealt truthfully with the real contemporary world. For 60 years\, MPT has continued and widened that founding intent. To see more\, please visit: modernpoetryintranslation.com \nImage: Aegis – Design\, texts\, drawings by Phoebe Giannisi\, leather processing by Argyris Kappas \n  URL:https://euniclondon.org/event/modern-poetry-in-translation-the-antidote-to-agony-focus-on-the-poetry-of-greece-and-cyprus/ LOCATION:The Hellenic Centre London\, 18\, 16 Paddington St\, ONLINE\, W1U 5AS\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Art,Literature,Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://euniclondon.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/2-1.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="The Hellenic Centre":MAILTO:info@helleniccentre.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260413T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260413T203000 DTSTAMP:20260530T175359 CREATED:20260324T162224Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260324T162225Z UID:10005505-1776105000-1776112200@euniclondon.org SUMMARY:Erev Yom HaShoah: ‘People Without History Are Dust’: An In Conversation with Dr Anna Hájková and Rabbi Kamila Kopřivová DESCRIPTION:MON 13 APR 2026 18:30 Westminster Synagogue\, London \nWhere are the stories of great queer love in the Shoah? There are almost none. Dr Anna Hájková examines why the history of same-sex desire during the Shoah – queerness among Jews persecuted by the Nazis for their race – is largely absent from history books\, and how restoring these narratives can contribute to a more inclusive understanding of the Holocaust. \nBased on extensive archival research and oral histories\, her book\, recently awarded the 75th National Jewish Book Award in the Holocaust category\, offers a concise and accessible insight into the queer history of the Holocaust for both general readers and specialists. On Monday 13th April\, Anna will discuss her research in conversation with Rabbi Kamila Kopřivová on the occasion of Yom HaShoah\, the annual day of Holocaust remembrance in the Jewish calendar. \n\n\n 6.30pm – Erev Yom HaShoah Service\n 7pm – In Conversation\, followed by Q&A and refreshments\n Early Bird Tickets: £15 members / £20 non-members\nEarly bird ends Monday 6 April\nBOOK NOW\n\nDr Anna Hájková is Reader of modern European continental history at the University of Warwick. She is the author of\, among others\, The Last Ghetto: An Everyday History of Theresienstadt (2020) and People Without History Are Dust: Queer Desire in the Holocaust (2025) which won the 75th National Jewish Book Award in the Holocaust category\, in February. Hájková is the pioneer of queer Holocaust history. URL:https://euniclondon.org/event/erev-yom-hashoah-people-without-history-are-dust-an-in-conversation-with-dr-anna-hajkova-and-rabbi-kamila-koprivova/ LOCATION:Westminster Synagogue\, Rutland Gardens Mews\, Rutland Gardens\, London\, SW7 1BX\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Literature,Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://euniclondon.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/7e1f0dfd81d408c4bd17d7b7fe577341.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Czech Cenrre London":MAILTO:http://london.czechcentres.cz END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260408T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260408T210000 DTSTAMP:20260530T175359 CREATED:20260324T162853Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260331T131753Z UID:10005503-1775673000-1775682000@euniclondon.org SUMMARY:Roma Routes – Art\, Identity\, and Expression from Hungary DESCRIPTION:Join us on 8 April to mark International Roma Day for Roma Routes\, an evening of photography\, film\, and contemporary art exploring the journeys that shape Roma identity. Bringing together documentary work from a collaborative project in Tiszavasvári\, Hungary\, and artistic reflections by London-based Roma artist Robert Czibi\, the exhibition traces connections between place\, memory\, and belonging. Through images\, stories\, and personal perspectives\, Roma Routes invites audiences to reflect on how identity is shaped between the places we come from and the places we continue to become.\n\nThis exhibition brings together two intertwined narratives: the story of a segregated Roma community in Tiszavasvári\, and that of an artist born in another Roma neighbourhood in the same region who has carried its memory across borders.\n\nThe first story is that of collaboration: stepping across internal borders between the countryside and the Hungarian capital\, Budapest\, to involve participants from the Roma neighbourhood of a small town in the North-East of Hungary in a collaborative writing project with local non-Roma residents through the publication of the periodical Duj Dzséne – Ketten – Two Together.\n\nThe second story is of the artist\, Robert Czibi who crossed internal borders of identity and the physical borders of countries on many occasions before finding his expressive voice in the multiplicity of London’s lingua-culture. The simultaneity of identity as rootedness in Roma origins and identity as motion and interaction with our surroundings is what unites the two narratives that unfold in the images exhibited together.\n\n\nThe Road Ahead\nDocumentary and Photography Projects from Hungary – Film and photography\n\nThis photo exhibition was created in collaboration between photojournalist Márton Kállai\, multiple-winner of the Hungarian Press Photo Competition\, and the Tiszavasvári Roma Girls’ Youth Club\, on the initiative of the KRE Linguistic Diversity and Social Participation research group at Károli Gáspár University in Budapest. Together\, Roma and non-Roma participants from Tiszavasvári and Budapest write and publish the journal Duj Dzséne – Ketten – Two Together\, creating a narrative of trust and belonging about Roma futures and the coexistence of Roma and non-Roma in Hungary. The documentary film Duj Dzséne – Ketten – Two Together: Stories of a collaborative journal in support of Roma social participation showcases stages from their journey together: how they forged a collaborative writing and research collective across the borders of identity that separate people living alongside each other.\n\n\n\n\nThere I Was Born\, Here I Become\nContemporary Art\n\nRobert Czibi’s artistic response unfolds as a parallel journey alongside the documentary and the photos. Although Robert’s works reflect his individual journey as a London-based Roma artist from Hungary\, his journey explores the potentialities that open up when collectives or individuals persistently criss-cross and interrogate physical and narrative borders of identity. Through his works\, he returns to the landscapes of his childhood not only to remember\, but to understand how identity is formed between the place of birth and the place of becoming. Through images\, he explores what it means to grow up in a Roma family\, to leave it behind\, and to continue carrying its imprint in his works. Together\, his artworks create a dialogue between here and there\, between collective memory and personal transformation.\n\n\n\n\nProgramme\n\n 18:30 – Film screening (25 minutes)\n 19:00 – Panel discussion – The Road Ahead – Documentary and Photography Projects from Hungary\n 19:30 – There I Was Born\, Here I Become – Private view\n 21:00 – End of Event\n\n\n\n\nWe warmly invite audiences to join us for an evening of photography\, film and contemporary art marking International Roma Day. Through documentary images\, collaborative storytelling and personal artistic reflection\, Roma Routes opens a space to engage with questions of identity\, belonging\, and the journeys that shape Roma lives across places and generations.\n\nThe exhibition offers an opportunity to encounter the voices and perspectives behind these projects and to reflect on how communities and individuals navigate the paths between heritage\, memory and new beginnings.\n\nRegistration is open via Eventbrite.\n\nThe event is supported by the National Research\, Development and Innovation Office – Hungary and organised by the Liszt Institute London URL:https://euniclondon.org/event/roma-routes-art-identity-and-expression-from-hungary/ LOCATION:Liszt Institute Hungarian Cultural Centre London\, 17-19 Cockspur St.\, London \, SW1Y 5BL\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Art,Film,Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://euniclondon.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Roma-Routes_Eunic.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Liszt Institute Hungarian Cultural Centre London":MAILTO:info@hungary.org.uk END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260326T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260326T200000 DTSTAMP:20260530T175359 CREATED:20260324T162714Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260324T162717Z UID:10005439-1774551600-1774555200@euniclondon.org SUMMARY:Athens Tales: Athens in Literature and Song DESCRIPTION:Join the book launch and discussion of Athens Tales\, an anthology of one hundred and fifty years of Greek short fiction about Athens\, compiled and translated into English by Joshua Barley. The evening will include an illustrated presentation of the book by the translator\, and an accompanying performance of Athenian songs by mezzo-soprano Alexandra Achillea.  \nThis is the main UK launch of Athens Tales\, recently published by Oxford University Press. The book is an anthology of the last one hundred and fifty years of Greek short fiction about Athens\, comprising eighteen authors from representative periods of the city’s modern history. There are stories of war and migration\, love stories and other vignettes of Athenian life\, through which the reader traces the multiple transformations of the Greek capital. With each author bringing their own perspective as well as style\, the anthology is both an introduction to modern Greek literature as well as a portrait of Athens through its writers. At this event\, the book’s creator and translator\, Joshua Barley\, will give an illustrated talk weaving together some of the anthology’s lesser-known authors with the modern history of the city. He will be joined by special guests including the singer Alexandra Achillea\, who will perform a selection of twentieth-century Athenian songs with piano accompaniment.  URL:https://euniclondon.org/event/athens-tales-athens-in-literature-and-song/ LOCATION:The Hellenic Centre London\, 18\, 16 Paddington St\, ONLINE\, W1U 5AS\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://euniclondon.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Screenshot-2026-01-07-at-16.06.27.png ORGANIZER;CN="The Hellenic Centre":MAILTO:info@helleniccentre.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260325T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260325T200000 DTSTAMP:20260530T175359 CREATED:20260324T162810Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260324T162812Z UID:10005509-1774463400-1774468800@euniclondon.org SUMMARY:Why women’s stories of war matter. Ukraine in a global context. DESCRIPTION:Location:\n\n\n\n\nInstitut français\n17 Queensberry Place\nLondon\nSW7 2DT \n\n\nJoin us for a conversation on women’s experiences of war\, inspired by stories from Ukraine collected by the Ukrainian writer Yuliia Iliukha in her book My Women. These are diverse\, often unseen and silenced experiences:painful\, intimate\, sometimes even funny. They rarely make newspaper headlines\, yet they are no less important than frontline reports or updates from sites of destruction. \nTogether with Christina Lamb OBE\,Chief Foreign Correspondent at The Sunday Times\, one of Britain’s leading foreign journalists and bestselling author of Our Bodies Their Battlefields and What War Does to Women\, we will discuss why women’s stories matter and how they resonate within a broader global context. \nStories of women’s wartime experiences allow us to better understand the trauma of contemporary war and the ways it shapes daily life. They stay with us. They are remembered\, retold\, and carried forward. They bear witness\, cultivate solidarity\, and help us endure. \n\nSpeaker \n\n\nYuliia Iliukha \n\nYuliia Iliukha is a poet\, prose writer and journalist\, born in 1982 in Kharkiv oblast\, Ukraine. She is the author of several books for adults and children. Her poems and prose stories have been translated into over fifteen languages. Iliukha has received awards\, including the Oles Honchar International Ukrainian-German Literary Prize\, the Smoloskyp Prize\, and the Rotahorn Literaturpreis. My Women won the BBC Book of the Year 2024 in Ukraine and was shortlisted for the EBRD Literature Prize 2025. The book has been published in the US\, France\, Sweden\, Slovakia\, Austria\, Poland\, Greece\, Lithuania and Italy\, with translations forthcoming in Bulgaria\, Latvia\, Spain and Finland. Illukha is currently working on a novel. \n\nModerator \n\n\nChristina Lamb \n\nCovering conflicts across the globe for the past 38 years\, Christina Lamb is recognised as one of the world’s leading foreign correspondents and is Chief Foreign Correspondent for The Sunday Times as well as a bestselling author. \nHer dispatches with the Afghan mujaheddin fighting the Soviet Union saw her named Young Journalist of the Year at the age of 22. She has since reported everywhere from Israel to Ukraine\, Syria to Zimbabwe and been awarded Foreign Correspondent of the Year seven times as well as Europe’s top war reporting prize\, the Prix Bayeux\, the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award from both the Society of Editors and Women in Journalism as well as the Chesney Gold Medal for promoting the understanding of war\, previously awarded to Henry Kissinger and Winston Churchill. Christina’s work has earned her international renown not only as a ground-breaking journalist but as a campaigner for women impacted by war.  She has authored ten books\, including Our Bodies Their Battlefields\, What War Does to Women and co-writing I Am Malala with Malala Yousafzai. \nShe is a Global envoy for UN Education Cannot Wait\, on the board of the Institute for War and Peace Reporting\, and an Associate of the Imperial War Museum and was awarded an OBE in 2013 as well as an honorary doctorate from Oxford in 2026. \n  \n  URL:https://euniclondon.org/event/why-womens-stories-of-war-matter-ukraine-in-a-global-context/ LOCATION:Cinema Lumiere\, 17 Queensberry Place\, London\, London\, SW7 2DT\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Literature,Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://euniclondon.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/All-posts-1x1-UIL-2.jpg GEO:51.4945863;-0.1773215 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Cinema Lumiere 17 Queensberry Place London London SW7 2DT United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=17 Queensberry Place:geo:-0.1773215,51.4945863 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260307T150000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260307T160000 DTSTAMP:20260530T175359 CREATED:20260212T122817Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260212T122819Z UID:10005438-1772895600-1772899200@euniclondon.org SUMMARY:Kalamoti: A Medieval Village on Chios Island DESCRIPTION:Join us for the book launch and discussion on the book Kalamoti: A Medieval Village of Chios. Kalamoti combines architecture with history\, highlighting current issues surrounding the preservation of cultural heritage. The Panayotis & Effie Michelis Foundation has entrusted Kalamoti’s representation to the architect and photographer Yiorgis Yerolymbos\, whose images reveal the harmony between landscape\, architecture\, and the people who inhabit them. The discussion will be between Yiorgis Yerolymbos\, political scientist Stathis Kalyvas and Pprofessor Roman Gerodimos.  \nThe historical context and development of the region over the centuries are comprehensibly described by the island’s former mayor\, architect Manolis Vournous\, who presents the reader with the necessary background and raises topical issues.  \nThe book serves as an occasion to reignite a substantive discussion within the scientific community and in society at large regarding the aesthetics of historic villages and their impact on the past and the foreseeable future.   \nThe book will be available to purchase on the day.  \nImage credit: Yiorgis Yerolymbos  URL:https://euniclondon.org/event/kalamoti-a-medieval-village-on-chios-island/ LOCATION:The Hellenic Centre London\, 18\, 16 Paddington St\, ONLINE\, W1U 5AS\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://euniclondon.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Kalamoti2.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="The Hellenic Centre":MAILTO:info@helleniccentre.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260225T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260225T210000 DTSTAMP:20260530T175359 CREATED:20260129T121016Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260129T121017Z UID:10005461-1772046000-1772053200@euniclondon.org SUMMARY:Creative Pathways – In Conversation with Professor George Rodosthenous DESCRIPTION:An evening of conversation with Professor George Rodosthenous\, an accomplished artist and academic and a Cypriot living\, working in the UK.\n\n\n\n\nCreative Pathways – In Conversation with Professor George Rodosthenous\n\nJoin us at Cyprus House\, London\, for an evening of conversation with Professor George Rodosthenous\, an accomplished artist and academic and a Cypriot living and working in the UK.\n\nAs part of the Creative Pathways series\, this Q&A event places personal stories at the centre of creative practice. Professor Rodosthenous will reflect on his journey from Cyprus to the UK\, his experience of working across artistic and academic contexts\, and the ideas\, challenges\, and dreams that continue to shape his work today.\n\nThe discussion will explore:\n\n Creative life across borders and cultures\n The relationship between artistic practice and research\n Identity\, belonging\, and Cypriot voices abroad\n Contemporary performance and musical theatre today\n Advice and reflections for emerging creatives\n\nThe evening will conclude with an open Q&A with the audience.\n\n📅 Date: Wednesday\, 25 February\n🕖 Time: 7:00 pm (Doors open: 6:30pm)\n\n📍 Venue: Cyprus House\, London\n\n🎟️ Free entry | Registration required\n\nCreative Pathways celebrates Cypriot creatives in the UK not only for what they have achieved\, but for the journeys they continue to make. URL:https://euniclondon.org/event/creative-pathways-in-conversation-with-professor-george-rodosthenous/ LOCATION:The Cyprus High Commission\, 13 St. James’s Square \, London\, SW1Y 4LB\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Art,Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://euniclondon.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Alkistis-2-scaled.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Cyprus High Commission - Cultural Section":MAILTO:info@culturalchc.co.uk GEO:51.5074366;-0.1364896 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=The Cyprus High Commission 13 St. James’s Square London SW1Y 4LB United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=13 St. James’s Square:geo:-0.1364896,51.5074366 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260219T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260219T203000 DTSTAMP:20260530T175359 CREATED:20260120T145815Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260120T145828Z UID:10005449-1771527600-1771533000@euniclondon.org SUMMARY:Culture as security: how culture protects us DESCRIPTION:An evening of conversation exploring the ways in which culture protects\, provokes and sustains societies. Together with a distinguished panel of speakers we will examine the role of culture in national security\, the ways in which cultural narratives strengthen resilience\, civic identity and democracy\, and what it means when culture itself comes under attack. \nHosted by Kirsty Lang (BBC Radio 4)\, this crucial conversation will feature Mariam Naiem (Ukrainian writer\, researcher and educator)\, Charlotte Higgins (The Guardian) and Yassmin Abdel-Magied (Sudanese diaspora writer and social advocate). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \nFull price – £15.00Concession – £7.50Young person (16–25) – £6.00Universal Credit / Pension Credit (ID required) – £6.00 \n  \n\n\n\n\nBook here\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker \n\n\nMariam Naiem \n\nMariam Naiem is a Ukrainian writer\, researcher\, and educator examining Ukraine through a post-colonial lens. Since 2015\, she has been educating global audiences about Ukrainian society and culture. Her work includes the graphic novel A Brief History of a Long War (available in multiple languages) and The Guide for Self-Decolonization (Ukrainian). She co-hosts award-winning podcasts on decolonial practices\, has spoken at Harvard\, Penn State\, and international conferences\, and her commentary appears in The New York Times\, Politico Europe\, and Der Spiegel. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker \n\n\nYassmin Abdel-Magied \n\nYassmin Abdel-Magied is a Sudanese diaspora writer and broadcaster. Yassmin is the author of the essay collection Talking About a Revolution (2022)\, and her debut novel At Sea\, (May 2026). Founding Youth Without Borders at 16\, Abdel-Magied is now an award-winning speaker on social justice\, delivering keynotes and workshops in 25 countries. Her TED talk has over 2.8 million views and is one of TED’s top 10 ideas. She created the website eyesonsudan.net and supports sudandigitalarchive.com\, a free\, open source digital archive for Sudanese collective memory. \nPhoto Credit: Alex Cameron \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker \n\n\nCharlotte Higgins \n\nCharlotte Higgins is the chief culture writer of The Guardian\, contributing work across the paper on art and the politics of culture. Since 2022\, she has been reporting regularly from Ukraine. Her book Ukrainian Lessons: Art in a Time of War (Jonathan Cape)\, is published in August 2026\, with a Ukrainian translation expected the following year. With Mary Beard\, she is co-host of the podcast Instant Classics\, and most of her books draw on her interest in classical history\, literature and culture. Her works include Under Another Sky: Journeys in Roman Britain and Red Thread: On Mazes and Labyrinths. Her most recent book\, Greek Myths\, with illustrations by Chris Ofili\, was shortlisted for the Waterstones Book of the Year 2021. \nPhoto Credit: Nastya Telikova \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nModerator \n\n\nKirsty Lang \n\nKirsty Lang is a journalist and broadcaster who works for BBC Radio and Television. She was formerly on the staff of The Sunday Times and Channel 4 News\, working as a presenter and reporter. Lang was a visiting professor at Columbia University in New York for several months at the beginning of 2012. She chairs the Board of the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead and since 2014 has been on the board of the British Council. URL:https://euniclondon.org/event/culture-as-security-how-culture-protects-us/ LOCATION:British Library\, 96 Euston Rd\, London\, London\, NW1 2DB\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://euniclondon.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/All-posts-4x5-NEW-12.png GEO:51.5298692;-0.127707 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=British Library 96 Euston Rd London London NW1 2DB United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=96 Euston Rd:geo:-0.127707,51.5298692 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260205T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260205T233000 DTSTAMP:20260530T175359 CREATED:20260120T141538Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260120T141549Z UID:10005451-1770314400-1770334200@euniclondon.org SUMMARY:Night of Ideas 2026 DESCRIPTION:The French Institute presents the Night of Ideas\, a night of free debates taking place on 5 February\, this year’s theme exploring global inequalities\, the growing polarization among Gen Z and ending life ethically. Leading experts from both sides of the Channel will challenge our understanding of the world\, reflecting on how governments\, civil society\, and individuals tackle global disorder\, polarisation\, and fragile social contracts\, fostering dialogue for a brighter future through free\, engaging discussions.  URL:https://euniclondon.org/event/night-of-ideas-2026/ LOCATION:Institut français in London\, 17 Queensberry Place\, London\, SW7 2DT\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Learn,Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://euniclondon.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/NIGHTOFIDEAS26_1200x360.jpg GEO:51.4945863;-0.1773215 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Institut français in London 17 Queensberry Place London SW7 2DT United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=17 Queensberry Place:geo:-0.1773215,51.4945863 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260128T181500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260128T203000 DTSTAMP:20260530T175359 CREATED:20260120T144249Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260120T144249Z UID:10005448-1769624100-1769632200@euniclondon.org SUMMARY:Impact of Impunity for Europe and Beyond DESCRIPTION:Join us to discuss new challenges to justice in Ukraine and the far-reaching implications of impunity for European and global security. \nThis expert panel brings together specialists from Truth Hounds\, a human rights organisation documenting and investigating war crimes\, and The Reckoning Project\, an international initiative combining legal action\, journalism\, and documentation to pursue accountability. \nWith over 164\,000 war crimes cases pending in Ukraine\, the discussion will examine why investigations and prosecutions must expand beyond Ukraine’s borders\, how international solidarity and shared responsibility can help counter impunity\, and what is at stake when accountability is treated as a bargaining chip in peace negotiations. \nThe panel will also explore reparations\, prosecutions underway in Ukraine and abroad\, and emerging legal challenges—including the unregulated use of new weapons such as drones—situating Ukraine’s struggle for justice within shifting global norms and the future of international security. \nThis event is co-organised by the Ukrainian Institute London\, and the Delegation of the European Union to the UK. \nOpening remarks:\nAmbassador Pedro Serrano\, Head of the Delegation of the European Union to the United Kingdom \nSpeakers: \n\n\nWendy Betts – Legal Director for The Reckoning Project and a consultant to the Oxford Institute for Justice and Technology \n\n\nOksana Pokalchuk – Ukrainian human rights lawyer and Co-Executive Director of Truth Hounds \n\n\nZera Kozlyieva – Legal Director at Truth Hounds \n\n\nTsvetelina van Benthem – Legal Expert at The Reckoning Project \n\n\nModerator:\nNigel Gould-Davies\, Senior Fellow for Russia and Eurasia\, International Institute for Strategic Studies \nThe discussion will be followed by an informal drinks reception and networking. \nSpeaker \nOksana Pokalchuk \nOksana Pokalchuk is a Ukrainian human rights lawyer and Co-Executive Director of Truth Hounds\, an investigative NGO documenting international crimes committed during Russia’s war against Ukraine. She has previously worked at the European Court of Human Rights and served as Executive Director of Amnesty International Ukraine. Her work lies at the intersection of legal accountability\, documentation\, and international advocacy\, advancing justice through global solidarity and international legal mechanisms. \nSpeaker \nDr Tsvetelina van Benthem \nDr Tsvetelina van Benthem is a lecturer in Law and Technology at the University of Reading School of Law and a lecturer in international law at the University of Oxford. She is a senior legal adviser at The Reckoning Project. Tsvetelina is a generalist international lawyer specialising in international humanitarian law\, human rights law and international criminal law. \nSpeaker \nZera Kozlyieva \nZera Kozlyieva is the Legal Director at Truth Hounds\, a Ukrainian investigative NGO documenting war crimes and other international crimes committed during Russia’s war against Ukraine. A former prosecutor at the Prosecutor’s Office of Ukraine\, she has extensive experience in international legal cooperation\, parliamentary engagement\, and the investigation of crimes committed in occupied territories. At Truth Hounds\, she coordinates legal investigations\, works on universal jurisdiction cases\, and trains investigators\, prosecutors\, and judges on international humanitarian and criminal law. She is a Crimean Tatar and has been focused on accountability for crimes related to the occupation of Crimea and the war since 2014. \nSpeaker \nWendy Betts \nWendy Betts is an expert in documenting\, analyzing\, and preserving evidence of human rights violations and international crimes and ensuring the information is used effectively for accountability. She is currently the Legal Director for The Reckoning Project and a consultant to the Oxford Institute for Justice and Technology. She previously served on the Legal and Policy Advisory Council of the Conflict Observatory\, a consortium that investigated and reported on alleged war crimes in Ukraine and Sudan. Prior to that\, she was the founding Director of eyeWitness to Atrocities\, an organisation that combines law and technology to promote accountability for serious international crimes. eyeWitness was awarded the 2016 Innovation in Global Security Prize from the Global Centre for Security Policy. Additionally\, Wendy has worked as the Director of the American Bar Association War Crimes Documentation Project\, overseeing projects in the Balkans and west Africa. She has also served on the Technology Advisory Board of the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court. \nModerator \nNigel Gould-Davies \nDr Nigel Gould-Davies is Senior Fellow for Russia and Eurasia at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS). He previously served in the British Foreign Office as head of the Economic Section in Moscow (2003–2007)\, Ambassador to Belarus (2007–2009)\, and project director in the Strategy Unit. He has held senior government relations positions in the energy industry\, and taught at Oxford University. He is author of Tectonic Politics: Global Political Risk in an Age of Transformation (Brookings\, 2019). He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University. URL:https://euniclondon.org/event/impact-of-impunity-for-europe-and-beyond/ LOCATION:Europe House\, 32 Smith Square\, London\, SW1P 3EU CATEGORIES:Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://euniclondon.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Screenshot-2026-01-20-at-14.40.47.png GEO:51.495639;-0.1276415 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Europe House 32 Smith Square London SW1P 3EU;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=32 Smith Square:geo:-0.1276415,51.495639 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251125T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251125T210000 DTSTAMP:20260530T175359 CREATED:20251027T110547Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251027T111037Z UID:10005405-1764097200-1764104400@euniclondon.org SUMMARY:Book Presentation & Discussion with Thomas Harding – The Maverick - George Weidenfeld and the Golden Age of Publishing DESCRIPTION:Hella Pick Lecture Series with the Weidenfeld Institute\, University of Sussex\nThe Austrian Cultural Forum invites you to the third event in the Hella Pick Lecture series in cooperation with the Sussex Weidenfeld Institute of Jewish Studies. \nThe evening will feature a book presentation of The Maverick – George Weidenfeld and the Golden Age of Publishing by renowned author Thomas Harding who will present his remarkable biography of the namesake of the Weidenfeld Institute – famed publisher Lord George Weidenfeld. \nThe presentation will be followed by a discussion with the director of the Weidenfeld Institute\, Professor Gideon Reuvenui. \nThe Sussex Weidenfeld Institute of Jewish Studies\, launched in 2019\, is an interdisciplinary research hub that places the Jewish experience in a broader context. Aimed to act as an agent of change\, their work is focussed on the present and making past experiences relevant in a world increasingly divided by disinformation and prejudice. \nThe Institute is home to the Centre for German-Jewish Studies\, which for over two decades has been at the forefront of academic enquiry into the history\, culture and thought of Jewish refugees from German-speaking lands. The Institute also works with Digital Holocaust Memory and Education Projects and sponsors prestigious Fellowship programmes. \nThomas Harding www.thomasharding.com is a bestselling author whose books have been translated into twenty languages. His publications include Hanns and Rudolf which won the Wingate Prize for Non-Fiction and Blood on the Page which won the Crime Writers’ Association’s Golden Dagger Award for Non-Fiction. His other books have received wide acclaim including The House by the Lake (shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award and extracted in BBC Radio 4’s Book Of The Week)\, Future History (nominated for the German Youth Literature Award ‘Best Youth Book’ and performed by Berlin Youth Ballet) and White Debt (longlisted for the Moore Prize for Human Rights Writing and dramatised on BBC Radio 4). In addition\, his book The Maverick: George Weidenfeld and the Golden Age of Publishing was chosen as a New York Times Critics’ Pick for 2023. His most recent book\, The Einstein Vendetta\, was published in 2025. \nThomas has written for the Sunday Times\, the Washington Post and the Guardian\, among other publications. In 2024\, he was elected as a visiting fellow of Jesus College Cambridge. For ten years (2014-2024) he was president of the Alexander Haus project outside of Berlin. \nAbout The Maverick \nAfter arriving in London just before World War II as a penniless Austrian-Jewish refugee\, George Weidenfeld went on to transform not only the world of publishing but the culture of ideas. The books that he published include momentous titles such as Lolita\, Double Helix\, The Group and The Hedgehog and the Fox\, with authors he championed ranging from Joan Didion\, Mary McCarthy\, JD Salinger\, Edna O’Brien\, Henry Miller\, Harold Wilson\, Saul Bellow and Henry Kissinger. His role as publisher brought him into the orbit of influential figures such as George Bush\, Ann Getty\, Donald Trump and LBJ. \nIn this first biography\, Thomas Harding provides a full\, unvarnished\, and at times difficult history of this complex and fascinating character. Throughout his long career\, he was written about in the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, Time Magazine\, Vanity Fair\, and other publications. Was he\, as described by some\, the “greatest salesperson\,” “the world’s best networker\,” “the publisher’s publisher\,” and “a great intellectual”? Was his lifelong effort to be the world’s most famous host a cover for his loneliness? Who\, in fact\, was the real George Weidenfeld and how did he rise so successfully within the ranks of New York and London society? URL:https://euniclondon.org/event/book-presentation-discussion-with-thomas-harding-the-maverick-george-weidenfeld-and-the-golden-age-of-publishing/ LOCATION:Austrian Cultural Forum London\, 28 Rutland Gate\, London\, SW7 1PQ\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Literature,Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://euniclondon.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/MixCollage-26-Sep-2025-08-27-PM-1240-scaled.jpg GEO:51.5001014;-0.1679188 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Austrian Cultural Forum London 28 Rutland Gate London SW7 1PQ United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=28 Rutland Gate:geo:-0.1679188,51.5001014 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251121T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251121T163000 DTSTAMP:20260530T175359 CREATED:20251027T115427Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251027T115430Z UID:10005406-1763719200-1763742600@euniclondon.org SUMMARY:EUROLIS Seminar 2025 – Open libraries. Equity across and beyond the shelves DESCRIPTION:Please join us for this exciting conference for LIBRARIANS! \nThe ACF is excited to announce this year’s seminar in cooperation with the European Parliament Liaison Office in the United Kingdom (EPLO London) and EUROLIS – an association of librarians and information professionals from various cultural institutions founded in 1998. \nMore info on EUROLIS can be found here. \n \n\n\n\nThis year’s seminar will be focussing on the topic: Open libraries. Equity across and beyond the shelves. \nThe conference will take place on Friday 21 November\, 10am – 4.30pm. \nWhere?\nEurope House\n32 Smith Square\nLondon SW1P 3EU \n \nLibraries are evolving in step with contemporary societies and their challenges. No longer confined to rows of shelves\, today’s libraries are dynamic\, multifunctional spaces where inclusivity\, accessibility\, and the sharing of knowledge are central to their mission.\nTo promote openness\, diversity\, and equity is to create spaces that welcome all\, reflect a plurality of voices and cultures and actively remove barriers to access. Modern libraries are places of encounter and exchange\, supporting communities with opportunities to learn\, connect\, and create. \n\nThis year’s seminar will highlight how libraries across Europe are responding to the challenges ahead—by hosting engaging events\, creative in-person workshops\, and initiatives that foster digital literacy and social inclusion. \nTogether\, we will explore how libraries can continue to serve as open gateways to equity\, across and beyond the shelves. \nMore info and programme to be announced here. \nBook your tickets here. URL:https://euniclondon.org/event/eurolis-seminar-2025-open-libraries-equity-across-and-beyond-the-shelves/ LOCATION:Europe House\, 32 Smith Square\, London\, SW1P 3EU CATEGORIES:Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://euniclondon.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/D1.-Save-the-date-EUROLIS-SEMINAR-2025.png GEO:51.495639;-0.1276415 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Europe House 32 Smith Square London SW1P 3EU;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=32 Smith Square:geo:-0.1276415,51.495639 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251113T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251113T203000 DTSTAMP:20260530T175359 CREATED:20251027T115947Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251027T115950Z UID:10005396-1763060400-1763065800@euniclondon.org SUMMARY:Semafor: The Birth of Pop Culture in Prague’s 1960s DESCRIPTION:Bursting into the 1960s with wit\, charm\, and a rebellious spirit\, Prague’s Semafor Theatre became a beacon of creativity behind the Iron Curtain. The unforgettable duo of Jiří Suchý and Jiří Šlitr brought Czechoslovakia its first wave of modern pop\, offbeat humour\, and a form of rebellion that spoke a language different from that of official power and the media. Their songs became the soundtrack of a generation and a symbol of cultural resistance. In this special event\, music historian and author of Suchý & Šlitr\, Semafor 1959–1969\, Pavel Klusák\, and Jiří Šlitr’s daughter\, Dominika Křesťanová\, share stories\, rare insights\, and the cultural legacy of a duo who defined an era\, and the rebellion that stole a language for its own game. \n\n\n\n\nThis event also marks the recent release of Pavel Klusák’s book Suchý a Šlitr: Semafor 1959–1969 (Host\, 2024\, 456 pages\, ISBN 978-80-275-1813-5)\, which explores the rise of Semafor and its cultural impact during a decade of change. The book\, awarded the Egon Erwin Kisch Prize for non-fiction\, offers a vivid portrait of the duo’s creative world and their lasting influence on Czechoslovak popular culture. \n\n\nAdmission: £7 (+ Eventbrite fee)\nBOOK NOW URL:https://euniclondon.org/event/semafor-the-birth-of-pop-culture-in-pragues-1960s/ LOCATION:Czech Centre\, 30 Kensington Palace Gardens \, London\, W8 4QY\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Literature,Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://euniclondon.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Screenshot-2025-10-09-at-15.11.55.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Czech Cenrre London":MAILTO:http://london.czechcentres.cz END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251113T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251113T200000 DTSTAMP:20260530T175359 CREATED:20250826T163306Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250826T163307Z UID:10005373-1763060400-1763064000@euniclondon.org SUMMARY:Echo: Dorothy Cross in Conversation with Iwona Blazwick DESCRIPTION:For the third conversation of Echo\, curator Iwona Blazwick speaks with Irish artist Dorothy Cross about her work and how her forms and images resonate with myth and metamorphosis. Being human in relation to the natural world is a motif running through the sculpture\, film & photography of Cross\, connecting her work with the animist beliefs of the ancient world. The talk will be followed by a Q&A session.  \nCross came to prominence in the 1990s with her use of the skins and udders of cows to create surreal draped figures reminiscent of Christian statuary. Throughout her career she has continued to cast animal\, plant and human forms – ranging from jellyfish and foxgloves to skulls and fingers – making sculptures and films that create metamorphic synergies between us and non-human species. Most recently Cross has turned to carving marble\, the material of Antiquity. Sourcing an astonishing range of geological colours and striations\, she carves exquisitely rendered feet as part of the stone yet emerging from it.  Rather than pairs of feet\, single or multiple feet are captured in the act of walking\, like the petrified ghosts of our ancestors. She has commented. ‘Good art should make you consider yourself in relation to time\, which means in relation to birth\, life and death’. Dorothy Cross’ oeuvre resonates with the winged or four legged gods and goddesses of Greco-Roman statuary and with ancient systems of belief where the non-human world was understood as sentient and magical.    \nImage: Dorothy Cross\, Poll Na bPéist\, 2008\, Archival pigment print  URL:https://euniclondon.org/event/echo-dorothy-cross-in-conversation-with-iwona-blazwick/ LOCATION:The Hellenic Centre\, 18\, 16 Paddington St\, London\, W1U 5AS\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Art,Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://euniclondon.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/thumbnail_image003.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="The Hellenic Centre":MAILTO:info@helleniccentre.org GEO:51.5206899;-0.1537246 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=The Hellenic Centre 18 16 Paddington St London W1U 5AS United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=18\, 16 Paddington St:geo:-0.1537246,51.5206899 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251106T070000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251106T220000 DTSTAMP:20260530T175359 CREATED:20251027T115341Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251027T115342Z UID:10005403-1762412400-1762466400@euniclondon.org SUMMARY:The Arc of History Lecture Series: The Hidden Impact of Allied Cultural Policies and the Austrian Exile Community on Austrian Culture After 1945 DESCRIPTION:The Arc of History Lecture Series: Austria 1900 – 2020 \nWe are excited to continue our series of lectures launched in 2024\, reflecting on Austrian history\, identity and creativity over a turbulent 120 year span. \n\nLecture 6: The Hidden Impact of Allied Cultural Policies and the Austrian Exile Community on Austrian Culture After 1945 \nBy Oliver Rathkolb \nBetween 1945 and 1955\, the four Allied powers (the U.S.\, U.K.\, France\, and the Soviet Union) took different approaches to cultural policy in Austria. These had a major impact on the art scene\, but this influence has largely been overlooked or forgotten. Now\, 80 years later\, this history is being revisited using an “archaeological” approach to recent history. After Vienna was liberated in April 1945\, its people were exposed to more international cultural influences than ever before. \nEven before 1945\, the Allies had identified culture and the media as important tools for shaping postwar society. In this lecture\, Oliver Rathkolb focuses on how these plans affected music\, theater\, and the media (newspapers\, publishing\, and radio) in Vienna—especially since the Western Allies only began operating there from September 1945. He explores how Austria’s cultural elites and the public responded to these efforts\, and what role this played in removing Nazi ideology and reducing German cultural dominance\, while expanding Austria’s cultural identity. \nIn the second part of the lecture\, Rathkolb looks at Austrians who went into exile in Britain during the war. He will highlight how they helped rebuild and internationalise Austrian culture after they returned home\, using specific case studies to illustrate their impact. \n\nOliver Rathkolb\, born in 1955\, is a former long-standing head and professor at the Institute for Contemporary History at the University of Vienna. He is the author of numerous publications on Austrian and international contemporary and cultural history\, editor of the journal zeitgeschichte\, as well as chairman of the Vienna Institute for Cultural and Contemporary History and Arts (VICCA) and the academic advisory board of the House of European History in Brussels. His recent publications (Molden publishing house) include Brigitte Hamann’s “Hitler’s Vienna: The Formative Years of a Dictator\,” reissued together with Johannes Sachslehner\, and previously “Schirach: A Generation Between Goethe and Hitler”. He also co-edited the publication “Controlled Freedom – Allied Cultural Policy in Vienna 1945-1955”\, published in 2025. \n\nKatherine Klinger is the initiator of the lecture series The Arc of History. Previously\, she was director of Second Generation Trust\, a UK-based charity specialising in post-Holocaust generational consequences. She organised a number of ground-breaking conferences in London\, Berlin and Vienna in the nineties\, aimed at bringing together descendants of both victims and perpetrators. Katherine ran the Education Department of the Wiener Holocaust Library for a decade. She has recently acquired Austrian citizenship. \n\nAbout the Arc of History Lecture Series: \nThe series commences with the last decades and the onset of Modernity from 1900. This was a profoundly significant period both artistically and intellectually\, with far-reaching influence and importance\, both nationally and internationally. Against this backdrop\, the lectures consider significant Jewish contributions to the period\, alongside the darker forces gathering momentum\, culminating in the tragic fate of Austrian Jewry and other victims. \nAustrian complicity\, together with a postwar victim narrative\, led many to shun a country that formally had nurtured some of the greatest achievements and minds of the early 20th century. With a growing recognition of the need to reassess its history\, Austria finally commenced\, in the mid-nineties\, its own unique process to repair some of the mid-century rupture. The announcement in 2020\, enshrined in law\, that all Austrian descendants of NS persecution have the right of citizenship\, is an important and significant contribution to this process. To date\, over 35\,000 people from across the world have acquired Austrian citizenship and it is estimated that the numbers will rise considerably in the next decade. \nThe final lecture in the series will reflect on the implications and meaning of citizenship in a country where connection has often been associated with tragedy and ambivalence\, and many have rarely\, if ever\, even visited. As a new chapter opens\, perhaps a new sense of purpose\, opportunity and responsibility emerges. URL:https://euniclondon.org/event/the-arc-of-history-lecture-series-the-hidden-impact-of-allied-cultural-policies-and-the-austrian-exile-community-on-austrian-culture-after-1945/ LOCATION:Austrian Cultural Forum London\, 28 Rutland Gate\, London\, SW7 1PQ\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://euniclondon.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Spielzeugjeep-Military-Police_Urrisk.jpg GEO:51.5001014;-0.1679188 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Austrian Cultural Forum London 28 Rutland Gate London SW7 1PQ United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=28 Rutland Gate:geo:-0.1679188,51.5001014 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251022T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251022T190000 DTSTAMP:20260530T175359 CREATED:20251013T093611Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251013T093616Z UID:10005392-1761152400-1761159600@euniclondon.org SUMMARY:Vaclav Havel European Dialogues / Growth and Inequality in Central Europe: Between Havel’s Vision and Today’s Cleavages DESCRIPTION:Join us for a third edition of the annual Václav Havel European Dialogues\, a global series of discussions inspired by Havel’s enduring legacy organised jointly by the Czech Centre London\, SSEES and the Research Centre for the Study of Places\, Identities\, and Memories (PIMs). \n\nOver the last three decades\, the Central European countries have experienced some of the fastest economic growths in the world. The region has joined the ranks of highly developed countries\, and its citizens are wealthier and living longer than ever before. In Czechia\, this transformation was closely tied to the democratic ideals articulated by Václav Havel\, whose vision of an open society and civic responsibility shaped the country’s path during the early years of transition. Yet\, within a generation\, Central Europe has also moved from being one of the most egalitarian regions in Europe to one of the most unequal. This indicates that the growth has not benefited all equally. What are the sources of the Central European miracle\, and who are its main beneficiaries? What are the consequences of the increasing inequalities for these societies\, especially in the context of growing political polarisation? How can we ensure that future growth in the region will be inclusive? \nThe event will be moderated by Jessie Barton Hronešová and will feature an esteemed panel of speakers\, including Zsoka Koczan\, Lead Economist in the Office of the Chief Economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development\, Lubomír Lízal\, economist and former director of CERGE-EI\, Prague\, Pawel Bukowski\, co-director of the new Research Center for the Study of Places\, Identities\, and Memories (PIMs)\, and a word of welcome by Přemysl Pela\, the director of the Czech Center in London. \nAbout the speakers: \nZsoka Koczan is Associate Director\, Lead Economist in the Office of the Chief Economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. At the EBRD\, she edits the Regional Economic Prospects\, which review the latest economic developments in the EBRD regions\, works on the Transition Report\, EBRD’s annual flagship publication\, and runs the Life in Transition Survey\, a large household survey covering 44 economies. Prior to joining the EBRD\, she worked as an economist at the International Monetary Fund in the European and the Research Departments\, primarily on the World Economic Outlook. She holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Cambridge \nPaweł Bukowski is a Lecturer in Economics at the University College London and the Polish Academy of Sciences. Also affiliated with the London School of Economics. He is a Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Places\, Identities and Memories (PIMs) at UCL. His research focuses on socio-economic inequalities and labour economics. He has won multiple international research grants\, founded an expert group – Dobrobyt na Pokolenia and is a member of Concilium Civitas – a group of influential Polish social scientists working abroad. His book\, “Inequalities a’la Polonaise”\, won the Puls Biznesu Scientific Economics Book of the Year 2024 and the Marcin Król Prize 2025\, given for a significant contribution to the humanities and social sciences. \nLubomír Lízal has been a member of the Czech National Bank Board in 2011-2017; the Board is bank governing body and monetary policy committee. Since 1993 he has worked as a researcher at the Economics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences. In 2003–2008 he has been Director of both the Economics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences and CERGE\, Charles University. He is a member of the Scientific Council of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the Czech Technical University\, and other scientific boards. He was a member of the National Economic Council of the Government. In years 2018-2019 he has served as the President of the Anglo-American University in Prague. Currently he is an associate professor at the Czech Technical University and at the University of Finance and Administration.\nMr Lízal graduated at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the Czech Technical University. In 1998 he obtained a PhD in economics at CERGE\, Charles University and in 2006 he qualified as an associate professor in economics at Charles University. In his research he has focused on transition and environmental economics\, recently also on energy economics. \nJessie Barton Hronešová is a Lecturer in Political Sociology at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies\, UCL\, and Co-Director of the Centre for Study of Places\, Identities and Memories. In her work\, she focuses on victimhood narratives\, the politics of memory\, transitional justice and dealing with the past in Central and Southeast Europe. She is particularly interested in the political uses of emotionally charged and traumatic memories as well as how victims and survivors navigate politics. She is the author of The Struggle of Redress: Victim Capital in Bosnia and Herzegovina (2020) and Post-War Ethno-National Identities of Young People in Bosnia and Herzegovina (2012) and co-editor of The Nexus between Democracy\, Collective Identity Formation\, and EU Enlargement (2011). From 2019 to 2021 she was the ESRC Postdoctoral research Fellow at the University of Oxford and then a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at UNC Chapel Hill and Ca’ Foscari. Outside of academia\, she is a frequent policy advisor and consultant in international development in Central and Southeast Europe. \nPřemysl Pela is the Director of the Czech Centre London and the Programme Director of Czechia EXPO 2025 in Osaka. Premysl has served as the Director of the Czech Center in New York and worked for\, among others\, the Charles University’s CERGE-EI Institute and the Czech Academy of Sciences. In the private sector\, he has held various international top managerial roles. He also headed the Strategy and Innovation Department at the Czech Centre’s HQ in Prague and developed innovative projects presenting scientific creativity through advanced digital technology. He holds graduate degrees from the University of Wisconsin and Ostrava University and has completed academic and professional programmes in New York University\, Michigan University and the Civil Management College in London. \n\nFree entry\, REGISTER HERE URL:https://euniclondon.org/event/vaclav-havel-european-dialogues-growth-and-inequality-in-central-europe-between-havels-vision-and-todays-cleavages/ LOCATION:Czech Centre\, 30 Kensington Palace Gardens \, London\, W8 4QY\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Learn,Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://euniclondon.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/05f952bb92366cfcd834defa421672d0.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Czech Centre":MAILTO:blues@czechcentre.org.uk END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251017T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251017T200000 DTSTAMP:20260530T175359 CREATED:20250826T163141Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250826T163142Z UID:10005377-1760727600-1760731200@euniclondon.org SUMMARY:In Conversation: Christina Mitrentse and Fiona Mouzakitis with Stephen Emmerson DESCRIPTION:Join us for a breakfast reception\, followed by a conversation hosted by curators Christina Mitrentse and Fiona Mouzakitis\, alongside artist Stephen Emmerson. The talk will explore the interactive exhibition BOOKMORPHS: Artists’ Books from Greece and the UK\, which brings together 44 artists’ books and objects by contributors from both countries. A Q&A session will follow the discussion.  \nThe exhibition marks the first comprehensive presentation in London of contemporary artists’ books by Greek and British visual artists in dialogue.   \nParticipating artists: Eleni Angelou\, Nikos Arvanitis\, Rania Bellou\, David Blackmore\, Sarah Bodman\, Ismini Bonatsou\, BOOKEND – Matt Hale & Nick Cash\, Maria Bourbou\, Thodoros Brouskomatis\, Jonathan Callan\, Natassa Chelioti – Naga\, Ioanna Delfino\, Joe Devlin\, Anna Dimitriou\, Stephen Emmerson\, SJ Fowler\, Michael Hampton\, Rowena Hughes\, Inscription Journal (Gill Partington\, Simon Morris\, Adam Smyth)\, Antonia Iroidou\, Eleni Kastrinogianni\, Peggy Kliafa\, Alexia Kokkinou\, Georgia Kotretsos\, Nikos Kryonidis\, Vasiliki Lefkaditi\, Eleni Maragaki\, Kyriaki Mavrogeorgi\, Despina Meimaroglou\, Christina Mitrentse\, Fiona Mouzakitis\, Kiki Perivolari\, Stamatis Schizakis\, Ifigeneia Sdoukou\, Christina Sgouromiti\, Danai Simou\, Dimitris Skourogiannis\, Annetta Spanoudaki\, Nectarios Stamatopoulos\, Despina Stavrou\, Aris Stoidis\, Evangelos Tasios\, Yannis Tzortzis\, Leonie Yagdjoglou.  \nImage: Stephen Emmerson URL:https://euniclondon.org/event/in-conversation-christina-mitrentse-and-fiona-mouzakitis-with-stephen-emmerson/ LOCATION:The Hellenic Centre London\, 18\, 16 Paddington St\, ONLINE\, W1U 5AS\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Art,Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://euniclondon.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Stephen_Emmerson3-scaled.jpeg ORGANIZER;CN="The Hellenic Centre":MAILTO:info@helleniccentre.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251009T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251009T200000 DTSTAMP:20260530T175359 CREATED:20250929T113052Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250929T113059Z UID:10005385-1760036400-1760040000@euniclondon.org SUMMARY:Call Me Stratos: In Conversation with the author DESCRIPTION:Join us for the launch of Chrysoula Georgoula’s debut novel\, followed by a discussion on modern challenges in Greece and a Q&A session. Call Me Stratos follows a man profoundly impacted by Greece’s financial crisis. The novel offers a powerful glimpse into the country’s recent turbulent history—from the Olympic Games to the economic collapse—highlighting the struggles of the working class.\n\nAfter a dramatic divorce\, and at the age of forty-two\, Stratos Achtidis returns to his family home to live with his mother and brother. Humiliated and feeling isolated from family and friends\, he turns to alcohol and reminisces about an over-glorified past. Through Stratos’s eyes\, the reader witnesses the social and economic transformations that have shaped Greek society over the past twenty-five years. The novel explores the struggles of ordinary working-class Greeks\, who have faced profound existential and financial challenges\, and the resulting shifts in their way of life.  \n\nGeorgoula delivers a pitch-perfect portrayal of the male psyche—particularly a certain kind of Greek male—with often brutal authenticity. Call Me Stratos is not just a compelling read; it is a powerful depiction of some of the most significant issues affecting Greek society.\n\nThe conversation will be led by Dr. Liana Giannakopoulou\, Senior Research Fellow at the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics\, University of Cambridge.’ \n\nIn collaboration with Istros books.  URL:https://euniclondon.org/event/call-me-stratos-in-conversation-with-the-author/ LOCATION:The Hellenic Centre\, 16-18 Paddington St \, London\, W1U 5AS\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://euniclondon.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Stratos-cover.png ORGANIZER;CN="The Hellenic Centre":MAILTO:info@helleniccentre.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251007T203000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20251007T203000 DTSTAMP:20260530T175359 CREATED:20250826T160010Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250826T160011Z UID:10005276-1759869000-1759869000@euniclondon.org SUMMARY:Maria Theresa in Bohemia\, a Talk by Richard Bassett DESCRIPTION:Maria Theresa was the single most powerful woman in eighteenth-century Europe. At the age of just twenty-three she succeeded to the Habsburg domains only to find them contested by almost every European power. Over the next forty years she became a fierce leader and opponent\, as well as a devoted wife and mother to sixteen children.\n\nHer radical reforms transformed central Europe and her lasting legacy continues to reverberate to this day.\n\nTicket price includes a glass of wine.\n\nRichard Bassett\, former Times correspondent in Eastern Europe and author of the widely acclaimed Last Days in Old Europe first travelled to Prague as an architectural historian. He later spent nearly ten years covering events in communist Czechoslovakia including the Velvet Revolution. An expert on Central Europe\, he taught at many European universities and is a Bye-Fellow of Christ’s College\, Cambridge. His latest book is Maria Theresa: Empress\, Yale University Press\, £25.\n\nEVENT ORGANISED WITH THE COOPERATION OF THE EMBASSY OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC\n\nAll proceeds raised go towards the care and conservation of Czech heritage.\n\nImage: Empress Maria Theresa by Martin van Meytens (1759)\, Academy of Fine Arts\, Vienna via Creative Commons Wikimedia URL:https://euniclondon.org/event/maria-theresa-in-bohemia-a-talk-by-richard-bassett/ LOCATION:Embassy of the Czech Republic\, 26-30 Kensington Palace Gardens\, London\, W8 4QY\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://euniclondon.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/MTheresWidest.jpg GEO:51.509387;-0.193483 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Embassy of the Czech Republic 26-30 Kensington Palace Gardens London W8 4QY United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=26-30 Kensington Palace Gardens:geo:-0.193483,51.509387 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250916T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250916T210000 DTSTAMP:20260530T175359 CREATED:20250610T205052Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250610T205108Z UID:10005343-1758049200-1758056400@euniclondon.org SUMMARY:Stories of Resistance: Olivier Norek in Conversation with Andrey Kurkov DESCRIPTION:Join us for a powerful evening of conversation between bestselling French author Olivier Norek and acclaimed Ukrainian writer Andrey Kurkov\, as they explore war\, resistance\, and the endurance of the human spirit through their latest works. \nIn The Winter Warriors\, Olivier Norek revives the icy silence of the Finnish forests during the Winter war of 1939—a forgotten front where rifles froze\, but not the will of a nation. Against all expectations\, Finland resisted the Soviet onslaught with nothing more than skis\, cunning\, and courage. At the heart of this stark and haunting narrative stands Simo Häyhä\, the legendary sniper known as the White Death\, who becomes a chilling symbol of one man’s ability to shift the tide of history. \nMeanwhile\, in Our Daily War\, Andrey Kurkov writes from today’s frontiers—not of history\, but of life itself. With piercing humanity and quiet defiance\, he documents the everyday surrealism of Ukraine under siege: children doing schoolwork in metro stations\, winemakers repurposing war detritus\, and soldiers scribbling messages of remembrance on their ammunitions. \nTogether\, these two authors offer a unique and moving reflection on what is means to resist. Across time and geography\, The Winter Warriors and Our Daily War speak to the same truth: when history tries to erase a people\, resistance becomes not just survival\, but identity. \nAs war redraws maps and tests identities\, Norek and Kurkov remind us that it is not always the grand strategies that shape destiny\, but the unbreakable thread of resilience—from the snows of Karelia to the skies above Kyiv. URL:https://euniclondon.org/event/stories-of-resistance-olivier-norek-in-conversation-with-andrey-kurkov/ CATEGORIES:Literature,Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://euniclondon.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/olivier-norek-in-conversation-with-andrey-kurkov.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250626T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250626T200000 DTSTAMP:20260530T175359 CREATED:20250610T204132Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250610T204712Z UID:10005348-1750964400-1750968000@euniclondon.org SUMMARY:Albert Kner – Artist\, Icon\, Legend DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special evening celebrating the book Albert Kner: Artist\, Icon\, Legend: Discovering His Legacy in Industrial Design\, co-authored by Robert Elton Brooker III and Ádám Erdész. This beautifully produced volume brings long-overdue recognition to one of the 20th century’s unsung creative minds. \nAlbert Kner (1899–1976) was a Hungarian-American designer whose work shaped modern packaging and graphic design. From inventing the cardboard six-pack and the flip-top cigarette box to producing compelling stage sets\, furniture\, and printed matter\, Kner’s contribution to visual culture is both diverse and visionary\, yet remains largely unknown. \nThis event will contain a presentation by Robert Brooker III on Kner’s extraordinary life and career\, tracing his journey from early typographic experimentation in Hungary to his post-war success as Design Director for America’s largest cardboard manufacturer\, where he was tasked with an unusual but inspiring challenge: make cardboard beautiful. \nThe book includes 112 striking illustrations in black and white and full colour\, showcasing Kner’s elegant\, often ahead-of-his-time design work. As designer and author Bruce Kennett writes\, “Brooker and Erdész have done a superb job in presenting Kner’s remarkable life in all its phases… A wonderful book from start to finish.” \nDon’t miss this opportunity to rediscover a hidden gem of 20th-century design history – book your spot now. URL:https://euniclondon.org/event/albert-kner-artist-icon-legend/ LOCATION:Hungarian Cultural Centre\, 10 Maiden Lane\, London\, London\, WC2E 7NA\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://euniclondon.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Screenshot-2025-06-10-at-21.46.43.png ORGANIZER;CN="Liszt Institute Hungarian Cultural Centre London":MAILTO:info@hungary.org.uk GEO:51.5102115;-0.1232743 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Hungarian Cultural Centre 10 Maiden Lane London London WC2E 7NA United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=10 Maiden Lane:geo:-0.1232743,51.5102115 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250617T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250617T210000 DTSTAMP:20260530T175359 CREATED:20250508T150839Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250519T180605Z UID:10005328-1750186800-1750194000@euniclondon.org SUMMARY:Architecture for a Non-Precarious Future: Voices from Emerging Practice DESCRIPTION:How can we drive a progressive transformation of architectural culture to create a more sustainable\, inclusive\, and resilient future? This panel discussion brings together curators and emerging architects from the UK and across Europe to share their perspectives on evolving professional landscapes and alternative models of practice that challenge the status quo.​ \n\nThe conversation will explore diverse strategies employed by these innovative practices\, including Edit Collective (UK)\, a feminist architecture collective dedicated to design and research projects that challenge societal norms; collcoll.cc (CZ)\, a collaborative collective emphasizing cross-sectional collaborations and fostering innovative architectural solutions through collective engagement; and LLRRLLRR (Estonia/UK)\, an experimental practice integrating sustainability and circularity into architectural design. Additionally\, the discussion will feature insights from a UK-based curator and writer known for her perspectives on architecture and design\, Vicky Richardson.​ \nChaired by Helena Huber-Doudova\, a curator at the National Gallery Prague and editor of “Architecture for a Non-Precarious Future: Notes on Practice\,” which builds upon the Czech presentation at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition\, La Biennale di Venezia—”The Office for a Non-Precarious Future\,” created by Eliška H. Pomyjová\, D. Neuhäusl\, and Jan Netušil.​ \nBy amplifying diverse voices and sharing actionable insights\, this event aims to spark dialogue and drive change in architectural practice.​ \nPanelists: Sophie Williams (Edit\, UK)\, Vicky Richardson (curator\, UK)\, Krištof Hanzlík (collcoll.cc\, CZ)\, Roland Reemaa / Laura Linsi(LLRRLLRR\, UK/EST). Chair – Helena Huber-Doudová (curator\, National Gallery Prague\, CZ) \n\nAdmission: £5Book Now HERE.  \nOrganised by the Czech Centre London\, part of the London Festival of Architecture. URL:https://euniclondon.org/event/architecture-for-a-non-precarious-future-voices-from-emerging-practice/ LOCATION:Czech Centre\, 30 Kensington Palace Gardens \, London\, W8 4QY\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://euniclondon.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/LFA-Architecture-for-a-Non-Precarious-Future-Twitter-LinkedIn-post-1.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Czech Centre":MAILTO:blues@czechcentre.org.uk END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250613T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250613T200000 DTSTAMP:20260530T175359 CREATED:20250508T151059Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250508T151102Z UID:10005327-1749837600-1749844800@euniclondon.org SUMMARY:Voices for Freedom: An Evening with Oleksandra Matviichuk DESCRIPTION:Join Oleksandra Matviichuk\, winner of the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize\, for a charity event supporting war-affected communities in Ukraine. \nOleksandra Matviichuk\, has been a major figure in the fight for Ukraine’s survival. And she has given a voice to the victims of the conflict : the Center for Civil Liberties\, which she runs\, has tirelessly recorded the mass atrocities committed by Russia\, the daily war crimes on the battlefield\, the harrowing treatment of captives and the illegal abduction and reprogramming of children to reject their native language and culture. \nAs the pressure mounts on Ukraine to accept a ceasefire on any terms\, her greatest fear is that a peace defined in narrow\, territorial terms will achieve nothing. A robust peace is one that is built on the premises that Russia will not stop seeking the destruction of Ukraine through other means. She will explain that beyond security guarantees\, peace cannot be achieved without justice for the victims\, without the return of captives and children and without reparations to rebuild Ukraine. \nOrganised for charitable purposes\, this event is being held in partnership with the Insulate Ukraine association\, an innovative initiative that works to rehabilitate homes damaged by the bombardments. Half of all ticket proceeds will support their efforts\, with a dedicated fundraiser also taking place during the evening. URL:https://euniclondon.org/event/voices-for-freedom-an-evening-with-oleksandra-matviichuk/ LOCATION:Institut français in London\, 17 Queensberry Place\, London\, SW7 2DT\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://euniclondon.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/ukraine-oleksandra-matviichuk.jpg GEO:51.4945863;-0.1773215 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Institut français in London 17 Queensberry Place London SW7 2DT United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=17 Queensberry Place:geo:-0.1773215,51.4945863 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250612T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250612T210000 DTSTAMP:20260530T175359 CREATED:20250519T180217Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250519T180217Z UID:10005290-1749754800-1749762000@euniclondon.org SUMMARY:Photographer John Donat in 1960s Crete DESCRIPTION:Travelling to Crete after completing his studies at the Architectural Association\, John Donat found on the island the inspiration to redirect his career from architecture to photography – as he put it\, Crete set him free. Initially attracted by the prospect of recording the outstanding byzantine frescoes of the local churches\, Donat soon also turned his attention to the landscape and the towns’ streetscape. He became fascinated by all aspects of life on the island\, from the many traditional crafts to the religious festivities. It is indeed in Crete that he started to explore the theme that would become the leitmotif of his work\, the relationship between buildings and the people who inhabit them. Donat was to become one of the foremost British architectural photographers of his generation by capturing the built environment with a social documentary\, almost photojournalistic approach. He always valued his experience in Crete and\, many years later\, he managed to publish his beautiful images of the island in the book Crete 1960 (Crete University Press\, 1999) and display them at the Hellenic Centre in The Real Crete exhibition (2001). \n\nValeria Carullo\, Photographs Curator at the Royal Institute of British Architects\, presents Donat’s work. Q&A will follow the presentation.  \nTickets: £3/2 concession\, free for Members\n\n\nBooking required via Eventbrite\n or 020 7487 5060 URL:https://euniclondon.org/event/photographer-john-donat-in-1960s-crete/ LOCATION:The Hellenic Centre\, 16-18 Paddington St \, London\, W1U 5AS\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://euniclondon.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/RIBA59058-scaled.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="The Hellenic Centre":MAILTO:info@helleniccentre.org END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR