The Hellenic Institute at Royal Holloway, University of London (RHUL), was founded as a research centre for the interdisciplinary and diachronic study of Hellenism. Based in the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of History, it maintained close links with the Department of Classics and cooperates with other RHUL Departments and Centres. The Institute has a long history of working with other institutions in the University of London and with The Hellenic Centre, the main cultural hub of the Greek and Cypriot communities in London.T
It promoted the study of Greek language, literature, history and thought from the archaic and classical age, through the Hellenistic and Roman times, Byzantium and the Post-Byzantine period, to the establishment of the Modern Greek State and the modern world. The Hellenic Institute hosts research projects and organises seminars, lectures, conferences, concerts and other events addressed to students, scholars and to the wider public.
The Hellenic Institute currently coordinates two taught postgraduate degree courses: MA in Late Antique and Byzantine Studies and MA History: Hellenic Studies. It also offers supervision to students who pursue MPhil/PhD research in various subjects within the field of Hellenic, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies. Associated staff of the Institute also contributed to undergraduate courses on Byzantine and Modern Greek history and language at RHUL.
The Hellenic Institute has been receiving funding from Royal Holloway, the Hellenic Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs, the Ministry of Education, Sport and Youth of the Republic of Cyprus, the A.G. Leventis Foundation, The Friends of the Hellenic Institute, and private donors. It has also received financial support from the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports, The Presidential Commission for Overseas Cypriots of the Republic of Cyprus, the Hellenic Foundation (London), the Bodossaki Foundation (Athens), and the Samourkas Foundation (New York).
Under the directorship of the late Julian Chrysostomides, the Hellenic Institute expanded its academic and research activities. To honour her memory, the Friends of the Hellenic Institute established The Julian Chrysostomides Bursaries Fund. She is remembered as a true scholar and an affectionate and inspiring teacher.
