Dr Konstantinos Trimmis, CHS Visiting Research Fellow, will introduce the evening’s programme and the two speakers. Ed Emery, the coordinator of the SOAS Rebetiko Band, will speak about his decades-long experience of conducting rebetiko research and organising musical activities in London, Istanbul, and elsewhere. He will also introduce the forthcoming book, titled the SOAS Rebetiko Reader, and pay homage to Ilias Petropoulos, the father of rebetiko studies, who died in Paris 20 years ago. Dr James Nissen (British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Music, University of Sheffield) specialises in music, identity, and multiculturalism. He will present his research on the London rebetiko scene and the rebetiko of the Greek diaspora.