The Work of the BSA: 2026 Annual Open Lecture Athens

Please join us for the Annual Open Lectures of the British School at Athens that took place on Thursday 19th February 2026

which will was held at the Archaeological Society (Lecture Hall), 22 Panepistimiou Street, Athens.

Presentation #1
The Work of the British School at Athens in 2025
Professor Rebecca Sweetman
BSA Director

Presentation #2
The Material Culture and Landscapes of South-Eastern Chios and their Wider Context
Professor Andrew Bevan
Professor of Spatial and Comparative Archaeology, University College London

The Work of the BSA: 2026 Annual Open Lecture Athens

The Work of the BSA: 2026 Annual Open Lecture Athens

BSA Friends’ lecture – Professor Cyprian Broodbank (University of Cambridge), ‘The Emergence of Civilisation’, and the Maghreb

The Work of the BSA: 2026 Annual Open Lecture Athens

Victorians and Modern Greece: Literary and Cultural Encounters – Book presentation

Professor Lin Foxhall (University of Liverpool), “Re-imagining ancient Greek landscapes“

Dr Lorenzo Calvelli (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice), “A View from Athens. Reassessing Cyriac of Ancona’s Vita and Commentaria”

Professor Edward Harris (Durham University), “A New Approach to the Attic Countryside: Markets in the Demes”

Archaeology in the Ottoman Aegean: Consuls – Culture – Commerce

Ben Cassell (BSA/King’s College London), “The Aiora and Thesmophoria: Cognitve, embodied and psychological approaches”