A.A. Pallis, from Greek abroad to Greek in Greece
The talk will introduce the life and work of A.A. Pallis, son of the Alexander Pallis whose translation of the Gospels caused such scandal. A.A. Pallis described himself as a Ξενιτεμενος Ελληνας.
Upper House Seminars
Digital News Consumption in Greece
Greece is a global outlier in digital news consumption. Trust in legacy news organizations is very low while Greeks online rely heavily on alternative sources like social media for their news. Dr Kalogeropoulos will present qualitative and quantitative data that address how Greeks navigate the digital news landscape.
New Evidence for Thera Eruption Tsunamis at Çeşme – Bağlararası in western Anatolia
Disasters, whether natural or anthropogenic, can be drivers of landscape and cultural change. The Late Bronze Age Thera eruption was one of the largest natural disasters witnessed in human history. Its impact, consequences, and timing, has dominated the discourse of ancient Mediterranean studies for nearly a century.
BSA x GPSG Research Seminar | 21 November 2022
Since the Athens riots of 2008, Greece has experienced serious episodes of violence with clear political connotations. Framed as a fight against austerity, an expression of anti-immigrant stances or an anti-establishment struggle, political violence has reached unprecedented levels.
“Nativism in Herodes’ Sophistic Attica: Rural Heroes, Hellenic Purity and the Bust of ‘Sauromates’”
That some second-century figures under the broad umbrella of Second Sophistic entertained nativist conceptions of Hellenicity is not news as such. Dio of Prusa was not only a fairly outspoken critic of the Roman rule, but saw the utility of using physiognomic readings as a tool of invective;
Tokens in Late Classical and Hellenistic Athens
Dr Mairi Gkikaki (University of Warwick / The Open University of Cyprus), “Tokens in Late Classical and Hellenistic Athens” Abstract Although, symbola, the Greek term for tokens, are first attested […]
Scribal Training in Mycenaean Pylos
Dr Anna Judson (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, British School at Athens) At least 30 people are known to have written administrative documents in the Mycenaean palace of Pylos immediately before its […]
John Bintliff and Anthony Snodgrass, “The City of Thespiai, Central Greece: Its Precursors, Florescence And Successors, a Narrative Of 7000 Years of Community Life”
Professor Emeritus John Bintliff (University of Edinburgh) and Professor Emeritus Anthony Snodgrass (University of Cambridge): “The City of Thespiai, Central Greece: Its Precursors, Florescence And Successors, a Narrative Of 7000 […]
Maria Mina, “Manifestation or mirage? The cultural construction of insularity in the south-east Aegean”
Professor Maria Mina (University of the Aegean), “Manifestation or mirage? The cultural construction of insularity in the south-east Aegean” The lecture assesses the position of islands of the south-east Aegean […]
Yannis Hamilakis & Rafael Greenberg, “Modernity’s sacred ruins: colonialism, archaeology, and the national imagination in Greece and Israel”
Professor Yannis Hamilakis (Brown University) & Professor Rafael Greenberg (University of Tel Aviv), “Modernity’s sacred ruins: colonialism, archaeology, and the national imagination in Greece and Israel” AbstractBased on a forthcoming […]