Annual Open Lectures 2026 Thessaloniki Please join us for the Annual Open Lectures of the British School at Athens on Tuesday 17th February 2026 at 7 p.m. The lecture will take place in the Cast Gallery of the Faculty of Philosophy, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. The Work of the British School at Athens in 2025 […]
Annual Open Lectures 2026 Athens Please join us for the Annual Open Lectures of the British School at Athens on Thursday 19th February 2026 at 7 p.m. which will be held at the Archaeological Society (Lecture Hall), 22 Panepistimiou Street, Athens. The Work of the British School at Athens in 2025 Professor Rebecca Sweetman BSA […]
Fitch Wiener Labs Seminar Series Dr Claire Zikidi (M. H. Wiener Laboratory, ASCSA and National and Kapodistrian University of Athens), "Facing Mortality, Confronting Death: Mortality Salience and Behavioural Perspectives in Archaeological Interpretation" In-person only Contact: For any enquiries, tel.: 213-000-2400 (133), Email: infoWienerLab@ascsa.edu.gr
View of the Staphylos peninsula, Skopelos, credit: ASkoS Project Upper House Seminar Professor Peter Pavúk (Charles University), "Central Greece at the dawn of the Mycenaean Age and the role of contacts to the North" Abstract: The transition from the Middle to the Late Bronze Age in the Argolid is commonly defined by the Shaft Graves […]
Atlantis https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_landscape_of_Atlantis.jpg Philosophy Seminar Professor Alex Long (University of St Andrews), "The city-cosmos contrast in Plato’s Timaeus and Critias" Abstract: Plato’s Timaeus and Critias offer a puzzling combination of cosmology and the political quasi-history of ancient Athens and Atlantis. Previous discussions have taken Plato’s aim to be naturalizing the political theory or likening political lawgivers […]
Mercy Money-Coutts at Knossos, Crete, 1937, PEN/7/2/6/667, John Pendlebury Family Papers © British School at Athens. 4th workshop on Women in the Archaeology of Greece Call for papers - Women Archaeologists and War When: 09 & 10 March 2026 Where: EFA conference room | Didotou 6, Athens & British School at Athens | Upper House Organised by the École […]
image credit: Giulio Lucarini & Toby Wilkinson BSA Friends' lecture Professor Cyprian Broodbank (University of Cambridge), 'The Emergence of Civilisation', and the Maghreb Hybrid event
The Cambridge Centre for Greek Studies and the British School at Athens are pleased to announce a Colloquium which will focus on the life and work of Richard M. Dawkins, Director of the British School at Athens (1906 to 1914) and the first occupant of the Bywater and Sotheby Chair of Byzantine and Modern Greek Language and Literature at the University of […]
Mosaic pavement showing the Horae from a villa in Patras. 2nd – 3rd c. CE. Archaeological Museum of Patras Upper House Seminar Dr Nikki Vellidis (BSA Cary Student), "Reading Myth on the Mosaics of Imperial Era Greece" Please note: this event will not be recorded Hybrid lecture To attend in person in Athens, […]
One-day online workshop Byzantium and Bloomsbury This one-day online workshop will focus on the interest of members of the Bloomsbury Group in Byzantium, especially Byzantine art. Both Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant demonstrated an interest in Byzantine art, in terms of their aesthetic concerns and their subject matter; in 1912 Vanessa Bell painted a work […]
Conference Roman Pottery in the South-Eastern Balkans: From Production to Distribution This conference focuses on local pottery production during the Roman period in the southern and south-eastern regions of the Balkan Peninsula, within the Roman provinces of Thrace, Moesia Inferior, Dacia, and Macedonia. The chronological framework of the conference spans the Late Republic to the […]
