Course keynote lecture - History and Philosophy of the Olympic Games Professor George Mavrotas (Secretary General of Sport, Hellenic Ministry of Education, Religious Affairs and Sport), "Modern challenges for sport integrity" From ancient years, in the first Olympic Games, sport was related to ethics and values. After the revival of sport culture and the first […]
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 […]
Fitch Wiener Labs Seminar Series Dr Artemios Oikonomou (BSA Fitch Laboratory), “Glass Biographies II: Technology and the Afterlife of Glass” In-person only Contact: For any enquiries, tel.: 213-000-2400 (133), Email: infoWienerLab@ascsa.edu.gr
Upper House Seminar James Hua (BSA Macmillan-Rodewald Student/ University of Oxford), "Population Expulsions and Refugee Crises in the Archaic-Hellenistic Greek world: ubiquity, strategies, and exiles’ agency" Abstract: Population expulsions and the refugee crises which followed were a remarkably frequent phenomenon in the ancient Greek world. This talk outlines the phenomenon and argues for the deep […]
BSA Friends Greece lecture George Batzanopoulos (John Craxton Estate), "John Craxton: Painting the Land of the Apollonian and the Dionysian" Abstract: This lecture presents the main findings of George Batzanopoulos’ undergraduate dissertation, John Craxton: Painting the Land of the Apollonian and the Dionysian, completed at The Courtauld Institute of Art. The research examines how the […]
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 […]
