Events Calendar – British School at Athens

Dr Michael Loy, ‘Roads and resources on Archaic/Classical Samos’

Dr Michael Loy (University of Cambridge, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow), "Roads and resources on Archaic/Classical Samos"   To attend IN PERSON (Athens) please register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/roads-and-resources-on-archaicclassical-samos-tickets-586873874557 To attend ONLINE please register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_iOzgtjPqSHWMBtDp7dzXlA

Stephen Duckworth, “Edward Lear and the Peloponnese”

Image: The Higgins, Bedford BSA Friends' Lecture (online only)   Abstract: Lear first visited Greece in 1848, and in 1849 returned with a friend Franklin Lushington to travel through the Peloponnese in March of that year. Over one hundred landscape drawings resulted, out of the total of 1.500 or more he made on all his […]

Prof. Malcolm Schofield, “Aristotle on what makes a community a proper community: the ideal and the practicable”

Webinar  Prof. Malcolm Schofield, "Aristotle on what makes a community a proper community: the ideal and the practicable" 'Aristotle’s idea of a politeia' (Pol. 3.6) Organised in collaboration with the Research Centre for Greek Philosophy of the Academy of Athens Webinar registration: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_X7rrU3QZR1WtGwdb-LMJ1A  

International Workshop, “Mapping the Past, Plotting the Future”

On the occasion of the establishment of the Archaeological GIS laboratory, AeGIS Athena at Xanthi, the Institute for Language and Speech Processing of “Athena” Research Center organises the International Workshop Mapping the Past, Plotting the Future. GIS in Archaeology, maturity & implementation, which will take place on 30th of March 2023 and it will be […]

Prof. Malcolm Schofield, “Aristotle on what makes a community a proper community: the ideal and the practicable”

Webinar Prof. Malcolm Schofield, "Aristotle on what makes a community a proper community: the ideal and the practicable" ‘The best politieia for most cities and most people’ (Pol. 4.11) Organised in collaboration with the Research Centre for Greek Philosophy of the Academy of Athens Webinar registration: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_FBGNbm0bTviCPHfIBYN06g

Dr Flavia Vanni, “Looking at Byzantium through materials: the case of stucco (ca 850-1453)”

Image: Drawing of the stucco cornice from the dome of the Katholikon of Hosios Loukas from the Schultz and Barnsley notebook BAR-2, p. 66, British School at Athens Dr Flavia Vanni (University of Birmingham, The Richard Bradford McConnell Student/BSA), "Looking at Byzantium through materials: the case of stucco (ca 850-1453)" Abstract In 1890, Robert W. […]

Joshua Barley,“Greek Folk Songs: from oral tradition to literary translation”

Joshua Barley,“Greek Folk Songs: from oral tradition to literary translation” Abstract The Greek folk songs – dimotika tragoudia – make up one of the most important chapters in modern Greece’s musical, linguistic, and cultural history. Not only did these songs play a crucial role in forming the nation’s demotic language, but they have been revered […]

Douglas Forsyth, “Social Strategies for Dealing with Scarce Precipitation; Examples from the Iron Age Cyclades”

Douglas Forsyth (University of St. Andrews), "Social Strategies for Dealing with Scarce Precipitation; Examples from the Iron Age Cyclades" Abstract This presentation will explore some of the ways in which past human societies have dealt with living in areas of scarce or low precipitation. The examination will focus primarily on archaeological evidence from the Iron […]