Award-winning pamphlets Poetry Readings: Michael Marks Awards Hasti (winner of the Poetry Pamphlet Award 2026) and Patrick Romero McCafferty (winner of the Environmental Poetry Pamphlet Award 2026) The BSA is delighted to host the Michael Marks Awards and its winning poets who stay at the BSA for a week as part of the programme. This […]
Athens Archaeology Festival 2026 17th October 2026 11:00-16:00 Location: British School at Athens The Athens Archaeology Festival is a free, interactive celebration of archaeology that brings together researchers, organisations, and the public through hands-on workshops, creative activities, and live experiences. Hosted at the British School at Athens, the festival invites audiences of all ages to […]
BSA/SPBS/KCL lecture Unveiling Byzantium: An Evening Remembering Professor Dame Averil Cameron 5.15pm: Memorial Vespers for Prof Dame Averil Cameron (1940-2026) sung by the Choir of King’s College London (Rachmaninoff’s Vespers, also known as the All-Night Vigil) in the College Chapel, KIN 219 6.30-9pm: Talks and Remembrances in the Council Room, KIN 214 and KIN 213 […]
Conference Roman Pottery in the South-Eastern Balkans: From Production to Distribution The conference focuses on local pottery production during the Roman period in the southern and south-eastern regions of the Balkan Peninsula, particularly within the Roman provinces of Thrace, Moesia Inferior, Dacia, and Macedonia. Across these regions, numerous pottery workshops have already been identified, producing substantial quantities of wheel-made […]
BSA Friends' lecture Dr Evangelia Kiriatzi (BSA), 'Making Connections: People, Pots and Landscapes in Aegean Prehistory' Abstract: The prehistoric Aegean was a world of islands, coastlines and mountains, increasingly connected through the movement of people, objects, materials and ideas. How can archaeology reconstruct these connections, and what can everyday objects such as pottery tell us […]
Composite image with Stone fragment with an Elaborate Meander from Kyparissa (left) and Archaic sculpture relief of Herakles from Cyzicus (right). ©BSA Archive Artist in Residence lecture Remixing tradition and contemporaneity in relief as printed image. Srinivas Surti (University of the Arts London) Srinivas Surti is an artist, educator and doctoral researcher at Chelsea College […]
NHRF/ICS/BSA Lectures in Classics series Dr Nigel Spivey (Cambridge University), "Sappho The Symbol" Abstract: SAPPHO THE SYMBOL: Renowned as an extraordinary lyric poet in her own lifetime, Sappho of Lesbos has been a literary celebrity for over 2,500 years. Her poetry – so far as it survives – seems charged with personal feelings and powerful […]
Philoctetes nursing his wound by Gerard van der Kuijl, 1647; image in public domain. Top Right: Lemnian sphragis (16th-18th century), Pharmacy Museum of the University of Basel. BSA Friends Greece lecture Dr Effie Photos-Jones (University of Glasgow and SASAA Ltd), "The Cure at Lemnos: can the story of Lemnian Earth form a reliable basis […]
International Conference Gymnasia and Philosophical Schools in Athens and Attica This conference is a joint organisation by the Academy of Athens, the British School at Athens, and the Ephoreia of Antiquities of the City of Athens, funded by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation. More details and full programme coming soon! Location: Academy of […]
Upper House Seminar Prof Mark Jackson and Dr Dr. Eleni Gkadolou, "Transforming Access - Archaeology and Open Heritage Science for Small Cultural Heritage Institutes" Abstract: Archaeological fieldwork and laboratory research in the Mediterranean have generated exceptionally rich datasets and archives over more than a century. Growing awareness of open science principles and ongoing efforts to […]
Aerial view of Gyaros, the infamous and lonely island of exile. By Olaf Tausch - Own work, CC BY 3.0, BSA Friends' lecture Dr Huw Halstead (Dr Huw Halstead), 'Loneliness and Solitude in the Colonels’ Greece, 1967-1974' Abstract: In this paper, I offer a quiet history of the Colonels’ regime in Greece (1967-1974) by focusing […]
