Professor Ursula Coope (Keble College, Oxford), "Is happiness cumulative over time? An argument from Plotinus" Abstract Is happiness the kind of thing that is cumulative over time? To many modern philosophers it has seemed obvious that the answer is yes. For example, Richard Kraut, in his recent book The Quality of Life, argues that the […]
Image Credit: Joshua Whitaker, ‘Acid History’ film still (2023) Joshua Whitaker (University of the Arts London, BSA Artist in Residence), ‘Acid History‘ Abstract: ‘Acid History’ is neither a record of psychedelic culture nor a catalogue of LSD experience. ‘Acid’ is deployed within the seminar, as Jeremy Gilbert has theorised it, as an adjective— a term […]
Rachel Phillips (University of Cambridge, BSA/The Richard Bradford McConnell Student), "Curating the Dead: Body and Matter in Early Mycenaean Burials " Abstract From the start of the Late Bronze Age, people on the Greek mainland were buried with hundreds or even thousands of objects, made from exotic materials and embellished with figurative and abstract motifs. […]
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BSA Friends' Event (online only via Zoom) Dr Philippa Steele (Oxford) on "The vitality of writing traditions in the Bronze Age Aegean and Iron Age Cyprus - and their unexpected relevance for the modern day" Abstract: The syllabic writing systems of Bronze Age Greece and Iron Age Cyprus (with particular focus on Linear A, Linear […]
BSA Friends' Lecture (hybrid) Prof. James Whitley Senate House and Online via Zoom Tuesday 4 July 5pm (UK) / 7pm (Greece)
BSA Friends' Lecture (hybrid) Dr Matthew Haysom Tuesday 26 September 2023, 5pm (UK) / 7pm (Greece)
BSA Friends' Lecture (online only) Dr Kostis Christakis (BSA Knossos Curator) Tuesday 24 October 2023, 5pm (UK) / 7pm (Greece)