BSA Friends' Hybrid lecture Dr Matthew Haysom, "Men, Women and Others in Minoan Iconography" Abstract: Throughout the history of Minoan studies scholars have felt that there was something distinctive about the way that Minoans depicted people. Arthur Evans and the first generation of scholars were struck by what seemed to them the dominant position of women […]
Ali Onay (born Rethymnon 1918), famous for his collection of Cretan heirlooms on Cunda Upper House Seminar Bruce Clark and Sophia Koufopoulou, "The Treaty of Lausanne (1923) and its impact on the Muslim population of Crete" Speakers: Bruce Clark, author of Twice a Stranger: How mass expulsion forged modern Greece and Turkey, and Athens: City […]
Fitch-Wiener Seminar series Anna Karligkioti, "Approaching population mobility and kinship patterns in central mainland Greece during Classical antiquity through biodistance analysis" In-person only, 5pm (Greece) At the Wiener Lab, American School of Classical Studies at Athens
NHRF/ICS/BSA Lectures in Classics series Professor Jason Konig (Professor of Classics, University of St Andrews), "The Folds of Olympus: Mountains in Ancient Greek Culture and in Nineteenth-Century Travel Writing" Abstract: The history of ancient Greek responses to mountains has been largely invisible to classical scholarship, with its tendency to focus on urban culture. This […]
Minoan Seminar - ΣΕΜΙΝΑΡΙΟ ΤΗΣ ΜΙΝΩΙΚΗΣ ΑΡΧΑΙΟΛΟΓΙΑΣ Iro Mathioudaki & Luca Girella, "The three West Court Kouloures at Knossos: between the First and Second Palace periods" The main aim of this seminar is to discuss the ceramic material from Evans’s stone-lined rubbish pits’ deposits, i.e. the Kouloures Deposits, which have been published to some […]
Library/Archive Lecture Richard Clogg, "Cousins and allies?: the Special Operations Executive and the Office of Strategic Services in Greece" Hybrid Lecture, 6pm (Greece) / 4pm (UK) Please register to attend IN PERSON in Athens here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/libraryarchive-lecture-richard-clogg-tickets-726682977347?aff=oddtdtcreator Please register to attend ONLINE via Zoom here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Z8zpChO-Sdy0en0RjG7raQ
Friends' Lecture series Dr Kostis Christakis (BSA Knossos Curator), "A land called Crete: European cartographers and the perception of the Cretan landscape, 16th – 17th c. AD" Online only, 5pm (UK) / 7pm (Greece) *This lecture is exclusively for Friends of the BSA only* To become a Friend of the BSA, visit the Support Us page […]
Photo: Giorgos Anastasakis / © Region of Crete Friends of the BSA in Greece lecture series Isabella Zampetaki, "How Far Would You Go for Real Food?" Isabella has traveled Crete’s mountains and plains in search of unique culinary experiences. She's visited ancient Tsounati olive groves where the world’s first high phenolic olive oil to […]
image: Red-figured water jar (hydria), signed by Meidias as potter, British Museum, 34465002 Upper House Seminar Professor Amy Smith, "Text, Context, & Subject: The value of Lord Hamilton's Meidias hydria" Hybrid lecture, 4pm (UK) / 6pm Greece Please register to attend IN PERSON in Athens here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bsa-upper-house-seminar-prof-amy-smith-tickets-726698995257?aff=oddtdtcreator Please register to attend ONLINE via Zoom here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Gvl4vRL4S1-d4w2vSZQ6xw
Panel Discussion Mythical Retellings: Reimagining the women of Greek Myth Panel: Claire Heywood, Jennifer Saint, Susan Stokes-Chapman Chair: Prof. Edith Hall Amid the recent popularity of fiction inspired by Greek mythology, authors Claire Heywood, Jennifer Saint, and Susan Stokes-Chapman discuss the opportunities and challenges which come with retelling ancient myths for a modern audience. […]
Fitch-Wiener Seminar series Dr Thorsten Jacobisch, “Multi-material” studies in Archaeobotany" In-person only, 5pm (Greece) at the Wiener Lab, American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Axonometric drawing showing the construction of a Hellenistic stoa (drawing by Samuel Holzman) Friends of the BSA in Greece lecture series. Dr Samuel Holzman (Princeton University), "Archaeological drawing in (and out of) perspective" In-person only, 6pm (Greece) BSA Upper House, 52 Souedias, Athens Please register to attend IN PERSON in Athens here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bsa-greek-friends-lecture-samuel-holzman-tickets-726710258947?aff=oddtdtcreator
Upper House Seminar Dr Stamatoula Panagakou (University of Cyprus), "Aspects of the Political Philosophy of the British Idealist Philosopher Bernard Bosanquet" Hybrid lecture, 4pm (UK) / 6pm (Greece) Please register to attend IN PERSON in Athens here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bsa-upper-house-seminar-dr-stamatoula-panagakou-tickets-726714361217?aff=oddtdtcreator Please register to attend ONLINE via Zoom here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_WHlSTMMJThuNmyDrDO1DEA
Upper House Seminar Rachel Phillips, "Curating the Dead: Body and Matter in Early Mycenaean Burials" 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. Through the twin representational strategies of figurative […]
Upper House Seminar Dr Georgios Mouratidis (British School at Athens), "Athletics and Paedeia. Monuments in Context" Hybrid lecture, 4pm (UK) / 6pm (Greece) Please register to attend IN PERSON in Athens here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bsa-upper-house-seminar-georgios-mouratidis-tickets-726723378187?aff=oddtdtcreator Please register to attend ONLINE via Zoom here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_E7gtZ88gRC6HOUXZp3HNdQ
Fitch-Wiener Seminar series Alice Clinch, "Painting Materials: exploring the use of pigments in the fifth century BCE" In-person only at the Wiener Lab, American School of Classical Studies at Athens