Events Calendar – British School at Athens

Marek Verčík, “Collapse – Transformation – Rise? Dynamics of Environmental Changes between the Balkans and the Aegean in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages”

American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Wiener Laboratory 54 Souidias Street, Athens, Greece

Fitch-Wiener Seminar Dr. Marek Verčík (Institute of Classical Archaeology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague), "Collapse – Transformation – Rise? Dynamics of Environmental Changes between the Balkans and the Aegean in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages" In-person only Contact: For any enquiries, tel.: 213-000-2400 (133), Email: infoWienerLab@ascsa.edu.gr

Remembering Colin Renfrew: a life’s work on the Cyclades and beyond

Archaeological Society 22 Panepistimiou Street, Athens, Greece

Remembering Colin Renfrew: a life’s work on the Cyclades and beyond Friday 21 November 2025, 19:00 Location: Archaeological Society at Athens, 22 Panepistimiou Str, 106 72 Athens, Greece This event will be recorded but will not take place as a live hybrid presentation. A video recording will be released in due course on the BSA […]

Ilenia Cipollari, “Sounding the Archive: Fragments in Emily Penrose’s Own Voice. British School at Athens, 1887–2025”

British School at Athens 52 Souedias Street, Athens, Greece

Ilenia Cipollari performing with Musarc, photo by Yiannis Katsaris Artist Researcher in Residence event Ilenia Cipollari (BSA/University of the Arts London), "Sounding the Archive: Fragments in Emily Penrose’s Own Voice. British School at Athens, 1887–2025" Sounding the Archive is an intimate live reading and soundscape performance inspired by the 1887 travel diaries of historian and […]

Ben Cassell, “The Aiora and Thesmophoria: Cognitve, embodied and psychological approaches”

British School at Athens, Upper House 52 Souedias Street, Athens, Greece

Votive relief with Pluto, Persephone and Demeter (4th-3rd cent. B.C.) in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens on 22 July 2018, courtesy of B. Cassell Upper House Seminar Ben Cassell (BSA/King’s College London), "The Aiora and Thesmophoria: Cognitve, embodied and psychological approaches" Abstract: Recent years have seen an increasing application of models derived from the […]

Vicky Manolopoulou, “A Landscape of Fear and Hope: Perceptions and Responses to Environmental change in Byzantine Constantinople”

Newcastle University , United Kingdom

BSA/SPBS lecture Dr Vicky Manolopoulou (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice), "A Landscape of Fear and Hope: Perceptions and Responses to Environmental change in Byzantine Constantinople" How did the environment shape landscape experience in Byzantine Constantinople? This talk explores aspects of the environmental history of the city by focusing on environmental emotion; it discusses how the […]

Archaeology in the Ottoman Aegean: Consuls – Culture – Commerce

British School at Athens, Upper House 52 Souedias Street, Athens, Greece

William Barlett, Rhodes, with the channel between the Islands and Asia Minor (1836), Wikimedia Commons Panel discussion Archaeology in the Ottoman Aegean: Consuls – Culture – Commerce How did local communities contribute to archaeology in the 19th and early 20th centuries? What were the connections between Ottoman officials, international diplomats, and competing curators? And what […]

Edward Harris, “A New Approach to the Attic Countryside: Markets in the Demes”

Online only

Rhamnous, photo: E. Harris UK Friends' lecture Professor Edward Harris (Durham University), "A New Approach to the Attic Countryside: Markets in the Demes" Abstract: In Aristophanes’ Acharnians (33-36), Dikaiopolis expresses his nostalgia for the good old days in the Attic countryside when no one ever used the word ‘buy’ and the land produced everything he […]