NHRF/ICS/BSA Lectures in Classics series Dr Nigel Spivey (Emmanuel College, 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 […]
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 for current biomedical research?" Abstract: Lemnian Earth (LE) and its specially prepared pellet-shaped product, Lemnian Sphragis (LS) (terra sigilata) was a medicinal clay with an […]
Fitch Lecture Myrto Georgakopoulou Award Holders: Dr. Ariadne Marketou and Dr. Laura Alvarez The Myrto Georgakopoulou Award is an international research award established by the BSA to honour Myrto Georgakopoulou (1976-2022) and ensure that her legacy inspires future work in Aegean archaeology and beyond. The award is supported by the Myrto Georgakopoulou Memorial Fund, established […]
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. For in-person attendance, please register by clicking here. A conference […]
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 […]
BIRI Ottoman Mobilities online lecture series Dr. Georgios Giannakopoulos (City St. George’s, University of London) Abstract: During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, scholars, writers and political advocates moved between Britain and the Ottoman world, carrying with them ideas about nationality, liberty, empire and political reform. Drawing principally on The Interpreters: British Internationalism and […]
Upper House Student Seminar Deanna Cunningham (BSA Macmillan Rodewald Student/University of St Andrews), "Becoming a Christian Landscape: Networks and Monumental Church Building in Late Antique Macedonia" Abstract: The growth of Christianity's importance and status in Late Antiquity led to the creation of a distinctive material culture, which included the development and construction of purpose-built churches. […]
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 […]
Panel discussion Writing the Townscape The city, of any size, looms large in Greek literature and translation from the Greek. This session explores literary resonances of the city in literature from Greece and Cyprus. Beyond the big cities that have long acted as gravity points, cities and towns such as Nicosia and Kerkyra will be […]
Panel discussion Writing the Townscape The city, of any size, looms large in Greek literature and translation from the Greek. This session explores literary resonances of the city in literature from Greece and Cyprus. Beyond the big cities that have long acted as gravity points, cities and towns such as Nicosia and Kerkyra will be […]
