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Unveiling Byzantium: An Evening Remembering Professor Dame Averil Cameron

King's College London, Strand Campus Strand, London, United Kingdom

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 […]

Roman Pottery in the South-Eastern Balkans: From Production to Distribution

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

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 […]

Making Connections: People, Pots and Landscapes in Aegean Prehistory

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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 […]

Dr Nigel Spivey, “Sappho The Symbol”

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

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 […]

Effie Photos-Jones, “The Cure at Lemnos: can the story of Lemnian Earth form a reliable basis for current biomedical research?”

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

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 […]

Myrto Georgakopoulou Award Holders Lecture

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

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 […]

Gymnasia and Philosophical Schools in Athens and Attica

Academy of Athens Athens, Greece

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. Click here to see the conference programme (pdf). Location: 26 […]

Artist in Residence lecture: Srinivas Surti

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

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 […]

Transforming Access – Archaeology and Open Heritage Science for Small Cultural Heritage Institutes

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

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 […]

Loneliness and Solitude in the Colonels’ Greece, 1967-1974

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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 […]