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January 2020
Distant seas, connected worlds: Tintagel, Britain, and Greece in Late Antiquity
A half-day symposium on ceramic production and maritime distribution in the Aegean and East Mediterranean, and long-distance links between Greece, the West Mediterranean and South West Britain during the 5th to 7th centuries AD.
Find out more »Panel discussion: Migration and Diaspora, co-organised with King’s College London
Moderator: Dionysios Stathakopoulos, King’s College London. Dionysios Stathakopoulos has been teaching at King's College London since 2005. He read Byzantine and Medieval History at the University of Münster and received his PhD from the University of Vienna. He is a social historian of the Byzantine world and has published widely on epidemics and famines, the practice and practitioners of medicine, charity, poverty and remembrance. His latest book is A Short History of the Byzantine Empire (2014), recently translated in Greek, Turkish and Estonian.…
Find out more »Alexandros Karakostis, “Setting a bridge between biological and cultural remains: Novel methods for the reconstruction of physical activity in the past”
Setting a bridge between biological and cultural remains: Novel methods for the reconstruction of physical activity in the past
Find out more »Gian Piero Milani “The Collection of Allied Aerial Photographs of the British School at Athens”
Gian Piero Milani (PhD student, University of Oxford), "The Collection of Allied Aerial Photographs of the British School at Athens”
Find out more »February 2020
The Work of the School in 2019
The Work of the School in 2019 by Professor John Bennet - The Work of the Fitch Laboratory 2009-2019: Linking Britain with the Mediterranean by Dr Evangelia Kiriatzi (Fitch Lab Director, BSA)
Find out more »The Work of the School in 2019
The Work of the School in 2019 by Professor John Bennet (Director, BSA) Dr Zosia Archibald (University of Liverpool), "New Dimensions of an Ancient City: the Olynthos Project (2014-2019)"
Find out more »George Huxley: Achaeans, Hittites, and the Tale of Troy
The lecture restates the reasons for equating the territory known to the Hittites as Ahhiyaurā with the lands of the late Bronze Age Achaean Greeks. Diplomatic relations between the two realms are examined with particular attention to the city called Wilusa by the Hittites. Finally, it is asked to what extent, if any, the Iliad recalled western Asia Minor and its political geography half a millennium and more after the period traditionally assigned to the Trojan War. George Huxley…
Find out more »The Work of the School in 2019
The Work of the School in 2019 by Professor John Bennet (Director, BSA) Dr Bettina Tsigarida (Director, Ephorate of Antiquities of Pella), "Νέες διαστάσεις στην έρευνα της αρχαίας ελληνικής πόλης: το ερευνητικό πρόγραμμα της Ολύνθου"
Find out more »March 2020
‘Moving Seaside’: Neolithic seafaring workshop
This workshop will focus on seafaring in the Mediterranean of the Neolithic Period, and will stimulate discussion on the topic for featuring in an international documentary film 'Moving Stones'. We aim to discuss how throughout the Neolithic Period the seas, far from being obstacles, were major vectors of transportation and communication. All welcome. Joint workshop with French Institute for Anatolian Studies
Find out more »Mike Edwards, “Places in the Attic Orators: a philologist and his topography”
Mike Edwards, "Places in the Attic Orators: a philologist and his topography"
Find out more »Lamprini Rori: ‘The Landscape of Political Violence in Crisis-Ridden Greece’
Political extremism has been present in Greece since 1974. Despite the adoption of a counter-terrorist governmental strategy around the turn of the millennium which temporarily limited episodes of violent extremism, violence remains a serious problem. By its unprecedented magnitude and durée, the ongoing financial crisis has triggered the emergence of circumstances that promote the toleration, acceptance and use of violence. The paper focuses on different expressions of political violence in Greece from 2008 onwards, aiming to identify its repertoires and causes, the actors involved,…
Find out more »Voula Tsouna, Title tbc
Professor Voula Tsouna (University of California), Title tbc Co-organized by the BSA and the Research Centre for Greek Philosophy (Academy of Athens)
Find out more »April 2020
Voula Tsouna, Title tbc
Professor Voula Tsouna (University of California), Title tbc Co-organized by the BSA and the Research Centre for Greek Philosophy (Academy of Athens)
Find out more »May 2020
Emily Kneebone, Title tbc
Dr Emily Kneebone (BSA, Early Career Fellow / University of Nottingham), Title tbc
Find out more »Carrie Sawtell, Title tbc
Dr Carrie Sawtell (BSA, Macmillan Rodewald Student / University of Oxford), Title tbc
Find out more »Antonis Kotsonas, Title tbc
Professor Antonis Kotsonas (New York University), Title tbc
Find out more »Charles Brittain, Title tbc
Professor Charles Brittain (Cornell University), Title tbc
Find out more »Tulsi Parikh, “The Material of Polythism in Archaic Greece”
Tulsi Parikh (Richard Bradford-McConnell Student / University of Cambridge), "The Material of Polythism in Archaic Greece"
Find out more »Annual Garden Party
Annual Garden Party
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