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SUMMARY:Poetry Readings: Michael Marks Awards
DESCRIPTION:Award-winning pamphlets \nPoetry Readings: Michael Marks Awards\nHasti (winner of the Poetry Pamphlet Award 2026) and Patrick Romero McCafferty (winner of the Environmental Poetry Pamphlet Award 2026)\nThe BSA is delighted to host the Michael Marks Awards and its winning poets who stay at the BSA for a week as part of the programme. This year’s poets in residence are Hasti\, winner of the Poetry Pamphlet Award 2026\, and Patrick Romero McCafferty\, winner of the Environmental Poetry Pamphlet Award 2026\, who will give readings at the BSA Upper House. \nAbout Hasti \nHasti is a poet and writer living in South East London. A member of the inaugural Southbank New Poets Collective and the Ledbury Poetry Critics\, they are the recipient of the 2023 White Review Poet’s Prize and the 2022 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize for Poetry. Hasti has also co-written short sci-fi film DIGGING\, produced by Film4. Hasti hosts open mic and poetry night Fresh Lip\, and its sister show for Montez Press Radio\, Fresh Air. young\, dumb\, and full of poems is their first pamphlet. \nAbout Patrick Romero McCafferty \nPatrick Romero McCafferty’s poetry has appeared recently in Granta\, Wasafiri\, & the Irish Pages. ‘An August Work Party’\, an album with the band Anoraq\, came out in May 2026. He edits Wet Grain\, a magazine for land poetry. Patrick’s pamphlet\, Glass Knot Sun\, was published by ignitionpress in 2025. \n  \n  \nThe Michael Marks Awards for Poetry Pamphlets promote the pamphlet form and enable poets and publishers to develop and continue creating. Awarded annually\, they celebrate new work with prizes for: ‘Poetry Pamphlet’ (£5\,000) and ‘Publisher’ (£5\,000)\, ‘Illustration’ (£1\,000) and ‘Environmental Poet of the Year’ (£1\,000). For further information on the awards\, visit: https://michaelmarksawards.org/awards/2025-awards/ \n\nHybrid event \nTo attend in person in Athens\, register here \nTo attend online via webinar\, register here
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/poetry-readings-michael-marks-awards/
LOCATION:British School at Athens\, Upper House\, 52 Souedias Street\, Athens\, Greece
CATEGORIES:Poetry reading
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SUMMARY:Athens Archaeology Festival 2026
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URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/athens-archaeology-festival-2026/
LOCATION:British School at Athens\, 52 Souedias Street\, Athens\, Greece
CATEGORIES:Cultural Event
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SUMMARY:Unveiling Byzantium: An Evening Remembering Professor Dame Averil Cameron
DESCRIPTION:BSA/SPBS/KCL lecture\nUnveiling Byzantium: An Evening Remembering Professor Dame Averil Cameron\n5.15pm: 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 \n6.30-9pm: Talks and Remembrances in the Council Room\, KIN 214 and KIN 213 (adjacent) \nTalks and Remembrances: \nWelcome: Dr James Corke-Webster\, HoD Classics \nSpeakers:\nDr Alexandra Vukovich\, History\, King’s College London\nProf Emeritus Michael Maas\, Rice University\, USA tbc\nProf Emerita Margaret Mullett\, Queen’s University Belfast\nShort Remembrances: moderated by Dr Tassos Papacostas\, Classics\, King’s College London \nFor more information and to register go HERE. \nLocation: Strand Campus\, King’s College London
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/unveiling-byzantium-an-evening-remembering-professor-dame-averil-cameron/
LOCATION:King’s College London\, Strand Campus\, Strand\, London\, WC2R 2LS\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:SPBS lecture
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SUMMARY:Roman Pottery in the South-Eastern Balkans: From Production to Distribution
DESCRIPTION:Conference\nRoman Pottery in the South-Eastern Balkans: From Production to Distribution\n\n\nThe 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 tableware\, cooking vessels\, and storage containers\, often alongside traditional handmade pottery. The scale and variability of local production must have been considerable; in inland Thrace\, for instance\, the majority of pottery found in rural contexts was locally produced\, while imports were virtually negligible. \nHowever\, despite the prevalence of local pottery on many archaeological sites\, the number of dedicated studies on the subject remains disproportionately low. Even fewer comprehensive studies or specialized conferences address the production and distribution of local pottery. This conference therefore aims to provide an open forum for sharing and discussing various aspects of Roman pottery production in the southern and south-eastern Balkan Peninsula\, focusing on direct or indirect evidence of production as well as on investigating circulation patterns\, consumer preferences and patterns of consumption. \nThe chronological framework of the conference spans the Late Republic to the Imperial period\, approximately from the 2nd century BC to the 4th century AD. \n\n\n\nThe main topics are:\n\n\n\nTypology and chronology of various regional pottery groups\nProduction centres and their organization\nTechnological aspects of ceramic production\nPottery function and utilization\nPatterns and mechanisms of distribution\nEconomic\, social\, and cultural significance of pottery production and consumption\nThe application of scientific analyses to address any of the above issues\n\n\n\nThursday 22nd October – 9am to 6pm / Friday 23rd October – 9.30am to 5.30pm \nYou can find the full programme with abstracts here.
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/roman-pottery-in-the-south-eastern-balkans-from-production-to-distribution/
LOCATION:British School at Athens\, Upper House\, 52 Souedias Street\, Athens\, Greece
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SUMMARY:Artist in Residence lecture: Srinivas Surti
DESCRIPTION:Composite image with Stone fragment with an Elaborate Meander from Kyparissa (left) and Archaic sculpture relief of Herakles from Cyzicus (right). ©BSA Archive \nArtist in Residence lecture\nRemixing tradition and contemporaneity in relief as printed\nimage. \nSrinivas Surti (University of the Arts London) \nSrinivas Surti is an artist\, educator and doctoral researcher at Chelsea College of Arts\, University of the Arts\, London. His practice-based research explores cultural hybridity through relationships between image and object\, surface and depth\, using printmaking\, installation and performance to consider relief as a transcultural site of coexistence. In 2022\, he co-edited Cha\, a publication examining Brownness as an inclusive mode of cultural identification\, and in 2023 he participated in the International Doctoral School in Nida\, Lithuania. Srinivas completed an MA in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins in 2002\, where he received the Rootstein Hopkins Postgraduate Award\, and since then has exhibited widely across London and the UK. \nDuring the residency\, Srinivas will be in dialogue with the research community at the BSA to deepen his understanding of the pigments used in Greek polychromatic relief sculpture. Drawing on the movement and exchange of colour and pattern across ancient cultures\, he will develop a series of experimental printed reliefs on paper\, mylar\, and fabric. Combining printmaking with performative processes\, the works will explore the material qualities of lightness and shimmer while referencing the iconography of Indo-Greek relief\, which adapted Greek conventions of imagery\, and styles of drapery. By re-presenting shared traditions of colour\, form and pattern from a new perspective\, the work aims to evoke ideas of togetherness in the present. \nHybrid event \nRegistration links coming soon.
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/artist-in-residence-srinivas-surti/
LOCATION:British School at Athens\, Upper House\, 52 Souedias Street\, Athens\, Greece
CATEGORIES:Artist in Residence event
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SUMMARY:Effie Photos-Jones\, "The Cure at Lemnos: can the story of Lemnian Earth form a reliable basis for current biomedical research?"
DESCRIPTION: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. \n  \n\n\n\n\nBSA Friends Greece lecture\nDr Effie Photos-Jones (University of Glasgow [Honorary Researcher]and SASAA Ltd)\, “The Cure at Lemnos: can the story of Lemnian Earth form a\nreliable basis for current biomedical research?”\nAbstract: Lemnian Earth (LE) and its specially prepared pelletshaped product\, Lemnian Sphragis (LS) (terra sigilata) was a medicinal clay with an acclaimed history of use over 2500 years. It served as an antidote to ‘poison ingested or injected’ but also a powerful medicine against hemoptysis/ hematemesis. In the Ottoman period it was used against the ‘plague’. It was traditionally extracted from a locality in N Lemnos\, under the auspices of the local temple and later\, the Greek Orthodox clergy. Over a 20+ year period our team\, in the UK and Greece\, has carried out multidisciplinary work on LE/LS. A scrutiny of the ritual of its ‘blessing’\,\n(Galen (2nd c CE))\, suggests the possible introduction of a biotic component (fungal-infested wheat/barley) ‘absorbed’ by the clay. This hypothesis led to co-culturing of Lemnos-type clays with the fungus Penicillium purpurogenum and subsequent laboratory testing against common pathogens\, with differing results. Feeding the ‘successful’ co-cultures to healthy mice resulted in an increase in gut biodiversity and SCFA (short chain fatty acids) production; the latter’s main attribute is to support the immune system and reduce inflammation.\nThe research is ongoing\, but far from being a ‘mythical’ cure\, LS potentially finds itself at the cutting edge of modern biomedical research. \nBio: Effie Photos-Jones is honorary researcher in Archaeology\, University of Glasgow. She is an archaeological scientist having undertaken her PhD on early iron metallurgy in Eastern Macedonia. She worked at NRC Demokritos and was chair of the Hellenic Society for Archaeometry in 2014-2016. In Scotland she set up in 1996 and since then directs the private company Scottish Analytical Services for Art & Archaeology\, undertaking analysis of archaeological materials from numerous excavations. She also initiated a long-term research project funded by Historic Environment Scotland\, on the early iron bloomeries of the Scottish Highlands. She is a member of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. Her research work in Greece has focused on the industrial minerals of antiquity; the medicinal clays and alum of antiquity (EPJ and AJ Hall Lemnian earth and the earths of the Aegean (2011)). She led a British Academy funded project on Melos on the exploitation of industrial minerals in the Roman period (EPJ and AJ Hall Eros Mercator and the cultural landscape of Melos (2014)). This project subsequently extended to other sources of alum in the Mediterranean: the Bay of Naples and the Aeolian islands. \nHaving established a geo-archaeological framework for the earths of the Aegean\, in 2016\, and with Wellcome Trust funding\, she set up a multidisciplinary project\, to investigate the nature of their purported pharmacological properties\, undertaking both in vitro (lab-based) and in vivo (mouse-based) experiments. Today’s talk is about the Lemnian Earth\, the most well-known of them all\, asking whether its long history can form a reliable basis for biomedical research today \nHybrid \nRegistration links to come soon.
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/effie-photos-jones-the-cure-at-lemnos/
LOCATION:British School at Athens\, Upper House\, 52 Souedias Street\, Athens\, Greece
CATEGORIES:BSA Friends event
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SUMMARY:Gymnasia and Philosophical Schools in Athens and Attica
DESCRIPTION:International Conference\nGymnasia and Philosophical Schools in Athens and Attica\n\n\nThis 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. \n\n\n\nMore details and full programme coming soon! \n\nLocation: Academy of Athens\, Panepistimiou 28\, Athens 10679
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/gymnasia-and-philosophical-schools-in-athens-and-attica/
LOCATION:Academy of Athens\, Athens\, Greece
CATEGORIES:Conference
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SUMMARY:Loneliness and Solitude in the Colonels’ Greece\, 1967-1974
DESCRIPTION:Aerial view of Gyaros\, the infamous and lonely island of exile. By Olaf Tausch – Own work\, CC BY 3.0\, \nBSA Friends’ lecture\nDr Huw Halstead (Dr Huw Halstead)\, ‘Loneliness and Solitude in the Colonels’ Greece\, 1967-1974’\nAbstract: \nIn this paper\, I offer a quiet history of the Colonels’ regime in Greece (1967-1974) by focusing on times and spaces in which people found themselves alone under dictatorial rule. Drawing on oral testimonies\, I explore both experiences of loneliness and practices of solitude. I discuss how dictatorial regimes cultivate popular loneliness both directly (through means such as exile\, imprisonment\, or solitary confinement) and indirectly (by polluting the social bonds that tie people together). At the same time\, I also demonstrate the capacity for bottom-up practices of solitude to push back against this imposed loneliness\, to create distance between the individual and dictatorial power\, and even to strengthen social bonds despite dictatorial interference. \nBio: Dr Huw Halstead is Lecturer in Public History in the School of History\, Classics\, and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh. His research focuses on memory\, public history\, and everyday life. He is author of the book Greeks without Greece: Homelands\, Belonging\, and Memory amongst the Expatriated Greeks of Turkey (Routledge\, 2019) and co-editor of the book Miniatures: A Reader in the History of Everyday Life (University of Exeter Press\, 2025. \nOnline only. \nRegistration link available soon.\n\nPlease do consider a donation to the Friends’ Lectures here: https://www.bsa.ac.uk/donate/ \nWe suggest £10 if you are a BSA Supporter\,  £15 otherwise. Please quote “Friends Lecture” in the Additional Comments field. Thank you for your generosity!
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/loneliness-and-solitude-in-the-colonels-greece-1967-1974/
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