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SUMMARY:Cyprian Broodbank\, 'The Emergence of Civilisation'\, and the Maghreb
DESCRIPTION:Image credit: Giulio Lucarini & Toby Wilkinson \nBSA Friends’ lecture\nProfessor Cyprian Broodbank (University of Cambridge)\, ‘The Emergence of Civilisation’\, and the Maghreb\nAbstract: The ‘long’ third millennium BC is recognised as a crucial period of social change across much of the Mediterranean. In 1972 Colin Renfrew’s magisterial The Emergence of Civilisation: The Cyclades and the Aegean in the Third Millennium BC highlighted the importance of this ‘pre-palatial’ millennium for understanding the origins of the Minoan and Mycenaean societies that followed. It also offered a radical\, liberating alternative model of change as something explicable through internal processes rather than necessarily by recourse to external factors. In parallel with transformations in the Aegean\, this same period witnessed the emergence of kingship and the state in northeast Africa\, and of urbanism in the Levant\, while recent work in southern Iberia underscores the dramatic changes underway at the western end of the Mediterranean. It is against this background that new discoveries in northwest Africa can be framed\, specifically from new fieldwork by a British-Italian-Moroccan collaboration at Oued Beht in Morocco. These bear witness to a remarkable\, hitherto unknown complex farming society on the southern flank of the Mediterranean\, as well as the emergence of a long-range maritime network at the far western end of the Mediterranean comparable to the contemporary Aegean’s ‘international spirit’. These perspectives reflect back critically on explanatory discourse within the Aegean\, and prompt harder questions as to quite how the trajectories of Aegean societies resemble or differ from those attested elsewhere around the emergent Middle Sea. \nBio: Cyprian Broodbank is Disney Professor of Archaeology and Director of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at the University of Cambridge. He studied History at Oxford\, and Aegean and Anatolian archaeology at Bristol\, before gaining a PhD from the Faculty of Classics at Cambridge. In 1993 he took up a Lectureship in Aegean Archaeology at the UCL Institute of Archaeology\, rising to a Professorship in Mediterranean Archaeology. In 2014 he moved to Cambridge to take up his present post. In 2015 he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy\, where he currently serves as Vice-President for the British International Research Institutes. He has held visiting fellowships at All Souls\, Oxford\, and several institutions in the United States. He is author of numerous papers and articles\, as well as two books. The Making of the Middle Sea (2013; revised edition 2024) won the Wolfson History and Nonino Prizes in 2014. Previously\, his first book\, An Island Archaeology of the Early Cyclades\, won the Runciman Award of the Hellenic Society and the James R. Wiseman Prize of the Archaeological Institute of America. His research interests include archaeology as deep global history\, comparative approaches to the archaeology and long-term history of the Mediterranean\, Aegean archaeology\, and the archaeology of islands and maritime connectivity. He co-directs the Kythera Island Project and is currently engaged in fieldwork in Cyprus and at the site of Oued Beht in Morocco. The first publication from the last of these was awarded the 2025 Antiquity Prize\, and the Oued Beht research has also been honoured with a 2025 Field Discovery Award from the Shanghai Archaeology Forum. \nHybrid event \nTo attend online via Zoom webinar\, register here\n\nTo attend in-person in London\, register here \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/cyprian-broodbank-the-emergence-of-civilisation-and-the-maghreb/
LOCATION:Room 264 Senate House\, London\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:BSA Friends' Lecture
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SUMMARY:Joshua Barley\, ‘Athens Tales’ Book Presentation
DESCRIPTION:The translator of Athens Tales with the city in the background\, photo credit: Andrew Spyrou \nFriends of the BSA Greece lecture\nJoshua Barley\, ‘Athens Tales’ Book Presentation\nRecently published by Oxford University Press\, Athens Tales is an anthology of Greek writing about the city\, from the late nineteenth century to today. The book brings together a representative selection of short stories from different eras of Athens’s turbulent modern history\, offering readers snapshots of the city over time. Well-known authors such as Alexandros Papadiamantis and Petros Markaris appear alongside lesser-known writers\, some of whom are translated into English for the first time. Each tale offers a distinct literary voice and perspective on the city\, making the volume both an introduction to modern Greek literature and a mosaic of Athens’s history. Josh will give an illustrated lecture on the creation of the book\, from the selection of the stories to the challenges of translation. He will also discuss the lives of some of the lesser-known writers and explore how the stories are interwoven with the\ncity’s history. \nJoshua Barley is a translator and writer\, living between Athens and Epirus. His translations of Michalis Ganas (with David Connolly)\, published as A Greek Ballad (Yale University Press) were shortlisted for the Runciman Award\, and his anthology Greek Folk Songs was shortlisted for the Greek State Prize for translation. \nHybrid lecture \nTo attend in person in Athens\, please register here \nTo attend online via webinar\, please register here
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/joshua-barley-athens-tales-book-presentation/
LOCATION:British School at Athens\, Upper House\, 52 Souedias Street\, Athens\, Greece
CATEGORIES:BSA Friends' Lecture
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SUMMARY:Lin Foxhall\, "Re-imagining ancient Greek landscapes"
DESCRIPTION:Delphi © Prof. Lin Foxhall. \nUK Friends’ lecture\nProfessor Lin Foxhall (University of Liverpool)\, “Re-imagining ancient Greek landscapes“\n\nAbstract: Ancient Greek landscapes were both like and unlike those we see today. Landscapes are dynamic and change over time\, sometimes very rapidly. The human relationships within local communities linked together a variety of urban and rural spaces and locations. Survey archaeology and excavation provide evidence to show that in rural landscapes no one site or location makes sense without reference to others with which it was entwined. This talk will explore how people lived in these landscapes\, and what it was like for those who curated and exploited them. \n\n\nBio: Lin Foxhall is Rathbone Professor of Ancient History and Classical Archaeology\, University of Liverpool. Previously she was Dean of the School of Histories\, Languages and Cultures at Liverpool. She served as Professor of Greek Archaeology and History University of Leicester and Head of the School of Archaeology and Ancient History\, where she played a major part in leading the team that discovered the body of King Richard III. She was Editor of the Journal of Hellenic Studies 2021-2025. She has held posts at St Hilda’s College\, Oxford and University College London\, and Visiting Professorships in Germany\, Denmark and the USA. She studied at Bryn Mawr College\, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Liverpool. \n\nAn active field archaeologist\, she has led and participated in collaborative research projects in Greece and Southern Italy\, and has written extensively on agriculture\, rural economies\, landscapes\, land use\, material culture and gender in the ancient Mediterranean\, and especially the Greek world\, mostly between the Bronze Age and Classical periods. \n\n\n\nHybrid lecture \n  \n\nTo attend online via Zoom webinar\, register here\n\nTo attend in-person in London\, register here \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/lin-foxhall-re-imagining-ancient-greek-landscapes/
LOCATION:Room 264 Senate House\, London\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:BSA Friends' Lecture
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SUMMARY:Edward Harris\, "A New Approach to the Attic Countryside: Markets in the Demes"
DESCRIPTION:Rhamnous\, photo: E. Harris \nUK Friends’ lecture\nProfessor Edward Harris (Durham University)\, “A New Approach to the Attic Countryside: Markets in the Demes”\nAbstract: 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 needed. This passage has been used by several scholars as evidence that the market played only a peripheral role in the lives of Greek farmers. This assumption has also led scholars like Möller and Osborne to assert that there is no evidence for markets outside Athens\, the Piraeus and Laurion. This paper will draw on recent work in the Attic countryside to study several rural markets neglected by these scholars and to show how local roads and harbours linked these markets to farmsteads and to places outside Attica. There is epigraphic evidence for markets at Besa\, Deceleia\, Erchia\, and Sounion. In a recent study Kakvogianni and Anetakis have examined the archaeological evidence for markets at Myrrhinous\, Steiria and Thorikos\, and Salliora-Oikonomakou collects the evidence for a market at Pasalimani north of Sounion. Preliminary excavations have revealed a market at Halai Aixonides. Inscriptions discovered at Rhamnous indicate the presence of an agora and workshops\, and excavations have uncovered several possible locations. Aeschines also mentions an agora on Salamis. All this evidence show that Attic farmers did not pursue a strategy of self-sufficiency. \nBio: Edward Harris is Emeritus Professor of Ancient History at Durham University. He has published extensively about the political and legal institutions and economy of Ancient Greece. \nOnline only \nTo attend online via Zoom webinar\, register here \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/edward-harris-a-new-approach-to-the-attic-countryside-markets-in-the-demes/
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CATEGORIES:BSA Friends' Lecture
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SUMMARY:Rebecca Levitan\, "The Naxos Quarry Project: New Insights on the Archaic Marble Quarries and Monuments of Naxos\, Greece"
DESCRIPTION:The Portara Gate\, Palatia islet\, Naxos\, photo: R Levitan \nUK Friends’ lecture\nDr Rebecca Levitan (King’s College London)\, “The Naxos Quarry Project: New Insights on the Archaic Marble Quarries and Monuments of Naxos\, Greece”\nAbstract: In the early history of marble working in the Mediterranean\, few locations have been more influential than Naxos\, an island in the center of the vibrant and interconnected Cyclades. Naxos is home to several sources of coarse-grained white marble and emery\, a natural abrasive. In the Archaic Period\, Naxian marble workers were technological and artistic pioneers who developed local techniques to harness and exploit their native natural resources. Yet despite being one of the most renowned centers of marble extraction\, architectural innovation\, and sculptural production in the ancient Mediterranean\, the landscapes and archaeology of ancient Naxos are comparatively unstudied compared to other Cycladic islands. This paper presents the approach developed by the Naxos Quarry Project to address these challenges and lacunae\, offering an avenue for the archaeological documentation of Naxian quarries and the remarkable monuments they produced in the Archaic period. \nBio: Levitan received her PhD in Ancient Mediterranean Art from the History of Art Department at University of California\, Berkeley in 2023. Before arriving at King’s College London\, she held fellowships at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens\, the American Academy in Rome\, and the British School at Rome. These opportunities also supported archaeological fieldwork in Greece and Italy and further research in Turkey and Jordan. In addition to fieldwork in Naxos\, Rebecca is currently working on her first monograph\, which focuses on a Hellenistic sculptural type known as “the Pasquino Group” and its Roman marble copies\, including their long afterlives. \nOnline only \nTo attend online via Zoom webinar\, register here \n*This lecture will not be recorded. \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/rebecca-levitan-the-naxos-quarry-project-new-insights-on-the-archaic-marble-quarries-and-monuments-of-naxos-greece/
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SUMMARY:David Gill\, "Cleon’s Victory at Sphacteria and the Temple of Athena Nike on the Athenian Acropolis"
DESCRIPTION:Temple of Athena Nike on the Athenian Acropolis\, reconstruction © John Goodinson \nUK Friends’ Lecture\nProfessor David Gill (University of Kent)\, “Cleon’s Victory at Sphacteria and the Temple of Athena Nike on the Athenian Acropolis”\nCleon’s dramatic victory at Sphacteria in 425 – with its unprecedented capture of 292 Spartan hoplites – was a transformative moment for Athens’ fortunes in the Archidamian War. In addition to extraordinary personal honours for Cleon—sitesis and proedria—a decision also was made to ‘door up’ the existing sanctuary of Athena Nike—probably rebuilt after Athens’ defeat of Aegina c. 457 (see Thuc. 1.108.4)—and to construct a new temple and altar on the raised Nike bastion that more intimately connected the sanctuary to the Propylaia (IG I3 35). The architect appointed to oversee this project was the famous Kallikrates. Kallikrates also had worked on the Parthenon\, the Middle Wall linking Athens to the Piraeus\, and on the restoration of a small section of the Acropolis walls\, the function of which was to exclude refugees from entering Athena’s temenos (IG I3 45). By 424/423\, Athena Nike’s sanctuary was ready for use and the payment for her priestess had been agreed (IG I3 36). Proportionally\, the new temple of Athena Nike was the most heavily decorated Ionic temple in the history of Greek art. The Ionic frieze evoked the mythical invasion of Attica\, the victory at Marathon\, and the recent events at Sphacteria. The parapet frieze\, contemporary with the temple\, included cattle and panoplies\, the same offerings that were included in a rider\, proposed by Thudippus\, to the Great Reassessment of Tribute that took place right after Sphacteria (IG I3 71)\, as well as in the decree relating to the foundation of the Athenian colony of Brea in the Thraceward district (IG I3 46). Gilt bronze Nikai were placed on the roof of the temple. It is also possible that the walls of the bastion were covered with a selection of captured Spartan shields. All the ancient evidence – epigraphical\, literary\, historical\, and archaeological – strongly suggests a direct connection between the building of the temple of Athena Nike and Cleon’s victory at Sphacteria. \nDavid Gill is an honorary professor in the Centre for Heritage at the University of Kent\, and an honorary research fellow in the School of History and the History of Art at the University of East Anglia. He is a former Rome Scholar at the British School at Rome\, and Sir James Knott Fellow at Newcastle University. He had curatorial responsibility for the Greek and Roman collections at the Fitzwilliam Museum\, Cambridge before moving to Swansea University where he was reader in Mediterranean Archaeology. He is a recipient of the Outstanding Public Service Award from the Archaeological Institute of America for his research on cultural property. His publications include Sifting the Soil of Greece: The Early Years of the British School at Athens (1886-1919) (2011)\, Winifred Lamb: Aegean Prehistorian and Museum Curator (2018)\, and The World of Disney: From Antiquarianism to Archaeology (2020). His research on the sanctuary of Athena Nike is being conducted with Dr Mike Lippman and Dr Peter Schultz. \nOnline only lecture \nTo attend online via Zoom webinar\, register here \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/david-gill-cleons-victory-at-sphacteria-and-the-temple-of-athena-nike-on-the-athenian-acropolis/
LOCATION:Online only
CATEGORIES:BSA Friends' Lecture
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SUMMARY:Maria Mina\, “Sacred caves outside Crete: Daskalio Cave on Kalymnos and its connections to Minoan ritual practices”
DESCRIPTION:Daskalio Cave\, Kalymnos\, Photograph © Stathis Klimis \nOnline Friends’ Lecture\nDr Maria Mina (University of the Aegean)\, “Sacred caves outside Crete: Daskalio Cave on Kalymnos and its connections to Minoan ritual practices”\nAbstract: We know from archaeological studies that occupied caves diachronically held prominent positions as visible landmarks or as nodal points in exchange networks and mobility routes. The lecture discusses the case of Daskalio Cave on Kalymnos as a site where Minoan ritual practices were performed outside Crete\, and as a context where maritime identities were played out through an eclectic use of material culture. \nThe study investigates the Late Minoan occupation phase of Daskalio Cave on Kalymnos island to throw light on the use of coastal caves in connection to maritime travel in the prehistoric south-east Aegean. It is proposed that Daskalio Cave\, which occupied a nodal position between the insular Aegean and the Anatolian mainland\, was visited by maritime travellers. The evidence indicates the performance of ritual activities with clear references to Minoan cultural practices\, which were emmeshed with local traditions\, as attested by the presence of local pottery wares and shapes. \nFinally\, it is postulated that the coastal location of Daskalio Cave\, its access by sea and the presence of imports\, may suggest a close connection with maritime travel and seafarers for whom the cave may have marked a sacred landmark or a site of pilgrimage. It is possible that coastal caves that occupied liminal spaces\, environmentally and symbolically\, served as spaces where mobility and cultural exchanges created distinct maritime identities which drew on the cultural traditions of Crete and the Southeast Aegean. \nBio: Maria Mina is Assistant Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology in the Department of Mediterranean Studies: Archaeology\, Linguistics\, International Relations of the University of the Aegean. She studied archaeology at the University of Southampton\, and completed her doctoral studies at the Institute of Archaeology\, University College London. She has taught at the Hellenic Open University\, the University of Cyprus and the University of the Aegean. She has also worked as a researcher in the Department of Antiquities\, Cyprus and she has participated in field projects in Greece and in Cyprus. Maria Mina has organised two international conferences entitled ‘Four Decades of Hiatus in Archaeological Research in Cyprus: Towards Restoring the Balance’ (2016) and ‘Embodied Identities in the Prehistoric Eastern Mediterranean: Convergence of Theory and Practice’ (2012). Her research interests focus on the Neolithic and Bronze Age period of the Aegean and Cyprus\, on anthropomorphic figurines\, gender archaeology\, social complexity and island archaeology. Since 2019 Maria Mina has been serving as a member of the Executive Board of the European Association of Archaeologists. \nOnline only \nTo attend online via Zoom webinar\, please register HERE
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/maria-mina-sacred-caves-outside-crete-daskalio-cave-on-kalymnos-and-its-connections-to-minoan-ritual-practices/
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SUMMARY:Elias Kolovos\, "How the Ottoman traveller Evliya Çelebi set foot on the Mani Peninsula\, but left in a hurry... Ottoman imperial administration in the Greek lands and its limits"
DESCRIPTION:image: The Mani Promontory in the Southern Peloponnese. CORONELLI\, Vincenzo. Description géographique et historique de la Morée … \, Paris\, Nicolas Langlois\, MDCLXXXVII [=1687]  \n\nOnline Friends’ lecture\nElias Kolovos (National Hellenic Research Foundation)\, “How the Ottoman traveller Evliya Çelebi set foot on the Mani Peninsula\, but left in a hurry… Ottoman imperial administration in the Greek lands and its limits”\nAbstract: In this lecture\, we will follow the famous Ottoman traveller\, Evliya Çelebi\, who joined a difficult Ottoman campaign against the Maniots of the Southern Peloponnese\, Greece\, in 1670. During this campaign\, Evliya Çelebi contributed –albeit with great precautions and fear– to the registration of the Mani Peninsula in an Ottoman survey register (tahrir defteri).  Based on his account\, and a study of several Ottoman survey registers (tahrir defterleri) in which the villages of Mani are recorded\, we will discuss the limits of Ottoman imperial administration in the Greek lands and the opportunities for local autonomy for the Greeks. In the special case of the Mani promontory\, to the south of the Peloponnese\, local autonomy was popularised among an international audience by Western travellers of the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries\, and by Patrick Leight Fermor in his travel book Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese of 1958. \nBio: Elias Kolovos is Research Director\, running the Ottoman History Program at the Institute of Historical Research of the National Hellenic Research Foundation. He is also the elected Secretary of the Board of the International Association for Ottoman Social and Economic History. In the past\, he served as Professor in Ottoman History at the Department of History and Archaeology\, Faculty of Letters\, University of Crete. He has written\, edited\, and coedited 20 books and over 80 papers in Greek and international publications and journals. His research interests include the Mediterranean economic history\, the history of the insular worlds\, the history of the frontiers\, rural and environmental history\, as well as the spatial history and legacies of the Ottoman Empire. His last book\, in Greek (Στους καιρούς των σουλτάνων. Οι κοινωνίες της ελληνικής χερσονήσου υπό οθωμανική κυριαρχία\, 14ος-19ος αι. [The Times of the Sultans: The Societies of the Greek Lands under Ottoman Rule\, fourteenth-nineteenth centuries]\, Asini\, Athens 2023) discuss the Ottoman history of the Greek lands. \n  \nOnline only lecture \nTo attend via webinar\, please register here
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/elias-kolovos-how-the-ottoman-traveller-evliya-celebi-set-foot-on-the-mani-peninsula-but-left-in-a-hurry-ottoman-imperial-administration-in-the-greek-lands-and-its-limits/
LOCATION:Online only
CATEGORIES:BSA Friends' Lecture
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SUMMARY:Paul Halstead\, “The importance of olive growing and oil exports in Archaic-Classical Athens: the contribution of 'citizen science'”
DESCRIPTION:Elderly olive trees growing on the edge of an agricultural terrace\, Kythera\, photo: Dr Valasia Isaakidou \nPLEASE NOTE: new date – Mon 25th March 2025 \nHybrid Friends’ Lecture\nProfessor Paul Halstead (Professor Emeritus\, University of Sheffield)\, “The importance of olive growing and oil exports in Archaic-Classical Athens: the contribution of ‘citizen science’”\nAbstract: Scholars have long argued about how ‘primitive’ or ‘modern’ was the ancient Greek economy. In this context\, arguments over the scale of olive growing in Archaic-Classical southern Greece and of oil exports therefrom assume broad importance for our understanding of early polis societies. A law attributed to Solon of Athens has been interpreted as indicating large-scale olive growing in Attica and state encouragement of the export of oil\, while distinctive and widely distributed ceramic vessels for transporting liquids have been cited in support of large-volume trade in oil and wine. Conversely\, the scarcity of stone pressing equipment suggests production of oil in Archaic-Classical Greece on only a modest scale. In this presentation\, consideration of the oral testimonies of elderly ‘traditional’ farmers (‘citizen scientists’) in Greece\, backed up by field observation of living trees and available information from archives\, will be argued to support olive growing and hence oil export in Archaic-Classical Greece on only a small scale. \nBio: Paul Halstead is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Sheffield\, where he taught from 1984 to 2020 in the recently closed Dept of Archaeology. He was a student at the BSA in Athens from 1974 to 1977 and has taken part in excavations\, surface surveys and post-excavation studies from western Macedonia and Epirus to eastern Crete and Rhodes as a member of archaeological projects sponsored by the BSA\, ASCSA\, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki\, University of Athens and Greek Ministry of Culture. His research has focused on Aegean prehistory and ancient Mediterranean farming\, drawing particularly on first-hand analysis of zooarchaeological assemblages from Greece and\, increasingly in recent years\, on oral-historical/ ethnoarchaeological studies of traditional cultivation and herding in Spain\, southern France\, Italy\, Cyprus and\, especially\, Greece. \nHybrid event \nTo attend in person in London\, please REGISTER here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-importance-of-olive-growing-and-oil-exports-in-archaic-classical-athens-tickets-1248393371179?aff=oddtdtcreator \nTo attend online via Zoom webinar\, please REGISTER here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_z4M6rHdeSveiiSJ-tdYDQQ
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/paul-halstead-the-importance-of-olive-growing-and-oil-exports-in-archaic-classical-athens-the-contribution-of-citizen-science/
LOCATION:Senate House (Room 349)\, London\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:BSA Friends' Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250121T180000
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SUMMARY:Pamela Armstrong\, "The Two Castles of Torone"
DESCRIPTION:  \n \nThe remains of the two castles at Torone\, photo by Teddy Catling \n\nHybrid Friends’ Lecture\nDr Pamela Armstrong (University of Oxford)\, “The Two Castles of Torone”\nAbstract: Torone sits on a headland at the southern tip of the Sithonia peninsula in the Chalkidiki on the north coast of Greece. From the headland it is possible to see eastwards beyond Athos to the island of Lemnos\, to the west to Mount Olympos in Thessaly\, and to the south-west the most northerly of the Sporades islands is visible. In previous centuries visibility extended further so that the island of Tenedos and the coast of the Troad could also be seen. It is not surprising then that such a location would be chosen as the site of two independent castles\, one in the thirteenth and the other in the seventeenth centuries. The periods when the castles were built were turbulent and the north Aegean was being ravaged by war. In the thirteenth century the Crusaders were struggling with rump Byzantine centres of power for control of the strategically vital entrance to the Dardanelles while in the seventeenth century the Venetians and the Ottomans fought over the same issue. The lecture examines each of the castles through the lens of excavations carried out by the Greek Archaeological Society together with the Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens. The resultant material culture is examined in its broader societal contexts\, illuminating the complex historical tapestry of the region with features of everyday life in a garrison setting during times of war. \nPamela Armstrong is Senior Research Fellow in Byzantine Cultural History\, Campion Hall\, University of Oxford. \nHybrid lecture \n18:00 – 19:00 (UK time) / 20:00 – 21:00 (GR time) \nTo attend online via webinar\, please register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_NmNzHqpZR1GVw1Zb4CleTQ#/registration \nTo attend in-person in London\, please register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-two-castles-of-torone-tickets-1152415749529?aff=oddtdtcreator
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/pamela-armstrong-the-two-castles-of-torone/
LOCATION:Senate House (Room 349)\, London\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:BSA Friends' Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Athens:20250115T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Athens:20250115T193000
DTSTAMP:20260513T204604
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SUMMARY:Nikos Daskalothanasis\, "The first educational art institution in Greece: the history of the Athens School of Fine Arts"
DESCRIPTION:BSA Friends’ lecture\nProfessor Nikos Daskalothanasis (Athens School of Fine Arts)\, “Το πρώτο ίδρυμα καλλιτεχνικής εκπαίδευσης στην Ελλάδα: η ιστορία της Ανωτάτης Σχολής Καλών Τεχνών της Αθήνας”\n[The first educational art institution in Greece: the history of the Athens School of Fine Arts] \nPlease note: the lecture will take place in Greek \nAbstract: The aim of the lecture is to reconstruct the history of the first educational artistic institution of the modern Greek state. On the one hand\, it reflects aspects of the course of modern Greek art itself and on the other hand\, it is linked to issues concerning the educational and institutional involvement of artists throughout the history of modern Greece. This double axis shapes the perspective adopted by the lecture. Its chronological scope covers the period beginning with the placement of the first painter at the School of Arts to teach oil painting and ending in the first half of the 1970s\, after the fall of the Colonels’ regime\, when the School was now ready to attempt a more systematic dialogue with international artistic movements. \nBio: Nikos Daskalothanasis is a professor of modern and contemporary art history at the Department of Theory and History of Art\, Athens School of Fine Arts. He has published (in Greek)\, among others\, a book on the historical role of the artist (The artist as a historical subject: From the 19th to the 21st century\, Athens\, Agra Publications\, 2004) and a study on the early formation of art history in Europe (Art history\, the birth of a new discipline: from the 19th to the 20th century\, Athens\, Agra Publications\, 2013). In 2021 and 2023 his books Art History 1945-1975: From Modern to Contemporary Ant: Painting – Sculpture – Architecture (Athens\, futura Publications) and Art History. The Western World (Athens. Utopia Publications) were published. He is the editor of the Greek peer reviewed academic journal Istoria tis Technis (Art History) (Athens\, futura Publications\, 2013-) https://istoriatechnisinfo.wordpress.com/. His research interests include art historiography as well as art theory and art history from the mid-19th century to the present day. \nIn-person only \nTo attend in person in Athens\, please register here \nimage: Loizos Lantzas\, The Southern Portico of the Athens School of Fine Arts\, 1895\, Collection of ASFA. ©ASFA 
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/nikos-daskalothanasis-the-first-educational-art-institution-in-greece-the-history-of-the-athens-school-of-fine-arts/
LOCATION:British School at Athens\, Upper House\, 52 Souedias Street\, Athens\, Greece
CATEGORIES:BSA Friends' Lecture
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SUMMARY:Stephen Duckworth\, "Nineteenth century travellers in Crete - Edward Lear\, Pashley and Spratt"
DESCRIPTION:BSA Friends’ Lecture\nStephen Duckworth\, “Nineteenth century travellers in Crete – Edward Lear\, Pashley and Spratt”\nAbstract: Whilst Western travellers to the newly independent Greece in the 19th century after independence were often critical of the performance and effectiveness of the new government\, travel in Crete was very different. It was still under Ottoman rule after the independence movement failed\, and the population was mixed Christian and Moslem. In Pashley’s time\, the wounds of the war which had also taken place in Crete only a few years earlier were still fresh and there are numerous references in his book to some of the horrors about which he was told.\nThe interests of the three travellers varied widely. Both Pashley and Spratt wrote well and clearly. Pashley in particular had done voluminous prior reading of earlier sources. Spratt had detailed professional knowledge of the geography and geology of the island. Lear came with much less precise knowledge or objectives. His wide range of travels were individual projects to soak up the experience of the country and to produce numerous landscape drawings which would later be his stock-in-trade for producing finished watercolours and oil paintings for his clients.\nIn this paper I will describe the workings of the three men\, in chronological order. I do not attempt to follow their journeys in detail\, apart from a brief description. It seemed of more interest to describe their interests and the lengths they sometimes went to describe these.\n\n\nBio: Stephen Duckworth is an independent Edward Lear researcher specialising on Lear’s original landscape drawings. He first studied Lear’s 1864 travels in Crete around 2010 and published a paper on these in The Gennadius Library’s ‘The New Griffon’ (edition 12\, 2011). A website documents all the drawings made on this journey\, and has been followed by similar websites on Lear’s travels on Mount Athos (1856) and the Peloponnese (1849). Stephen’s wider researches have encompassed a calculation of all the dated landscape drawing Lear made in fifty years of travels https://edwardlearandhis9000drawings.weebly.com/\, and original research on his studio practice https://edwardlearandhisstudiopractice.weebly.com/\n\nOnline only\, 17:00 (UK) / 19:00 (Greece)  \nPlease register here to attend online via Zoom webinar: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_8DFVU4v-Qa-JcKdbMAQAQw \nimage: Edward Lear 1864\, Psiloritis (Mount Ida) from Phre\, before sunrise\, 4.30 a.m. – The Gennadius Library\, American School of Classical Studies at Athens
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/stephen-duckworth-nineteenth-century-travellers-in-crete-edward-lear-pashley-and-spratt/
LOCATION:Online only
CATEGORIES:BSA Friends' Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Athens:20240522T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Athens:20240522T193000
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SUMMARY:Christine Willis\, "50 years a Potter"
DESCRIPTION:BSA Friends Greece lecture\nChristine Willis\, “50 years a Potter”\nEvent description: My Story: In the past year\, I have been working with a group of Archaeologist and PhD students researching the different clays in the Anthemounta River Valley on the outskirts of Thessaloniki. Most of these archaeologist have been working on the site of Toumba located in the heart of the city. We have been using local clays to re-create some of the ancient pots and also firing them as they would have been fired during the Bronze Age. I’d like to share my personal story of how I became a potter and also some of the results of our collaboration with the BSA. \nBio: Christine is a third generation American born and raised in Thessaloniki Greece. Her grandfather came to Greece from Rochester\, New York in 1925 to start the YMCA in Thessaloniki. Her father\, Bruce Lansdale was the Director of the American Farm School in Thessaloniki from 1955 to 1990 when he retired. At the age of 16\, Christine went to the island of Siphnos with her classmates from high school and had her first contact with a local Potter\, Vasilis Loukianos\, in the small hamlet of Pharos. She fell in love with clay. She continued her studies at the University of California in Santa Cruz\, where she graduated with a degree in Ceramics. Upon graduating\, she bought a bicycle in London\, and three months later arrived in Greece. In 1981 she returned to the American Farm School\, where she built her own studio and began her teaching practice. Her first teaching job was in a Ceramics school run by EOMMEX in Thessaloniki. From a young age\, she visited almost all the museums in Greece. These museum pieces were an important source of inspiration for her work. Much of her work is fired in an outdoor kiln\, with sawdust and manure\, and then polished with a special wax. The results of this technique are unique and unpredictable. She also creates ceramic pieces engraved with motifs of the Byzantine period which are decorated using sgraffito and different colored slips. The way she handles design and color makes each piece unique. Since 2020\, Christine has been joined by her daughter\, Annie\, and her son\, Bruce\, and together they have created Willis Ceramics\, and have created many functional pieces for restaurants and hotels. Very recently\, she has joined forces with a group of archaeologists from Aristotle University of Thessaloníki and the British School in Athens\, and has been doing research on various local clays and creating copies of pieces from the Bronze Age found in Toumba\, Thessaloniki. Christine’s studio is located in the small village of Lakkia just 20 minutes from the center of Thessaloniki. \n6pm (GR) in-person only \nPlease register here for in-person attendance: https://forms.gle/iuiEZMtn7hC9Vpnz8 \nPlease register here for the online webinar: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_1sFuUfYkS7ShfdUbwRdWDw
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/christine-willis-50-years-a-potter/
LOCATION:British School at Athens\, Upper House\, 52 Souedias Street\, Athens\, Greece
CATEGORIES:BSA Friends' Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Athens:20240521T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Athens:20240521T203000
DTSTAMP:20260513T204604
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SUMMARY:Conor Trainor\, "What Happened Under Roman Rule? A View From Two Greek Cities"
DESCRIPTION:BSA Friends’ Lecture\nDr Conor Trainor (University of Warwick)\, “What Happened Under Roman Rule? A View From Two Greek Cities”\nAbstract: Traditionally\, the Roman period of Greek history has been interpreted as a period of economic decline\, or stagnation. In recent years\, new research\, especially from survey projects\, has begun to challenge this picture. This talk will present some results from two urban survey projects that appear to indicate some level of economic growth in Greece during the Roman period. Survey data is critical here because it provides us with a long term overview of an area. In this case\, two cities Sikyon and Knossos\, came under Roman command through very different circumstances\, at different time periods\, but present us with a very similar pattern of sectoral growth\, and begin to call into question the economic narrative that Roman rule led to economic decline or stagnation in Greece. \nBio: Dr Conor Trainor is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Warwick. His research focuses on ancient cities\, urban survey and pottery\, and has worked as a specialist on several dozen archaeological projects in Greece (and Canada) since 2000. Conor has a long involvement with the BSA\, having taught on the Undergraduate Summer School in 2011-2013\, and helped to set up and teach classes on Archaic-Late Roman pottery for the Knossos Pottery Course since 2013\, we well as holding a research bursary at the Fitch Lab. Conor is currently a co-director of the Knossos Legacy and Sustainable Archaeology Project at Knossos (along with Emilia Oddo [Tulane] and Jo Day [University College Dublin]). \n  \nHybrid lecture\, 17:00 (UK) / 19:00 (Greece)  \nPlease register here to attend online via Zoom webinar: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_4u6aqkj1QMm5kWakCltzow \nPlease register here to attend in-person in London: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/what-happened-under-roman-rule-a-view-from-two-greek-cities-tickets-888270901177 \nimage: Roman Imperial statue at Knossos\, photo by C. Trainor
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/conor-trainor-what-happened-under-roman-rule-a-view-from-two-greek-cities/
LOCATION:Senate House (Room 349)\, London\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:BSA Friends' Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Athens:20240409T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Athens:20240409T203000
DTSTAMP:20260513T204604
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SUMMARY:Flora Michelaki\, "The tholos cemeteries in south-central Crete and their social implications during Pre- and Protopalatial periods"
DESCRIPTION:BSA Friends’ Lecture\nDr Flora Michelaki (BSA)\, “The tholos cemeteries in south-central Crete and their social implications during Pre- and Protopalatial periods”\nAbstract: This lecture presents a synopsis of my doctoral thesis that aimed to examine the architectural and depositional complexity of the best documented tholos cemeteries in south-central Crete during the Prepalatial and Protopalatial periods. It also explored what they can tell us about broader social behaviour\, its variations between communities and transformations through time\, in this period spanning the development of the Minoan states. This research involves a commitment to the study of basic archaeological data\, both unpublished and published\, from a number of sites held in the Archaeological Museum and the Ephorate of Antiquities of Heraklion. The systematic documentation and analysis of the preserved material culture along with the surviving architectural remains allow the identification of patterns and local variations which contribute to a more nuanced understanding of these cemeteries and the societies that constructed and used them. \nBio: Dr Flora Michelaki holds a BSc in Archaeology from Cardiff University\, an MA in Archaeology & Prehistory from the University of Sheffield\, and a PhD in Archaeology from University College London. She has worked primarily in the Heraklion area of Crete\, undertaking roles such as supervising fieldwork\, studying\, documenting\, and writing-up material for excavations\, as well as cataloguing for the Archaeological Museum of Heraklion and the Ephorate of Hellenic Archaeological Service. Dr Michelaki has contributed to various archaeological research projects across Crete\, such as those on Moni Odigitria\, Trypiti\, Skinias\, Knossos Urban Landscape Project\, and the Knossos Gypsades Project\, collaborating with institutions like the British School at Athens\, the Institute for Aegean Prehistory\, and the Greek Archaeological Service. Between 2010 and 2015\, she served as a Curatorial Project Assistant\, overseeing the curation and documentation of holdings at the Stratigraphical Museum of Knossos. Additionally\, she has worked as a research assistant in the Classics Department at the University of Glasgow. Currently\, she is employed as the administrative assistant for the London office of the British School at Athens. \nOnline only\, 7pm (Greece) / 5pm (UK) \nPlease register here to attend online via Zoom webinar: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_VHcK1Ao7So-wLMVrYFINAA \nImage: Lebena Gerokampos Tholos Tomb II\, photo by F. Michelaki
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/flora-michelaki-the-tholos-cemeteries-in-south-central-crete/
LOCATION:Online only
CATEGORIES:BSA Friends' Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Athens:20240326T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Athens:20240326T193000
DTSTAMP:20260513T204604
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SUMMARY:Andrea Applebee\, "Sex\, Power\, and Poetry: Inspirations and Challenges from the Classics"
DESCRIPTION:Pudica by Cicek Tascioglu Beeby \nGreek Friends’ Event – poetry reading\nAndrea Applebee\, “Sex\, Power\, and Poetry: Inspirations and Challenges from the Classics”\nEvent Description: Let’s gather to speak to how these ways of relating shape each other. The language of the body and the language of the soul have long courted\, negotiated with\, and defied expressions of power\, inspired\, and witnessed. This event will combine poetry by Andrea Applebee with excerpts of classical poetry and drama\, as well as with contributions of other writers and thinkers on these urgent themes. This chorus will be followed by an open discussion\, which artists working with different media are invited to participate in. \nIn-person only\, 6pm (Greece) \nBSA Upper House\, Souedias 52\, Athens. \nNo registration required for in-person attendance.
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/andrea-applebee-sex-power-and-poetry-inspirations-and-challenges-from-the-classics/
LOCATION:British School at Athens\, 52 Souedias Street\, Athens\, Greece
CATEGORIES:BSA Friends' Lecture,Friends Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240305T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240305T180000
DTSTAMP:20260513T204604
CREATED:20240109T125159Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240227T095059Z
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SUMMARY:Sevi Triantaphyllou\, "Investigating the use of fire on human remains in the prehistoric Aegean"
DESCRIPTION:BSA Supporter Exclusive Lecture\nDr Sevi Triantaphyllou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)\, “Investigating the use of fire on human remains in the prehistoric Aegean”\nAbstract: Exposure of the body to fire causes various physical and chemical alterations which involve shrinkage\, breakage\, warping\, complete deformation as well as removal of the organic component and the modification of the inorganic crystal component of the bones. Varying degrees of heat-induced effects predominate on human remains due to fire set up deliberately in direct contact to the human body and these are interpreted as the result of an elaborate and time-consuming procedure widely known as cremation. Similar effects are also evident when burning is applied on funerary contexts as an act of fumigation\, practical cleansing of the human bones\, or a symbolic practice. Regarding ancient Greece\, burning of the human body has been identified almost exclusively with the practice of cremation which until a few years ago the latter was considered to represent a novel mode of disposal having occurred soon after the collapse of the Mycenaean palaces in the 13 th c. BC.\nCurrent presentation aims to trace the evidence of firing the human remains throughout the prehistoric Aegean and reconsider the old-standing view of the ‘sudden’ emergence of the practice and its link with exogenous factors. Instead\, particular emphasis will be given on the occurrence of cremation as early as in the Mesolithic and the Early Neolithic as well as on the variable intensity of exposure of the human remains in firing conditions throughout the Aegean prehistory. Methodological tools which have been applied involve: 1) published excavation data\, 2) macroscopic as well as isotopic heat-induced alterations derived from selected sites with cremated remains from different regions of the Aegean\, and 3) experimental research by simulating firing conditions of the past. The holistic approach and the interdisciplinary character of the research will bring together a great range of information and data and will shed new light on the use and the technology of cremation. \nBio: Sevi Triantaphyllou obtained her first degree in Archaeology (1990) and Mphil in Prehistoric Archaeology (1992) at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki\, Greece. She then completed her MSc in Osteology\, Paleaopathology and Funerary Archaeology (1993) and PhD (2000) at the University of Sheffield\, UK. She has a rich experience in excavating\, documenting and studying skeletal material in the Greek mainland\, Peloponnese\, Crete and the Cyclades. In 2011 she was appointed as Lecturer in Prehistoric Archaeology and Osteoarchaeology at the School of History and Archaeology\, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki promoted to Assistant Professor in 2014 and to Associate Professor in 2020. Since 2020 she is directing the University Thessaloniki Toumba excavation and she is also principal collaborator in the excavation\, documentation and publication of the cemeteries at Kephala Petras in eastern Crete and Koumasa in central Crete. Currently she is the principal investigator of the research program TEFRA which is investigating the technology and the bioanthropology of the use of fire on human remains in the prehistoric Aegean and is funded by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (H.F.R.I.). \nOnline only\, 7pm (Greece) / 5pm (UK) \nThis is an exclusive event for BSA Supporters only. If you would like to join us\, please consider signing up as a Supporter for as little as £50 per year (£20 for students) if you have not already done so. You can find out more\, and sign up\, here. Supporters in the Friends\, Director’s Circle\, Lamb Circle and Pendlebury Circle will automatically receive the webinar registration link via email the day before the lecture. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/sevi-triantaphyllou-investigating-the-use-of-fire-on-human-remains-in-the-prehistoric-aegean/
LOCATION:Online only
CATEGORIES:BSA Friends' Lecture
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/Athens:20240123T190000
DTSTAMP:20260513T204604
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SUMMARY:Rebecca Sweetman\, "Women and archaeology at the BSA: the early years"
DESCRIPTION:Lilian Chandler\, Winifred Lamb\, and Mary Herford\, 1921\, at the BSA (BSA Archive) \nFriends of the BSA in Greece lecture series\nProfessor Rebecca Sweetman (BSA)\, “Women and archaeology at the BSA: the early years”\nA short history of women at the BSA in the early 20th century: challenges and successes. \nIn-person only\, 6pm (Greece) \nBSA Upper House \nNo registration required for in-person attendance.
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/rebecca-sweetman-women-and-archaeology-at-the-bsa-the-early-years/
LOCATION:British School at Athens\, Upper House\, 52 Souedias Street\, Athens\, Greece
CATEGORIES:BSA Friends' Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240116T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240116T183000
DTSTAMP:20260513T204604
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SUMMARY:John Bennet\, "Never the twain shall meet: reflections on text and image in Minoan Crete"
DESCRIPTION:Image: composite of the Throne Room at Knossos (wikipedia) and the speaker’s photo of a Knossos tablet (KN Lc(1) 525) \nBSA Friends’ Lecture\nProf John Bennet (University of Sheffield)\, “Never the twain shall meet: reflections on text and image in Minoan Crete”\nAbstract: The world of Neopalatial Crete was visually rich; it was also a literate world. Yet these two categories\, as we define them\, never combine in the same field. In this talk\, I explore this apparent anomaly and suggest how we might explain it. Any interpretation needs to take account of the specific historical context and so might challenge our modern conceptions of the role of writing and its relation to visual imagery. \nBio: John Bennet is Professor of Aegean Archaeology at the University of Sheffield.  After completing his PhD at Cambridge on the Administrative Organisation of Late Minoan II – III Crete based on archaeological and textual evidence\, he taught at the Universities of Wisconsin-Madison in the USA (1986-98) and Oxford (1998-2004)\, before taking up his current Chair.  From 2015 to 2022 he was Director of the British School at Athens. \nJohn’s fundamental research interest lies in the combination of material and textual data in understanding the past\, which he has pursued in relation to Minoan Crete\, the Late Bronze Age Greek mainland\, as well as Kythera in the Venetian\, Ottoman and British periods and Venetian-Ottoman Messenia.  He has published on Late Bronze Age Crete and mainland Greece\, on Linear B\, and on historical Greece\, and has participated in or directed fieldwork on Crete (Knossos; Phaistos region; Hania region)\, in mainland Greece (BA Pylos region)\, and on the islands (Keos; Kythera). \n  \nHybrid lecture\, 17:00 (UK) / 19:00 (Greece)  \nPlease register here to attend in-person in London (Room G35\, Senate House) or online via Zoom webinar.
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/john-bennet-never-the-twain-shall-meet-reflections-on-text-and-image-in-minoan-crete/
LOCATION:Room G37 Senate House\, Malet Street\, London\, WC1E 7HU\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:BSA Friends' Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231121T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231121T170000
DTSTAMP:20260513T204604
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SUMMARY:Amy Bogaard\, "Archaeology and ‘eco-cultural’ heritage: case studies from Greece and beyond"
DESCRIPTION:View towards Dispilio\, Lake Orestias (photo: Amy Bogaard) \nFriends’ Hybrid Lecture\nProf. Amy Bogaard (University of Oxford)\, “Archaeology and ‘eco-cultural’ heritage: case studies from Greece and beyond”\nAbstract: The climate and biodiversity crises are prompting new conversations about the archive of human experience we can draw upon to address them. Archaeology in Greece offers a deep time perspective on key topics such as land use\, together with related research on the ecological and social contingencies that shape farming regimes and culinary practices in the past and present. In this talk I draw upon case studies from Greece and other parts of Europe to illustrate archaeology’s rich potential and contributions in a broader context of ‘eco-cultural’ heritage as an emerging cross-disciplinary field. \nBio: Prof. Amy Bogaard is the Professor of European Archaeology in the School of Archaeology\, University of Oxford. Her research focus is early farming practice and its social and ecological implications. She is also interested in how insights about food and farming from the deep past can inform current discussion of future food security in the context of the climate emergency and biodiversity crisis. \nUPDATE 17/11/23: due to staff sickness\, this lecture will no longer take place in-person\, and will be ONLINE ONLY. \nOnline only lecture\, 17:00 (UK) / 19:00 (Greece)  \nRegister here to attend ONLINE via Zoom webinar.
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/friends-amy-bogaard-archaeology-and-eco-cultural-heritage/
LOCATION:Online only
CATEGORIES:BSA Friends' Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Athens:20231116T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Athens:20231116T200000
DTSTAMP:20260513T204604
CREATED:20230915T143422Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231114T110255Z
UID:20743-1700157600-1700164800@www.bsa.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Samuel Holzman\, "Archaeological drawing in (and out of) perspective"
DESCRIPTION:  \n \nAxonometric drawing showing the construction of a Hellenistic stoa (drawing by Samuel Holzman) \nFriends of the BSA in Greece lecture series.\nDr Samuel Holzman (Princeton University)\, “Archaeological drawing in (and out of) perspective”\nArchaeologists draw not just to show their discoveries to others. Archaeological drawing is a visual language\, one for recording evidence and pondering ideas that often need more than words to express. For the Thursday afternoon Friends of the BSA talk\, I will share some personal experiences from drawing for archaeology\, as well as a brief history of the competition within archaeological drawing between two rival traditions: perspective drawing and non-perspective axonometric drawing. What do different graphic viewpoints say about archaeologists? Does (non-)perspective change our perception of the past? \nIn-person only\, 6pm (Greece) \nBSA Upper House\, 52 Souedias\, Athens \nPlease register to attend IN PERSON in Athens here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bsa-greek-friends-lecture-samuel-holzman-tickets-758712719167?aff=oddtdtcreator \n[due to new limits on Eventbrite we are limited to 25 tickets initially – if the event appears to be sold out please check back again here as we will update the link] \n 
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/friends-sam-holzman/
LOCATION:British School at Athens\, Upper House\, 52 Souedias Street\, Athens\, Greece
CATEGORIES:BSA Friends' Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Athens:20231026T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Athens:20231026T200000
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SUMMARY:Isabella Zampetaki\, "How Far Would You Go for Real Food?"
DESCRIPTION:  \n \nPhoto: Giorgos Anastasakis / © Region of Crete \nFriends of the BSA in Greece lecture series\nIsabella Zampetaki\, “How Far Would You Go for Real Food?”\n  \nIsabella has traveled Crete’s mountains and plains in search of unique culinary experiences. She’s visited ancient Tsounati olive groves where the world’s first high phenolic olive oil to be globally certified as a food supplement is being produced. She’s watched men whip wild rock-rose bushes as they collect labdanum\, and she’s discovered its healing secrets. She spent a night in a cave in the Samaria Gorge to witness a unique honey harvest and she has sat in a shepherd’s hut in the White Mountains all through the long hours of stirring it takes to make graviera cheese. In the course of these culinary journeys\, she has made some unexpected discoveries and would love to share some of her most important finds\, inviting you to redefine the way you look at food. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nIn-person only\, 6pm (Greece) \nPlease register to attend IN PERSON in Athens here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bsa-greek-friends-event-isabella-zampetaki-tickets-726694351367?aff=oddtdtcreator \nA lecture organised by the Friends of the BSA in Greece \n 
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/isabella-zampetaki-how-far-would-you-go-for-real-food/
LOCATION:British School at Athens\, Upper House\, 52 Souedias Street\, Athens\, Greece
CATEGORIES:BSA Friends' Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20231024T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20231024T183000
DTSTAMP:20260513T204604
CREATED:20230504T105533Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231013T084204Z
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SUMMARY:Kostis Christakis\, "A land called Crete: European cartographers and the perception of the Cretan landscape\, 16th – 17th c. AD"
DESCRIPTION:Friends’ Lecture series\nDr Kostis Christakis (BSA Knossos Curator)\, “A land called Crete: European cartographers and the perception of the Cretan landscape\, 16th – 17th c. AD“\n  \nThis is an exclusive event for BSA Supporters only. If you would like to join us\, please consider signing up as a Supporter for as little as £50 (£20 for students) if you have not already done so. You can find out more\, and sign up\, here.\n  \nAbstract: The extent of the cartographic depiction of Crete during the Renaissance and the Enlightenment is undoubtedly unique. No other area of Greece\, including Cyprus\, has been represented in such a vast array of printed maps and topographical plans. This presentation discusses how cartographers depicted the Cretan landscape\, both natural and anthropogenic\, and highlights the evidence that maps can provide on the complex and changeable political\, economic and ideological aspects of Cretan society in the Late Venetian period. \nBio: Dr Kostis S. Christakis is the Curator at the Knossos Research Centre of the British School at Athens and is a former lecturer at the University of Crete. His publications include four monographs and various articles\, concerning topics related to the economic and political organization of Bronze Age Crete\, household archaeology\, subsistence economy and pottery. He co-directs the excavation and publication project at Galatas Pediados and he is responsible\, among others projects\, for the final publication of Bronze Age Complexes at the sanctuary of Hermes and Aphrodite at Syme Viannou (stratigraphy and pottery) and of the storerooms of the palace at Knossos. \nOnline only\, 5pm (UK) / 7pm (Greece)
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/friends-kostis-christakis-a-land-called-crete/
CATEGORIES:BSA Friends' Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230926T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230926T170000
DTSTAMP:20260513T204604
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LAST-MODIFIED:20230911T122940Z
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SUMMARY:Matthew Haysom\, "Men\, Women and Others in Minoan Iconography"
DESCRIPTION:BSA Friends’ Hybrid lecture\nDr Matthew Haysom\, “Men\, Women and Others in Minoan Iconography”\nAbstract: Throughout the history of Minoan studies scholars have felt that there was something distinctive about the way that Minoans depicted people. Arthur Evans and the first generation of scholars were struck by what seemed to them the dominant position of women in iconography. For some\, this reflected a religious system dominated by one or more female divinities. For others\, this was evidence of a matriarchal society. Historians of ideas\, like Cynthia Eller\, have done much to illuminate the wider context of this early scholarship. They situate Evans and his contemporaries in an intellectual tradition concerning a matriarchal prehistory that has deep roots in the European imagination. But\, at the same time\, there remains a general agreement amongst leading Cretan archaeologists that women really do dominate Minoan iconography. The aim of this lecture is to present the evidence as it is now available to us. What categories of people can we discern in the iconography? How frequently are different categories represented? In what contexts? What are they associated with? Do these patterns reveal anything about Minoan society and its view of the world? And\, how do they compare to patterns in the iconography of contemporary nearby societies? \nBio: Dr Matthew Haysom is Lecturer in Ancient History and Archaeology at the University of Newcastle. Throughout his career he has had a close connection with the BSA and has lived for many years in Greece. He has held the Macmillan-Rodewald Studentship\, the Leventis Fellowship and is a former Curator at Knossos. His work has focussed on the archaeology of religion of the Aegean during the Bronze and Iron Age. He has a broader interest in the history of ancient religions in the eastern Mediterranean. \n  \nHybrid lecture\, 5pm (UK) / 7pm (Greece) \nPlease register here to participate online via Zoom: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_bl6G4CmwQF-N5b1O4Erf0w \nPlease register here to attend in-person in London (Room G35\, Senate House): https://www.eventbrite.com/e/men-women-and-others-in-minoan-iconography-tickets-714482224567 \n  \nPlease do consider making a donation. \nThe Friends of the BSA support the British School at Athens\, which is a charity. The Friends organise regular lectures – like this one – and occasional trips to Greece. We also raise funds to support projects of the BSA and recently covered the costs of the final phase of the ‘Digital Thessaly’ project\, making the archives of Alan Wace available to the wider public. \nYou can help us by making a donation here when you attend a lecture (we suggest £10 for Supporters\, £15 otherwise): https://www.bsa.ac.uk/donate/. Please quote ‘Friends’ in the additional comments field. \nCollectively\, all these gifts make a huge difference.
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/friends-matthew-haysom-men-women-others-in-minoan-iconography/
LOCATION:Room 264 Senate House\, London\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:BSA Friends' Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Athens:20221025T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Athens:20221025T190000
DTSTAMP:20260513T204604
CREATED:20220918T161315Z
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SUMMARY:Paul Cartledge\, “Sparta: how odd?”
DESCRIPTION:BSA Friends’ Lecture (online only) \nProfessor Paul Cartledge (University of Cambridge)\, “Sparta: how odd?” \nAbstract: For most non-Spartan ancient Greeks the community and polity of Sparta seemed decidedly odd: very military\, exceptionally if not excessively pious\, unusually liberal towards its women citizens\, and unique in its compulsory educational cycle that included institutionalised homosexuality/pederasty. Against them a modern trend of scholarship contends that Sparta was not all that odd\, really. This lecture will side\, decidedly and decisively\, with the majority of non-Spartan ancient Greeks. \nWebinar registration: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_CoAcSkxcSR-L7dkKO6a_Bw  \nIt is customary to ask for a small donation (we suggest £10 for existing Supporters\, £15 otherwise) at events in our Friends’ Lecture Series. \nYou can donate to the BSA Friends’ Fund here. Please quote “Friends” in the additional comments field. \nThis lecture will not be recorded. \nTuesday 25 October 2022\, 5pm (UK) / 7pm (Greece)
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/paul-cartledge-sparta-how-odd/
CATEGORIES:BSA Friends' Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Athens:20221011T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Athens:20221011T190000
DTSTAMP:20260513T204604
CREATED:20220918T161051Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221005T075521Z
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SUMMARY:Robert Parker\, "Helen of Sparta (sic)"
DESCRIPTION:Professor Robert Parker (University of Oxford)\, “Helen of Sparta (sic)” \nBSA Friends’ Lecture (online only) \n\nWebinar registration: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_PErVbI_fQXSXc-CjE2jaYg\n\nTuesday 11 October 2022\, 5pm (UK) / 7pm (Greece)
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/robert-parker-helen-of-sparta-sic/
CATEGORIES:BSA Friends' Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Athens:20210504T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Athens:20210504T190000
DTSTAMP:20260513T204604
CREATED:20210422T102436Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210426T111011Z
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SUMMARY:Judith Herrin\, "Elements of Greek in Ravenna's culture: sixth to eighth centuries"
DESCRIPTION:Image: Gold cross in San Vitale\, Ravenna. Source: Judith Herrin \n  \n\n\nAbstract: This talk will explore the influence of Greek and Greek culture in Ravenna\, where Latin was the language of everyday life in the sixth-eighth centuries\, while Gothic and Greek left deep marks. The reconquest of the city by imperial troops in 540 brought a major shift to direct rule from Constantinople\, where Latin was still the dominant medium. But by the seventh century communication between the two cities was all in Greek with interesting influences on Ravenna’s culture. \n\n\n\n\nThis event is free to attend. However\, it is customary to ask for a small donation (we suggest £8.50 for existing Supporters\, £10.50 otherwise) at events in our Friends’ Lecture Series. You can donate to the BSA Friends’ Fund here (please quote “Friends” in the comments box). All proceeds will go towards supporting the BSA’s world-class research facilities\, particularly the Library and the Fitch Laboratory. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease register here to participate: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_qVjBr3JgR2azF39ZknDeaQ \n\n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday 4 May 2021\, 5pm UK / 7pm Greece \n 
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/judith-herrin-elements-of-greek-in-ravennas-culture-sixth-to-eighth-centuries/
LOCATION:Virtual Lecture
CATEGORIES:BSA Friends' Lecture
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201208
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201209
DTSTAMP:20260513T204604
CREATED:20201126T102645Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201207T135048Z
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SUMMARY:Robert Parker\, "New Discoveries and New Problems in Greek Religion"
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: There are always ‘New Discoveries and New Problems’ in Greek Religion\, but the two discoveries to be presented in this lecture are exceptional. In 2013 a large new cache was published of the lead tablets on which enquirers at Zeus’ oracle at Dodona wrote their questions. They extend our knowledge of the very down-to-earth problems that consultants took to the oracle\, and they also reveal for the first time one of the ways in which the oracle answered those questions. Secondly\, a large stele of the 2nd c. BCE found dumped at a roadside near Marmarini in Thessaly and first published in 2015 contains extensive regulations for the cult of a goddess who is not named in what survives but whose name (still unknown) would almost certainly be a surprise\, because two of her festivals\, which are named\, are Nisanaia and Eloulaia\, so derived from month names not of the Greek but of the ‘standard Mesopotamian’ calendar. And male initiates in her cult had to shave their heads….If dated to the 2nd c CE this would still be a remarkable find: in the 2nd c BCE it is a bombshell. \nThis event is free to attend. However\, it is customary to ask for a small donation (we suggest £8.50 for Supporters\, £10.50 otherwise) at events in our Friends’ Lecture Series. You can make this donation here to help the BSA weather the current pandemic and ensure it continues to make available its world-class resources to facilitate\, promote and conduct research – as we have for over 130 years. All proceeds for this event will go to the BSA Friends’ Fund\, please quote ‘Friends’ Lecture’ in the ‘Additional Comments’ box. \nPlease click here to register: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_DHR9gqHLQRK_3byepuwkqQ \n\n\nTuesday 8 December at 5pm (UK) / 7pm (Greece).
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/robert-parker-new-discoveries-and-new-problems-in-greek-religion/
LOCATION:Virtual Lecture
CATEGORIES:BSA Friends' Lecture
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