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SUMMARY:James Hua\, "Population Expulsions and Refugee Crises in the Archaic-Hellenistic Greek world: ubiquity\, strategies\, and exiles’ agency"
DESCRIPTION:Upper House Seminar\nJames Hua (BSA Macmillan-Rodewald Student/ University of Oxford)\, “Population Expulsions and Refugee Crises in the Archaic-Hellenistic Greek world: ubiquity\, strategies\, and exiles’ agency”\nAbstract: Population expulsions and the refugee crises which followed were a remarkably frequent phenomenon in the ancient Greek world. This talk outlines the phenomenon and argues for the deep impact of mass refugees on the politics\, history\, and society of the Greek-speaking Mediterranean between c.650-315 BCE. Problematic though the ancient literary-historical sources on this topic are\, they are supplemented by a wide range of more ‘emic’ evidence produced by the refugees themselves\, which give us fascinating insights into their self-identities\, experiences\, and networks during and after exile. After detailing the synoptic view of all cases of mass exile and their various forms across regions\, the talk will turn to the evidence produced by or involving uprooted populations and reconstruct their identities and political networks. While many exiles are lost to these community-destroying events\, others survive and forge a complex set of ties and networks with other communities\, including through a new type of discourse. Using epigraphic and numismatic evidence especially from Boiotia\, Attica\, and Makedonia\, this talk traces the significant financial benefits and political networks which these exiles gained\, and reappraises the resistance and agency they exhibited in a world defined by exile – and one which would loom larger in the Hellenistic world. \nBio: James is the current Macmillan-Rodewald Postdoctoral Student at the BSA. He completed his BA in Classics in Durham\, and MPhil and DPhil in Ancient Greek History at Oxford. His thesis focused on population expulsions and refugee crises in the Archaic-Classical Greek world\, and his project at the BSA extends his focus diachronically into the Hellenistic world\, investigating the developments\, continuities\, and a broader outlook on contemporary mobility. James also works extensively with Greek epigraphy\, acting as an Assistant Editor for SEG\, with numismatics through various papers and the Oxford University Numismatics Society\, and participates in various archaeological projects in Greece. He is also working on turning his thesis into a monograph\, on part of which he will be presenting tonight. Finally\, James also strongly believes in the importance of drawing on more recent diachronic refugee crises into his study\, especially between Greece and Turkiye in 1922 onwards and more contemporary ones\, and he thinks frequently with modern parallels and refugee studies. \nHybrid lecture \nPlease note: this event will not be recorded \nTo attend in person in Athens\, please register here \nTo attend online via webinar\, please register here \nimages: Expulsion of a civilian population (women\, children\, elderly) in Babylonia by Tiglath-pileser III (728 BCE\, Nimrud). / Caryatids\, Erectheion\, Athens (421-406 BCE).
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/james-hua-population-expulsions-and-refugee-crises-in-the-archaic-hellenistic-greek-world-ubiquity-strategies-and-exiles-agency/
LOCATION:British School at Athens\, Upper House\, 52 Souedias Street\, Athens\, Greece
CATEGORIES:Upper House Seminar
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SUMMARY:Nikki Vellidis\, "Recognising ‘Hands’ of Mosaicists through Depictions of Women in the Mosaics of Imperial Era Greece"
DESCRIPTION:Mosaic pavement showing the Horae from a villa in Patras. 2nd – 3rd c. CE. Archaeological Museum of Patras \n  \nUpper House Seminar\nDr Nikki Vellidis (BSA Cary Student)\, “Recognising ‘Hands’ of Mosaicists through Depictions of Women in the Mosaics of Imperial Era Greece”\nAbstract: Information about the process of constructing mosaic pavements—the people\, the timing\, the cost—is largely absent from the archaeological record. The occasional signature provides some names and clues about the individuals behind the pavement\, but these rarely include more than a single name and are surely not representative of all the labour involved in creating a mosaic. As such\, this paper presents a new methodology for tracking the ‘hands’ of mosaicists by examining the design of foreheads on female figures in the mosaic pavements of Imperial Era Greece. Through a close study of mosaics from Kissamos (Crete)\, Chania (Crete)\, and Patras\, this research begins the reconstruction of the network of craftspeople responsible for the decoration of domestic and public spaces in Imperial Era Greece. \nBio: Nikki Vellidis is the current Cary Student at the British School at Athens\, where her research focuses on developing a methodology to track the ‘hands’ of individual mosaicists within the pavements of Imperial Era Greece. She received her PhD in Classical Archaeology from the University of Oxford (2025) as an Onassis Foundation scholar. Her doctoral research combined traditional art historical analysis with computational modelling to examine how domestic architectural spaces influenced mosaic design. She also holds an MA in Classical Studies from Columbia University. Alongside her research\, she has been a part of field research projects in Crete\, Astypalaia\, and Thessaly and is currently preparing her first monograph for publication. \n  \nHybrid lecture \nPlease note: this event will not be recorded \nTo attend in person in Athens\, please register here \nTo attend online via webinar\, please register here
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/nikki-vellidis-reading-myth-on-the-mosaics-of-imperial-era-greece/
LOCATION:British School at Athens\, Upper House\, 52 Souedias Street\, Athens\, Greece
CATEGORIES:Upper House Seminar
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SUMMARY:Peter Pavúk\, "Central Greece at the dawn of the Mycenaean Age and the role of contacts to the North"
DESCRIPTION:View of the Staphylos peninsula\, Skopelos\, credit: ASkoS Project \nUpper House Seminar\nProfessor Peter Pavúk (Charles University)\, “Central Greece at the dawn of the Mycenaean Age and the role of contacts to the North”\nAbstract: The transition from the Middle to the Late Bronze Age in the Argolid is commonly defined by the Shaft Graves of Mycenae\, the emergence of Mycenaean decorated pottery\, soon followed by the rise of tholos and rock-cut chamber tombs. Central Greece followed a contrasting trajectory: Middle Helladic practices persisted\, built chamber tombs remained in use\, burnished and matt-painted wares continued\, and Mycenaean traits appeared only gradually. This changes almost suddenly in LH IIIA2\, when the full Mycenaean repertoire arrives with remarkable speed.\nThis lecture examines the distinct developmental pathways of early LBA Central Greece\, focusing primarily on pottery\, alongside settlement and funerary evidence. It will consider inland–coastal differences and revisit northward connections\, a topic rather neglected in recent scholarship. New evidence from Staphylos (Skopelos) and the first results of the ASkoS project will be presented.\nRather than resolving the complexities of Mycenaeanisation\, the aim is to highlight the key issues that should shape future narratives of Central Greece\, including parallels with the East Aegean. \nBio: Peter Pavúk is a Full Professor at the Institute of Classical Archaeology\, Charles University\, Prague. He studied prehistoric\, medieval\, and classical archaeology at Charles University before completing his PhD magna cum laude at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen. He subsequently held an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship at the University of Heidelberg and earned his habilitation at Comenius University in Bratislava. From 2013 to 2022\, he served as Director of the Institute of Classical Archaeology at Charles University.\nProfessor Pavúk specialises in the archaeology of the Aegean and Anatolian Bronze Age\, with further interests in the Balkans and Central Europe. His research centres on ceramic studies\, chronological questions\, and patterns of cultural interaction across wider regional networks. He has participated in projects at Troy\, on Samothrace\, at Pergamon\, as well as more recently at Kaymakçı and Sardis in western Turkey and has led several major grant-funded projects.\nCurrently\, he is a co-director of the ASkoS project\, Ancient Skopelos Survey\, a synergasia with the Ephorate of Antiquities of Magnesia of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and the Universities of Warsaw\, the Charles University\, and Heidelberg\, under the auspices and research permit of the Polish Archaeological Institute at Athens (PAIA). \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/peter-pavuk-central-greece-at-the-dawn-of-the-mycenaean-age-and-the-role-of-contacts-to-the-north/
LOCATION:British School at Athens\, Upper House\, 52 Souedias Street\, Athens\, Greece
CATEGORIES:Upper House Seminar
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SUMMARY:Ben Cassell\, "The Aiora and Thesmophoria: Cognitve\, embodied and psychological approaches"
DESCRIPTION:Votive relief with Pluto\, Persephone and Demeter (4th-3rd cent. B.C.) in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens on 22 July 2018\, courtesy of B. Cassell \nUpper House Seminar\nBen Cassell (BSA/King’s College London)\, “The Aiora and Thesmophoria: Cognitve\, embodied and psychological approaches”\nAbstract: Recent years have seen an increasing application of models derived from the cognitive sciences to the study of ancient religious experience. In particular\, specific models are being drawn from the theoretically pluralist field of the Cognitive Science of Religion (CSR) in order to study of the affective quality of Greek ritual practice from varying perspectives. This paper provides an introduction to this rapidly evolving movement in Classics and Classical Archaeology\, touching on the major works\, findings and potential new directions that have defined it so far. This will include an examination of the cognitive and embodied impact of two rites: the Thesmophoria and the Aiora. These case studies will illustrate how in applying models derived from the CSR\, we are able to provide new insight into how ritual experience would impact its participants\, while also moving our understanding of these practices beyond the structuralist-symbolist approaches that have dominated the study of Greek Religion until comparatively recently. \nBio: Ben Cassell is completing his PhD with the Department of Classics\, King’s College London and the current R.B. McConnell student with the British School at Athens. His research is focused on the intersection of lived experience and memory in Greek religious practice\, including participation in the Interdepartmental Laboratory Memory and Society (University of Trento). The author of various publications\, Ben is the editor of two special volumes of the Journal of Cognitive Historiography\, the New Perspectives on Ancient Greek Religion book series with Edinburgh University press and an upcoming edition relating to Beautification and Defilement in Greece and Rome. The winner of the G. Grote prize in Ancient History (2024)\, Ben is currently a serving Council Member with the Hellenic Society. \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/ben-cassell-the-aiora-and-thesmophoria-cognitve-embodied-and-psychological-approaches/
LOCATION:British School at Athens\, Upper House\, 52 Souedias Street\, Athens\, Greece
CATEGORIES:Upper House Seminar
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SUMMARY:Alessandra Ricci\, “How did it begin?: The Institutionalization of Byzantine Studies in Turkey and Sir Steven Runciman”
DESCRIPTION:Upper House Seminar\nDr Alessandra Ricci (Koç University)\, “How did it begin?: The Institutionalization of Byzantine Studies in Turkey and Sir Steven Runciman”\nAbstract: It was probably sometime in 1941 or early 1942 when İzmet İnönü\, the second president of the Turkish Republic\, summoned the minister of national education\, Hasan Ali Yücel who confirmed – as İnönü had suspected – that Byzantine topics were not taught at the university level in the young Turkish Republic. Yücel was asked to immediately remedy the situation and reached Michael Grant\, who had just arrived in\, at the time\, neutral Turkey to serve as the first British Council representative. James Cochran Stevenson Runciman was recommended and on February 24\, 1942\, Runciman who had just settled Jerusalem left by train towards his new destination: Istanbul University. By 1945\, Runciman had moved to Athens\, where he became a representative of the British Council.\nThis presentation reflects on the agency of the first foreign Byzantinist at a Turkish university\, on the politics of reciprocal cultural diplomacy at a time of complicated geopolitical relations between Turkey and the United Kingdom; of research interests in Istanbul\, the Black Sea and Anatolia which led to a further development of Byzantine studies in Turkey and in several universities in the United Kingdom and Scotland thanks to a beneficial mechanism of reciprocal exchanges. \nBio: Alessandra Ricci is an Associate Professor of Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology at Koç University in Istanbul. An “academic migrant” from Rome to Istanbul via the United States with research interests on the city of Constantinople\, its Asiatic and European hinterlands in the Late Antique and Byzantine periods. As a field archaeologist\, she has excavated at the monastery of Satyros/Anatellon built by patriarch Ignatios (867-877) in Istanbul; coordinated public archaeology activities together with a site management plan and a conservation program. She works and publishes on the diachronicity of buildings and their relationship with urban and landscape contexts; on the material culture when associated with archaeological areas and architecture. Current projects include documentation of Late Antique physical remains of domestic spaces in Constantinople and its surroundings and the historiography of Byzantine studies in Turkey. \nimage: Sir Steven Runciman sits at the centre of the Istanbul University’ Byzantine art history class group photograph\, ca. 1942/1943. Source: Durak K. ed.\, The Odyssey of Byzantine Studies in Turkey/ Türkiye’de Bizans Çalışmalarının Serüveni(Istanbul 2023) 118\, fig.5. With Permission. \n  \nHybrid event \nTo attend in person in Athens\, please register HERE \nTo attend online via Zoom webinar\, please register HERE
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/alessandra-ricci-how-did-it-begin-the-institutionalization-of-byzantine-studies-in-turkey-and-sir-steven-runciman/
LOCATION:British School at Athens\, Upper House\, 52 Souedias Street\, Athens\, Greece
CATEGORIES:Upper House Seminar
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SUMMARY:Roderick Bailey\, "Anglo-American attitudes to the protection of Jewish cultural heritage in Thessaloniki\, 1943-46"
DESCRIPTION:image: German gun-emplacement at Thessaloniki with its communication trench lined with Jewish gravestones. Photographed by the British Army in November 1944. Author’s archive. \nUpper House Seminar\nDr Roderick Bailey (University of Oxford)\, “Anglo-American attitudes to the protection of Jewish cultural heritage in Thessaloniki\, 1943-46”\nAbstract: During the Second World War\, more than four-fifths of Greece’s Jewish population\, including ninety-five per cent of Thessaloniki’s 50\,000 Jews\, were murdered in Nazi concentration camps. That war also saw some of the first international efforts to evaluate and classify the importance of cultural heritage with a view to its preservation. Today\, concepts of what constitutes heritage and cultural assets are broader than those formulated in the 1940s; so are principles upon which cultural resources should be conserved and the historical and ethical criteria by which they are defined. Drawing on contemporaneous records\, this lecture shows how Thessaloniki’s rich Jewish culture fell outside official Anglo-American assessments of which forms of history and heritage in wartime Greece should be prioritised for protection. In this way\, it seeks to underline the implications of considering culture and the past as something to be measured and ranked\, and how perceptions of their value depend on the observer. \nBio: Dr Roderick Bailey\, a former early career fellow at the BSA\, is a historian at the University of Oxford where he specialises in the study of modern war and conflict. His current research interests lie primarily in healthcare and issues around cultural heritage protection in times of conflict and crisis. He also has an established record in the study of Anglo-American interventions in southeast Europe during the Second World War (his publications include studies of Allied involvement with guerrilla and resistance movements in Fascist Italy and Axis-occupied Albania). Research for a current project\, a study of Anglo-American interest in the protection of cultural heritage in mid-C20th Greece\, is generously supported by an International Research Grant from Oxford University’s John Fell Fund (an award supporting research in the BSA Archive). \n  \nHybrid event \nTo attend in-person in Athens\, please register here \nTo attend online via webinar\, please register here
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/roderick-bailey-anglo-american-attitudes-to-the-protection-of-jewish-cultural-heritage-in-thessaloniki-1943-46/
LOCATION:British School at Athens\, Upper House\, 52 Souedias Street\, Athens\, Greece
CATEGORIES:Upper House Seminar
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SUMMARY:Laura Nastasi\, "Language Set in Stone: Graeco-Latin Bilingualism and Writing Culture in Roman Corinth"
DESCRIPTION:image: Funerary inscription for Domitia Saturnina Apollonis (Corinth 8.1.134)\, source: American School of Classical Studies at Athens\, Corinth Excavations \nUpper House Seminar\nDr Laura Nastasi (BSA)\, “Language Set in Stone: Graeco-Latin Bilingualism and Writing Culture in Roman Corinth”\nAbstract: The commonly accepted view about Corinth in the Roman period is that the foundation of a Roman colony on the seat of the destroyed Greek city made the city entirely Roman for almost two centuries\, between the foundation in 44 BCE and the reign of Hadrian. After that\, the city supposedly went back to being entirely Greek. More recent contributions (e.g. Millis 2010) have noticed that such a narrative is not exactly accurate. Even if the public domain shows a predominance of Latin in the first two centuries and of Greek afterwards\, this does not necessarily mean that the existing Greek element did not show itself in the epigraphic material of the city at the beginning of its history and\, vice versa\, the Roman element disappeared after two centuries. This paper offers a reappraisal of the information we can gain by studying the inscriptions from Roman Corinth from a sociolinguistic and sociocultural point of view. In particular\, the study of monolingual texts (in Latin and Greek) shows that linguistic and cultural interaction between Greekness and Romanness was continuous in the inscriptions from the area at all times\, making the label ‘bilingual’ appropriate for Corinth in the Roman period. \nBio: Dr. Laura Nastasi is the Cary Student at the BSA for 2024-2025. Laura’s primary interest is the study of Roman Greece\, using inscriptions as the main source. This resulted in her doctoral thesis\, Greek and Latin in Roman Corinth: Language Use and Language Contact\, which she completed at the University of Manchester in 2024. Laura came to the BSA to work on the monograph arising from her PhD dissertation and also to expand her findings by focusing on the writing culture and writing habits detectable in inscriptions not only from Corinth but also from other areas of the Roman province of Achaia. Before moving to the UK for her PhD\, Laura completed a BA and MA in Classics at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan\, where she trained both in epigraphy and linguistics. \n  \nHybrid lecture. This lecture will not be recorded. \nTo attend in-person in Athens\, please register here \nTo attend online via webinar\, please register here
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/laura-nastasi-language-set-in-stone-graeco-latin-bilingualism-and-writing-culture-in-roman-corinth/
LOCATION:British School at Athens\, Upper House\, 52 Souedias Street\, Athens\, Greece
CATEGORIES:Upper House Seminar
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SUMMARY:Artemis Papatheodorou\, "The Ottoman laws on antiquities in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries"
DESCRIPTION:Upper House Seminar\nDr Artemis Papatheodorou (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)\, “The Ottoman laws on antiquities in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries”\nAbstract: In the long nineteenth century\, the Ottoman Empire promulgated not one but four regulations on antiquities: the first one in 1869\, the second one in 1874\, the third one in 1884 and the final one in 1906. These regulations reflected attempts to manage antiquities in a comprehensive manner: from a definition of antiquities to the conditions for conducting excavations\, importing or exporting ancient artefacts\, and other topics. In an effort to trace their raison d’ être\, this presentation will focus on the goals of each regulation. It will also look into the content of each regulation with an emphasis on the protection of antiquities\, the ownership and export of finds\, as well as the conditions for archaeological research. It will moreover examine a complementary act of law that focused on the preservation of antiquities in the early twentieth century\, and a draft law that aimed unsuccessfully to replace the 1906 regulation. Significantly\, this presentation will also touch upon the ways in which these regulations were implemented throughout the Empire. \nBio: Dr Artemis Papatheodorou is a cultural historian specialising in the history of archaeology\, heritage and the classical reception in the Ottoman long nineteenth century. She is currently a Chester Dale Interdisciplinary Fellow with the Metropolitan Museum of Art\, in New York\, where she investigates vernacular archaeologies in late Ottoman Anatolia and photography. Her DPhil from the University of Oxford looked into the Ottoman policies on antiquities between 1839 and the end of the Empire in 1923. Her research focused\, more precisely\, on the central state legislation on antiquities\, the archaeological laws of the autonomous Principality of Samos\, and the archaeology-related activities of the most important Ottoman Greek learned society\, the Hellenic Literary Society at Constantinople. Artemis was previously a Fellow in Provenance Research with the Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations\, Koç University\, and the Berlin Museums\, an Early Career Fellow in Hellenic Studies with Harvard University\, and a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow with the Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations\, Koç University. She has also taught history classes at the American University of Sharjah\, in the United Arab Emirates\, and Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences\, in Athens\, Greece. Her upcoming project is a study of the Mediterranean legislations on antiquities between 1789 and 1945. \n  \nTo join in-person in Athens\, please register here \nTo join online via webinar\, please register here \nimage: Excavation at the Temple of Apollo in Didyma\, 1906\, © German Archaeological Institute – Istanbul
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/artemis-papatheodorou-the-ottoman-laws-on-antiquities-in-the-nineteenth-and-early-twentieth-centuries/
LOCATION:British School at Athens\, Upper House\, 52 Souedias Street\, Athens\, Greece
CATEGORIES:Upper House Seminar
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SUMMARY:Lady Marina Marks\, "The Uses of Oppression: The Ottoman Empire through its Greek Newspapers\, 1830–1862"
DESCRIPTION:Upper House Seminar\nLady Marina Marks in conversation with Bruce Clark\, “The Uses of Oppression: The Ottoman Empire through its Greek Newspapers\, 1830–1862”\nLady Marks and Bruce Clark will discuss the research for her recently published book The Uses of Oppression: The Ottoman Empire through its Greek Newspapers\, 1830–1862 (Harvard University Press\, 2024). \n\n\n\n\nAbstract: During the middle decades of the nineteenth century\, a generation of Ottoman Greeks was caught up in radical social and political changes\, including the period of reforms known as Tanzimat. The Ottoman Greek press was both a product and an agent of these changes. The Uses of Oppression follows the development of the Ottoman Greek press from its birth in 1830 until 1862\, employing the vivid reflections of its editors\, correspondents\, advertisers\, commentators\, and readers as a lens through which to view the everyday lives of this generation of Ottoman Greeks—their social aspirations\, their reactions to political events\, their reception of Western-style norms\, and other contemporary issues. \n“The invaluable research of Marina Sakali\, Lady Marks\, using a remarkable array of Ottoman Greek newspapers as her principle source\, throws light on a period of the late Ottoman Empire when creativity\, optimism\, and a yearning for progress on all fronts was surging among the Ottoman Greeks\, despite their inferior civic status. The fact that this community came to a bloody end\, a century ago\, lends poignancy to the story\, and makes it doubly important to study the written evidence in a cool and detached way.” – Bruce Clark\, author of Twice a Stranger: How Mass Expulsion Forged Modern Greece and Turkey \n\n\n\n\n\nBio: Marina Sakali\, Lady Marks\, PhD OMKM (née Marina Sakali) is a historian and philanthropist. She holds a PhD in history from the University of London (School of Oriental and African Studies) and is the chairman of the Michael Marks Charitable Trust\, a charitable foundation that supports the arts and the environment. She has been awarded the Order of Merit by the Sovereign Order of Malta for her philanthropic work. \nHybrid event \nTo attend in person in Athens\, please REGISTER here \nTo attend online via Zoom webinar\, please REGISTER here
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/lady-marina-marks-the-uses-of-oppression-the-ottoman-empire-through-its-greek-newspapers-1830-1862/
CATEGORIES:Upper House Seminar
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SUMMARY:Jan Sienkiewicz\, "Islands Between Palaces: The ‘Mycenaean’ Civilisation Reconsidered"
DESCRIPTION:Upper House Seminar\nDr Jan Sienkiewicz (University of Cambridge/British Museum/BSA)\, “Islands Between Palaces: The ‘Mycenaean’ Civilisation Reconsidered”\nAbstract: According to the dominant scholarly narrative\, after the collapse of the Neopalatial civilisation\, the Aegean societies underwent the so-called ‘Mycenaeanisation’\, as the regional centre of cultural\, economic\, and political influence shifted from ‘Minoan’ Crete to the ‘Mycenaean’ southern Greek mainland. This narrative\, however\, has been shaped by the insistence\, imposed partly by the inherently interpretative label ‘Mycenaean’\, to equate the presence of specific types of material culture (mostly pottery and certain tomb types) with cultural practices and identities of mainland Greek origins. This paper offers a retelling of Aegean prehistory in the Late Bronze Age (c. 1600 – 1100 BCE)\, which came out of asking not who people were but what they did – focusing not on unknowable identities but on archaeologically attestable practices. Using island communities of the south-east Aegean as a case study\, this paper argues that we need to decouple trade networks from networks of socio-cultural interaction\, showing how these two do not necessarily overlap. It demonstrates how in different but interconnected communities the same practices involved pottery of different styles\, cautioning against equating objects with cultural behaviour and identities. Finally\, it is argued that Crete was central to the cultural changes conventionally associated with ‘Mycenaeanisation’. \nBio: Dr Jan Sienkiewicz is the Richard Bradford-McConnell Fellow at the BSA for 2025-26. Jan works on museum collections\, funerary archaeology\, Aegean prehistory\, and theories of culture change. He came to the BSA to begin publishing the findings of his doctoral research\, which began as a collaboration between the British Museum and the University of Cambridge\, set up to re-examine the material from the 19th century excavations of the Late Bronze Age chamber tomb cemetery at Ialysos on Rhodes. In addition to recontextualising museum objects and reconstructing original assemblages of grave goods from this important site\, Jan’s research focused on tracing networks of social interaction and cultural affiliation between island communities of the southern Aegean. Before his PhD in ‘Mycenaean’ Archaeology at Cambridge\, Jan studied at the University College London\, where he obtained an MA in Mediterranean Archaeology and a BA in Classical Archaeology\, with both his MA and BA dissertations focusing on ‘Minoan’ Crete. \nimage: courtesy of J. Sienkiewicz \nHybrid lecture \nTo attend in person in Athens\, please register here \nTo attend online via webinar\, please register here  \n 
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/jan-sienkiewicz-islands-between-palaces-the-mycenaean-civilisation-reconsidered/
LOCATION:British School at Athens\, Upper House\, 52 Souedias Street\, Athens\, Greece
CATEGORIES:Upper House Seminar
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SUMMARY:Edward Jones\, "The function and significance of inscribed accounts in Classical Athens"
DESCRIPTION:Fragment of an inscribed tribute list\, 425-4 BCE\, image credit: the Metropolitan Museum of Art\, New York. Fletcher Fund\, 1926 \nUpper House Seminar\nDr Edward Jones (BSA Macmillan-Rodewald Student / Oxford University) “The function and significance of inscribed accounts in Classical Athens”\nAbstract: In this lecture\, Edward Jones explores the Classical Athenian habit of inscribing administrative records on stone. We possess many fragments of inscribed lists\, accounts\, and inventories\, but the reasons for inscribing them are rarely recorded in surviving literary and epigraphic texts. Therefore\, this elusive practice has been variously interpreted as a way of facilitating the scrutiny of officials\, of honouring the gods\, or of symbolising Athenian financial might and democratic ideals. \n\nJones offers a new interpretation of these inscriptions in his lecture. By describing their texts and formatting features in detail\, and by examining related literary and epigraphic evidence\, he argues that inscribed accounts served various\, shifting functions. Their formal properties indicate why they were inscribed\, yet their function also depended on who was looking at them\, when they were looking\, and why they were looking. \n\nThis lecture sheds light on a fascinating epigraphic habit bound up with political and religious mentalities and with questions of literacy\, numeracy\, and transparency. It also contributes to a growing body of research on the function and materiality of inscribed monuments in antiquity. \nOnline and in-person\nTo attend in person in Athens\, please register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1041842297357?aff=oddtdtcreator \nTo attend online via Zoom webinar\, please register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_eHFX1yU3Q4WEnSqEjcKehA 
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/jones-the-function-and-significance-of-inscribed-accounts-in-classical-athens/
LOCATION:British School at Athens\, Upper House\, 52 Souedias Street\, Athens\, Greece
CATEGORIES:Upper House Seminar
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LAST-MODIFIED:20241202T124120Z
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SUMMARY:Dimitris Plantzos\, "Greeks\, Macedonians\, Thracians\, and a few others: Inventing the Ancestors in Southeastern Europe"
DESCRIPTION:Frederic Edwin Church\, The Parthenon (1871). New York\, Metropolitan Museum \nUpper House Seminar\nProfessor Dimitris Plantzos (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)\, “Greeks\, Macedonians\, Thracians\, and a few others: Inventing the Ancestors in Southeastern Europe”\nIn this lecture\, Dimitris Plantzos examines the complex interplay between archaeology and nationalist imagination in Southeastern Europe. Focusing on the construction of ancestral narratives\, he explores how modern nations in the Balkans have appropriated antiquity to craft identities rooted in imagined continuities with ancient peoples. From Thracians in Bulgaria to Macedonians in North Macedonia and Illyrians in Albania\, these historical reinventions serve as tools for national distinction\, political leverage\, and cultural legitimacy.\nPlantzos critiques the “archaeopolitical” use of material heritage\, which transforms archaeological findings into instruments of ideological storytelling. Through examples such as the monumental Seuthes III tomb in Bulgaria and the “antiquization” of Macedonian identity\, he examines how archaeology has been mobilized to forge exceptionalist claims\, often steeped in pseudohistory and crypto-colonial anxieties.\nThe lecture situates these phenomena within a broader framework of European modernity and its enduring fascination with classical antiquity. It addresses the challenges posed by the politicization of archaeology\, emphasizing its role in shaping contemporary discourses of identity and memory in a geopolitically contested region. \nTo attend in person please register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1041865366357?aff=oddtdtcreator \nTo attend online via webinar\, please register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ZMo-YoSxTHCtqiNH7MBtAQ
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/greeks-macedonians-thracians-and-a-few-others-inventing-the-ancestors-in-southeastern-europe/
LOCATION:British School at Athens\, Upper House\, 52 Souedias Street\, Athens\, Greece
CATEGORIES:Upper House Seminar
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LAST-MODIFIED:20241104T101522Z
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SUMMARY:From ceramic islandscapes to mobility dynamics in the Late Chalcolithic-Early Bronze Age northeast Aegean
DESCRIPTION:Upper House Seminar\nDr Sergios Menelaou (BSA Williams Fellow in Ceramic Petrology)\, “From ceramic islandscapes to mobility dynamics in the Late Chalcolithic-Early Bronze Age northeast Aegean”\nAbstract: The geo-cultural region of the northeast Aegean\, encompassing the Greek islands and the western Anatolian coast\, is crucial to understanding the dynamics of the Late Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age (EBA)\, a period characterised by extensive cultural\, social\, and technological interactions and transformations. This lecture presents a systematic analysis of ceramics from key sites in the region\, including Poliochni (Lemnos)\, Thermi (Lesbos)\, Emborio (Chios)\, and the Heraion (Samos)\, aiming both to characterize the local pottery-making traditions and to investigate the role of cross-regional connectivity of these sites with the wider Aegean island- and coastscapes. By taking a diachronic approach\, this research explores ceramic production\, specialisation\, and circulation\, as well as the exchange of craft knowledge across the northeast Aegean during the late 4th and 3rd millennia BC. Despite extensive excavations and publications since the mid-20th century\, these sites have been largely overlooked in the broader context of Aegean-Anatolian prehistory. Our research challenges this oversight by proposing that this region was a central hub for cultural and technological transmission\, with communities that were far more interconnected and socially complex than previously assumed. \nBio: Sergios Menelaou\, currently the Williams Fellow in Ceramic Petrology at the Fitch Laboratory of the British School at Athens (BSA)\, is an archaeologist specializing in the integrated analysis of pottery from the Aegean and Cyprus. His research focuses primarily on prehistoric Aegean\, Anatolian\, and Cypriot archaeology\, with a particular emphasis on island societies and their interconnectedness.\nHaving pursued his undergraduate studies at the University of Cyprus (2008-2012)\, Sergios earned his MSc in Archaeological Materials from the Department of Archaeology at the University of Sheffield in 2013. He completed his PhD at the same institution in 2018\, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at Koç University (ANAMED (Research Center for Anatolian Civilisations) in Istanbul from 2018 to 2019. Between 2020 and 2022 he acted as the Principal Investigator of the project titled ‘Borderlands as areas of mobility and connectivity during the third millennium BC: Examining regional ceramic technologies between the east Aegean islands\, western Anatolia and Cyprus’ at the University of Cyprus.\nWorking mostly on Bronze Age pottery assemblages\, Sergios employs a multifaceted methodology that integrates traditional morphostylistic approaches with laboratory-based analytical techniques\, with a particular focus on recovering technological insights into pottery production\, usage\, and circulation. His current research project at the BSA builds upon his previous work in the eastern Aegean\, through the investigation of Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age ceramic traditions of legacy island-sites such as Poliochni-Lemnos\, Thermi-Lesbos\, and Emporio-Chios. The overarching goal is to reconstruct the shifting mechanisms of interaction networks between these islands and their Anatolian peraiai.\n \n  \nTo attend in person please register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1041867422507?aff=oddtdtcreator \nTo attend via zoom\, please register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_UAX8s9AKS_WzOhEPYu7BMg \n  \nimage: The geographical focus and methodological approach of the project\, courtesy of Sergios Menelaou (base image from Google Earth)
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/from-ceramic-islandscapes-to-mobility-dynamics-in-the-late-chalcolithic-early-bronze-age-northeast-aegean/
LOCATION:British School at Athens\, Upper House\, 52 Souedias Street\, Athens\, Greece
CATEGORIES:Upper House Seminar
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/Athens:20240422T193000
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SUMMARY:Sebastian Marshall\, "Beyond the Classical Landscape: Photographs of Rural Greece from the SPHS Image Collection"
DESCRIPTION:Upper House Seminar\nSebastian Marshall (Cambridge/BSA)\, “Beyond the Classical Landscape: Photographs of Rural Greece from the SPHS Image Collection”\nAbstract: Since the earliest days of modern travel to Greece\, landscape and the rural environment have been an object of fascination among foreign visitors. A preoccupation with ancient ‘topography’ and ‘picturesque’ views are familiar tropes in images produced by travellers\, and the nostalgic sense that rural Greece offers an idyllic contrast to urban modernity remains pervasive in tourist media today. While scholars have noted these tropes in early photographs of Greece\, the first photographers generally prioritised depicting antiquities rather than landscape in its own right. This situation began to change in the late 1880s with the invention of the portable kodak camera; Aliki Tsirgialou\, among others\, has argued that a new generation of amateur photographers began to challenge established ‘iconographic patterns’\, though many such images remain little known in ‘institutional archives.’ Thanks to extensive digitisation by the BSA\, the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies’ Image Archive offers a good way to explore the representation of landscapes\, not least because it was created during a period around the turn of the twentieth century when British travellers were becoming increasingly interested in post-antique and contemporary Greek culture. In the first instance\, this paper explores to what extent these images depart from a concern with ancient topography and the ‘iconographic patterns’ of picturesque landscape views which predate photography. Secondly\, it draws on contemporary writing about landscapes and the environment to understand the appeal of images which eschew depictions of ruins beyond the broad label of ‘rural nostalgia.’ \nBio: Seb completed his BA and MPhil degrees at the Cambridge Faculty of Classics\, where he specialised in Classical Reception in nineteenth-century visual culture. Following a year working on Victorian art as an auction-house researcher\, he returned to Cambridge to begin a PhD between the Classics Faculty and Art History Department. In his thesis he explored how Greek and Anatolian landscapes were mediated by nineteenth-century British artists in watercolours\, sketches\, and illustrated books between 1832 and 1882. After submitting his PhD at the end of 2023\, Seb moved to Greece at the end of February to take up the British School’s Cary Studentship. Staying in Athens until the end of June 2024\, he is studying the representation of Greek landscapes in nineteenth-century photographs from the BSA Archive. \n  \nHybrid lecture\, 16:00 (UK) / 18:00 (Greece)  \nPlease register here to attend online via Zoom webinar: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_9D5uveh5TvuP3fDO2Hi-MQ \nPlease register here to attend in person in Athens: https://forms.gle/JS3wWcGk5NQCqBbe7 \nimage: John Baker-Penoyre\, Arcadia\, Mantineian plain looking N. original film negative\, ca. 1904
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/sebastian-marshall-beyond-the-classical-landscape-photographs-of-rural-greece-from-the-sphs-image-collection/
LOCATION:British School at Athens\, Upper House\, 52 Souedias Street\, Athens\, Greece
CATEGORIES:Upper House Seminar
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/Athens:20240415T193000
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SUMMARY:Gelina Harlaftis\, "Onassis Business History\, 1924-1975"
DESCRIPTION:Upper House Seminar\nOrganised as part of the Modern Greek Studies program run by Dr Lamprini Rori (University of Athens) and Dr Eirini Karamouzi (Sheffield) \nProf. Gelina Harlaftis (IMS/FORTH)\, “Onassis Business History\, 1924-1975”\n \nAbstract: Aristotle Onassis is the most famous shipowner of the 20th century\, the archetype and image of the shipowning magnate\, the symbol of Greek enterprise on a global scale. He created the shipping business of the new global era\, which has continued to operate in institutional terms on the models that he laid down\, to the present day. The Onassis group of companies\, which started out in 1924\, will soon have completed a century of operations: 50 years with Aristotle Onassis\, and 50 years with the Onassis business family. His business\, without an heir\, without a shareholder\, without a relative or boss\, lives on exclusively for the public-benefit projects of the Foundation nearly 50 years after his death. The research for this book is based mainly on the Onassis Archive which belongs to the “Alexander S. Onassis Foundation” and covers the whole fifty-years entrepreneurial period of Aristotle Onassis. The Onassis Archive consists of hundreds of archival boxes that contain thousands of documents. The Archive reveals the activities of a multinational business group across the globe\, with companies in four continents (Europe\, Asia\, Africa and America) and 14 countries (Greece\, France\, Monaco\, Germany\, Norway\, Sweden\, United Kingdom\, Argentina\, Uruguay\, Panama\, Honduras\, United States\, Saudi Arabia and Liberia); its construction and classification breaks new ground in Business History not only in Greece but also internationally. \nBiographical note: Gelina Harlaftis\, Director for the Institute for Mediterranean Studies of the Foundation of Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH) since 2017\, is Professor of Maritime History in the University of Crete. She has graduated from the University of Athens and has completed her graduate studies in the Universities of Cambridge (M.Phil.) and Oxford (D.Phil.). She started her career as a lecturer in Piraeus University (1990-2003) and continued since 2003 in the Ionian University. She was Chair of the Department of History of the Ionian University (2004-2008) and President of the International Maritime Economic History Αssociation (2004-2008). In 2009 she was a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College\, Oxford University\, and in 2008 an Alfred D. Chandler\, Jr.\, International Visiting Scholar in the Business History Program\, Harvard Business School. Since 2022 she is a member of Academia Europaea. Her research interests are in maritime history\, economic and social history\, business history\, global history and diaspora history. She has published 33 books in English\, Canadian and Greek publishing houses and more than 70 articles in edited volumes and international peer-reviewed journals. She is currently project leader of the project “Onassis Business History” in collaboration with the Onassis Foundation (2017-2024) She has organized many international conferences in Greece and abroad\, participates in numerous international organizing committees of conferences and journal editorial boards. \nHybrid lecture\, 16:00 (UK) / 18:00 (Greece)  \nPlease register here to attend online via Zoom webinar: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0qJ32zPQSryzRrqIJVP4QA \nPlease register here to attend in person in Athens: https://forms.gle/ren2aPKaH3WRqYyN7 \nimages left to right: Aristotle Onassis in the 1930s. Source: Onassis Archive. The logo of the Onassis shipping company on the chimney of Tina Onassis. Source: Onassis Archive. Launching of the tanker Tina Onassis\, 25 July 1953. Source: Onassis Archive \n 
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/gelina-harlaftis-onassis-business-history-1924-1975/
LOCATION:British School at Athens\, Upper House\, 52 Souedias Street\, Athens\, Greece
CATEGORIES:Upper House Seminar
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SUMMARY:Matthew Evans\, "Group Identity\, Representation\, and the Gymnasium on Late Hellenistic Delos"
DESCRIPTION:BSA Upper House Seminar\nDr Matthew Evans (BSA/Warwick)\, “Group Identity\, Representation\, and the Gymnasium on Late Hellenistic Delos”\nAbstract: In the corpus of inscriptions from Delos during the Second Athenian Domination (167/6 – 88 BCE)\, we come across various formal and informal groups associated with the island’s athletic education institutions. This paper explores the role that these groups played in the lives\, identities\, and representation of the gymnasium’s clientele on Delos as well as in the social and political dynamics of the island at this time. It highlights how the gymnasium brought together into coherent groups individuals hailing from various locations throughout the Mediterranean. Those groups then offered a degree of civic relevance and social exclusivity within the wider community of Delos\, making group membership attractive to wealthy Athenian and non-Athenian families who had moved to the island. On the other hand\, the paper argues that from a top-down perspective\, the gymnasium and its associated groups provided a means for officials to communicate Athenian political control over Delos and its inhabitants. Overall\, this focus on the identity and epigraphic representation of the gymnasium’s clientele on Delos after 167/6 BCE reveals the locally specific social dynamics of a significant institution found throughout the ancient Greek world. \nDr Matthew Evans is the BSA’s 2023-24 Richard Bradford McConnell Student. \nHybrid lecture\, 16:00 (UK) / 18:00 (Greece) \nPlease register here to attend online via Zoom webinar: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_SUHFMwSaT-O4pUpM9R_VLQ \nPlease register here to attend in-person in Athens: https://forms.gle/kPz72GEFJmN61qx69 \nimage: An inscribed list of former ephebes\, paruetaktoi and aleiphomenoi from Delos\, 119/8 BCE (Inscriptiones de Delos 2598). © Roussel 1931\, “La population de Délos”\, BCH 55\, pp. 438-449\, pl. XVIII.
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/group-identity-representation-and-the-gymnasium-on-late-hellenistic-delos/
LOCATION:British School at Athens\, Upper House\, 52 Souedias Street\, Athens\, Greece
CATEGORIES:Upper House Seminar
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/Athens:20240311T193000
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SUMMARY:Kostas Kotsakis\, "A solar flare in 5259 BCE solves the Dispilio riddle"
DESCRIPTION:BSA Upper House Seminar\nProf. Kostas Kotsakis (Professor Emeritus\, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)\, “A solar flare in 5259 BCE solves the Dispilio riddle”\n  \nAbstract: Dispilio by Kastoria Lake is Greece’s first systematically excavated wetland site. It contains waterlogged wooden piles\, C14 dated to the 6th millennium BCE at a density of almost 1000 piles per 500 square metres. The extreme density makes it impossible to distinguish between distinct house plans. The apparent lack of dwellings posed an unanswered enigma for Dispilio and influenced the site’s subsequent interpretation as a site built on platforms over water.\nWith the launch of the ERC EXPLO project in 2018\, a new age of investigation at the waterlogged site began. Based on the stratigraphic examination\, we proposed the working hypothesis that the inability to trace distinct house plans was due to the lack of robust dating of the piles. Thus\, their dating became a crucial focus of this re-examination. Previous experience with dendrochronological analysis at waterlogged sites in Central Europe shows that the method has excellent results in defining house plans. A significant breakthrough occurred when the examination in Dispilio identified in a tree ring the signature of the socalled “Miyake event\,” a unique solar event known to have happened in 5259 BCE. Based on this dated ring\, Dispilio’s complete sequence of tree rings was subsequently dated to the calendar years 5612 to 5152 BCE.\nThe dendrochronology results exceeded our expectations. The precise chronology allowed us to pick up house layouts and follow their “biographies” with exceptional precision. Dispilio is now the first Neolithic site in the Balkans that is dated to that level of accuracy. With the help of the EXPLO project\, we can now place this remarkable wetland community and its trajectories within a broader natural\, cultural\, and social context. The result will be a much more inclusive perception of the Dispilio community. \n  \nHybrid lecture\, 16:00 (UK) / 18:00 (Greece)  \nPlease register here to attend online via Zoom webinar. No registration required for in-person attendance.
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/kostas-kotsakis-a-solar-flare-in-5259-bce-solves-the-dispilio-riddle/
LOCATION:British School at Athens\, Upper House\, 52 Souedias Street\, Athens\, Greece
CATEGORIES:Upper House Seminar
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/Athens:20240129T193000
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CREATED:20240108T105033Z
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SUMMARY:Andriana Xenaki\, "'A view from the mountain’s top': modelling the use of mountainous areas in Eastern Crete"
DESCRIPTION:  \n \nView of the Lasithi plateau from the north. Photo: Andriana-Maria Xenaki. \nUpper House Seminar\nAndriana Xenaki (University of Cambridge/BSA)\, “‘A view from the mountain’s top’: modelling the use of mountainous areas in Eastern Crete”\nAbstract: Using legacy data from eastern Crete’s most dominant landscape features – its rugged terrain and iconic mountains – this paper will explore some of the issues pertaining to the study of the relationships between ancient societies and their surrounding landscape. Out of the multitude of methods that have emerged in recent years\, the current study uses Point Process Models (PPM) to examine the relationship between archaeological sites and environmental variables while simultaneously considering their social settings. This method\, used as a heuristic tool to examine the reasons behind settlement location choices over time and to assess past assumptions about the location of sites in the mountains\, provides important insights on differential site location priorities. \n  \nHybrid lecture\, 4pm (UK) / 6pm (Greece) \nPlease register here to attend online. No registration required for in-person attendance.
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/andriana-xenaki-a-view-from-the-mountains-top-modelling-the-use-of-mountainous-areas-in-eastern-crete/
LOCATION:British School at Athens\, Upper House\, 52 Souedias Street\, Athens\, Greece
CATEGORIES:Upper House Seminar
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/Athens:20231211T200000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20231207T130741Z
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SUMMARY:Gerasimos Tsourapas\, "Greek-Turkish Relations and Migration Power Politics in the Mediterranean"
DESCRIPTION:Image credit: Australian Associated Press 2023. Migrants gather between Pazarkule border gate\, Edirne\, Turkey\, and Kastanies border gate\, Evros\, as they try to enter Greece\, on Saturday\, Feb. 29\, 2020. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Saturday that his country’s borders with Europe were open\, as thousands of refugees gathered at the frontier with Greece. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)  \nUPDATE: Online Only\nUpper House Seminar\nProf Gerasimos Tsourapas (BSA/University of Glasgow)\, “Greek-Turkish Relations and Migration Power Politics in the Mediterranean”\nAbstract: The emerging international relations literature on states’ migration diplomacy traditionally centres on how cross-border mobility affects\, and is affected by\, governmental foreign policy strategies. Yet\, little attention has been paid to strategic interactions between domestic political priorities\, bilateral foreign policy negotiations\, and supranational organisations\, particularly the European Union. In this talk\, I draw inspiration from Robert Putnam’s work on the entanglement of domestic and international politics and put forth a theorisation of migration diplomacy as a three-level game. Beyond the importance of intergovernmental negotiations\, I propose that migration diplomacy actors absorb domestic-level concerns as well as supranational pressures. I test this framework on the recent border crisis between Greece and Turkey in February/March 2020\, and identify how both Greek and Turkish use of migration diplomacy was shaped by three sets of policy goals: domestic\, international\, and supranational. I build on this further by looking back at how cross-border mobility became implicated at the long\, turbulent history of Greek-Turkish relations. I conclude with a discussion of how such a framework can shed valuable light on border crises and the interplay between migration and foreign policymaking in the Eastern Mediterranean\, and beyond. \nGerasimos Tsourapas is the BSA’s Early Career Fellow and Professor of International Relations at University of Glasgow. \nOnline-only lecture\, 4pm (UK) / 6pm Greece \nUPDATE: due to unforeseen circumstances\, this Upper House Seminar will take place online only\, and not in-person at the BSA as first listed. Please join us for the online webinar instead. \nPlease register to attend ONLINE via Zoom Webinar.
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/gerasimos-tsourapas-greek-turkish-relations-and-migration-power-politics-in-the-mediterranean/
LOCATION:British School at Athens\, Upper House\, 52 Souedias Street\, Athens\, Greece
CATEGORIES:Upper House Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Athens:20231204T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Athens:20231204T200000
DTSTAMP:20260501T073411
CREATED:20230911T102513Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231204T141645Z
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SUMMARY:Georgios Mouratidis\, "Athletics and Paedeia. Monuments in Context"
DESCRIPTION:Upper House Seminar\nDr Georgios Mouratidis (British School at Athens)\, “Athletics and Paedeia. Monuments in Context”\n  \nAbstract: The hundreds of statue bases of athletic monuments that have survived to our day\, suggest that athletes have always been figures of fascination and admiration. But what makes athletes so admirable to deserve to be immortalised through monuments? Drawing on a wide range of epigraphic and other material from the Greek cities of the Late Hellenistic and Imperial periods\, this paper aims to provide valuable insights into the role of athletic monuments in Greek communities\, by exploring the educational potential of these monuments in non-athletic contexts. The ancient material illustrates powerfully that the role of athletic monuments in Greek cities was not only to reward victory and athletic ability\, but also to encourage good behaviour and ‘lifelong education’ by highlighting the values associated with sport and competition.  \n  \nHybrid lecture\, 4pm (UK) / 6pm (Greece) \nPlease register to attend IN PERSON in Athens here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bsa-upper-house-seminar-georgios-mouratidis-tickets-771545973777?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] \nPlease register to attend ONLINE via Zoom here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_E7gtZ88gRC6HOUXZp3HNdQ
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/georgios-mouratidis-athletics-and-paedeia-monuments-in-context/
LOCATION:British School at Athens\, Upper House\, 52 Souedias Street\, Athens\, Greece
CATEGORIES:Upper House Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Athens:20231127T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Athens:20231127T200000
DTSTAMP:20260501T073411
CREATED:20230525T103350Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231127T083509Z
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SUMMARY:Rachel Phillips\, "Curating the Dead: Body and Matter in Early Mycenaean Burials"
DESCRIPTION:Grave Circle A\, Mycenae. Photo: Rachel Philips  \nUpper House Seminar\nRachel Phillips (University of Cambridge)\, “Curating the Dead: Body and Matter in Early Mycenaean Burials”\nFrom the start of the Late Bronze Age\, people on the Greek mainland were buried with hundreds or even thousands of objects\, made from exotic materials and embellished with figurative and abstract motifs. Through the twin representational strategies of figurative imagery and depositional practice\, these assemblages effect a transformation from subject to object. This paper examines the nature of this transformation in more detail\, focusing on the relations between bodies and objects within specific early Mycenaean burial contexts. It argues that the body (and in some cases\, the person) becomes the image\, centered around the material associations and relations of the assemblage. The dialectic between the real body (i.e. the corpse) and the represented body (i.e. the burial) therefore becomes an important axis of analysis for studies of the early Mycenaean mortuary sphere\, which provides important insights into past concepts of the body and its association with the person. \nHybrid lecture\, 4pm (UK) / 6pm (Greece) \nPlease register to attend IN PERSON in Athens here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/767487685327?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] \nPlease register to attend ONLINE via Zoom here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_avXP7zKCQECgL03I01Jwog \n 
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/rachel-phillips-curating-the-dead-body-and-matter-in-early-mycenaean-burials/
LOCATION:British School at Athens\, Upper House\, 52 Souedias Street\, Athens\, Greece
CATEGORIES:Upper House Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Athens:20231120T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Athens:20231120T200000
DTSTAMP:20260501T073411
CREATED:20230911T101229Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231114T131519Z
UID:20685-1700503200-1700510400@www.bsa.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Stamatoula Panagakou\, "Aspects of the Political Philosophy of the British Idealist Philosopher Bernard Bosanquet"
DESCRIPTION:Upper House Seminar\nDr Stamatoula Panagakou (University of Cyprus)\, “Aspects of the Political Philosophy of the British Idealist Philosopher Bernard Bosanquet”\nBernard Bosanquet (1848-1923) was one of the most important British Idealist philosophers. Author of numerous books which cover topics from logic\, metaphysics and aesthetics to ethics\, religion and political philosophy\, and of more than a hundred articles and book reviews\, Bosanquet developed a holistic approach to socio-political theorization\, defended the moral view of politics\, society and the state\, and reflected on the relation between individual self-realization and the common good. In this talk\, which is suitable for both scholars and a more general audience\, we will discuss central themes from Bosanquet’s philosophy such as the metaphysics of the self\, the idea of ethical citizenship\, and the ethical system of the state. \nHybrid lecture\, 4pm (UK) / 6pm (Greece) \nPlease register to attend IN PERSON in Athens here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bsa-upper-house-seminar-dr-stamatoula-panagakou-tickets-726714361217?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] \nPlease register to attend ONLINE via Zoom here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_WHlSTMMJThuNmyDrDO1DEA
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/stamatoula-panagakou-aspects-of-the-political-philosophy-of-the-british-idealist-philosopher-bernard-bosanquet/
LOCATION:British School at Athens\, Upper House\, 52 Souedias Street\, Athens\, Greece
CATEGORIES:Upper House Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Athens:20231030T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Athens:20231030T200000
DTSTAMP:20260501T073411
CREATED:20230911T095145Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231030T102449Z
UID:20673-1698688800-1698696000@www.bsa.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Amy Smith\, "Redressing Aphrodite on Sir William Hamilton’s Meidias hydria"
DESCRIPTION:image: Red-figured water jar (hydria)\, signed by Meidias as potter\, British Museum\, 34465002  \nUpper House Seminar\nProfessor Amy Smith (University of Reading)\, “Redressing Aphrodite on Sir William Hamilton’s Meidias hydria”\nIn anticipation of the Meidias hydria’s first return to Athens since its unspecified journey to Etruscan shores in antiquity\, Professor Smith reevaluates the message of the Meidias hydria\, with a focus on its central figure\, Aphrodite in the Gardens. Stripping away the cultural expectations that post-Classical cultures have showered on this vessel\, lenses through which connoisseurs and other culture experts have viewed it as an exemplum of Greek art\, she contextualises this very Athenian Aphrodite in her late 5th-century context to understand her relevance to the attendants and mythic figures that surround her on this illustrious vase painting\, to the vessel itself\, and therefore to persons who may have encountered this vessel in antiquity. \n  \nHybrid lecture\, 4pm (UK) / 6pm Greece \nPlease register to attend IN PERSON in Athens here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bsa-upper-house-seminar-prof-amy-smith-tickets-748329422447?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] \nPlease register to attend ONLINE via Zoom here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Gvl4vRL4S1-d4w2vSZQ6xw
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/amy-smith-text-context-subject-the-value-of-hamiltons-meidias-hydria/
LOCATION:British School at Athens\, Upper House\, 52 Souedias Street\, Athens\, Greece
CATEGORIES:Upper House Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Athens:20231009T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Athens:20231009T193000
DTSTAMP:20260501T073411
CREATED:20230908T113953Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230918T094807Z
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SUMMARY:Bruce Clark and Sophia Koufopoulou\, "The Treaty of Lausanne (1923) and its impact on the Muslim population of Crete"
DESCRIPTION:Ali Onay (born Rethymnon 1918)\, famous for his collection of Cretan heirlooms on Cunda \nUpper House Seminar\nBruce Clark and Sophia Koufopoulou\, “The Treaty of Lausanne (1923) and its impact on the Muslim population of Crete”\nSpeakers: Bruce Clark\, author of Twice a Stranger: How mass expulsion forged modern Greece and Turkey\, and Athens: City of Wisdom; and Sophia Koufopoulou\, a Greek social anthropologist who has been conducting research in Turkey since 1990 and is the author of a study of the Muslim Cretans \nCo-ordinator: David Holton \nThe Treaty of Lausanne imposed a compulsory exchange of populations\, with few exceptions\, between the Christian and Muslim peoples of Greece and Turkey. One group whose fortunes have not been extensively studied is the Greek-speaking Muslims of Crete\, most of whom eventually settled in Turkey. We shall examine the lives and experiences of this minority group in Crete before 1923 and subsequently on Cunda island\, formerly Moschonisi. \n  \nAbstracts:\nBruce Clark: “The Cretan Muslims before the Exchange of Populations” \nMore than any other population group\, the Muslims who left Crete epitomise the trauma and paradoxes of the 1923 population exchange. They were intensely attached to the island\, monoglot in Greek\, and shared a material culture with their Christian neighbours. While thousands of Muslims had already left the island in the preceding decades\, Islam remained a powerful presence in the economic and municipal life of Crete’s main towns. The novelist Pandelis Prevelakis penned a graphic account of the Muslim exodus from his native Rethymnon\, arguing that it came at the very time when\, after decades of inter-communal tension\, Christian and Muslim Cretans were ready to live together. Others regard his view as much too romantic\, ignoring the sectarian disputes that were never far from the surface. I shall weigh up these views and reflect on the Cretan Muslim community in the last years of its life on the island. \nSophia Koufopoulou: “’Oturmak myrodiasi’: The Muslim-Cretan experience in Turkey” \nMy presentation reviews pivotal moments of the settling and living experiences of the exchanged Muslim-Cretan population in Turkey. I focus on the experiences of Muslim-Cretans in the area of Ayvalık as they have been shaped by their “journey” (1923-1927)\, their forcible relocation to Ayvalık and Cunda\, their cohabitation with other exchanged populations (Midilli exchanged people)\, the advantages and disadvantages of the proximity of their new homeland to the Greek State\, their contributions to the newly formed Turkish state\, and finally their efforts to create a unique “scent” which over the last 30 years has enabled them to celebrate their ethnic background by simultaneously creating a flourishing local cultural economy. I examine the consequences of this forcible relocation (Hirschon\, 2004) on various levels of social life (cultural\, socio-economic\, religious\, political\, and gender among others). \nHybrid lecture\, 4pm (UK) / 6pm (Greece) \nPlease register to attend IN PERSON in Athens here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/treaty-of-lausanne-1923-its-impact-on-the-muslim-population-of-crete-tickets-717817530557?aff=oddtdtcreator \nPlease register to attend ONLINE via Zoom here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-kKafearRIiRKKtuWKv18w
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/bruce-clark-and-sophia-koufopoulou-the-treaty-of-lausanne-1923-and-its-impact-on-the-muslim-population-of-crete/
LOCATION:British School at Athens\, Upper House\, 52 Souedias Street\, Athens\, Greece
CATEGORIES:Upper House Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Athens:20230516T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Athens:20230516T200000
DTSTAMP:20260501T073411
CREATED:20230411T094511Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230515T121618Z
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SUMMARY:Rachel Phillips\, "Curating the Dead: Body and Matter in Early Mycenaean Burials "
DESCRIPTION:  \nPLEASE NOTE THAT THIS TALK HAS BEEN POSTPONED. IT HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED FOR JUNE 6TH \n  \nAbstract \nFrom the start of the Late Bronze Age\, people on the Greek mainland were buried with hundreds or even thousands of objects\, made from exotic materials and embellished with figurative and abstract motifs. Through the twin representational strategies of figurative imagery and depositional practice\, these assemblages effect a transformation from subject to object. This paper examines the nature of this transformation in more detail\, focusing on the relations between bodies and objects within specific early Mycenaean burial contexts. It argues that the body (and in some cases\, the person) becomes the image\, centered around the material associations and relations of the assemblage. The dialectic between the real body (i.e. the corpse) and the represented body (i.e. the burial) therefore becomes an important axis of analysis for studies of the early Mycenaean mortuary sphere\, which provides important insights into past concepts of the body and its association with the person. \nPlease register here for IN PERSON attendance: \nPlease register here for ONLINE attendance:
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/rachel-phillips/
CATEGORIES:Upper House Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Athens:20230509T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Athens:20230509T200000
DTSTAMP:20260501T073411
CREATED:20221024T073313Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230411T101247Z
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SUMMARY:Douglas Forsyth\, "Social Strategies for Dealing with Scarce Precipitation; Examples from the Iron Age Cyclades"
DESCRIPTION:Douglas Forsyth (University of St. Andrews)\, “Social Strategies for Dealing with Scarce Precipitation; Examples from the Iron Age Cyclades” \nAbstract \nThis presentation will explore some of the ways in which past human societies have dealt with living in areas of scarce or low precipitation. The examination will focus primarily on archaeological evidence from the Iron Age Cycladic Islands\, 1000-500 BCE\, an area of relatively low precipitation. We will also consider as a counter point to Cycladic strategies\, what the inhabitants of better watered Crete were doing during this same period. The climatological evidence will focus on large patterns of precipitation from the last glacial maximum circa 10\,000 years before present to the end of the Hellenistic period with a particular focus on the Iron Age rather than shorter term micro-climate variability. The societal analysis is organized into five broad points to be considered in turn: location\, development of trade surpluses\, networks of exchange\, water storage facilities\, and consumption. \nRegister here to attend IN PERSON: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/social-strategies-for-dealing-with-scarce-precipitation-examples-from-the-tickets-615480939057 \nRegister here to attend ONLINE: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_S1Xou-QWReyxAWoTXpxZnQ \n  \nTuesday 9 May at 4pm (UK) / 6pm (Greece)
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/doug-forsyth-social-strategies-for-dealing-with-scarce-precipitation-examples-from-the-iron-age-cyclades/
CATEGORIES:Upper House Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Athens:20230403T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Athens:20230403T200000
DTSTAMP:20260501T073411
CREATED:20230323T111217Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230327T091013Z
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SUMMARY:Dr Flavia Vanni\, "Looking at Byzantium through materials: the case of stucco (ca 850-1453)"
DESCRIPTION:Image: Drawing of the stucco cornice from the dome of the Katholikon of Hosios Loukas from the Schultz and Barnsley notebook BAR-2\, p. 66\, British School at Athens\nDr Flavia Vanni (University of Birmingham\, The Richard Bradford McConnell Student/BSA)\, “Looking at Byzantium through materials: the case of stucco (ca 850-1453)” \nAbstract \nIn 1890\, Robert W. Schultz and Sydney Barnsley spent two months at the monastery of Hosios Loukas\, documenting the byzantine remains of the monastery on behalf of the newly established British School at Athens. Their notes and drawings produced the first documentation of the stucco cornices from the katholikon monastery and other monuments in Greece. In the following decades\, the need to write the history of Byzantine art led scholars to focus on material traditionally associated with Byzantium (mosaics\, wall paintings\, marble)\, so stucco and other materials were left aside. However\, with few exceptions\, stucco continued to elude broader narratives of Byzantine art\, being mainly confined to specific case studies. This paper addresses this gap by discussing the evidence for using stucco in middle and late byzantine religious buildings from a bird-eye perspective. Stucco was part of the decorative apparatus of Byzantine churches following the late antique tradition of ‘transitional’ material between marble cladding and mosaic-covered surfaces but also innovating and following new trends in middle Byzantine sculpture. This is visible from the use of stucco from string-course cornices to proskynetaria frames\, capitals\, tomb arcosolia\, templa\, and window transennae. At the same\, the study of stucco and its workers forces us to re-think our contemporary\, traditional categories of ‘painting’ and ‘sculpture’ and how they affect our perception of Byzantine material culture. \nMonday 3 April 2023\, 4pm (UK) / 6pm (Greece) \nTo attend IN PERSON please register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/597683707057 \nTo attend ONLINE please register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_JoQELeQxR3e3ajm3Jkwvng
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/flavia-vanni-looking-at-byzantium-through-materials-the-case-of-stucco-ca-850-1453/
CATEGORIES:Upper House Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Athens:20230327T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Athens:20230327T200000
DTSTAMP:20260501T073411
CREATED:20230112T073034Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230327T091118Z
UID:19357-1679940000-1679947200@www.bsa.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Dr Michael Loy\, 'Roads and resources on Archaic/Classical Samos'
DESCRIPTION:Dr Michael Loy (University of Cambridge\, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow)\, “Roads and resources on Archaic/Classical Samos” \n  \nTo attend IN PERSON (Athens) please register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/roads-and-resources-on-archaicclassical-samos-tickets-586873874557 \nTo attend ONLINE please register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_iOzgtjPqSHWMBtDp7dzXlA
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/dr-michael-loy-roads-and-resources-on-archaic-classical-samos/
CATEGORIES:Upper House Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Athens:20230320T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Athens:20230320T190000
DTSTAMP:20260501T073411
CREATED:20230112T072947Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230314T095422Z
UID:19355-1679335200-1679338800@www.bsa.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Dr Tulsi Parikh\, "Bodies in motion: Experiencing the sacred in ancient Greece\, the case of Ancient Karthaia\, Kea"
DESCRIPTION:Dr Tulsi Parikh (A. G. Leventis Fellow in Hellenic Studies / British School at Athens)\, “Bodies in motion: Experiencing the sacred in ancient Greece\, the case of Ancient Karthaia\, Kea” \nAbstract \nHow did sacred landscapes shape religious experience and to what extent were sacred landscapes in turn shaped by religious experience? In this paper\, I introduce my new research at the BSA on the relationships between people and sacred space in ancient Greece. I consider how we might understand different types of space within the sacred environment\, as well as how worshippers might have experienced these spaces. Using Karthaia as a case study\, I explore the special spatial configurations of the sanctuaries during the Archaic/Classical period\, investigating\, in particular\, how people moved around the space\, and how they might have perceived and conceptualised it. I ultimately consider the implications of the interactions between people and places on ancient religious experience and understanding. \n  \nRegister to attend ONLINE via Zoom here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ciY7WDWSSNiweL3Wp-_8Fw \nRegister to attend IN PERSON in Athens here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bodies-in-motion-experiencing-sacred-space-at-ancient-karthea-kea-tickets-585229516237 \nMonday 20 March 2023\, 4pm (UK) / 6pm (Greece)
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/dr-tulsi-parikh-tbc/
CATEGORIES:Upper House Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Athens:20230313T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Athens:20230313T190000
DTSTAMP:20260501T073411
CREATED:20230112T072920Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230309T075922Z
UID:19353-1678730400-1678734000@www.bsa.ac.uk
SUMMARY:Elizabeth Foley\, "Cycladic Cities and Hegemonic Powers in the Hellenistic Period"
DESCRIPTION:Elizabeth Foley (Macmillan-Rodewald Student\, BSA)\, “Cycladic Cities and Hegemonic Powers in the Hellenistic Period” \nPlease register to attend IN PERSON here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cycladic-cities-and-hegemonic-powers-in-the-hellenistic-period-tickets-577006751727 \nPlease register to attend ONLINE here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_b85vM7USQUC4JMswtxB9yA \n  \nMonday 13 March\, 4pm (UK) / 6pm (Greece)
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/dr-elizabeth-foley-tbc/
CATEGORIES:Upper House Seminar
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