EARTH WATER FIRE 2025 The Thrapsano Cultural Association, the Centre for the Study of Modern Ceramics and the British School at Athens are organizing in co-organization with the Region of Crete, with the collaboration of PLOYGOS and under the auspices of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and the Municipality of Minoa Pediada the four-day cultural festival EARTH WATER […]
Women Transcending Boundaries: Over a century of scholarship, fieldwork and friendship across the British International Research Institutes - at the British Academy Summer Showcase 2025 Look out for our digital history of women archaeologists, ‘Women Transcending Boundaries: Over a century of scholarship, fieldwork and friendship across the British International Research Institutes’, on display at The […]
Reconstructing the 1936 British School at Athens (BSA) exhibition: A Workshop on the Study of Pre-World War II Archaeological Exhibitions using Archival Materials Organisers: Andrew Shapland, Renée Trepagnier, Amalia Kakissis, and Charlotte Townsend With the growth of the museum studies discipline and the interest in archival and archaeological collections in museums and heritage organisations, the […]
Daskalio Cave, Kalymnos, Photograph © Stathis Klimis Online Friends' Lecture Dr Maria Mina (University of the Aegean), “Sacred caves outside Crete: Daskalio Cave on Kalymnos and its connections to Minoan ritual practices” Abstract: We know from archaeological studies that occupied caves diachronically held prominent positions as visible landmarks or as nodal points in exchange networks […]
source: ekathimerini "The role of the Diaspora in Greek American relations, 1974-2024” Chaired by: Professor Eirini Karamouzi (American College of Greece/University of Sheffield), Dr Lamprini Rori (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) Discussants: Professor Alexander Kitroeff (Haverford College) & Professor Constantinos Arvanitopoulos (Panteion University) Abstract: The paper will explore the diaspora as an actor seeking […]
Michael Frede Annual Michael Frede Memorial Lecture Professor Eyjólfur Kjalar Emilsson (University of Oslo), “Idealist, dualist or something else? Plotinus on the status of the sensible world” Abstract: In this paper I shall discuss Plotinus’ views on causation of and in the sensible sphere—by “the sensible sphere” I mean the physical world around us. The […]
August Schörgendorfer’s photos of Villa Ariadne and the excavations at Knossos. Source: © A. Schörgendorfer’s photo album Annual Bader Archive Lecture Dr Georgia Flouda (Archaeological Museum of Heraklion), “Adventures in the Archives: Reconstructing archaeology in Nazi-Occupied Crete” Abstract: This presentation explores the institutional and political context of the Wehrmacht’s Kunstschutz (‘Art Protection’), established in 1941 […]
Upper House Seminar Dr Alessandra Ricci (Koç University), “How did it begin?: The Institutionalization of Byzantine Studies in Turkey and Sir Steven Runciman” Abstract: 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 - […]
Pottery from the Cyclades: an interdisciplinary approach Dr. Edyta Marzec, British School at Athens In-person only
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. Upper House Seminar Dr Roderick Bailey (University of Oxford), "Anglo-American attitudes to the protection of Jewish cultural heritage in Thessaloniki, 1943-46" Abstract: During the Second World War, more than four-fifths of Greece’s […]
image: The Mani Promontory in the Southern Peloponnese. CORONELLI, Vincenzo. Description géographique et historique de la Morée ... , Paris, Nicolas Langlois, MDCLXXXVII Online Friends' lecture Elias 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 […]
image: Funerary inscription for Domitia Saturnina Apollonis (Corinth 8.1.134), source: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Corinth Excavations Upper House Seminar Dr Laura Nastasi (BSA), "Language Set in Stone: Graeco-Latin Bilingualism and Writing Culture in Roman Corinth" Abstract: The commonly accepted view about Corinth in the Roman period is that the foundation of a […]
image: Hotel Formentor, Mallorca by bemhuesca, used under CC BY SA 2.0 The Centre for the Study of Modern and Contemporary History in conjunction with The British School at Athens Everyday Life Under Dictatorship in Southern Europe: Intimacy, Sociality, and Loneliness Speakers: Prof Kate Ferris (University of St Andrews), Dr Huw Halstead (University of Edinburgh), and Dr Yannick Lengkeek (University of Birmingham) Respondent: Dr Daniel Knight (University […]
The Research Centre for Greek and Latin Literature of the Academy of Athens and the British School at Athens are delighted to announce the lecture: Professor Tim Rood (Oxford), ‘The Greek Palimpsest: Alfred Zimmern at the British School at Athens, 1909–10’. The lecture will take place at the East Hall of the Academy of […]
Publication Presentation R.L.N. Barber (ed.), "Phylakopi, Melos, 1896-99. The finds in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens, BSA Suppl. Volume 53" The National Archaeological Museum and the British School at Athens cordially invite you to the presentation of the two-volume publication R.L.N. Barber (ed.), Phylakopi, Melos, 1896-99. The finds in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens, BSA Suppl. Volume […]
Upper House Seminar Dr Artemis Papatheodorou (The Metropolitan Museum of Art), "The Ottoman laws on antiquities in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries" Abstract: 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 […]
Elderly olive trees growing on the edge of an agricultural terrace, Kythera, photo: Dr Valasia Isaakidou PLEASE NOTE: new date - Mon 25th March 2025 Hybrid Friends' Lecture Professor Paul Halstead (Professor Emeritus, University of Sheffield), “The importance of olive growing and oil exports in Archaic-Classical Athens: the contribution of 'citizen science'” Abstract: Scholars have […]
Upper House Seminar Lady Marina Marks in conversation with Bruce Clark, "The Uses of Oppression: The Ottoman Empire through its Greek Newspapers, 1830–1862" Lady 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). Abstract: During […]
Artemis holding two long torches, 4th century B.C., Megara. National Archaeological Museum of Athens. NM 4540. Photo by George E. Koronaios (22 July 2018) via Wikimedia Commons, shared under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 licence. Visiting Fellow Lecture Dr Theodora Jim (University of Nottingham), "Thinking through Greek and Chinese gods from a comparative perspective" Abstract: Contrary to […]
Presented By Fitch Laboratory, BSA and Wiener Laboratory, ASCSA Speaker(s) Dr. Andreas Karydas Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics of the National Center for Scientific Research "Demokritos" Location ASCSA, M. H. Wiener Laboratory Seminar Room 54 Souidias st., Athens 10676 Contact For any enquiries, tel.: 213-000-2400 (133), Email: infoWienerLab@ascsa.edu.gr
Course Keynote Lecture Prof. Konstantinos Georgiadis (University of Peloponnese) "The Revival of modern Olympic Games: from Zappas to Coubertin" As part of the course: History and Philosophy of the Olympic Games: understanding ancient ideas and communicating modern ideals. https://www.bsa.ac.uk/courses/history-and-philosophy-of-the-olympic-games/ Prof. Konstantinos Georgiadis - University of Peloponnese, IOA Dean Member, IOC Commission for Olympic Education Vice-President, International Society […]
Annual Open Lectures 2025 London Please join us for the Annual Open Lectures of the British School at Athens on Tuesday 18th February 2025 at 5.30 pm which will be held in-person only at the British Academy, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AH. credit Kostas Mantziaris The following lectures will be presented, with Professor […]
Annual Open Lectures 2025 Athens Please join us for the Annual Open Lectures of the British School at Athens on Thursday 13th February 2025 at 7 p.m. which will be held in-person only at the Archaeological Society (Lecture Hall), 22 Panepistimiou Street. The Work of the British School at Athens in 2024 […]
Annual Open Lectures 2025 Thessaloniki Please join us for the Annual Open Lectures of the British School at Athens on Tuesday 11th February 2025 at 7 p.m. which will be held in-person only. The lecture will take place in the Cast Gallery of the Faculty of Philosophy, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. The […]
Upper House Seminar Dr Jan Sienkiewicz (University of Cambridge/British Museum/BSA), "Islands Between Palaces: The ‘Mycenaean’ Civilisation Reconsidered" Abstract: 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’ […]
The remains of the two castles at Torone, photo by Teddy Catling Hybrid Friends' Lecture Dr Pamela Armstrong (University of Oxford), "The Two Castles of Torone" Abstract: 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 […]
Joint BSA-CHS Panel ‘Poetry between Languages: Writing and Translating Poetry in English and Greek’ This hybrid panel session, to be held on 20 January 2025 at the British School at Athens, takes as its starting point With Signs Following (Reading: Two Rivers Press 2024) the newly published poetry collection of David Ricks (Professor Emeritus, King’s […]
BSA Friends' lecture Professor Nikos Daskalothanasis (Athens School of Fine Arts), "Το πρώτο ίδρυμα καλλιτεχνικής εκπαίδευσης στην Ελλάδα: η ιστορία της Ανωτάτης Σχολής Καλών Τεχνών της Αθήνας" Please note: the lecture will take place in Greek Abstract: The aim of the lecture is to reconstruct the history of the first educational artistic institution of the […]
Fragment of an inscribed tribute list, 425-4 BCE, image credit: the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Fletcher Fund, 1926 Upper House Seminar Dr Edward Jones (BSA Macmillan-Rodewald Student / Oxford University) "The function and significance of inscribed accounts in Classical Athens” Abstract: In this lecture, Edward Jones explores the Classical Athenian habit of inscribing administrative […]
image: Islam Issa gives his prize-winning address at the Runciman Award Ceremony 2024, © Julian Anderson BSA / Anglo Hellenic League lecture Professor Islam Issa (Birmingham City University), "The Alexandrian Dream" BIO Islam Issa is an award-winning author, broadcaster and curator, named by the BBC as ‘one of the UK’s most significant new thinkers’. He […]
image: Technopolis City of Athens (June 2022), Long Run Productions, commissioned by Gordon Davies, courtesy of Technopolis City of Athens | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Online Friends Webinar Dr Gordon Davies (Cambridge Museum of Technology), "Filming Archaeology in Hellas: Technopolis City of Athens (and beyond)" ABSTACT: Experience a different side of Athens in a series […]
Frederic Edwin Church, The Parthenon (1871). New York, Metropolitan Museum Upper House Seminar Professor Dimitris Plantzos (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens), "Greeks, Macedonians, Thracians, and a few others: Inventing the Ancestors in Southeastern Europe" In this lecture, Dimitris Plantzos examines the complex interplay between archaeology and nationalist imagination in Southeastern Europe. Focusing on the […]
International Conference of the Committee for the Support of Libraries The Organizing Committee for Library Support (OEEB) invites you to the International Conference "Artificial Intelligence in Libraries." The conference will focus on best practices for integrating Artificial Intelligence technologies into libraries, archives, and research centers, aiming to enhance the professional development of Greek librarians and […]
Join us in Celebrating 50 Years of the Fitch Laboratory at an international conference that will explore how archaeological science has contributed to our understanding of the human past in Greece, focussing on three main topics: Movement and Mobility; Everyday Life; Landscape Histories and Environment.
BSA Friends Greece event "BYRON @200: Poets, Patriots & Philhellenes" A collective reading curated by poet, playwright and literary translator, Ginger F. Zaimis, in conjunction with the British School Athens and BSA Friends that presents a selection of poets, writers & history keepers in celebration of Lord Byron and the 200th anniversary of his death. […]
Upper House Seminar Dr Sergios Menelaou (BSA Williams Fellow in Ceramic Petrology), "From ceramic islandscapes to mobility dynamics in the Late Chalcolithic-Early Bronze Age northeast Aegean" Abstract: 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 […]
SPBS / BSA Autumn Lecture Prof. Peter Sarris (Cambridge), "Writing the Reign of Justinian" Professor Sarris, a leading authority on the study of Justinian’s reign, a pivotal period in Byzantine history. His latest book, JUSTINIAN: EMPEROR, SOLDIER, SAINT, has garnered critical acclaim and won prestigious awards, including the London Hellenic Prize. Date: Wednesday November 13th, 2024 […]
image: A Cretan landscape. Courtesy of JK Davies Professor John K Davies (Liverpool), "Re-imagining ancient Greek landscapes" PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS LECTURE HAS BEEN CANCELLED. Due to unforeseen circumstances, Professor John K. Davies had to cancel his lecture. We hope to reschedule it for next year.
Fitch Wiener Seminar Ioanna Anastopoulou “From commingled bones to stories: forensic tools in archaeology” In-person only, 5pm (Greece) at the Wiener Lab, American School of Classical Studies at Athens
BSA / NHRF / ICS Autumn Lecture Professor Judith Barringer (University of Edinburgh), "Seeking the Divine in a Faraway Place: Western Greeks and Sanctuaries Abroad" ABSTRACT Greek colonies in Magna Graecia, founded in the eighth and seventh centuries BCE, soon established their own sanctuaries, religious practices, temples, etc. in their new communities. Yet colonial […]
Celebrating 50 Years, The Marc and Ismene Fitch Laboratory for Archaeological Science We are delighted to invite you to celebrate 50 years of the Marc and Ismene Fitch Laboratory for Archaeological Science on the 24th of October, 2024. The event will take place at the British Academy, in the Wolfson Room, from 18:30-21:00. This special […]
Poetry Reading Linda France (Environmental Poet of the Year 2022-23), Michael Marks Awards The BSA is delighted to host the first of the Michael Marks Poetry Pamphlet Awards holders in residence at the BSA. Our inaugural poet in residence is Linda France, Environmental Poet of the Year 2022-23 winner, who will be with us for […]
BSA Friends' Lecture Online Professor Emeritus Hector Williams, “From the Stone Age to the Cistercians: Arcadian Stymphalos Through the Ages” Abstract: Professor Williams, who leads the excavations at Stymphalos, in a small mountainous lake valley in Arcadia, Greece, a site famous for Herakles and the Stymphalian birds, guides us through the site’s fascinating history across […]
The British School at Athens (BSA) is proud to host a conference in honour of Myrto Georgakopoulou (1976-2022) to celebrate her remarkable contributions to Aegean archaeology and related fields.
Conversations with the Minoan “Snake Goddesses” Professor Nicoletta Momigliano (University of Bristol) on behalf of the 'The Many Lives of a Snake Goddess’ project team. (This lecture will take place in Greek) This talk offers an introduction to the project ‘The Many Lives of a Snake Goddess: Diachronic, Multicultural, and Multisensory Perspectives’ (https://mlsg.squarespace.com/) a project spearheaded by Christine […]
Πόσο επίκαιρος είναι ο αρχαίος αθλητισμός; Dr Georgios Mouratidis (BSA), "Does ancient sport still matter?" (This lecture will take place in Greek) Observed from a historical perspective, doping is a relatively recent phenomenon that became increasingly widespread in sport after the 19th century and the beginning of modern Olympic Games. Today, international institutions like WADA (World Anti Doping […]
A Time-Traveller’s Odyssey: Exploring sacred journeys through archaeology and science BSA exhibit at the British Academy Summer Showcase 2024 Commutes, pilgrimages, holidays and migrations are journeys that shape our lives. But what about people’s journeys in the past? Step back in time to the ancient world of mobility and religious practice through the captivating lens […]
The Thrapsano Cultural Association is organizing a series of cultural events on Cretan pottery, in collaboration with the British School at Athens, the Centre for the Study of Modern Ceramics – G. Psaropoulos Foundation, with the Region of Crete as co-organizer and the support of the Directorate of Modern Cultural Heritage-Ministry of Culture, the potters […]
BSA/Hellenic Centre London Prof. Rebecca Sweetman (BSA), "Travelling the Mediterranean: Late Antique and Victorian Women on the Move" What connects the early 4th and 19th century Mediterranean? Women. Female mobility had increased significantly following centuries of restricted travel, yet our views of the Mediterranean in these periods are still shaped by the writing of men. Throughout time, […]
Education in and beyond the Greek Gymnasium at the Swedish Institute at Athens and the Academy of Athens The gymnasium was the main institution for civic education for ancient Greeks, and one of the most characteristic landmarks of the Greek polis, according to ancient authors such as Dio Chrysostom and Aelius Aristidēs. As a result, the Greek gymnasium as […]
The rich heritage of Sifnos’s pottery screened in the British School at Athens garden oasis in Kolonaki, Athens
Philosophy Seminars Prof. David Charles (Yale), "Hylomorphism and Human Thought: some issues in Aristotle’s De Anima" At the Elli Lambridis Philosophical Library, 9 Ypsilantou Str., Kolonaki
BSA Friends' Lecture Stephen Duckworth, “Nineteenth century travellers in Crete - Edward Lear, Pashley and Spratt” Abstract: 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 […]
Philosophy Seminars Prof. David Charles (Yale), "Memory holds the door: Aristotle on Memory"
THE MICHAEL FREDE MEMORIAL LECTURE Professor Benjamin Morison (Princeton University), "Δόξα and ἐπιστήμη in Aristotle: some implications for ethical thought" Abstract: According to Aristotle, one part of our soul grasps scientific truths and can achieve ἐπιστήμη concerning them. A different part knows about practical truths, including truths about morality, and has a different kind of […]
BSA Friends Greece lecture Christine Willis, "50 years a Potter" Event 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 […]
BSA Friends' Lecture Dr Conor Trainor (University of Warwick), “What Happened Under Roman Rule? A View From Two Greek Cities” Abstract: 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 […]
Exhibition-Workshop Friday 17 May 2024 18:30 (EEST) in-person and Saturday 18 May 2024 9:30 (EEST) in-person with events continuing until 17 June Full programme: Pendlebury programme Location: VIKELAIA MUNICIPAL LIBRARY Aktarika Megaron Eleftherios Venizelos Square 71202, Heraklion, Crete Organizers: Region of Crete, British School at Athens, Vikelaia Municipal Library The event will […]
NEW DIRECTIONS IN THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF ROMAN GREECE: CONNECTIVITY, INTERACTION AND INNOVATION Conference at the British School at Athens, 15–17 May 2024 We are delighted to invite you to a three-day international conference entitled “New Directions in the Archaeology of Roman Greece: Connectivity, Interaction and Innovation,” which will take place at the British School […]
BSA Bader Archive Lecture Senta German (Montclair State University), “Piet de Jong and the Post War Restorations of Knossos” Abstract: To most visitors, the restorations of the site of Knossos are the site’s most distinguishing feature. Begun under the direction of Sir Arthur Evans during his first season of excavation in 1900, work to restore, […]
