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SUMMARY:Hendrik Lorenz\, "Aristotle on defining souls"
DESCRIPTION:Annual Michael Frede Memorial Lecture\nProfessor Hendrik Lorenz (Princeton University)\, “Aristotle on defining souls”\nAbstract: I argue that De Anima 2.2-3 dramatically changes the picture about the definability of the soul that emerged in the first chapter of that book. The upshot of that change is that the soul as such is not definable\, although a general explication of the term ‘soul’ can be\, and has been\, provided. The best such explication is that the soul is the first fulfillment of a natural body that is instrumental. This cannot be a definition because there is no single nature by having which souls are souls. On a more positive note\, Aristotle does think\, at least in De Anima 2.2-3\, that there are specifiable natures of plant soul\, beast soul\, and human soul\, so that definitions of these three kinds of soul can be provided. Employing resources from De Anima 2.1-3\, I present the three definitions that Aristotle seems to have in mind. Along the way\, I bolster the case for thinking that the general account of the soul that is presented in De Anima 2.1 is not meant to be a definition at all. \nBio: Hendrik Lorenz was educated at Cambridge and Oxford and works at Princeton University. He is the author of numerous publications on Plato\, Aristotle and other ancient Greek and Roman philosophers\, as well as on topics in medieval and early modern philosophy. \nphoto: Michael Frede \nHybrid lecture \nTo attend in person in Athens\, register here \nTo attend online via webinar\, register here \nPlease note\, there is a handout available for this lecture. \n 
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/hendrik-lorenz-aristotle-on-defining-souls/
LOCATION:British School at Athens\, Upper House\, 52 Souedias Street\, Athens\, Greece
CATEGORIES:Michael Frede Memorial lecture
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SUMMARY:Anna Lagia\, "The Other Side of the Athenian Democracy: Laurion Through the Prism of Bioarchaeology"
DESCRIPTION:Fitch Wiener Labs Seminar Series\nDr. Anna Lagia (Department of Archaeology\, Ghent University)\, “The Other Side of the Athenian Democracy: Laurion Through the Prism of Bioarchaeology”\n  \nIn-person only \nContact: For any enquiries\, tel.: 213-000-2400 (133)\, Email: infoWienerLab@ascsa.edu.gr
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/anna-lagia-the-other-side-of-the-athenian-democracy-laurion-through-the-prism-of-bioarchaeology/
LOCATION:American School of Classical Studies at Athens\, Wiener Laboratory\, 54 Souidias Street\, Athens\, 10676\, Greece
CATEGORIES:Fitch-Wiener Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Athens:20260511T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Athens:20260511T190000
DTSTAMP:20260522T202752
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SUMMARY:Ann French\, "Embroideries and Archives: A Research Journey"
DESCRIPTION:Annual Bader Archive Lecture\nAnn French (Whitworth Art Gallery\, University of Manchester [retired])\, “Embroideries and Archives: A Research Journey”\nAbstract: In the early twentieth century\, a group of BSA students put together significant collections of Greek domestic embroidery.   Many of which are now in museum collections across the UK\, in particular the V&A and National Museums Liverpool.  The primary collectors were R M Dawkins and A J B Wace.  As the granddaughter of Wace and as a textile conservator\, Ann has been researching how these collections were compiled\, studied\, exhibited and promoted by them and their colleagues and friends. She has made extensive use of archives in UK museums and collections\, family archives\, those of the BSA and of the Benaki Museum.  In particular\, she has been cataloguing and improving the storage of the archives left to National Museums Liverpool by A J B Wace. The Bader Lecture will cover her findings and how she has been able to make connections amongst institutions via archival material\, especially original photographs and surviving labelling systems. \nBio: Ann French worked in the field of Textile Conservation for over forty years for a variety of institutions\, including the Victoria and Albert Museum\, Glasgow Museums and finally at the Whitworth Art Gallery\, the University of Manchester. Just retired\, she was responsible for all textile-based material in its collections encompassing post-Pharaonic textiles from Egypt to contemporary art textiles.  She also combined this role with that of Collection Care Manager involving personnel management\, collections management\, and the delivery of exhibitions and loans. In addition\, Ann has taught conservation and collection care for the universities of Manchester\, Glasgow & East Anglia and has contributed to conservation’s professional body\, ICON\, as chair of the Textiles Group\, a member of the managing committee and of the accreditation committee. Her personal research project since 2002 involves the collections and collecting of Greek domestic embroidery now in UK Museums – the subject of the Bader Archive Lecture 2026. \nphotographs: Michael Pollard. ©Ann French \nHybrid lecture – please note this lecture will not be recorded \nTo attend in person in Athens\, register here \nTo attend online via webinar\, register here
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/ann-french-embroideries-and-archives-a-research-journey/
LOCATION:British School at Athens\, Upper House\, 52 Souedias Street\, Athens\, Greece
CATEGORIES:Archive Lecture
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SUMMARY:Abbie Vickress\, "Reimagining the Narrative(s) of Contested Cultural Artefacts"
DESCRIPTION:Artist in residence event\nAbbie Vickress (University of the Arts London)\, “Reimagining the Narrative(s) of Contested Cultural Artefacts”\nAbstract: UAL Research Resident Artist Abbie Vickress will talk about the residency and the ways that this experience has evolved her PhD research on how graphic design influences the interpretation of contested cultural artefacts in museums and archives. She will discuss how design elements frame and shape visitor perception of artefacts and the political narratives surrounding them\, and the possible roles of pluralism and knowledge agency within historical institutions. \nBio: Abbie Vickress is a graphic designer\, researcher and facilitator exploring knowledge generation and distribution in public engagement and cultural spaces. This critical approach manifests through printed and interactive design\, exhibition design\, curation\, writing and facilitation of workshops and events. She is currently undertaking a Technē AHRC funded PhD in Pluralist Exhibition Design Methods: Anti-colonial graphic design in ethnographic museums with Afterall\, a Central Saint Martins\, University of the Arts London research centre exploring the value of contemporary art and its relation to wider society. Abbie teaches and guest lectures widely at HE undergraduate and postgraduate level\, and with museum learning departments. \nimage: cover of Graphic Pause courtesy of Abbie Vickress \nHybrid event \nTo attend in person in Athens\, register here \nTo attend online via webinar\, register here
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/abbie-vickress-reimagining-the-narratives-of-contested-cultural-artefacts/
LOCATION:British School at Athens\, Upper House\, 52 Souedias Street\, Athens\, Greece
CATEGORIES:Artist in Residence event
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SUMMARY:George Batzanopoulos\, "John Craxton: Painting the Land of the Apollonian and the Dionysian"
DESCRIPTION:BSA Friends Greece lecture\nGeorge Batzanopoulos (John Craxton Estate)\, “John Craxton: Painting the Land of the Apollonian and the Dionysian”\nAbstract: This lecture presents the main findings of George Batzanopoulos’ undergraduate dissertation\, John Craxton: Painting the Land of the Apollonian and the Dionysian\, completed at The Courtauld Institute of Art. The research examines how the British painter John Craxton interpreted Greece through a visual language of contrasts\, focusing on the interplay between light and darkness and between linearity and angularity in his paintings. These visual oppositions are interpreted through the Nietzschean schema of the Apollonian and the Dionysian in order to articulate Craxton’s portrayal of Hellenicity. Drawing on close visual analysis of key works from Craxton’s Greek period\, the talk explores how the artist translated the Greek landscape\, climate\, and everyday life into a pictorial system of polarities. Particular attention is given to the role of light\, line\, and colour in shaping Craxton’s vision of Greece\, as well as to how his position as an English ‘outsider’ allowed him to perceive Hellenicity as a dynamic balance between order and spontaneity. The lecture will also reflect on new perspectives that emerged from archival research and discussions with figures closely connected to the artist\, offering fresh insights into Craxton’s artistic identity and his enduring relationship with Greece. \nThe lecture will be introduced by Ian Collins. \nBio: George Batzanopoulos is an art historian\, specialising in twentieth-century Greek and European painting. He recently completed his BA in History of Art at The Courtauld Institute of Art\, where his dissertation\, John Craxton: Painting the Land of the Apollonian and the Dionysian\, — the first academic paper on the artist — examined Craxton’s portrayal of Hellenicity and illuminated uncovered aspects of his oeuvre. Batzanopoulos currently works as an assistant curator at the Athens War Museum and as an archivist at the John Craxton Estate. \nimage: John Craxton\, Two Figures and Setting Sun\, 1952– 67\, oil on canvas\, 122 × 244 cm\, Private Collection. © DACS/ John Craxton Estate. All rights reserved. \nHybrid \nTo attend in person in Athens\, please register here \nTo attend online via webinar\, please register here
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/george-batzanopoulos-john-craxton-painting-the-land-of-the-apollonian-and-the-dionysian/
LOCATION:British School at Athens\, Upper House\, 52 Souedias Street\, Athens\, Greece
CATEGORIES:BSA Friends event
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/Athens:20260420T190000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Athens:20260401T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Athens:20260401T180000
DTSTAMP:20260522T202752
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SUMMARY:Artemios Oikonomou\, "Glass biographies II: Technology and the Afterlife of Glass"
DESCRIPTION:Fitch Wiener Labs Seminar Series\nDr Artemios Oikonomou (BSA Fitch Laboratory)\, “Glass Biographies II: Technology and the Afterlife of Glass”\n  \nIn-person only \nContact: For any enquiries\, tel.: 213-000-2400 (133)\, Email: infoWienerLab@ascsa.edu.gr
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/artemios-oikonomou-glass-biographies-2-technology-and-the-afterlife-of-glass/
LOCATION:American School of Classical Studies at Athens\, Wiener Laboratory\, 54 Souidias Street\, Athens\, 10676\, Greece
CATEGORIES:Fitch-Wiener Seminar
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260401T170000
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SUMMARY:Byzantium and Bloomsbury
DESCRIPTION:One-day online workshop\nByzantium and Bloomsbury\n\n\n\n\nThis one-day online workshop will focus on the interest of members of the Bloomsbury Group in Byzantium\, especially Byzantine art. Both Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant demonstrated an interest in Byzantine art\, in terms of their aesthetic concerns and their subject matter; in 1912 Vanessa Bell painted a work entitled ‘Byzantine Lady’ and Grant painted a similar work entitled ‘The Countess’\, and their Famous Women dinner service\, commissioned by Kenneth Clark in 1932\, featured the Empress Theodora as one of the twelve queens depicted on the set of fifty plates. But the interest of the Bloomsbury Group in Byzantine art was more fundamental than this. Byzantium had a vital place in Clive Bell’s Art (1914); Clive\, art critic and husband of Vanessa\, declared ‘since the Byzantine primitives set their mosaics at Ravenna no artist in Europe has created forms of greater significance unless it be Cézanne’. His enthusiasm was shared by Roger Fry\, both artist and art critic (and collaborator with Vanessa and Duncan in the Omega Workshop\, 1913-1919)\, who initially labelled Cézanne and Gauguin as ‘proto-Byzantines’ before adopting the term ‘post-Impressionists’. Boris Anrep\, who worked in mosaic (e.g. at Westminster Cathedral)\, knew Fry (Anrep’s wife left him for Fry)\, Lytton Strachey\, Maynard Keynes and Virginia Woolf. \n\n\n\n\nThe workshop is open to members of the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies (reduced fee)\, but also to non-members (full fee). The reduced fees also apply to members of the British School at Athens. \n\n\n\n\nFor more information and to register\, please visit: https://www.byzantium.ac.uk/byzantium-and-bloomsbury-a-one-day-online-workshop-1-april-2026-10am-5pm-organised-by-the-society-for-the-promotion-of-byzantine-studies/
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/byzantium-and-bloomsbury/
LOCATION:Online only
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:George Mavrotas\, "Modern challenges for sport integrity"
DESCRIPTION:Course keynote lecture – History and Philosophy of the Olympic Games\nProfessor George Mavrotas (Secretary General of Sport\, Hellenic Ministry of Education\, Religious Affairs and Sport)\, “Modern challenges for sport integrity”\nFrom ancient years\, in the first Olympic Games\, sport was related to ethics and values. After the revival of sport culture and the first modern Olympic Games at the end of 19th century\, sport was strongly linked to its ancient roots\, where ethics\, values\, integrity\, sportsmanship prevail.\nNowadays\, with the global spread of sports\, the intense commercialization with the inevitable side effects\, significant shadows have appeared\, targeting especially the ethics\, the values\, the true character of sport what we define as sport integrity. According to the Council of Europe -the most influential intergovernmental organization regarding sport- when we are talking about sport integrity we mean the integrity of people\, the integrity of sport competitions and the integrity of sport organizations.\nIn 2018 the UN and UNESCO recognized five policy areas that need our attention in order to protect sport integrity: (a) violence in sport events (b) interpersonal violence in sport environments (c) doping (d) manipulation of sport competitions (e) corruption in sport organizations.\nIn my lecture I will present the national and international framework and modern trends in the fight against these threats to sport integrity presenting some concrete developments. \nGeorge Mavrotas (b.1967) was an international water polo player (1984-2000) with 511 caps with the Greek national team (captain in 1995-2000) and participation in 5 Olympic Games (1984\, 1988\, 1992\, 1996\, 2000). Concurrently with his athletic career\, he received his degree in the School of Chemical Engineering in the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). He received his PhD diploma in 2000 with expertise in Operational Research and today he is an Associate Professor in NTUA. He is in the Stanford list of top 2% scientists for 2024 based on the impact of their scientific publications. In 2015-2019 he was member of the Hellenic Parliament and from 2016 to 2019 member of the Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe. In July 2019\, he was designated as Secretary General of Sport and renewed his term in July 2023. In June 2021 he was elected as Chairman of the Follow Up Committee of the “Macolin Convention” of the Council of Europe against manipulation of sport competitions and he was re-elected in the same position for a second term in May 2023. \nIn-person only \nTo attend in person in Athens\, please register here \nimage: National Platform for Sport Integrity icon \n 
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/george-mavrotas-modern-challenges-for-sport-integrity/
LOCATION:British School at Athens\, Upper House\, 52 Souedias Street\, Athens\, Greece
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Athens:20260323T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Athens:20260323T190000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260313T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260313T183000
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SUMMARY:R. M. Dawkins and the British School at Athens: from archaeology to dialects and folklore
DESCRIPTION:The Cambridge Centre for Greek Studies and the British School at Athens are pleased to announce a Colloquium\nwhich will focus on the life and work of Richard M. Dawkins\, Director of the British School at Athens (1906 to 1914) and the first occupant of the Bywater and Sotheby Chair of Byzantine and Modern Greek Language and Literature at the University of Oxford (1920–1939). \nSpeakers include:\n\nJohn Bennet (University of Sheffield)\, Professor Emeritus of Aegean Archaeology and\, like Dawkins\, a former Director of the BSA\, with Debi Harlan\, independent researcher;\nAnn French (The Whitworth Gallery\, University of Manchester)\, Collections Care Manager and Conservator (Textiles);\nMark Janse (University of Ghent)\, Emeritus Research Professor in Ancient and Asia Minor Greek;\nIoanna Sitaridou (University of Cambridge)\, Professor of Spanish and Historical Linguistics; Co-Director for the Cambridge Centre for Greek Studies; Fellow\, Tutor\, Director of Studies in Linguistics at Queens’ College;\nBirgit Olsen (The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters)\, researcher in folklore.\n\nDawkins’s achievements and their lasting significance will be assessed across the range of his many academic interests\, which included archaeology\, dialectology\, and the collection of embroidery and Greek folktales. \nQueens’ College\, Cambridge\nFriday 13 March 2026\n2.00–6.30 pm\, followed by a reception \nOrganisers: Prof David Holton and Prof Ioanna Sitaridou \n  \n\nInfo and registration\nProgramme\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/r-m-dawkins-and-the-british-school-at-athens-from-archaeology-to-dialects-and-folklore/
LOCATION:Queens’ College\, Cambridge
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Athens:20260311T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Athens:20260311T180000
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SUMMARY:Maria Kaparou\, "Glass Biographies I: Corrosion and material identity"
DESCRIPTION:Fitch Wiener Labs Seminar Series\nDr Maria Kaparou (Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (INN)\, NCSR Demokritos)\, “Glass Biographies I: Corrosion and material identity”\n  \nIn-person only \nContact: For any enquiries\, tel.: 213-000-2400 (133)\, Email: infoWienerLab@ascsa.edu.gr
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/maria-kaparou-glass-biographies-i-corrosion-and-material-identity/
LOCATION:American School of Classical Studies at Athens\, Wiener Laboratory\, 54 Souidias Street\, Athens\, 10676\, Greece
CATEGORIES:Fitch-Wiener Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260310T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260310T190000
DTSTAMP:20260522T202752
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SUMMARY:Cyprian Broodbank\, 'The Emergence of Civilisation'\, and the Maghreb
DESCRIPTION:Image credit: Giulio Lucarini & Toby Wilkinson \nBSA Friends’ lecture\nProfessor Cyprian Broodbank (University of Cambridge)\, ‘The Emergence of Civilisation’\, and the Maghreb\nAbstract: The ‘long’ third millennium BC is recognised as a crucial period of social change across much of the Mediterranean. In 1972 Colin Renfrew’s magisterial The Emergence of Civilisation: The Cyclades and the Aegean in the Third Millennium BC highlighted the importance of this ‘pre-palatial’ millennium for understanding the origins of the Minoan and Mycenaean societies that followed. It also offered a radical\, liberating alternative model of change as something explicable through internal processes rather than necessarily by recourse to external factors. In parallel with transformations in the Aegean\, this same period witnessed the emergence of kingship and the state in northeast Africa\, and of urbanism in the Levant\, while recent work in southern Iberia underscores the dramatic changes underway at the western end of the Mediterranean. It is against this background that new discoveries in northwest Africa can be framed\, specifically from new fieldwork by a British-Italian-Moroccan collaboration at Oued Beht in Morocco. These bear witness to a remarkable\, hitherto unknown complex farming society on the southern flank of the Mediterranean\, as well as the emergence of a long-range maritime network at the far western end of the Mediterranean comparable to the contemporary Aegean’s ‘international spirit’. These perspectives reflect back critically on explanatory discourse within the Aegean\, and prompt harder questions as to quite how the trajectories of Aegean societies resemble or differ from those attested elsewhere around the emergent Middle Sea. \nBio: Cyprian Broodbank is Disney Professor of Archaeology and Director of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at the University of Cambridge. He studied History at Oxford\, and Aegean and Anatolian archaeology at Bristol\, before gaining a PhD from the Faculty of Classics at Cambridge. In 1993 he took up a Lectureship in Aegean Archaeology at the UCL Institute of Archaeology\, rising to a Professorship in Mediterranean Archaeology. In 2014 he moved to Cambridge to take up his present post. In 2015 he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy\, where he currently serves as Vice-President for the British International Research Institutes. He has held visiting fellowships at All Souls\, Oxford\, and several institutions in the United States. He is author of numerous papers and articles\, as well as two books. The Making of the Middle Sea (2013; revised edition 2024) won the Wolfson History and Nonino Prizes in 2014. Previously\, his first book\, An Island Archaeology of the Early Cyclades\, won the Runciman Award of the Hellenic Society and the James R. Wiseman Prize of the Archaeological Institute of America. His research interests include archaeology as deep global history\, comparative approaches to the archaeology and long-term history of the Mediterranean\, Aegean archaeology\, and the archaeology of islands and maritime connectivity. He co-directs the Kythera Island Project and is currently engaged in fieldwork in Cyprus and at the site of Oued Beht in Morocco. The first publication from the last of these was awarded the 2025 Antiquity Prize\, and the Oued Beht research has also been honoured with a 2025 Field Discovery Award from the Shanghai Archaeology Forum. \nHybrid event \nTo attend online via Zoom webinar\, register here\n\nTo attend in-person in London\, register here \nPlease do consider a donation to the Friends’ Lectures here: https://www.bsa.ac.uk/donate/ \nWe suggest £10 if you are a BSA Supporter\,  £15 otherwise. Please quote “Friends Lecture” in the Additional Comments field. Thank you for your generosity!
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/cyprian-broodbank-the-emergence-of-civilisation-and-the-maghreb/
LOCATION:Room 264 Senate House\, London\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:BSA Friends' Lecture
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260309
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260311
DTSTAMP:20260522T202752
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SUMMARY:Women Archaeologists and War
DESCRIPTION:Mercy Money-Coutts at Knossos\, Crete\, 1937\, PEN/7/2/6/667\, John Pendlebury Family Papers © British School at Athens. \nWomen Archaeologists and War\nFourth workshop on Women in the Archaeology of Greece\nBy the École française d’Athènes and the British School at Athens\, with the support of the British Embassy in Athens\nOrganisers: Priscilla Ralli\, Rachel Phillips\, Rebecca Sweetman \nFor its 2026 edition\, the workshop focuses on the theme of Women Archaeologists and War. It examines the activities of women archaeologists in Greece in the period from 1910 to 1950\, a time characterised by successive and related conflicts across Europe\, from the Balkan Wars to World War One and World War Two. This period also includes the interwar years\, the time after the end of World War Two\, and the Greek Civil War. How did women archaeologists in Greece participate in these war efforts? Can archaeological archives help us to trace women’s roles in wartime? \nWomen archaeologists took on various tasks in wartime: as nurses\, ambulance drivers\, code breakers\, and aid distributors. They worked in Greek hospitals\, with local war charities\, and in intelligence offices based in Athens. One example is Mercy Money-Coutts\, pictured here\, who worked with the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration in Crete after World War Two. By looking at women’s wartime roles in detail\, this workshop aims to explore the different ways that women contributed to war efforts in the early twentieth century\, as well as the different aspects of social and cultural history that their actions illuminate. The conference devotes particular attention to the contested narratives surrounding women in wartime\, examining both the negative and the positive impact of their actions within the European political landscape. It also highlights intersectional approaches that emphasise the interaction between social categories (such as gender\, race\, and class) and the broader structural conditions that influenced women’s work. \n \nProgramme \nHybrid event \n09/03/2026 | École française d’Athènes\, Conference room\, Didotou 6 & Online event\n10/03/2026 | British School at Athens\, Upper House\, Souedias 52 & Online event \nTo attend in person at the BSA on Tuesday 10/03/26\, please register here \n 
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/women-archaeologists-and-war/
LOCATION:British School at Athens\, Upper House\, 52 Souedias Street\, Athens\, Greece
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Athens:20260304T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Athens:20260304T180000
DTSTAMP:20260522T202752
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SUMMARY:Alex Long\, "Platonic protreptic and the unity of the Phaedrus"
DESCRIPTION:Disc with the symbols of the nine Muses and Mnemosyne\, wikimedia commons \nPhilosophy Seminar \nProfessor Alex Long (University of St Andrews)\, “Platonic protreptic and the unity of the Phaedrus“\nAbstract: Plato’s Phaedrus is widely regarded as the first expression in the Greek and Roman traditions of the view that literary compositions should possess ‘organic’ unity. And yet it is an apparently disjointed work\, and the question of its own unity is a long-standing puzzle. The paper argues that there is a function shared by each part of the dialogue: illustrating and defending an indirect approach to protreptic (that is\, the conversion of another person to philosophy)\, where the protreptic is left unannounced and exploits the other person’s pre-existing interests. The dialogue thus defends the distinctive approach to protreptic taken in Plato’s dialogues more generally. \nPlease note: Lecture handout notes are available here \nBio: Alex Long is Professor of Classics at the University of St Andrews. He works on early Greek philosophy\, Plato\, Hellenistic philosophy and Roman philosophy\, and his publications include Death and Immortality in Ancient Philosophy (CUP 2019) and Conversation and Self-Sufficiency in Plato (OUP 2013). Together with Voula Tsouna he edits the book series Key Themes in Ancient Philosophy\, and he and Thomas Johansen are the editors of the journal Phronesis. \nHybrid seminar \nLocation: Elli Lampridis Philosophical Library\, Ipsilantou 9\, 106 75 Athens \nRegistration is not required for in-person attendance \nTo attend online via webinar\, please register here \nThis is a two part seminar series. The seminar at the Academy of Athens will be preceded by a seminar at the BSA on Tuesday 3rd March 2026\, 17:00 (hybrid)\, titled ‘The city-cosmos contrast in Plato’s Timaeus and Critias’. \n 
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/alex-long-platonic-protreptic-and-the-unity-of-the-phaedrus/
LOCATION:Elli Lampridis Philosophical Library\, Ipsilantou 9\, Athens\, 106 75
CATEGORIES:Philosophy Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Athens:20260303T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Athens:20260303T180000
DTSTAMP:20260522T202752
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SUMMARY:Alex Long\, "The city-cosmos contrast in Plato’s Timaeus and Critias"
DESCRIPTION:Atlantis [author: Віщун\, Wikimedia Commons] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_landscape_of_Atlantis.jpg \nPhilosophy Seminar\nProfessor Alex Long (University of St Andrews)\, “The city-cosmos contrast in Plato’s Timaeus and Critias”\nAbstract: Plato’s Timaeus and Critias offer a puzzling combination of cosmology and the political quasi-history of ancient Athens and Atlantis. Previous discussions have taken Plato’s aim to be naturalizing the political theory or likening political lawgivers to the creator of the world. Alex Long argues that the relation should be seen as a contrast: the natural world provides direct empirical access to an everlasting educative model\, whereas in the political sphere such models are typically unavailable. Plato’s aim in combining the two stories is not to lend support to his political claims\, or to present an aggrandizing view of legislation as similar to the creation of the world\, but to show the possibility of proper moral development in a flawed political environment. \nPlease note: Lecture handout notes are available here \nBio: Alex Long is Professor of Classics at the University of St Andrews. He works on early Greek philosophy\, Plato\, Hellenistic philosophy and Roman philosophy\, and his publications include Death and Immortality in Ancient Philosophy (CUP 2019) and Conversation and Self-Sufficiency in Plato (OUP 2013). Together with Voula Tsouna he edits the book series Key Themes in Ancient Philosophy\, and he and Thomas Johansen are the editors of the journal Phronesis. \nHybrid \nLocation: BSA Upper House\, 52 Souedias\, Athens \nTo attend in person in Athens\, please register here \nTo attend online via webinar\, please register here \n  \nThis is a two part seminar series. The seminar at the BSA will be followed by a seminar at the Elli Lampridis Philosophical Library (Ipsilantou 9\, 106 75 Athens) on Wednesday 4th March 2026\, 17:00 (in-person only)\, titled ‘Platonic protreptic and the unity of the Phaedrus‘. \n 
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/alex-long-the-city-cosmos-contrast-in-platos-timaeus-and-critias/
LOCATION:British School at Athens\, Upper House\, 52 Souedias Street\, Athens\, Greece
CATEGORIES:Philosophy Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Athens:20260302T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Athens:20260302T190000
DTSTAMP:20260522T202752
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Athens:20260225T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Athens:20260225T180000
DTSTAMP:20260522T202752
CREATED:20260112T092349Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260202T155327Z
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SUMMARY:Claire Zikidi\, "Facing Mortality\, Confronting Death:  Mortality Salience and Behavioural Perspectives in Archaeological Interpretation"
DESCRIPTION:Fitch Wiener Labs Seminar Series\nDr Claire Zikidi (M. H. Wiener Laboratory\, ASCSA and National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)\, “Facing Mortality\, Confronting Death: Mortality Salience and Behavioural Perspectives in Archaeological Interpretation”\nIn-person only \nContact: For any enquiries\, tel.: 213-000-2400 (133)\, Email: infoWienerLab@ascsa.edu.gr
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/claire-zikidi-facing-mortality-confronting-death-mortality-salience-and-behavioural-perspectives-in-archaeological-interpretation/
LOCATION:American School of Classical Studies at Athens\, Wiener Laboratory\, 54 Souidias Street\, Athens\, 10676\, Greece
CATEGORIES:Fitch-Wiener Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Athens:20260219T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Athens:20260219T210000
DTSTAMP:20260522T202752
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SUMMARY:Annual Open Lectures 2026 - Athens
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nAnnual Open Lectures 2026\nAthens\n  \n\nPlease join us for the Annual Open Lectures of the British School at Athens on Thursday 19th February 2026 at 7 p.m. \nwhich will be held at the Archaeological Society (Lecture Hall)\, 22 Panepistimiou Street\, Athens. \n\n\n\nThe Work of the British School at Athens in 2025\n\n\n\nProfessor Rebecca Sweetman\nBSA Director\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\nThe Material Culture and Landscapes of South-Eastern Chios and their Wider Context\n\n\n\nProfessor Andrew Bevan \nProfessor of Spatial and Comparative Archaeology\, University College London \n  \nAttendance is free of charge but advance registration is essential to gain admittance to the venue.\n\nIn-person only \nThe lectures will be recorded and uploaded to our Video Archive in due course.
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/annual-open-lectures-2026-athens/
LOCATION:Archaeological Society\, 22 Panepistimiou Street\, Athens\, Greece
CATEGORIES:Open Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Athens:20260217T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Athens:20260217T210000
DTSTAMP:20260522T202752
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SUMMARY:Annual Open Lectures 2025 - Thessaloniki
DESCRIPTION:Annual Open Lectures 2026\nThessaloniki\n  \n\nPlease join us for the Annual Open Lectures of the British School at Athens on Tuesday 17th February 2026 at 7 p.m. \n The lecture will take place in the Cast Gallery of the Faculty of Philosophy\, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. \n\n\n\nThe Work of the British School at Athens in 2025\n\n\n\nProfessor Rebecca Sweetman\nBSA Director\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\nThe Material Culture and Landscapes of South-Eastern Chios and their Wider Context\n\n\n\nProfessor Andrew Bevan \nProfessor of Spatial and Comparative Archaeology\, University College London \n\n\nIn-person only
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/annual-open-lectures-2026-thessaloniki/
LOCATION:Aristotle University of Thessaloniki\, Cast Gallery\, Thessaloniki\, Greece
CATEGORIES:Open Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Athens:20260209T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Athens:20260209T200000
DTSTAMP:20260522T202752
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SUMMARY:Translation and the Magnitude of Historical Figures: Michalis Ganas and Translation
DESCRIPTION:Panel discussion\nPanel 2: Translation and the Magnitude of Historical Figures: Michalis Ganas and Translation\nCo-hosted with Aiora Press in Athens \nChair: David Ricks\nPanel: John Stathatos\, Vassilis Letsios\, Joshua Barley \nChair: David Ricks \nUnusually among modern Greek poets Michalis Ganas (1944-2024) was not a translator. Yet his poems have had a second life in many languages\, English among them\, and he also produced adaptations of the Iliad and the Odyssey for young readers. This panel brings together three writers with a deep knowledge of Ganas’ work and of the practice of literary translation to commemorate this major poet. \nJohn Stathatos: ‘Translating Michalis Ganas’ \nIt was in 1976 that I started reading and translating the then new young Greek poets\, having been pointed in their direction by\, amongst others\, Takis Sinopoulos. That winter I published in a couple of small British magazines translations of poems by Yannis Kontos and others. Almost the last of the Generation of 1970 whose work I translated was Michalis Ganas\, whom I met in the  Dodoni bookshop where he was working; it must have been well before spring 1981\, as that is the date of the earliest letter I have from him. My translations of four of his poems in Labrys no. 9 in November 1983 were among the first to appear in English versions. Later that year he sent me the typescript of his unpublished poem sequence Glass Yannena\, which I also translated. I remember him with deep affection for the kindness and forthrightness of his character\, and for the brilliant simplicity and empathy of his poetry. \nJohn Stathatos is a writer\, translator\, and photographer. Born in Athens in 1947\, he was based in London between 1969 and 2002\, taking a degree in philosophy and political science at the LSE. Subsequently he became a freelance foreign correspondent\, translator and independent publisher\, bringing many new Greek poets to the attention of an English-speaking audience\, including Nasos Vayenas\, Yannis Kontos\, Michalis Ganas and\, from an earlier generation\, Takis Sinopoulos and Miltos Sachtouris. He later became increasingly involved with photography both as practitioner and as critic and curator. Since 2002 he has been based on Kythera. Recent publications include Image & Icon: The New Greek Photography (1997); A Vindication of Tlön: Photography & the Fantastic (2001); Fotofraktis: The Photographs of Andreas Embirikos (2004); The Book of Lost Cities (2006); and airs\, waters\, places (2009). See www.stathatos.net for a selection of his photography and writing in English and Greek. \nVassilis Letsios: ‘Michalis Ganas and Homer: Rewriting the Odyssey (2016) and the Iliad (2019)’ \nIn his late work\, Ganas blends prose and verse to reimagine Homer’s epics\, drawing on folk song\, fellow poets\, and celebrated translators. His Odyssey and Iliad confront war’s trauma\, exile\, homeland\, and gender\, while showcasing the distinctive voice of his mature poetics. \nVassilis Letsios is Associate Professor of Modern Greek Literature and Literary Translation into Greek at the Department of Foreign Languages\, Translation and Interpreting\, at the Ionian University. He holds an MA in Modern Greek Studies (1997) and a PhD in Modern Greek Literature (2003) from King’s College London. He is the director of the Laboratory ‘Language\, History\, and Culture in the Ionian Region’. \nJoshua Barley: ‘Translating Ganas in Exile’ \nJoshua Barley is working on a translation of Ganas’ short memoir Stepmotherland (Μητριά Πατρίδα\, 1981)\, which relates the poet’s family’s experience of exile following the Greek Civil War. He will discuss some of the challenges involved in translating this dense and harrowing text. \nJoshua Barley (https://www.joshuabarley.com/) is a translator from Modern Greek. His widely acclaimed publications include the bilingual editions Greek Folk Songs (Aiora Press 2022) and (with David Connolly) A Greek Ballad: Selected Poems of Michalis Ganas (Yale UP 2019). His tribute to Michalis Ganas recently appeared in Argo (spring-summer 2025). \nOnline panel discussion \n17:00 UK / 19:00 Greece (1.15’) \nTo attend online via Zoom webinar\, register here
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/translation-and-the-magnitude-of-historical-figures-michalis-ganas-and-translation/
LOCATION:Online only
CATEGORIES:Panel Discussion
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260203T173000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260203T193000
DTSTAMP:20260522T202752
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SUMMARY:Annual Open Lectures 2026 - London
DESCRIPTION:Annual Open Lectures 2026\nLondon\n  \n\n\nPlease join us for the Annual Open Lectures of the British School at Athens on Tuesday 3rd February at 6 pm  \nwhich will be held at the Great Hall\, King’s College London\, Strand\, WC2R 2LS. \nA reception will follow from 7.30pm to 8.30pm. \n  \n\nThe following lectures will be presented\, with Professor Roderick Beaton in the Chair: \n\n\n\nThe Work of the British School at Athens in 2025\n\n\n\n\n\nProfessor Rebecca Sweetman \nBSA Director\n\n  \n\n\n\n\nWhat we learn from the women: the archaeology of Greece in the nineteenth century\nProfessor Mary Beard\nUniversity of Cambridge\n  \n\nAttendance is free of charge but advance registration is essential to gain admittance to the venue.\nUPDATE: in-person attendance is now fully booked and the waiting list has closed.\n\nTo attend online via Zoom webinar\, please register HERE. Please note: Mary Beard’s lecture will not be recorded.\n\n  \nPhotos:  \nMary Beard. photo: Robin Cormack \nJane Harrison from a BSA members’ photo album\, BSAA/7/38. ©British School at Athens
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/annual-open-lectures-2026-london/
LOCATION:King’s College London\, Strand\, London\, WC2R 2LS
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Athens:20260128T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Athens:20260128T190000
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SUMMARY:Joshua Barley\, ‘Athens Tales’ Book Presentation
DESCRIPTION:The translator of Athens Tales with the city in the background\, photo credit: Andrew Spyrou \nFriends of the BSA Greece lecture\nJoshua Barley\, ‘Athens Tales’ Book Presentation\nRecently published by Oxford University Press\, Athens Tales is an anthology of Greek writing about the city\, from the late nineteenth century to today. The book brings together a representative selection of short stories from different eras of Athens’s turbulent modern history\, offering readers snapshots of the city over time. Well-known authors such as Alexandros Papadiamantis and Petros Markaris appear alongside lesser-known writers\, some of whom are translated into English for the first time. Each tale offers a distinct literary voice and perspective on the city\, making the volume both an introduction to modern Greek literature and a mosaic of Athens’s history. Josh will give an illustrated lecture on the creation of the book\, from the selection of the stories to the challenges of translation. He will also discuss the lives of some of the lesser-known writers and explore how the stories are interwoven with the\ncity’s history. \nJoshua Barley is a translator and writer\, living between Athens and Epirus. His translations of Michalis Ganas (with David Connolly)\, published as A Greek Ballad (Yale University Press) were shortlisted for the Runciman Award\, and his anthology Greek Folk Songs was shortlisted for the Greek State Prize for translation. \nHybrid lecture \nTo attend in person in Athens\, please register here \nTo attend online via webinar\, please register here
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/joshua-barley-athens-tales-book-presentation/
LOCATION:British School at Athens\, Upper House\, 52 Souedias Street\, Athens\, Greece
CATEGORIES:BSA Friends' Lecture
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SUMMARY:Translation and the Magnitude of Historical Figures: Homer\, Lorca and Seferis
DESCRIPTION:Panel discussion\nPanel 1: Translation and the Magnitude of Historical Figures: Homer\, Lorca and Seferis\nCo-hosted with the Cyprus High Commission in London  \nChair: Gonda Van Steen\nPanel: Dimitra Kotoula\, Andry Christofidou-Antoniadou\, Jennifer Kellogg\, Afroditi Athanasopoulou \nDimitra Kotoula: ‘The Smile of Astyanax: Working with Homer’ \nMy contribution to this workshop consists of posing questions\, rather than providing answers. How does one break\, as a creator\, the barrier\, the skin of a text’s language in order to rework it creatively? I will discuss my experience with Homer’s Iliad. The main section of my poetry collection\, The Smile of Astyanax\, revisits central episodes from the Iliad. For a case study\, I will analyse my reception of one of these comparatively in Homer\, Louise Glück’s The Triumph of Achilles (1985)\, and Nourri al Jarrah’s No War at Troy (2020). The open vulnerability of a text in translation will be tested. How does a poet work with authors who loom large in history and literature? There is no shortcut to poetry. And\, as it seems\, in their struggle with the giants\, poets feel equally blessed and cursed. \nDimitra Kotoula is the author of four poetry collections. She is the recipient of the prestigious Chartis prize. Her poems have been translated into thirteen languages. Her collection of selected poems\, The Slow Horizon that Breathes (translated by Maria Nazos with a preface by A. E. Stallings) was longlisted for the Runciman Award. She was the first to consistently translate Louise Glück’s poems into Greek\, as well as those of Jorie Graham and Sharon Olds. She currently works in Athens as an art historian/ archaeologist. \nAndry Christofidou-Antoniadou: ‘Challenges and Risks whilst Researching and Translating Federico Garcia Lorca’ \nThe life and work of a literary figure is a real challenge for a researcher\, which is even greater in the case of Federico Garcia Lorca\, who has become a historic figure due to his assassination during the Spanish Civil War. A veil of mystery\, myth\, controversy\, and silence surrounded his death for 39 years. Lorca’s works\, although performed and read internationally\, were banned in Spain until Franco’s death in 1975. The Franco regime tried to erase all traces of his existence. It was only in 2007 that the Spanish Congress of Deputies approved the Law of Historical Memory\, which aims to ‘recognize the rights and establish measures in favour of those who suffered persecution or violence during the Civil War and the dictatorship’. Researching and translating Lorca has posed distinctive challenges. I will discuss how I worked on my book Federico Garcia Lorca in Three Dimensions under these difficult circumstances. I highlight the influences of Lorca’s life on his works and the importance of understanding the context of a writer before translating. \nAndry Christofidou-Antoniadou studied French and Spanish at the University of London and Educational Psychology and Education at the Sorbonne. She also studied at the Universities of Zaragoza\, Nice\, Montpellier\, and at the Pedagogical Academy in Erfurt. She retired from the position of Principal of Secondary Education in Cyprus. In addition to conducting research\, she writes poetry\, short stories\, plays\, novels\, and essays. Her works have been translated into many languages. Her research on Lorca has been archived at the Lorca Centre of Studies and the Lorca Foundation in Spain. Her research on Cervantes has been archived at Cervantes Museums in Spain. She has collaborated with the Cyprus National Theatre\, the National Theatre of Northern Greece and other theatre companies staging Lorca’s works. She has published 16 books and translated four literary books. She has been awarded many literary prizes. In 2019\, she founded the Ad Litteram Cultural Development Centre in Limassol\, which she is still directing. She serves as president of CIESART CHIPRE (International Chamber of Writers and Artists) and as Ambassador of Culture of the Deputy Ministry of Culture of Cyprus. \n Jennifer Kellogg: ‘Translating Seferis in Character: Book of Exercises II in English’ \nTranslating Book of Exercises II into English posed the double challenge of retranslating a voice we all know so well and integrating material that brought out unfamiliar sides of the poet. In this brief talk\, I will share some of the challenges I faced in bringing together the poet’s sombreness\, sarcasm\, and satire. \nJennifer R. Kellogg holds a PhD in Modern Languages and Literatures from the ULB in Belgium and is a literary translator from Modern Greek. Her work has appeared in the Kenyon Review\, AGNI\, and Plume\, as well as in other journals. Book of Exercises II is her first full-length translation from the Modern Greek and was published by World Poetry Books in 2024. \nAfroditi Athanasopoulou: ‘The Politics of a Translation: Seferis and Warner’s Collaboration in Logbook III’ \nAbstract: I discuss the interplay between literature and politics by investigating Seferis’ interaction with the ‘friends of the other war’ in the context of post-war Anglo-Greek relations and the Cyprus question\, which Seferis witnessed firsthand during his visits to the island (1953–1955) and diplomatic tenure in London (1957–1962). I focus on the so-called ‘Cypriot’ poetic collection of 1955\, later renamed Logbook III\, and the poet’s collaboration with his close friend Rex Warner in translating selected poems for inclusion in the 1960 edition\, titled George Seferis\, Poems (London). I emphasize the politics of this edition\, which made Seferis’ work\, notably the ‘Cypriot’ collection\, accessible to the international community\, culminating in his 1963 Nobel Prize in Literature. \nAfroditi Athanasopoulou is Associate Professor of Modern Greek Studies at the University of Cyprus. Her research interests include Modern Greek Literature of the 19th and 20th centuries\, especially Dionysios Solomos and Nikos Kazantzakis\, as well as prosody and metrical analysis\, the teaching of literature and the relations between literature and history. She also is interested in narratology and literary topoi. She has published the monograph History and Literature in Dialogue (Epikentro\, 2016)\, and numerous articles in journals and collective volumes on authors and topics of Modern Greek Literature. She has also gained extensive experience in editing volumes\, serving as a translator (from Italian) and/or proofreader of scholarly editions with significant impact in the field of Modern Greek Studies\, published by prominent Greek publishers on the work of Kornaros\, Solomos\, Kalvos\, Sikelianos\, Cavafy\, and others. \nOnline panel discussion \n17:00 UK / 19:00 Greece (1.15’) \nTo attend online via Zoom webinar\, register here
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/translation-and-the-magnitude-of-historical-figures-homer-lorca-and-seferis/
LOCATION:Online only
CATEGORIES:Panel Discussion
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SUMMARY:Book presentation: Victorians and Modern Greece: Literary and Cultural Encounters
DESCRIPTION:Philippos Margaritis\, A Greek Lady\, c.1855\, Th. Theodorou Collection \n\nBook presentation\nVictorians and Modern Greece: Literary and Cultural Encounters\nThe event will feature three talks presenting the book Victorians and Modern Greece: Literary and Cultural Encounters recently published by Routledge in the British School at Athens—Modern Greek and Byzantine Studies Series. The volume examines the representation and interpretation of nineteenth century Greece in Victorian magazines\, popular fiction\, poetry\, and travel writing\, revealing the cultural affiliations between Britain and Modern Greece in this period. It reflects on the tensions\, ancient/modern\, oriental/European\, primitive/developed\, that emerge from Victorian texts on Modern Greece\, texts that become a means by which national identity and culture\, both British and Greek\, were constantly reconceptualised through their encounter with the other. The volume tells the story of Modern Greece against the backdrop of key historical events\, in a time when Greece was struggling to achieve self-definition among conflicting geopolitical interests. \nThis book presentation will be preceded by the symposium Celebrating 200 Years of Mary Shelley’s The Last Man (in-person only). Please register for each event. \nAnna Despotopoulou is Professor in English Literature and Culture in the Department of English Language and Literature\, University of Athens\, where she teaches 19th\, 20th\, and 21st- century fiction. Her research focuses on Victorian literature and culture\, Modernism\, and Henry James. In 2020-2023 she was the Principal Investigator of the research project Hotels and the Modern Subject\, 1890-1940\, and she participated in the project Representations of Modern Greece in Victorian Popular Culture (Princ. Invest. Efterpi Mitsi)\, both projects funded by the Hellenic Foundation for Research & Innovation. Her publications include the monograph Women and the Railway\, 1850-1915 (Edinburgh University Press\, 2015) and books she has co-edited: Victorians and Modern Greece: Literary and Cultural Encounters (Routledge 2025)\, Hotel Modernisms (Routledge 2023)\, Ruins in the Literary and Cultural Imagination (Palgrave Macmillan 2019)\, Henry James and the Supernatural (Palgrave Macmillan\, 2011). She has published articles on Henry James\, George Eliot\, Jane Austen\, Christina Rossetti\, Rhoda Broughton\, Joseph Conrad\, and Flora Annie Steel in international academic journals and edited collections. In 2016-17 she was elected Associate Visiting Research Fellow at the Rothermere American Institute\, University of Oxford\, and in 2023 she was elected President of the Henry James Society. \nTatiana Kontou is Assistant Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She is the author of Spiritualism and Women’s Writing (Palgrave\, 2009) and editor of Women and the Victorian Occult (Routledge\, 2010). She has coedited The Ashgate Research Companion to Nineteenth-Century Spiritualism and the Occult (with Sarah Willburn\, Ashgate\, 2012) and edited a volume of primary sources on Anti-Spiritualism\, 1840-1930 (Routledge\, 2014). Tatiana has also contributed essays and journal articles on spiritualism\, psychical research\, Wilkie Collins\, Florence Marryat\, the contemporary artist Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster\, and has co-edited a six-volume collection on Victorian Material Culture (Routledge\, 2022). Tatiana has research interests in Victorian literature and\nculture and especially in psychical research\, psychoanalysis\, ghostliness and spectrality\, gender\, performativity\, material culture and thing theory. Tatiana is an external member of the research team on “Representations of Modern Greece in Victorian Popular Culture” funded by the HFRI and researched the Victorian Anglo-Greek members of the PreRaphaelite network. \nEfterpi Mitsi is Professor of English Literature and Culture at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens\, specializing in travel writing and classical receptions in English literature. She is the author of Greece in Early English Travel Writing\, 1596–1682 (Palgrave Macmillan 2017)\, editor of Troilus and Cressida: A Critical Reader (Bloomsbury\, 2019)\, and co-editor of Victorians and Modern Greece (Routledge\, 2025)\, Hotel Modernisms (Routledge\, 202)\, Ruins in the Literary and Cultural Imagination (Palgrave Macmillan 2019)\, Women Writing Greece: Essays on Hellenism\, Orientalism and Travel (Rodopi Brill\, 2008)\, and six other collections of essays and special issues. She was Principal Investigator of the research project “Representations of Modern Greece in Victorian Popular Culture” and member of the research team in “Hotels and the Modern Subject: 1890-1940”\, both funded by the Hellenic Foundation for Research & Innovation (2019-2023). \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/book-presentation-victorians-and-modern-greece-literary-and-cultural-encounters/
LOCATION:British School at Athens\, Upper House\, 52 Souedias Street\, Athens\, Greece
CATEGORIES:Book Presentation
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SUMMARY:Celebrating 200 years of Mary Shelley's The Last Man
DESCRIPTION:International Symposium\nCelebrating 200 Years of Mary Shelley’s The Last Man\nMary Shelley’s third published novel\, The Last Man (1826)\, tells of a great plague which exterminates the human race at the end of the twenty-first century\, just as the Greek Revolution reaches its long-postponed conclusion with the conquest of Constantinople. In what many critics have deemed to be her most ambitious novel\, Shelley interlaces her personal experience with current historical events and offers a grim but prescient panorama of global and local politics\, climate change\, ethics\, societies\, and human institutions. In light of the increased attention The Last Man has gained in the COVID era\, this international symposium aims to reflect on the multilayered nature of Shelley’s novel; its parallels with her more famous Frankenstein; its ambivalent philhellenism; its profound resonance in our days; and the rich profusion of ideas it evokes in the reader. \nSPEAKERS\nRODERICK BEATON\nLAMBROS FLITOURIS\nARISTIDES HATZIS\nANNA KARAKATSOULI\nEFTERPI MITSI\nPIYA PAL-LAPINSKI\nMARIA SCHOINA\nKONSTANTINA TORTOMANI\nSIMOS ZENIOS \nIn-person only \nTo attend in-person in Athens\, please register here \nProgram \nAbstracts \nParticipants \nThe day’s symposium proceedings will be followed by the Book Presentation: Victorians and Modern Greece: Literary and Cultural Encounters. Please register for both events separately.
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/celebrating-200-years-of-mary-shelleys-the-last-man/
LOCATION:British School at Athens\, Upper House\, 52 Souedias Street\, Athens\, Greece
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:Lin Foxhall\, "Re-imagining ancient Greek landscapes"
DESCRIPTION:Delphi © Prof. Lin Foxhall. \nUK Friends’ lecture\nProfessor Lin Foxhall (University of Liverpool)\, “Re-imagining ancient Greek landscapes“\n\nAbstract: Ancient Greek landscapes were both like and unlike those we see today. Landscapes are dynamic and change over time\, sometimes very rapidly. The human relationships within local communities linked together a variety of urban and rural spaces and locations. Survey archaeology and excavation provide evidence to show that in rural landscapes no one site or location makes sense without reference to others with which it was entwined. This talk will explore how people lived in these landscapes\, and what it was like for those who curated and exploited them. \n\n\nBio: Lin Foxhall is Rathbone Professor of Ancient History and Classical Archaeology\, University of Liverpool. Previously she was Dean of the School of Histories\, Languages and Cultures at Liverpool. She served as Professor of Greek Archaeology and History University of Leicester and Head of the School of Archaeology and Ancient History\, where she played a major part in leading the team that discovered the body of King Richard III. She was Editor of the Journal of Hellenic Studies 2021-2025. She has held posts at St Hilda’s College\, Oxford and University College London\, and Visiting Professorships in Germany\, Denmark and the USA. She studied at Bryn Mawr College\, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Liverpool. \n\nAn active field archaeologist\, she has led and participated in collaborative research projects in Greece and Southern Italy\, and has written extensively on agriculture\, rural economies\, landscapes\, land use\, material culture and gender in the ancient Mediterranean\, and especially the Greek world\, mostly between the Bronze Age and Classical periods. \n\n\n\nHybrid lecture \n  \n\nTo attend online via Zoom webinar\, register here\n\nTo attend in-person in London\, register here \nPlease do consider a donation to the Friends’ Lectures here: https://www.bsa.ac.uk/donate/ \nWe suggest £10 if you are a BSA Supporter\,  £15 otherwise. Please quote “Friends Lecture” in the Additional Comments field. Thank you for your generosity!
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/lin-foxhall-re-imagining-ancient-greek-landscapes/
LOCATION:Room 264 Senate House\, London\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:BSA Friends' Lecture
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SUMMARY:Lorenzo Calvelli\, "A View from Athens. Reassessing Cyriac of Ancona’s Vita and Commentaria"
DESCRIPTION:The west pediment of the Parthenon after Cyriac of Ancona \nVisiting Fellow Lecture\nDr Lorenzo Calvelli (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)\, “A View from Athens. Reassessing Cyriac of Ancona’s Vita and Commentaria”\nAbstract: This lecture will explore the manuscript tradition and the discoveries of Cyriac of Ancona\, the fifteenth-century Italian humanist\, merchant and traveller who is often regarded as the earliest pioneer of modern epigraphy and archaeology. It will first trace the history of Cyriac’s Commentaria de rebus antiquis — a vast corpus of travel journals once comprising several volumes\, now almost entirely lost but echoed in later manuscript sources. Through these documents\, it will be possible to understand how Cyriac’s observations on ancient monuments and inscriptions circulated among humanists and shaped the study of classical antiquity for centuries. The second part will reconstruct Cyriac’s first visit to Athens in April 1436\, when he recorded dozens of inscriptions and monuments — from the Parthenon and the Tower of the Winds to the choragic monuments of Lysicrates and Thrasyllos — capturing the appearance of a city that has since been transformed. The talk will conclude by taking the audience on a journey through fifteenth-century Athens\, rediscovering the city through the eyes of its first modern witness. \nBio: Lorenzo Calvelli is an Associate Professor of Ancient History at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice\, where he leads the Laboratory of Latin Epigraphy and coordinates the Research Institute for Digital Cultural Heritage. A specialist in the writing cultures of the ancient world\, his research focuses on the manuscript transmission of inscriptions and on their reuse as spolia\, both material and conceptual\, including the production of forgeries. He has explored the classical past of Venice and Cyprus by examining the Roman conquest of the island and the reappropriation of its antiquities in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. On these topics\, he has published two books: Cipro e la memoria dell’antico (2009) and Il tesoro di Cipro (2020). A former research fellow of the universities of Harvard (Villa I Tatti)\, Princeton and Oxford\, he has taught in Heidelberg\, London\, Paris\, Poitiers\, Rome\, Sydney and Warwick. Co-founder and co-editor of the diamond open-access journal History of Classical Scholarship\, he is committed to promoting the values of the classics and of the humanities in today’s global world from both an interdisciplinary and a decolonising perspective. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and a member of the International Association of Greek and Latin Epigraphy. \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/lorenzo-calvelli-a-view-from-athens-reassessing-cyriac-of-anconas-vita-and-commentaria/
CATEGORIES:Visiting Fellow Lecture
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SUMMARY:Richard Thér\, "Structural and Surface Analysis as a Key to Pottery Forming Techniques"
DESCRIPTION:Fitch-Wiener Seminar\nDr. Richard Thér (Department of Archaeology\, Faculty of Philosophy\, University of Hradec Králové\, CZ)\, “Structural and Surface Analysis as a Key to Pottery Forming Techniques”\nAbstract: The aim of the lecture is to present the current developments in the possibilities of qualitative and quantitative analysis of ceramic body structure as well as vessel surface topography. Both phenomena represent key sources of information on one of the three fundamental steps in pottery production: vessel forming. This stage of the technological sequence is a source of considerable variability\, reflecting cultural\, social\, and economic aspects of production. Yet it has so far received relatively little attention\, since reconstructions of forming methods usually rely on macroscopic traces visible to the naked eye. Such an approach\, however\, suffers from low repeatability and reliability\, is prone to subjectivity\, and its systematic application depends on the preservation of macroscopically observable diagnostic residues. New approaches to structural and topographic analysis\, employing computed tomography and 3D surface representations of vessels\, open new perspectives for the reconstruction of forming methods. The lecture will present the principles of these analytical techniques and demonstrate their usefulness on examples of hand-built pottery from the Early Bronze Age Bohemia and Roman Bulgaria (2 nd –4 th c. AD)\, as well as on some of the earliest wheel-thrown pottery from the Late Iron Age Bohemia. \nIn-person only \nContact: For any enquiries\, tel.: 213-000-2400 (133)\, Email: infoWienerLab@ascsa.edu.gr
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/richard-ther-structural-and-surface-analysis-as-a-key-to-pottery-forming-techniques/
LOCATION:American School of Classical Studies at Athens\, Wiener Laboratory\, 54 Souidias Street\, Athens\, 10676\, Greece
CATEGORIES:Fitch-Wiener Seminar
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SUMMARY:Edward Harris\, "A New Approach to the Attic Countryside: Markets in the Demes"
DESCRIPTION:Rhamnous\, photo: E. Harris \nUK Friends’ lecture\nProfessor Edward Harris (Durham University)\, “A New Approach to the Attic Countryside: Markets in the Demes”\nAbstract: In Aristophanes’ Acharnians (33-36)\, Dikaiopolis expresses his nostalgia for the good old days in the Attic countryside when no one ever used the word ‘buy’ and the land produced everything he needed. This passage has been used by several scholars as evidence that the market played only a peripheral role in the lives of Greek farmers. This assumption has also led scholars like Möller and Osborne to assert that there is no evidence for markets outside Athens\, the Piraeus and Laurion. This paper will draw on recent work in the Attic countryside to study several rural markets neglected by these scholars and to show how local roads and harbours linked these markets to farmsteads and to places outside Attica. There is epigraphic evidence for markets at Besa\, Deceleia\, Erchia\, and Sounion. In a recent study Kakvogianni and Anetakis have examined the archaeological evidence for markets at Myrrhinous\, Steiria and Thorikos\, and Salliora-Oikonomakou collects the evidence for a market at Pasalimani north of Sounion. Preliminary excavations have revealed a market at Halai Aixonides. Inscriptions discovered at Rhamnous indicate the presence of an agora and workshops\, and excavations have uncovered several possible locations. Aeschines also mentions an agora on Salamis. All this evidence show that Attic farmers did not pursue a strategy of self-sufficiency. \nBio: Edward Harris is Emeritus Professor of Ancient History at Durham University. He has published extensively about the political and legal institutions and economy of Ancient Greece. \nOnline only \nTo attend online via Zoom webinar\, register here \nPlease do consider a donation to the Friends’ Lectures here: https://www.bsa.ac.uk/donate/ \nWe suggest £10 if you are a BSA Supporter\,  £15 otherwise. Please quote “Friends Lecture” in the Additional Comments field. Thank you for your generosity!
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/edward-harris-a-new-approach-to-the-attic-countryside-markets-in-the-demes/
LOCATION:Online only
CATEGORIES:BSA Friends' Lecture
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