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SUMMARY:Roman Pottery in the South-Eastern Balkans: From Production to Distribution
DESCRIPTION:Conference\nRoman Pottery in the South-Eastern Balkans: From Production to Distribution\n\n\nThe conference focuses on local pottery production during the Roman period in the southern and south-eastern regions of the Balkan Peninsula\, particularly within the Roman provinces of Thrace\, Moesia Inferior\, Dacia\, and Macedonia. Across these regions\, numerous pottery workshops have already been identified\, producing substantial quantities of wheel-made tableware\, cooking vessels\, and storage containers\, often alongside traditional handmade pottery. The scale and variability of local production must have been considerable; in inland Thrace\, for instance\, the majority of pottery found in rural contexts was locally produced\, while imports were virtually negligible. \nHowever\, despite the prevalence of local pottery on many archaeological sites\, the number of dedicated studies on the subject remains disproportionately low. Even fewer comprehensive studies or specialized conferences address the production and distribution of local pottery. This conference therefore aims to provide an open forum for sharing and discussing various aspects of Roman pottery production in the southern and south-eastern Balkan Peninsula\, focusing on direct or indirect evidence of production as well as on investigating circulation patterns\, consumer preferences and patterns of consumption. \nThe chronological framework of the conference spans the Late Republic to the Imperial period\, approximately from the 2nd century BC to the 4th century AD. \n\n\n\nThe main topics are:\n\n\n\nTypology and chronology of various regional pottery groups\nProduction centres and their organization\nTechnological aspects of ceramic production\nPottery function and utilization\nPatterns and mechanisms of distribution\nEconomic\, social\, and cultural significance of pottery production and consumption\nThe application of scientific analyses to address any of the above issues\n\n\n\nThursday 22nd October – 9am to 6pm / Friday 23rd October – 9.30am to 5.30pm \nYou can find the full programme with abstracts here. \nPlease register here.
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/roman-pottery-in-the-south-eastern-balkans-from-production-to-distribution/
LOCATION:British School at Athens\, Upper House\, 52 Souedias Street\, Athens\, Greece
CATEGORIES:Conference
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SUMMARY:Making Connections: People\, Pots and Landscapes in Aegean Prehistory
DESCRIPTION:BSA Friends’ lecture\nDr Evangelia Kiriatzi (BSA)\, ‘Making Connections: People\, Pots and Landscapes in Aegean Prehistory’\nAbstract: \nThe prehistoric Aegean was a world of islands\, coastlines and mountains\, increasingly connected through the movement of people\, objects\, materials and ideas. How can archaeology reconstruct these connections\, and what can everyday objects such as pottery tell us about mobility\, interaction and the transmission of knowledge?\nThis lecture draws on several decades of research at the Fitch Laboratory of the British School at Athens\, a centre with a long tradition in archaeological science and\, in particular\, the study of ceramic technology. The approach developed there combines macroscopic study\, petrography\, chemical analysis\, geological survey\, experimental work and ethnoarchaeology in order to understand not simply where pottery was made\, but how technological traditions were learned\, reproduced and transformed.\nUsing examples from mainland Greece and the Aegean islands\, the lecture will explore changing patterns of settlement\, seafaring and interaction from the later Neolithic into the Bronze Age. Particular attention will be given to how technological practices can reveal connections between communities that are not always visible through pottery styles alone.\nSeen in this way\, Aegean prehistory emerges not as a mosaic of isolated regions\, but as a dynamic landscape of movement\, learning\, continuity and change. \nBio: Evangelia Kiriatzi is an archaeologist and archaeological scientist specialising in ceramic analysis. She holds a BA and PhD from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and has held academic positions at University College London\, the Universities of Cambridge and Sheffield\, the University of Cincinnati\, and UCL Qatar.\nSince 2001\, she has been Director of the Marc and Ismene Fitch Laboratory for Archaeological Science at the British School at Athens. Her research has focused on developping methodological approaches to the study of ceramic material culture\, combining archaeological science with landscape-based and multiscalar perspectives to investigate technological practices\, human mobility\, interaction\, and the transmission of knowledge.\nShe has coordinated numerous interdisciplinary research projects and published over 100 works\, including monographs and articles in leading peer-reviewed journals. Her research spans the Neolithic to the early modern Mediterranean\, with a primary focus on the Bronze Age Aegean.\n \nOnline only: Register here \n\nPlease do consider a donation to the Friends’ Lectures here: https://www.bsa.ac.uk/donate/ \nWe suggest £10 if you are a BSA Supporter\,  £15 otherwise. Please quote “Friends Lecture” in the Additional Comments field. Thank you for your generosity!
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/making-connections-people-pots-and-landscapes-in-aegean-prehistory/
LOCATION:Online only
CATEGORIES:BSA Friends' Lecture
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SUMMARY:Viktoria Čisťakova\, "Interdisciplinary Studies of Ancient Roman Glass Artefacts – Current State and Perspectives"
DESCRIPTION:Fitch Wiener Labs Seminar Series\nDr. Viktoria Čisťakova (Department of Prehistory and Classical Antiquity\, The National Museum\, Prague)\, “Interdisciplinary Studies of Ancient Roman Glass Artefacts – Current State and Perspectives”\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/viktoria-cistakova-interdisciplinary-studies-of-ancient-roman-glass-artefacts-current-state-and-perspectives/
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/Athens:20261112T190000
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SUMMARY:Dr Nigel Spivey\, "Sappho The Symbol"
DESCRIPTION:NHRF/ICS/BSA Lectures in Classics series\nDr Nigel Spivey (Emmanuel College\, Cambridge University)\, “Sappho The Symbol”\nAbstract: \nSAPPHO THE SYMBOL: Renowned as an extraordinary lyric poet in her own lifetime\, Sappho of Lesbos has been a literary celebrity for over 2\,500 years. Her poetry – so far as it survives – seems charged with personal feelings and powerful self-expression. So what did she look like? Or rather: what have her readers\, over the centuries\, wanted her to look like? Presenting fresh visual evidence\, and reassessing some old iconic favourites\, this lecture considers the ‘portrait’ of Sappho in its various symbolic forms: as an image of the female poet; an image of passion both tragic and fulfilled; and\, eventually\, an image of female to female desire. \nBio: Nigel Spivey is recently retired as Senior Lecturer in Classical Art and Archaeology at the Faculty of Classics\, Cambridge University\, where he remains Fellow and Vice-Master of Emmanuel College. Among his many publications are Understanding Greek Sculpture (1996) and The Sarpedon Krater: Life & Afterlife of a Greek Vase (2018). He was presenter of the major BBC/PBS documentary How Art Made the World (2004). This lecture anticipates a monograph entitled Sappho the Beautiful\, due to be published next year by Cambridge University Press. \nposter image: The Sappho Painter \nHybrid lecture \nTo attend in person in Athens\, register here \nTo attend online via webinar\, register here
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/dr-nigel-spivey-sappho-the-symbol/
LOCATION:British School at Athens\, Upper House\, 52 Souedias Street\, Athens\, Greece
CATEGORIES:BSA/NHRF/ICS lecture
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SUMMARY:Effie Photos-Jones\, "The Cure at Lemnos: can the story of Lemnian Earth form a reliable basis for current biomedical research?"
DESCRIPTION:BSA Friends Greece lecture\n\n\n\nDr Effie Photos-Jones\n(University of Glasgow [Honorary Researcher] and SASAA Ltd)\n\n\n  \n“The Cure at Lemnos: can the story of Lemnian Earth form a reliable basis for current biomedical research?”\n  \n  \nAbstract: Lemnian Earth (LE) and its specially prepared pellet-shaped product\, Lemnian Sphragis (LS) (terra sigilata) was a medicinal clay with an acclaimed history of use over 2500 years. It served as an antidote to ‘poison ingested or injected’ but also a powerful medicine against hemoptysis/ hematemesis. In the Ottoman period it was used against the ‘plague’. It was traditionally extracted from a locality in N Lemnos\, under the auspices of the local temple and later\, the Greek Orthodox clergy. Over a 20+ year period our team\, in the UK and Greece\, has carried out multidisciplinary work on LE/LS. A scrutiny of the ritual of its ‘blessing’ (Galen (2nd c CE))\, suggests the possible introduction of a biotic component (fungal-infested wheat/barley) ‘absorbed’ by the clay. \nThis working hypothesis led to co-culturing of Lemnos-type clays with the fungus Penicillium purpurogenum and subsequent laboratory testing against common pathogens\, with differing results. Feeding the ‘successful’ co-cultures to healthy mice resulted in an increase in gut biodiversity and SCFA (short chain fatty acids) production; the latter’s main attribute is to support the immune system and reduce inflammation. The research is ongoing\, but far from being a ‘mythical’ cure\, LS potentially finds itself at the cutting edge of modern biomedical research. \nBio: Effie Photos-Jones is Honorary Researcher in Archaeology\, University of Glasgow. She is an archaeological scientist having undertaken her PhD on early iron metallurgy in Eastern Macedonia. She worked at NRC Demokritos and was chair of the Hellenic Society for Archaeometry in 2011-2014. In Scotland she set up in 1996 and since then directs the private company Scottish Analytical Services for Art & Archaeology\, undertaking analysis of archaeological materials from numerous excavations. She also initiated a long-term research project funded by Historic Environment Scotland\, on the early iron bloomeries of the Scottish Highlands. She is a member of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. \nHer research work in Greece has focused on the industrial minerals of antiquity; the medicinal clays and alum of antiquity (Effie Photos-Jones and Alan J Hall Lemnian earth and the earths of the Aegean (Potingair Press 2011)). She led a British Academy funded project on Melos on the exploitation of industrial minerals in the Roman period (Effie Photos-Jones and Alan J Hall Eros Mercator and the Cultural Landscape of Melos (Potingair Press 2014)). This project subsequently extended to other sources of alum in the Mediterranean: the Bay of Naples and the Aeolian islands. Having established a geo-archaeological framework for the earths of the Aegean\, in 2016\, and with Wellcome Trust funding\, she set up a multidisciplinary project\, to investigate the nature of their purported pharmacological properties\, undertaking both in vitro (lab-based) and in vivo (mouse-based) experiments. \nToday’s talk is about the Lemnian Earth\, the most well-known of them all\, asking whether its long history can form a reliable basis for biomedical research today. \nHybrid \nTo attend in person in Athens\, register here \nTo attend online via webinar\, register here
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/effie-photos-jones-the-cure-at-lemnos/
LOCATION:British School at Athens\, Upper House\, 52 Souedias Street\, Athens\, Greece
CATEGORIES:BSA Friends event
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SUMMARY:Myrto Georgakopoulou Award Holders Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Fitch Lecture\nMyrto Georgakopoulou Award Holders: Dr. Ariadne Marketou and Dr. Laura Alvarez \nThe Myrto Georgakopoulou Award is an international research award established by the BSA to honour Myrto Georgakopoulou (1976-2022) and ensure that her legacy inspires future work in Aegean archaeology and beyond. The award is supported by the Myrto Georgakopoulou Memorial Fund\, established by gifts of her family\, friends and colleagues\, in her memory. \nDr. Ariadne Marketou “Colour at the Early Cycladic II Settlement of Skarkos\, Ios (CEC)” \nAbstract: Evidence of pigment application on Early Cycladic figures is central to understanding their use\, value and symbolism for Early Bronze Age (EBA) societies. At the settlement of Skarkos\, situated close to the natural harbour of the Island of Ios\, excavations brought to light the Building of the Figurines: a workshop where tools\, unfinished marble artefacts and red pigment lumps were found together. \nThis talk presents results from CEC\, an ongoing project generously funded by the MGRA\, which approaches the materiality of colour in the EBA II through portable micro-XRF analysis of applied paint layers\, tools\, and raw materials. The red paint layers applied on the schematic figurines from this context suggests that pigment application was integral to figurine production. Moreover\, lumps and tools with traces of red pigments were found in other locations across the settlement\, indicating their importance for the inhabitants of Skarkos during the EBA II period (Syros-Keros culture). Preliminary results distinguish two compositional categories of red ochre and reveal an unexpected finding: a bone tube bearing traces of painted decoration. Together\, this evidence points to a complex use of colour at Skarkos\, opening new questions about the sourcing\, processing and social meaning of colourants in the EBA II. \nBio: Ariadne Marketou holds a PhD in Archaeology from the University of Oslo (2021)\, awarded for her thesis on pigment production and the material evidence of a 1st century BCE colour workshop on late Hellenistic Kos\, an MSc in Protection\, Conservation and Restoration of Works of Art (2016)\, and a BSc in Chemistry (2014)\, both from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Her research interests revolve around colour(s) in the past\, whether it is the black of inks or the vivid palette of ancient polychromy\, and includes questions on technology\, the organisation of colourant procurement\, manufacture\, and trade. Ariadne is currently wrapping up her postdoctoral research on the materiality of early codices within the framework of the project ‘The Early History of the Codex: A New Methodology and Ethics for Manuscript Studies (EthiCodex)’ (PI: Brent Nongbri\, funded by the Norwegian Research Council-NRC)\, at the Norwegian School of Theology\, Religion and Society. She was recently granted funding by NRC as a Principal Investigator for the project ‘Hunting paint ghosts: Revisiting the evidence of pigment use on Early Cycladic figurines (PaintGhosts)’\, set to investigate whether surface alterations on marble figurines reliably evidence lost painted decoration through experimental archaeology\, artificial ageing and multi-analytical documentation techniques. \nDr Laura Alvarez “Understanding early optical technologies in Mainland Greece: metallography and iterative experimentation” \nAbstract: Among the earliest technologies to have ever transformed human perception\, mirrors hold a particular place in the history of optical instruments\, although the technical processes and material choices that allowed their emergence are still not well understood. We will present the first results of this ongoing research project on the manufacture and optical properties of bronze mirrors in Late Bronze Age mainland Greece (c. 1400–1300 BC)\, with the objective of reconstructing how these objects were made and the quality of the reflections they produced\, in terms of stability\, clarity and colour. In collaboration with colleagues at NCSR-Demokritos\, we combined compositional and metallographic analyses\, which provided some metallurgical and technical ‘guidelines’ for a first series of experiments conducted with two metallurgists in France\, during which we investigated the complex relationship between alloy composition\, manufacturing techniques\, polishing sequences and resulting optical qualities. These initial experiments yielded unexpected observations and raised new questions\, prompting a second experimental phase exploring alternative techniques and raw materials. These are steps forward in our understanding of the techniques and knowledge involved in the emergence of some of the earliest mirrors in the Mediterranean\, that may once have held such an intimate bond with the people who owned them and their perception of themselves. \nBio: Laura Alvarez obtained her PhD from the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) under the joint supervision of the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne in 2021. Her doctoral research identified a distinct ‘mirror culture’ in the early history of Aegean technologies and examined its historical and archaeological context. This research was published as a volume in the Aegaeum series (Peeters) in 2023. She is now extending this research to the broader Mediterranean\, investigating the impact of technical objects on social dynamics through the micro-technological and micro-sociological study of mirrors\, objects which\, as later history demonstrates\, have repeatedly mediated profound social changes. More broadly\, mirrors provide case studies through which to examine how knowledge circulated within social networks to produce unfamiliar objects that\, in turn\, transformed social dynamics\, and how technological expertise acquired locally distinctive forms.\nFollowing her PhD\, she held a two-year postdoctoral appointment at the University of Cambridge and has recently been awarded funding by the Research and Innovation Foundation (RIF) as Principal Investigator of the project METIS\, on the emergence of bronze mirrors in Cyprus (c. 1400–1100 BC)\, which will provide a major step forward in a long-standing research endeavour to establish the first comparative technological baseline for Cyprus-Aegean-Levant interactions in craftwork and optical surfaces\, ultimately seeking to understand how these diverse communities interacted\, exchanged knowledge\, and co-created technologies. \nHybrid lecture \nTo attend in person in Athens\, register here \nTo attend online via webinar\, register here
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/myrto-georgakopoulou-award-holders-lecture/
LOCATION:British School at Athens\, Upper House\, 52 Souedias Street\, Athens\, Greece
CATEGORIES:Upper House Seminar
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SUMMARY:Gymnasia and Philosophical Schools in Athens and Attica
DESCRIPTION:International Conference\nGymnasia and Philosophical Schools in Athens and Attica\n\n\nThis conference is a joint organisation by the Academy of Athens\, the British School at Athens\, and the Ephoreia of Antiquities of the City of Athens\, funded by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation. \n\n\n\nClick here to see the conference programme (pdf). \n\nLocation:\n26 November: BSA Upper House\, Souedias 52\, 10676\n27 November: Academy of Athens\, Panepistimiou 28\, Athens 10679
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/gymnasia-and-philosophical-schools-in-athens-and-attica/
LOCATION:Academy of Athens\, Athens\, Greece
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Athens:20261130T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Athens:20261130T190000
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SUMMARY:Artist in Residence lecture: Srinivas Surti
DESCRIPTION:Composite image with Stone fragment with an Elaborate Meander from Kyparissa (left) and Archaic sculpture relief of Herakles from Cyzicus (right). ©BSA Archive \nArtist in Residence lecture\nRemixing tradition and contemporaneity in relief as printed image. \nSrinivas Surti (University of the Arts London) \nSrinivas Surti is an artist\, educator and doctoral researcher at Chelsea College of Arts\, University of the Arts\, London. His practice-based research explores cultural hybridity through relationships between image and object\, surface and depth\, using printmaking\, installation and performance to consider relief as a transcultural site of coexistence. In 2022\, he co-edited Cha\, a publication examining Brownness as an inclusive mode of cultural identification\, and in 2023 he participated in the International Doctoral School in Nida\, Lithuania. Srinivas completed an MA in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins in 2002\, where he received the Rootstein Hopkins Postgraduate Award\, and since then has exhibited widely across London and the UK. \nDuring the residency\, Srinivas will be in dialogue with the research community at the BSA to deepen his understanding of the pigments used in Greek polychromatic relief sculpture. Drawing on the movement and exchange of colour and pattern across ancient cultures\, he will develop a series of experimental printed reliefs on paper\, mylar\, and fabric. Combining printmaking with performative processes\, the works will explore the material qualities of lightness and shimmer while referencing the iconography of Indo-Greek relief\, which adapted Greek conventions of imagery\, and styles of drapery. By re-presenting shared traditions of colour\, form and pattern from a new perspective\, the work aims to evoke ideas of togetherness in the present. \nHybrid event \nTo attend in person in Athens\, register here \nTo attend online via webinar\, register here \n 
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/artist-in-residence-srinivas-surti/
LOCATION:British School at Athens\, Upper House\, 52 Souedias Street\, Athens\, Greece
CATEGORIES:Artist in Residence event
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SUMMARY:Between Britain and the Ottoman World: Scholars\, Consuls\, and Knowledge in Motion
DESCRIPTION:BIRI Ottoman Mobilities online lecture series\nDr. Georgios Giannakopoulos (City St. George’s\, University of London) \nAbstract: During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries\, scholars\, writers and political advocates moved between Britain and the Ottoman world\, carrying with them ideas about nationality\, liberty\, empire and political reform. Drawing principally on The Interpreters: British Internationalism and Empire in Southeastern Europe\, 1870–1930 (Manchester University Press\, 2025) this lecture follows figures who travelled through\, studied and wrote about places including Crete\, Macedonia\, Bosnia and Armenia. \nTheir journeys connected local conflicts to British universities\, newspapers\, political associations and centres of government\, helping to turn struggles within the Ottoman world into international questions. Yet the knowledge they produced was never simply descriptive: it identified political communities\, assigned responsibility and informed arguments for autonomy\, supervision or intervention. The lecture concludes by placing these scholars alongside British consuls\, whose mobile careers and local relationships produced another form of knowledge in motion. \nThrough reports and recommendations sent to London\, consuls transformed local encounters into official knowledge. The two groups reveal how public interpretation and diplomatic reporting shaped British understandings of the Ottoman world. \nBio: Dr. Georgios Giannakopoulos is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Modern History and Associate Dean at the School of Policy and Global Affairs\, City St. George’s University of London. He is the author of The Interpreters: British Internationalism and Empire in Southeastern Europe 1870-1930 (Manchester University Press\, 2025) and co-editor of The War for Anatolia: Greece\, Turkey and the Remaking of International Order (Bloomsbury\, 2025). He is currently leading the British Academy funded project The World Consuls Made: British Diplomacy in 19th century Greece. \nOnline lecture \nTo attend online via webinar\, register here
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/between-britain-and-the-ottoman-world/
LOCATION:Online only
CATEGORIES:BIRI Ottoman Mobilities Online Lecture Series
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SUMMARY:Loneliness and Solitude in the Colonels’ Greece\, 1967-1974
DESCRIPTION:Aerial view of Gyaros\, the infamous and lonely island of exile. By Olaf Tausch – Own work\, CC BY 3.0\, \nBSA Friends’ lecture\nDr Huw Halstead (Dr Huw Halstead)\, ‘Loneliness and Solitude in the Colonels’ Greece\, 1967-1974’\nAbstract: \nIn this paper\, I offer a quiet history of the Colonels’ regime in Greece (1967-1974) by focusing on times and spaces in which people found themselves alone under dictatorial rule. Drawing on oral testimonies\, I explore both experiences of loneliness and practices of solitude. I discuss how dictatorial regimes cultivate popular loneliness both directly (through means such as exile\, imprisonment\, or solitary confinement) and indirectly (by polluting the social bonds that tie people together). At the same time\, I also demonstrate the capacity for bottom-up practices of solitude to push back against this imposed loneliness\, to create distance between the individual and dictatorial power\, and even to strengthen social bonds despite dictatorial interference. \nBio: Dr Huw Halstead is Lecturer in Public History in the School of History\, Classics\, and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh. His research focuses on memory\, public history\, and everyday life. He is author of the book Greeks without Greece: Homelands\, Belonging\, and Memory amongst the Expatriated Greeks of Turkey (Routledge\, 2019) and co-editor of the book Miniatures: A Reader in the History of Everyday Life (University of Exeter Press\, 2025. \nOnline only. \nRegistration link available soon.\n\nPlease do consider a donation to the Friends’ Lectures here: https://www.bsa.ac.uk/donate/ \nWe suggest £10 if you are a BSA Supporter\,  £15 otherwise. Please quote “Friends Lecture” in the Additional Comments field. Thank you for your generosity!
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/loneliness-and-solitude-in-the-colonels-greece-1967-1974/
LOCATION:Online only
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