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The Wider Island of Pelops: a workshop on Prehistoric pottery in memory of Professor Christopher Mee
October 2017
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December 2017
January 2018
February 2018
Dr Stacey Prickett, “Dancing nations at the Athens Festival: cultural diplomacy during the Cold War”
March 2018
April 2018
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June 2018
September 2018
Storytelling Performance of the Odyssey by Hugh Lupton and Daniel Morden
Storytelling Performance of the Odyssey by Hugh Lupton and Daniel Morden (co-organised with The Danish Institute at Athens)
Find out more »October 2018
Book launch: Armand Marie Leroi, “The Lagoon: how Aristotle invented science”
Prof. Armand Marie Leroi (Imperial College London), "The Lagoon: how Aristotle invented science" Video
Find out more »Dimitris Papanikolaou, “Critically queer and haunted: on how (not) to do the history of Greek (homo)sexuality”
Prof. Dimitris Papanikolaou (University of Oxford), "Critically queer and haunted: on how (not) to do the history of Greek (homo)sexuality" ABSTRACT - Developing a history of modern Greek queer emergence and homosexual subcultures has always been a challenge. While for many outside Greece the country has always been quite queer anyway (and for many travelers, queerly available), for non-Greek institutions the possibility of a Greek queer history was for decades an unthinkable undertaking. The lecture will put both these views…
Find out more »MANIAS: modern desires for Greek pasts
A panel discussion with Prof Liz Prettejohn (York), Prof Nicoletta Momigliano (Bristol), Dr Katherine Harloe (Reading), Dr Andrew Shapland (British Museum), and Dr Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis (St. Andrews). Why do we engage with the Greek past? Building on the recent BSA publications of Cretomania (2017) and Hellenomania (2018), this panel brings together specialists on Greek material culture to discuss modern responses to the Greek past. Topics that will be explored include modern versions of the Iliad and the Odyssey, engagements with…
Find out more »Philip Mansel, “Alexandria, from Mohammed Ali to Farouk: the rise and fall of a royal capital”
Dr Philip Mansel (author and historian), "Alexandria, from Mohammed Ali to Farouk: the rise and fall of a royal capital" Dr Philip Mansel considers the modern history of Alexandria between 1805 and 1952 from the point of the dynasty which ruled it, the House of Mohammed Ali, rather than from that of its Egyptian or Greek inhabitants. Governor of Egypt, under the Ottoman Sultan from 1805 to 1849, Mohammed Ali came from Kavalla in what is now Greece and had…
Find out more »November 2018
Phiroze Vasunia, “The Prose of the World: Hegel, Plutarch, Herodotus”
Prof. Phiroze Vasunia (University College London) in collaboration with the National Hellenic Research Foundation and the Institute of Classical Studies In many cultures, prose comes after verse. Masters of Greek prose such as Herodotus and Plato were acutely self-conscious of the poets and poems that preceded them and they sought to fashion a medium that would hold its own against the great verse compositions of the past. In the ancient world and later, numerous theories were put forward to explain…
Find out more »Lorrice Douglas, “The Value of Fragments”
Lorrice Douglas (BSA Arts Bursary holder 2017/18), will give a talk on "The Value of Fragments" Lorrice is an artist and researcher at Chelsea College of Art, University of the Arts London. She will be talking about her recent residency at the British School at Athens, raising the particularities of entering the archaeological scholarly community as an artist and how those two worlds meet: 'I am surrounded by specialists in ‘the past’, literally at every turn. This is very exciting for me.…
Find out more »Leandro Fantuzzi, “Revisiting the origin of the Punic Amphorae from Corinth’s ‘Punic Amphora Building'”
Dr Leandro Fantuzzi (Fitch Laboratory, British School at Athens), “Revisiting the origin of the Punic Amphorae from Corinth's 'Punic Amphora Building'. New evidence on trade networks between Classical Corinth and the Punic West”
Find out more »Polyxeni Adam-Veleni, “Thessaloniki, a Metro-polis through the centuries”
Dr Polyxeni Adam-Veleni (Director General of Antiquities and Cultural Heritage, Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports), "Thessaloniki, a Metro-polis through the centuries" During excavations of the Metropolitan Railway in modern Thessaloniki, significant antiquities in seven stops emerged. A new, unknown until now, town nearby, an unknown Roman cemetery of a rich village, many burials in the eastern and western necropolis of ancient Thessaloniki, while in two central stations, in the heart of the ancient and the modern city, have revealed many…
Find out more »December 2018
Evangelia Kiriatzi & Maria Duggan “The British School at Athens and the work of the Fitch Laboratory: linking Britain and the Mediterranean”
Evangelia Kiriatzi (Fitch Lab Director, BSA) & Maria Duggan (BA PDF, Newcastle & BSA), "The British School at Athens and the work of the Fitch Laboratory: linking Britain and the Mediterranean" Dr Evangelia Kiriatzi will first provide an overview of the history and operation of the British School at Athens and its role in promoting and facilitating multi-disciplinary research collaborations between Britain and Greece. Dr Kiriatzi will also present the work of the Fitch Laboratory as a leading hub for science-based archaeology and a centre…
Find out more »Lorrice Douglas, “The Value of Fragments”
Lorrice Douglas is an artist and researcher at Chelsea College of Art, University of the Arts London. She will be giving a talk on her recent residency at the British School at Athens, raising the particularities of entering the archaeological scholarly community as an artist and how those two worlds meet.
Find out more »Dimitris Plantzos, “Mind the gap: revisiting Greece’s national “sites of trauma”
Prof. Dimitris Plantzos (University of Athens), "Mind the gap: revisiting Greece’s national “sites of trauma”
Find out more »Edyta Marzec, “Provenance and Technology of Hellenistic Colour-coated Ware Pottery from Nea Paphos on Cyprus”
Dr Edyta Marzec (Post Doctoral Research Fellow, BSA Fitch Laboratory), "Provenance and Technology of Hellenistic Colour-coated Ware Pottery from Nea Paphos on Cyprus"
Find out more »January 2019
Translations. Modern Greek literature through a translator’s lens
Translations. Modern Greek literature through a translator's lens - Prof. Roderick Beaton (King's College London), Prof. Patricia Barbeito (Rhode Island School of Design), Prof. Dionysis Kapsalis (poet, Director, National Bank of Greece Cultural Foundation), Alicia Stallings (poet and translator), Aris Laskaratos (Founder, Aiora Press)
Find out more »Dimitris Plantzos, Classical Encounters: Past and present in contemporary Greece
Professor Dimitris Plantzos (Associate Professor, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens), "Classical Encounters: Past and present in contemporary Greece" (How does Greece's famed Classical antiquity shape the country's present? Why is this happening? And what is its impact on the forging of modern Greek socila and cultural identities? Dimitris Plantzos will explore these questions using telling examples of current interaction with the Classical past)
Find out more »Sevasti Triantaphyllou, “Bodies on fire: tracing the practice of burning the human remains in the prehistoric Aegean through macroscopic and analytical methods”
Dr Sevasti Triantaphyllou (Assistant Professor, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), "Bodies on fire: tracing the practice of burning the human remains in the prehistoric Aegean through macroscopic and analytical methods"
Find out more »Rosemary Jeffreys, “Gilded wreaths from Phoinikas, Thessaloniki”
Ms Rosemary Jeffreys (University of Oxford), "Gilded wreaths from Phoinikas, Thessaloniki" Ms Jeffreys will present some unpublished gilded wreaths from Phoinikas, Thessaloniki, which date to the second quarter of the fourth century BC. These wreaths are in an extraordinary state of preservation, having been placed in a sealed cist grave, in which even some textiles were preserved. She will tell us what is known of the woman buried in one of the graves, as well as what she has discovered…
Find out more »February 2019
The Work of the School in 2018 and lecture by Colin Renfrew and Michael Boyd “The sanctuary on Keros and the settlement of Dhaskalio in the light of recent research”
The Work of the School in 2018 by Professor John Bennet (Director, BSA) and lecture by Professor Lord Colin Renfrew and Dr Michael Boyd (University of Cambridge) "The sanctuary on Keros and the settlement of Dhaskalio in the light of recent research"
Find out more »Gerald J. Conlogue, “Field Radiography: Non-Traditional Applications of Medical and Industrial Radiography”
Professor Gerald J. Conlogue (Bioanthropology Research Institute, Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut), "Field Radiography: Non-Traditional Applications of Medical and Industrial Radiography"
Find out more »Judith Barringer, “The message is in the medium: White-ground lekythoi and stone grave markers in Classical Athens.”
Prof. Judith Barringer (University of Edinburgh), “The message is in the medium: White-ground lekythoi and stone grave markers in Classical Athens.” Video
Find out more »The Work of the School in 2018 and lecture by Roderick Beaton “Ο Λόρδος Μπάιρον και η Ελληνική Επανάσταση: από τον θρύλο στην πολιτική πραγματικότητα”
The Work of the School in 2018 by Professor John Bennet (Director, BSA) and lecture by Professor Roderick Beaton (King's College London) "Ο Λόρδος Μπάιρον και η Ελληνική Επανάσταση: από τον θρύλο στην πολιτική πραγματικότητα" - The heroic legend of Byron’s voluntary self-sacrifice is well known. But what was his real contribution to the Greek struggle for independence? This talk sheds new light on what Byron really did from the moment when he arrived at Missolonghi on Christmas Eve 1823…
Find out more »The Work of the School in 2018 and lecture by Roderick Beaton “1919: Venizelos’ Asia Minor policy revisited”
The Work of the School in 2018 by Professor John Bennet (Director, BSA) and lecture by Professor Roderick Beaton (King's College London), "1919: Venizelos' Asia Minor policy revisited" - One hundred years ago this year, in on 2/15 May 1919, Greek troops landed in Smyrna. For many the event was a vindication of Venizelos’s policies and a prelude to the fulfilment of the ‘Grand Idea’ of expanding the Greek state to include the entire Greek nation in the east. The…
Find out more »March 2019
Dr Ruth Macrides, Byzantium and Modern Greece in Scotland
Dr Ruth Macrides, Byzantium and Modern Greece in Scotland
Find out more »Professor Sarah Broadie, “What has Plato’s Divided Line to do with his Sun-image of the good?”
Professor Sarah Broadie (University of St Andrews), "What has Plato's Divided Line to do with his Sun-image of the good?" We know from the text that there is a close connection, but Plato leaves us with the task of working out exactly what it is. The explanation involves (of course) the so called dialectical method, presented in the context of the Divided Line. One of this method's distinctive marks is that it operates with, or from, a ‘non-hypothetical starting point…
Find out more »Ο Sir Arthur Evans, ο Μεγάλος Πόλεμος και η ειρήνευση του μινωικού πολιτισμού
Ο Sir Arthur Evans, ο Μεγάλος Πόλεμος και η ειρήνευση του μινωικού πολιτισμού ( British School at Athens, Upper House, workshop between 3.00 pm - 6.15 pm and at 8.30 pm the concert will take place at the Olympia Municipal Music Theatre Maria Callas)
Find out more »Professor Sarah Broadie, “Putting mathematics in its place in Plato’s Republic”
Professor Sarah Broadie (University of St. Andrews), "Putting mathematics in its place in Plato’s Republic" The discussion will centre on two questions: (a) what to make of the inferiority of mathematics to dialectic (the main locus for this is the Divided Line in Book VI)? And (b) what is the real purpose of the mathematical education laid out in Book VII?
Find out more »Angela Trentacoste, “Of cattle and connectivity: investigating the morphometric change in ancient livestock”
Angela Trentacoste, “Of cattle and connectivity: investigating the morphometric change in ancient livestock”
Find out more »April 2019
Ricardo Fernandes, “Integrating isotopic, archaeological, and historical evidence for high-quality reconstruction of past human lifeways”
Dr. Ricardo Fernandes, (Head of Radiocarbon Lab, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History Research Associate, University of Oxford; Associate Professor, Masaryk University), Integrating isotopic, archaeological, and historical evidence for high-quality reconstruction of past human lifeways (diet, nutrition, mobility, and chronology) from the Greek Bronze Age to the collapse of the Roman Empire
Find out more »Gonda Van Steen, “Adoption, Memory, and Cold War Greece”
Professor Gonda Van Steen (King’s College London), "Adoption, Memory, and Cold War Greece"
Find out more »Jonathan Hall, “Chasing the shadows of the past in Late Ottoman Argos.”
Prof. Jonathan Hall (University of Chicago), “Chasing the shadows of the past in Late Ottoman Argos.”
Find out more »Christina Ichim, “Dying to connect: a mortuary approach to southern Aegean connectivity in the middle and late Bronze Age”
Christina Ichim (BSA Richard Bradford McConnel Student / PhD candidate, UCL), "Dying to connect: a mortuary approach to southern Aegean connectivity in the middle and late Bronze Age"
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