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SUMMARY:Laura Nastasi\, "Language Set in Stone: Graeco-Latin Bilingualism and Writing Culture in Roman Corinth"
DESCRIPTION:image: Funerary inscription for Domitia Saturnina Apollonis (Corinth 8.1.134)\, source: American School of Classical Studies at Athens\, Corinth Excavations \nUpper House Seminar\nDr Laura Nastasi (BSA)\, “Language Set in Stone: Graeco-Latin Bilingualism and Writing Culture in Roman Corinth”\nAbstract: The commonly accepted view about Corinth in the Roman period is that the foundation of a Roman colony on the seat of the destroyed Greek city made the city entirely Roman for almost two centuries\, between the foundation in 44 BCE and the reign of Hadrian. After that\, the city supposedly went back to being entirely Greek. More recent contributions (e.g. Millis 2010) have noticed that such a narrative is not exactly accurate. Even if the public domain shows a predominance of Latin in the first two centuries and of Greek afterwards\, this does not necessarily mean that the existing Greek element did not show itself in the epigraphic material of the city at the beginning of its history and\, vice versa\, the Roman element disappeared after two centuries. This paper offers a reappraisal of the information we can gain by studying the inscriptions from Roman Corinth from a sociolinguistic and sociocultural point of view. In particular\, the study of monolingual texts (in Latin and Greek) shows that linguistic and cultural interaction between Greekness and Romanness was continuous in the inscriptions from the area at all times\, making the label ‘bilingual’ appropriate for Corinth in the Roman period. \nBio: Dr. Laura Nastasi is the Cary Student at the BSA for 2024-2025. Laura’s primary interest is the study of Roman Greece\, using inscriptions as the main source. This resulted in her doctoral thesis\, Greek and Latin in Roman Corinth: Language Use and Language Contact\, which she completed at the University of Manchester in 2024. Laura came to the BSA to work on the monograph arising from her PhD dissertation and also to expand her findings by focusing on the writing culture and writing habits detectable in inscriptions not only from Corinth but also from other areas of the Roman province of Achaia. Before moving to the UK for her PhD\, Laura completed a BA and MA in Classics at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan\, where she trained both in epigraphy and linguistics. \n  \nHybrid lecture. This lecture will not be recorded. \nTo attend in-person in Athens\, please register here \nTo attend online via webinar\, please register here
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/laura-nastasi-language-set-in-stone-graeco-latin-bilingualism-and-writing-culture-in-roman-corinth/
LOCATION:British School at Athens\, Upper House\, 52 Souedias Street\, Athens\, Greece
CATEGORIES:Upper House Seminar
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SUMMARY:Everyday Life Under Dictatorship in Southern Europe: Intimacy\, Sociality\, and Loneliness
DESCRIPTION:image: Hotel Formentor\, Mallorca by bemhuesca\, used under CC BY SA 2.0 \n  \nThe Centre for the Study of Modern and Contemporary History in conjunction with The British School at Athens\nEveryday Life Under Dictatorship in Southern Europe: Intimacy\, Sociality\, and Loneliness\nSpeakers: Prof Kate Ferris (University of St Andrews)\, Dr Huw Halstead (University of Edinburgh)\, and Dr Yannick Lengkeek (University of Birmingham) \nRespondent: Dr Daniel Knight (University of St Andrews) \nChaired by: Dr Michalis Sotiropoulos (University of Edinburgh) \nAbstract: When people think of dictatorship\, they often conjure an image of an all-powerful leader ruling over a populace alternately roused in nationalist fervour or cowed in fearful subservience. Whilst this doubtless captures crucial aspects of the dictatorial experience\, it portrays those who lived through dictatorship as principally passive historical actors\, carried along by the charismatic currents of those in power. In this seminar\, three scholars who work in the field of everyday life history (or Alltagsgeschichte) challenge this overly simplistic picture. \nThree short papers will be presented based on collaborative research on the dictatorships of Mussolini in Italy\, Franco in Spain\, Salazar in Portugal\, and Metaxas and the Colonels in Greece. Attention will be paid to how dictatorship affected – and was affected by – the intimacy of social bonds between friends\, relatives\, and neighbours (Ferris)\, the practices of leisure and play both in and outside the home (Lengkeek)\, and the experience of time spent alone\, whether in loneliness or solitude (Halstead). This will reveal that Italians\, Spaniards\, Portuguese\, and Greeks living through dictatorship were active agents in their own histories – imbalances in power notwithstanding – operating in ways both normative and non-normative. In the process\, it will be demonstrated that the “big picture” of dictatorial rule is woven from the threads of everyday life. \nDaniel Knight will respond to the papers with a social anthropologist’s perspective on everyday life and dictatorship\, followed by a discussion with the panellists and the audience chaired by Michalis Sotiropoulos. \nThe event will be followed by an informal wine reception. \nThis is a hybrid event. All welcome! \nPlease register via Eventbrite to help us with catering numbers. \n  \nFriday 4 April 2025\, 5:00 p.m. – 6:45 p.m. GMT \nSydney Smith Lecture Theatre\, Doorway 1\, Old Medical School\, EH1 2QZ \nHybrid event \nTo attend the event in-person in Edinburgh\, please register here \nTo attend the event online via Teams\, please register here. The link to join the session online via Teams will be circulated prior to the event.
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/everyday-life-under-dictatorship-in-southern-europe/
LOCATION:University of Edinburgh\, Sydney Smith Lecture Theatre\, Doorway 1\, Old Medical School\, EH1 2QZ\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Panel Discussion
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SUMMARY:Tim Rood\, "The Greek Palimpsest: Alfred Zimmern at the British School at Athens\, 1909–10"
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe Research Centre for Greek and Latin Literature of the Academy of Athens and the British School at Athens are delighted to announce the lecture: \nProfessor Tim Rood (Oxford)\, ‘The Greek Palimpsest: Alfred Zimmern at the British School at Athens\, 1909–10’.\nThe lecture will take place at the East Hall of the Academy of Athens on Friday April 4\, 2025 at 10.00 am UK time / 12.00 pm Greek time. \nThe lecture will be also lived-streamed: https://diavlos.grnet.gr/room/1192?eventid=17909 \nABSTRACT: Alfred Zimmern’s The Greek Commonwealth (1911)\, one of the most influential works on fifth-century BC Athens published in the twentieth century\, was largely written at the British School at Athens in 1909–10\, immediately after Zimmern had abandoned his academic career as a tutor in Ancient History in Oxford. Drawing extensively on archival sources\, this paper examines Zimmern’s responses to the intellectual climate of the British School and to the political climate of modern Greece\, explores the impact of his experiences in Athens on his book\, and points to connections with the ideas on nationality and empire that he later developed as a leading commentator on International Relations in the interwar years.
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/tim-rood-the-greek-palimpsest-alfred-zimmern-at-the-british-school-at-athens-1909-10/
LOCATION:Academy of Athens\, Athens\, Greece
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SUMMARY:Publication presentation: R.L.N. Barber (ed.)\, "Phylakopi\, Melos\, 1896-99. The finds in the National Archaeological Museum\, Athens\, BSA Suppl. Volume 53"
DESCRIPTION:Publication Presentation\nR.L.N. Barber (ed.)\, “Phylakopi\, Melos\, 1896-99. The finds in the National Archaeological Museum\, Athens\, BSA Suppl. Volume 53”\nThe National Archaeological Museum and the British School at Athens cordially invite you to the presentation of the two-volume publication R.L.N. Barber (ed.)\, Phylakopi\, Melos\, 1896-99. The finds in the National Archaeological Museum\, Athens\, BSA Suppl. Volume 53\, on Tuesday 1 April 2025 at 17:30\, at the Amphitheatre of the National Archaeological Museum. (Entrance: 1 Tositsa\, 106 82 Athens). \nPlease note: this presentation will take place in Greek \n  \nΤο Εθνικό Αρχαιολογικό Μουσείο και η Βρετανική Σχολή Αθηνών σας προσκαλούν στην παρουσίαση της δίτομης δημοσίευσης R.L.N. Barber (ed.)\, Phylakopi\, Melos\, 1896-99. The finds in the National Archaeological Museum\, Athens\, BSA Suppl. Volume 53\, την Τρίτη 1η Απριλίου 2025 και ώρα 17:30\, στο Αμφιθέατρο του Εθνικού Αρχαιολογικού Μουσείου. (Είσοδος: Τοσίτσα 1\, ΤΚ 106 82 Αθήνα). \nΗ σπουδαία προϊστορική πόλη της Φυλακωπής στη Μήλο\, που άκμασε καθ’ όλη τη διάρκεια της 2ης χιλιετίας π.Χ.\, ανασκάφηκε για πρώτη φορά από τη Βρετανική Σχολή Αθηνών\, το διάστημα 1896-1899 και τα αποτελέσματα δημοσιεύθηκαν το 1904. Τα ευρήματα μεταφέρθηκαν και φυλάσσονται\, έως σήμερα\, στο ΕΑΜ\, ενώ ένας σημαντικός αριθμός αυτών αποτελεί τμήμα της μόνιμης έκθεσης κυκλαδικών αρχαιοτήτων του Μουσείου από τις αρχές του 20ου αι. Tο διάστημα 2010-2023 το σύνολο του υλικού της ιστορικής ανασκαφής μελετήθηκε εκ νέου από μεγάλη ερευνητική ομάδα που συγκρότησε η Βρετανική Σχολή Αθηνών με τη συμμετοχή διακεκριμένων επιστημόνων\, υπό την άοκνη διεύθυνση του καθηγητή Robin Barber. Η δίτομη δημοσίευση παραδόθηκε στην επιστημονική κοινότητα το καλοκαίρι του 2024. \nΠρόγραμμα εκδήλωσης \nΧαιρετισμός\, Δρ. Κων/νος Νικολέντζος\, Εθνικό Αρχαιολογικό Μουσείο \nΧαιρετισμός\, καθηγήτρια  Rebecca Sweetman\, Βρετανική Σχολή Αθηνών \nΔρ. Κάτια Μαντέλη\, Εθνικό Αρχαιολογικό Μουσείο\, Εισαγωγή: H ερευνητική ομάδα της Φυλακωπής στο Εθνικό Αρχαιολογικό Μουσείο \n Ομιλητές \nΟμότιμος Καθηγητής Χρίστος Ντούμας\, ΕΚΠΑ. \nRobin Βarber\, Φυλακωπή Μήλου\, 1896-1899. Μια μεγάλη συμβολή στην ιστορία του Αιγαίου.  \n Δρ. Πέγκυ Σωτηρακοπούλου\, Αρχαιολόγος \nPhylakopi\, Melos\, 1896–99. The Finds in the National Archaeological Museum\, Athens: Η κεραμική. \n Δρ. Νίκος Παπαδημητρίου\, Διευθυντής Μουσείου Π. & Α. Κανελλοπούλου \nPhylakopi\, Melos\, 1896–99. The Finds in the National Archaeological Museum\, Athens: Η τεχνολογία \nΚαθηγητής Robin Barber\, Βρετανική Σχολή Αθηνών \nΘα ακολουθήσει μικρή δεξίωση \n  \nE-mail: eam@culture.gr \nwww.namuseum.gr
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/publication-presentation-r-l-n-barber-ed-phylakopi-melos-1896-99-the-finds-in-the-national-archaeological-museum-athens-bsa-suppl-volume-53/
LOCATION:National Archaeological Museum\, Athens\, Greece
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SUMMARY:Artemis Papatheodorou\, "The Ottoman laws on antiquities in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries"
DESCRIPTION:Upper House Seminar\nDr Artemis Papatheodorou (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)\, “The Ottoman laws on antiquities in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries”\nAbstract: In the long nineteenth century\, the Ottoman Empire promulgated not one but four regulations on antiquities: the first one in 1869\, the second one in 1874\, the third one in 1884 and the final one in 1906. These regulations reflected attempts to manage antiquities in a comprehensive manner: from a definition of antiquities to the conditions for conducting excavations\, importing or exporting ancient artefacts\, and other topics. In an effort to trace their raison d’ être\, this presentation will focus on the goals of each regulation. It will also look into the content of each regulation with an emphasis on the protection of antiquities\, the ownership and export of finds\, as well as the conditions for archaeological research. It will moreover examine a complementary act of law that focused on the preservation of antiquities in the early twentieth century\, and a draft law that aimed unsuccessfully to replace the 1906 regulation. Significantly\, this presentation will also touch upon the ways in which these regulations were implemented throughout the Empire. \nBio: Dr Artemis Papatheodorou is a cultural historian specialising in the history of archaeology\, heritage and the classical reception in the Ottoman long nineteenth century. She is currently a Chester Dale Interdisciplinary Fellow with the Metropolitan Museum of Art\, in New York\, where she investigates vernacular archaeologies in late Ottoman Anatolia and photography. Her DPhil from the University of Oxford looked into the Ottoman policies on antiquities between 1839 and the end of the Empire in 1923. Her research focused\, more precisely\, on the central state legislation on antiquities\, the archaeological laws of the autonomous Principality of Samos\, and the archaeology-related activities of the most important Ottoman Greek learned society\, the Hellenic Literary Society at Constantinople. Artemis was previously a Fellow in Provenance Research with the Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations\, Koç University\, and the Berlin Museums\, an Early Career Fellow in Hellenic Studies with Harvard University\, and a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow with the Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations\, Koç University. She has also taught history classes at the American University of Sharjah\, in the United Arab Emirates\, and Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences\, in Athens\, Greece. Her upcoming project is a study of the Mediterranean legislations on antiquities between 1789 and 1945. \n  \nTo join in-person in Athens\, please register here \nTo join online via webinar\, please register here \nimage: Excavation at the Temple of Apollo in Didyma\, 1906\, © German Archaeological Institute – Istanbul
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/artemis-papatheodorou-the-ottoman-laws-on-antiquities-in-the-nineteenth-and-early-twentieth-centuries/
LOCATION:British School at Athens\, Upper House\, 52 Souedias Street\, Athens\, Greece
CATEGORIES:Upper House Seminar
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SUMMARY:Paul Halstead\, “The importance of olive growing and oil exports in Archaic-Classical Athens: the contribution of 'citizen science'”
DESCRIPTION:Elderly olive trees growing on the edge of an agricultural terrace\, Kythera\, photo: Dr Valasia Isaakidou \nPLEASE NOTE: new date – Mon 25th March 2025 \nHybrid Friends’ Lecture\nProfessor Paul Halstead (Professor Emeritus\, University of Sheffield)\, “The importance of olive growing and oil exports in Archaic-Classical Athens: the contribution of ‘citizen science’”\nAbstract: Scholars have long argued about how ‘primitive’ or ‘modern’ was the ancient Greek economy. In this context\, arguments over the scale of olive growing in Archaic-Classical southern Greece and of oil exports therefrom assume broad importance for our understanding of early polis societies. A law attributed to Solon of Athens has been interpreted as indicating large-scale olive growing in Attica and state encouragement of the export of oil\, while distinctive and widely distributed ceramic vessels for transporting liquids have been cited in support of large-volume trade in oil and wine. Conversely\, the scarcity of stone pressing equipment suggests production of oil in Archaic-Classical Greece on only a modest scale. In this presentation\, consideration of the oral testimonies of elderly ‘traditional’ farmers (‘citizen scientists’) in Greece\, backed up by field observation of living trees and available information from archives\, will be argued to support olive growing and hence oil export in Archaic-Classical Greece on only a small scale. \nBio: Paul Halstead is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Sheffield\, where he taught from 1984 to 2020 in the recently closed Dept of Archaeology. He was a student at the BSA in Athens from 1974 to 1977 and has taken part in excavations\, surface surveys and post-excavation studies from western Macedonia and Epirus to eastern Crete and Rhodes as a member of archaeological projects sponsored by the BSA\, ASCSA\, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki\, University of Athens and Greek Ministry of Culture. His research has focused on Aegean prehistory and ancient Mediterranean farming\, drawing particularly on first-hand analysis of zooarchaeological assemblages from Greece and\, increasingly in recent years\, on oral-historical/ ethnoarchaeological studies of traditional cultivation and herding in Spain\, southern France\, Italy\, Cyprus and\, especially\, Greece. \nHybrid event \nTo attend in person in London\, please REGISTER here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-importance-of-olive-growing-and-oil-exports-in-archaic-classical-athens-tickets-1248393371179?aff=oddtdtcreator \nTo attend online via Zoom webinar\, please REGISTER here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_z4M6rHdeSveiiSJ-tdYDQQ
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/paul-halstead-the-importance-of-olive-growing-and-oil-exports-in-archaic-classical-athens-the-contribution-of-citizen-science/
LOCATION:Senate House (Room 349)\, London\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:BSA Friends' Lecture
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SUMMARY:Lady Marina Marks\, "The Uses of Oppression: The Ottoman Empire through its Greek Newspapers\, 1830–1862"
DESCRIPTION:Upper House Seminar\nLady Marina Marks in conversation with Bruce Clark\, “The Uses of Oppression: The Ottoman Empire through its Greek Newspapers\, 1830–1862”\nLady Marks and Bruce Clark will discuss the research for her recently published book The Uses of Oppression: The Ottoman Empire through its Greek Newspapers\, 1830–1862 (Harvard University Press\, 2024). \n\n\n\n\nAbstract: During the middle decades of the nineteenth century\, a generation of Ottoman Greeks was caught up in radical social and political changes\, including the period of reforms known as Tanzimat. The Ottoman Greek press was both a product and an agent of these changes. The Uses of Oppression follows the development of the Ottoman Greek press from its birth in 1830 until 1862\, employing the vivid reflections of its editors\, correspondents\, advertisers\, commentators\, and readers as a lens through which to view the everyday lives of this generation of Ottoman Greeks—their social aspirations\, their reactions to political events\, their reception of Western-style norms\, and other contemporary issues. \n“The invaluable research of Marina Sakali\, Lady Marks\, using a remarkable array of Ottoman Greek newspapers as her principle source\, throws light on a period of the late Ottoman Empire when creativity\, optimism\, and a yearning for progress on all fronts was surging among the Ottoman Greeks\, despite their inferior civic status. The fact that this community came to a bloody end\, a century ago\, lends poignancy to the story\, and makes it doubly important to study the written evidence in a cool and detached way.” – Bruce Clark\, author of Twice a Stranger: How Mass Expulsion Forged Modern Greece and Turkey \n\n\n\n\n\nBio: Marina Sakali\, Lady Marks\, PhD OMKM (née Marina Sakali) is a historian and philanthropist. She holds a PhD in history from the University of London (School of Oriental and African Studies) and is the chairman of the Michael Marks Charitable Trust\, a charitable foundation that supports the arts and the environment. She has been awarded the Order of Merit by the Sovereign Order of Malta for her philanthropic work. \nHybrid event \nTo attend in person in Athens\, please REGISTER here \nTo attend online via Zoom webinar\, please REGISTER here
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/lady-marina-marks-the-uses-of-oppression-the-ottoman-empire-through-its-greek-newspapers-1830-1862/
CATEGORIES:Upper House Seminar
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SUMMARY:Theodora Jim\, "Thinking through Greek and Chinese gods from a comparative perspective"
DESCRIPTION:Artemis holding two long torches\, 4th century B.C.\, Megara. National Archaeological Museum of Athens. NM 4540. Photo by George E. Koronaios (22 July 2018) via Wikimedia Commons\, shared under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 licence. \nVisiting Fellow Lecture\nDr Theodora Jim (University of Nottingham)\, “Thinking through Greek and Chinese gods from a comparative perspective”\nAbstract: Contrary to the tendency to study ancient Mediterranean religions in isolation from religions in the Far East\, this talk brings together for the first time two world polytheistic systems: ancient Greece and premodern China. It embraces Marcel Detienne’s call to ‘compare the incomparable’. In this seminar I will think through the key features of the Greek and Chinese deities from a comparative perspective. The central question is: how did worshippers in two major polytheistic traditions imagine\, experience\, and represent the gods as they confronted the unknown and unknowable? I will look at the wide-ranging power of the gods in the Greek and Chinese pantheons on the one hand\, and worshippers’ religious beliefs\, practices and experience of worshippers on the other. I hope also to shed light on the Greek and Chinese religious worldviews and perceptions of their gods\, and ultimately to open up new questions for the study of both fields. \nBio: Theodora Jim is an Associate Professor in Ancient Greek History at the University of Nottingham in the UK. An ancient historian specializing in the religion and culture of ancient Greece\, she is interested in worshippers’ religious beliefs and lived experience and the comparative study of different polytheistic systems. As Visiting Fellow at the BSA in 2024/2025\, she is conducting research for a book on comparing Greek and Chinese polytheism. Her work makes extensive use of epigraphic and literary evidence\, and engages with anthropological approaches. She is the author of Saviour Gods and Soteria in Ancient Greece (Oxford\, 2022) and Sharing with the Gods: Aparchai and Dekatai in Ancient Greece (Oxford\, 2014). She is the Principal Investigator of a Leverhulme-funded project comparing Greek and Chinese polytheism and a holder of the Philip Leverhulme Prize in Classics 2021. \nIn-person only lecture. \nTo attend in-person in Athens\, please REGISTER here
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/theodora-jim-thinking-through-greek-and-chinese-gods-from-a-comparative-perspective/
LOCATION:British School at Athens\, Upper House\, 52 Souedias Street\, Athens\, Greece
CATEGORIES:Visiting Fellow Lecture
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SUMMARY:Andreas Karydas "X-Ray Vision for the Past: Exploring Antiquities and Artworks Through MA-XRF Imaging"
DESCRIPTION:Presented By\nFitch Laboratory\, BSA and Wiener Laboratory\, ASCSA \n\n\nSpeaker(s)\nDr. Andreas Karydas\nInstitute of Nuclear and Particle Physics of the National Center for Scientific Research “Demokritos” \n\n\nLocation\nASCSA\, M. H. Wiener Laboratory Seminar Room\n54 Souidias st.\,\nAthens 10676\n\nContact\nFor any enquiries\, tel.: 213-000-2400 (133)\, Email: infoWienerLab@ascsa.edu.gr
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/andreas-karydas-x-ray-vision-for-the-past-exploring-antiquities-and-artworks-through-ma-xrf-imaging/
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:20250224T180000
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SUMMARY:Prof. Konstantinos Georgiadis\, "The Revival of modern Olympic Games: from Zappas to Coubertin"
DESCRIPTION:Course Keynote Lecture\nProf. Konstantinos Georgiadis (University of Peloponnese) “The Revival of modern Olympic Games: from Zappas to Coubertin”\nAs part of the course: History and Philosophy of the Olympic Games: understanding ancient ideas and communicating modern ideals. https://www.bsa.ac.uk/courses/history-and-philosophy-of-the-olympic-games/ \nProf. Konstantinos Georgiadis – University of Peloponnese\, IOA Dean Member\, IOC Commission for Olympic Education Vice-President\, International Society of Olympic Historians (ISOH) \n\nCourse description:\n\nA new BSA course aimed at postgraduate students and professionals keen to understand the ancient roots of the modern Olympic Games and communicate them appropriately to their target audience. The course travels backward through history\, beginning with the modern Olympics of Paris 2024 and Athens 2004\, then “digging down” through the modern Olympic revival of 1896\, to arrive at the traditional origin of the Games at Olympia in 776 BCE. It is organised around elements common to the ancient and modern games: ceremonies\, athletes\, contests\, and rewards. We look at the historical and philosophical origins of things like the Olympic flame\, the athletes’ oath\, and the link to peace. We ask who the athletes were\, how they were trained\, categorized\, and selected. We compare common events\, such as footraces\, boxing\, wrestling\, javelin throwing\, and equestrian events\, and we examine how and why victors were celebrated with prizes\, songs\, images\, and privileges. \n\n\nWe are happy to be able to open to the public the keynote lecture for new Olympic Games course. BSA members\, supporters and the public are welcome to join the course participants for this lecture. Registration required (see below). Due to the course programme\, this lecture will not be followed by a reception. \n\n\nIn-person only \n  \n\nREGISTER: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-revival-of-modern-olympic-games-from-zappas-to-coubertin-tickets-1251177939899?aff=oddtdtcreator&_gl=1*1084q4t*_up*MQ..*_ga*NTU1NDE3Nzk5LjE3Mzk3OTUyMTQ.*_ga_TQVES5V6SH*MTczOTc5NTIxNC4xLjAuMTczOTc5NTIxNC4wLjAuMA..
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/prof-konstantinos-georgiadis-the-revival-of-modern-olympic-games-from-zappas-to-coubertin/
LOCATION:British School at Athens\, Upper House\, 52 Souedias Street\, Athens\, Greece
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Athens:20250218T173000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Athens:20250218T193000
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SUMMARY:Annual Open Lectures 2025 - London
DESCRIPTION:Annual Open Lectures 2025\nLondon\n  \n\n\nPlease join us for the Annual Open Lectures of the British School at Athens on Tuesday 18th February 2025 at 5.30 pm  \nwhich will be held in-person only at the British Academy\, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace\, London\, SW1Y 5AH. \n  \n\ncredit Kostas Mantziaris \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 2024\n\n\n\n\n\nProfessor Rebecca Sweetman \nBSA Director\n\n  \n\n\n\n\nThe Moving Van of Metaphor: An Anglophone poet\, translator\, and classicist in Greece\n(A reading of poetry and translations and talk about living through interesting times in Greece) \nA. E. Stallings\n\nOxford Professor of Poetry 2023-27 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAttendance is free of charge but advance registration is essential to gain admittance to the venue. \nRegister: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bsa-annual-open-lectures-2025-tickets-1214745710119?aff=oddtdtcreator
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/annual-open-lectures-2025-london/
LOCATION:British Academy (London)\, 10 Carlton House Terrace\, London\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Open Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Athens:20250213T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Athens:20250213T210000
DTSTAMP:20260522T200404
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SUMMARY:Annual Open Lectures 2025 - Athens
DESCRIPTION:  \nAnnual Open Lectures 2025\nAthens\n  \n\nPlease join us for the Annual Open Lectures of the British School at Athens on Thursday 13th February 2025 at 7 p.m. \nwhich will be held in-person only at the Archaeological Society (Lecture Hall)\, 22 Panepistimiou Street. \n  \n\n\n\n\n		\n		\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n		\n\n  \n\nThe Work of the British School at Athens in 2024\n\n\n\nProfessor Rebecca Sweetman\nBSA Director\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\nThe coastal world of Minoan Palaikastro\n\n\n\nProfessor Carl Knappett \nDepartment of Art History\, University of Toronto \nLying on the eastern tip of Crete\, the coastal Minoan site of Palaikastro would appear to be a prime location for a trading entrepôt. But how connected was Palaikastro with the rest of the island\, the wider Aegean\, and beyond? This presentation will reflect on the changing status of the site over the two millennia of its Bronze Age occupation\, drawing both on recent work and the long legacy of BSA scholarship dating back to 1902. \nCarl Knappett has held the Walter Graham/Homer Thompson Chair in Aegean Prehistory at the University of Toronto since 2008. His interests range from network methods and theories of materiality to the intersections of art history with archaeology. His main specialism is pottery analysis\, having studied and published ceramic assemblages from Crete\, the Cyclades\, and Anatolia. He has directed fieldwork at the east Cretan site of Palaikastro since 2012. In 2024 he was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship for a new book project on containers and containment.
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/annual-open-lectures-2025-athens/
LOCATION:Archaeological Society\, 22 Panepistimiou Street\, Athens\, Greece
CATEGORIES:Open Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Athens:20250211T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Athens:20250211T210000
DTSTAMP:20260522T200404
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SUMMARY:Annual Open Lectures 2025 - Thessaloniki
DESCRIPTION:  \nAnnual Open Lectures 2025\nThessaloniki\n  \n\nPlease join us for the Annual Open Lectures of the British School at Athens on Tuesday 11th February 2025 at 7 p.m. \nwhich will be held in-person only. The lecture will take place in the Cast Gallery of the Faculty of Philosophy\, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n		\n		\n			\n				\n			\n			\n				\n			\n		\n\n  \n\nThe Work of the British School at Athens in 2024\n\n\n\nProfessor Rebecca Sweetman\nBSA Director\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\nThe coastal world of Minoan Palaikastro\n\n\n\nProfessor Carl Knappett \nDepartment of Art History\, University of Toronto \nLying on the eastern tip of Crete\, the coastal Minoan site of Palaikastro would appear to be a prime location for a trading entrepôt. But how connected was Palaikastro with the rest of the island\, the wider Aegean\, and beyond? This presentation will reflect on the changing status of the site over the two millennia of its Bronze Age occupation\, drawing both on recent work and the long legacy of BSA scholarship dating back to 1902. \nCarl Knappett has held the Walter Graham/Homer Thompson Chair in Aegean Prehistory at the University of Toronto since 2008. His interests range from network methods and theories of materiality to the intersections of art history with archaeology. His main specialism is pottery analysis\, having studied and published ceramic assemblages from Crete\, the Cyclades\, and Anatolia. He has directed fieldwork at the east Cretan site of Palaikastro since 2012. In 2024 he was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship for a new book project on containers and containment.
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/annual-open-lectures-2025-thessaloniki/
LOCATION:Aristotle University of Thessaloniki\, Cast Gallery\, Thessaloniki\, Greece
CATEGORIES:Open Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Athens:20250127T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Athens:20250127T190000
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SUMMARY:Jan Sienkiewicz\, "Islands Between Palaces: The ‘Mycenaean’ Civilisation Reconsidered"
DESCRIPTION:Upper House Seminar\nDr Jan Sienkiewicz (University of Cambridge/British Museum/BSA)\, “Islands Between Palaces: The ‘Mycenaean’ Civilisation Reconsidered”\nAbstract: According to the dominant scholarly narrative\, after the collapse of the Neopalatial civilisation\, the Aegean societies underwent the so-called ‘Mycenaeanisation’\, as the regional centre of cultural\, economic\, and political influence shifted from ‘Minoan’ Crete to the ‘Mycenaean’ southern Greek mainland. This narrative\, however\, has been shaped by the insistence\, imposed partly by the inherently interpretative label ‘Mycenaean’\, to equate the presence of specific types of material culture (mostly pottery and certain tomb types) with cultural practices and identities of mainland Greek origins. This paper offers a retelling of Aegean prehistory in the Late Bronze Age (c. 1600 – 1100 BCE)\, which came out of asking not who people were but what they did – focusing not on unknowable identities but on archaeologically attestable practices. Using island communities of the south-east Aegean as a case study\, this paper argues that we need to decouple trade networks from networks of socio-cultural interaction\, showing how these two do not necessarily overlap. It demonstrates how in different but interconnected communities the same practices involved pottery of different styles\, cautioning against equating objects with cultural behaviour and identities. Finally\, it is argued that Crete was central to the cultural changes conventionally associated with ‘Mycenaeanisation’. \nBio: Dr Jan Sienkiewicz is the Richard Bradford-McConnell Fellow at the BSA for 2025-26. Jan works on museum collections\, funerary archaeology\, Aegean prehistory\, and theories of culture change. He came to the BSA to begin publishing the findings of his doctoral research\, which began as a collaboration between the British Museum and the University of Cambridge\, set up to re-examine the material from the 19th century excavations of the Late Bronze Age chamber tomb cemetery at Ialysos on Rhodes. In addition to recontextualising museum objects and reconstructing original assemblages of grave goods from this important site\, Jan’s research focused on tracing networks of social interaction and cultural affiliation between island communities of the southern Aegean. Before his PhD in ‘Mycenaean’ Archaeology at Cambridge\, Jan studied at the University College London\, where he obtained an MA in Mediterranean Archaeology and a BA in Classical Archaeology\, with both his MA and BA dissertations focusing on ‘Minoan’ Crete. \nimage: courtesy of J. Sienkiewicz \nHybrid lecture \nTo attend in person in Athens\, please register here \nTo attend online via webinar\, please register here  \n 
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/jan-sienkiewicz-islands-between-palaces-the-mycenaean-civilisation-reconsidered/
LOCATION:British School at Athens\, Upper House\, 52 Souedias Street\, Athens\, Greece
CATEGORIES:Upper House Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250121T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250121T190000
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SUMMARY:Pamela Armstrong\, "The Two Castles of Torone"
DESCRIPTION:  \n \nThe remains of the two castles at Torone\, photo by Teddy Catling \n\nHybrid Friends’ Lecture\nDr Pamela Armstrong (University of Oxford)\, “The Two Castles of Torone”\nAbstract: Torone sits on a headland at the southern tip of the Sithonia peninsula in the Chalkidiki on the north coast of Greece. From the headland it is possible to see eastwards beyond Athos to the island of Lemnos\, to the west to Mount Olympos in Thessaly\, and to the south-west the most northerly of the Sporades islands is visible. In previous centuries visibility extended further so that the island of Tenedos and the coast of the Troad could also be seen. It is not surprising then that such a location would be chosen as the site of two independent castles\, one in the thirteenth and the other in the seventeenth centuries. The periods when the castles were built were turbulent and the north Aegean was being ravaged by war. In the thirteenth century the Crusaders were struggling with rump Byzantine centres of power for control of the strategically vital entrance to the Dardanelles while in the seventeenth century the Venetians and the Ottomans fought over the same issue. The lecture examines each of the castles through the lens of excavations carried out by the Greek Archaeological Society together with the Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens. The resultant material culture is examined in its broader societal contexts\, illuminating the complex historical tapestry of the region with features of everyday life in a garrison setting during times of war. \nPamela Armstrong is Senior Research Fellow in Byzantine Cultural History\, Campion Hall\, University of Oxford. \nHybrid lecture \n18:00 – 19:00 (UK time) / 20:00 – 21:00 (GR time) \nTo attend online via webinar\, please register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_NmNzHqpZR1GVw1Zb4CleTQ#/registration \nTo attend in-person in London\, please register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-two-castles-of-torone-tickets-1152415749529?aff=oddtdtcreator
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/pamela-armstrong-the-two-castles-of-torone/
LOCATION:Senate House (Room 349)\, London\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:BSA Friends' Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Athens:20250120T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Athens:20250120T190000
DTSTAMP:20260522T200404
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SUMMARY:David Ricks\, "Poetry between Languages: Writing and Translating Poetry in English and Greek"
DESCRIPTION:Joint BSA-CHS Panel\n‘Poetry between Languages: Writing and Translating Poetry in English and Greek’\nThis hybrid panel session\, to be held on 20 January 2025 at the British School at Athens\, takes as its starting point With Signs Following (Reading: Two Rivers Press 2024) the newly published poetry collection of David Ricks (Professor Emeritus\, King’s College London). The two-hour-long session starts at 17:00 (Greek time) and will be chaired by Professor Sir Roderick Beaton\, Chair of the BSA Council. The speakers are: \nDr Dionysis Kapsalis (former Director of the Cultural Foundation of the National Bank of Greece)\, whose title is ‘Not Life but speech’. Dr Kapsalis will share reflections on translating one of Ricks’s poems—and the ‘sorrows and joys’ thereof. He will pay special attention to the conjugal tension between living speech and formal verse in the translation of poetry. \nProfessor Nasos Vayenas (University of Athens) will speak in Greek on the topic ‘Διαβάζοντας τα ποιήματα του David Ricks’. He describes his talk as ‘μια ανάλυση της ποιητικής του Ricks με βαση τη θεματική και την προσωδία των ποιημάτων του.’ \nProfessor Athina Vogiatzoglou (University of Ioannina) will speak on the subject ‘Writing in English and Translating from Greek’. She will explore David Ricks’s poetic vision and craftsmanship through a selected reading of his poems and his creative translations. \nThe renowned poet and translator A.E. Stallings (University of Oxford)\, who wrote the Afterword to With Signs Following\, will share her own thoughts. \nThe event is co-hosted by the Centre for Hellenic Studies at King’s College London. It will be recorded for future use. \nDavid Ricks\nDavid Ricks is Professor Emeritus of Modern Greek and Comparative Literature\, King’s College London. While teaching there for three decades\, he produced the anthology Modern Greek Writing (2003) and versions of a range of Greek poets\, from Dionysios Solomos to Michalis Ganas\, published in magazines and anthologies. He has also published poems in Poetry\, the New England Review\, and other American magazines. Some of these poems have now been collected in the pamphlet Shreds and Patches (Rack Press 2022) and the book With Signs Following (Two Rivers Press 2024). \n With Signs Following was published by Two Rivers Press (Reading\, 2024). Book cover by Sally Castle. \n  \nHybrid event \nTo attend in-person in Athens\, please register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/poetry-between-languages-writing-and-translating-poetry-in-english-greek-tickets-1143837551909?aff=oddtdtcreator&_gl=1*uk1jm7*_up*MQ..*_ga*MTUzODA3MzA1LjE3MzY0MTQ0NTk.*_ga_TQVES5V6SH*MTczNjQxNDQ1OS4xLjAuMTczNjQxNDQ1OS4wLjAuMA.. \nTo attend online via webinar\, please register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_vTKncZvLSa6dvuUsqnjqWg#/registration
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/david-ricks-poetry-between-languages-writing-and-translating-poetry-in-english-and-greek/
LOCATION:British School at Athens\, Upper House\, 52 Souedias Street\, Athens\, Greece
CATEGORIES:Panel Discussion
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/Athens:20250115T193000
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SUMMARY:Nikos Daskalothanasis\, "The first educational art institution in Greece: the history of the Athens School of Fine Arts"
DESCRIPTION:BSA Friends’ lecture\nProfessor Nikos Daskalothanasis (Athens School of Fine Arts)\, “Το πρώτο ίδρυμα καλλιτεχνικής εκπαίδευσης στην Ελλάδα: η ιστορία της Ανωτάτης Σχολής Καλών Τεχνών της Αθήνας”\n[The first educational art institution in Greece: the history of the Athens School of Fine Arts] \nPlease note: the lecture will take place in Greek \nAbstract: The aim of the lecture is to reconstruct the history of the first educational artistic institution of the modern Greek state. On the one hand\, it reflects aspects of the course of modern Greek art itself and on the other hand\, it is linked to issues concerning the educational and institutional involvement of artists throughout the history of modern Greece. This double axis shapes the perspective adopted by the lecture. Its chronological scope covers the period beginning with the placement of the first painter at the School of Arts to teach oil painting and ending in the first half of the 1970s\, after the fall of the Colonels’ regime\, when the School was now ready to attempt a more systematic dialogue with international artistic movements. \nBio: Nikos Daskalothanasis is a professor of modern and contemporary art history at the Department of Theory and History of Art\, Athens School of Fine Arts. He has published (in Greek)\, among others\, a book on the historical role of the artist (The artist as a historical subject: From the 19th to the 21st century\, Athens\, Agra Publications\, 2004) and a study on the early formation of art history in Europe (Art history\, the birth of a new discipline: from the 19th to the 20th century\, Athens\, Agra Publications\, 2013). In 2021 and 2023 his books Art History 1945-1975: From Modern to Contemporary Ant: Painting – Sculpture – Architecture (Athens\, futura Publications) and Art History. The Western World (Athens. Utopia Publications) were published. He is the editor of the Greek peer reviewed academic journal Istoria tis Technis (Art History) (Athens\, futura Publications\, 2013-) https://istoriatechnisinfo.wordpress.com/. His research interests include art historiography as well as art theory and art history from the mid-19th century to the present day. \nIn-person only \nTo attend in person in Athens\, please register here \nimage: Loizos Lantzas\, The Southern Portico of the Athens School of Fine Arts\, 1895\, Collection of ASFA. ©ASFA 
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/nikos-daskalothanasis-the-first-educational-art-institution-in-greece-the-history-of-the-athens-school-of-fine-arts/
LOCATION:British School at Athens\, Upper House\, 52 Souedias Street\, Athens\, Greece
CATEGORIES:BSA Friends' Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Athens:20241216T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Athens:20241216T190000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20241203T144411Z
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SUMMARY:Edward Jones\, "The function and significance of inscribed accounts in Classical Athens"
DESCRIPTION:Fragment of an inscribed tribute list\, 425-4 BCE\, image credit: the Metropolitan Museum of Art\, New York. Fletcher Fund\, 1926 \nUpper House Seminar\nDr Edward Jones (BSA Macmillan-Rodewald Student / Oxford University) “The function and significance of inscribed accounts in Classical Athens”\nAbstract: In this lecture\, Edward Jones explores the Classical Athenian habit of inscribing administrative records on stone. We possess many fragments of inscribed lists\, accounts\, and inventories\, but the reasons for inscribing them are rarely recorded in surviving literary and epigraphic texts. Therefore\, this elusive practice has been variously interpreted as a way of facilitating the scrutiny of officials\, of honouring the gods\, or of symbolising Athenian financial might and democratic ideals. \n\nJones offers a new interpretation of these inscriptions in his lecture. By describing their texts and formatting features in detail\, and by examining related literary and epigraphic evidence\, he argues that inscribed accounts served various\, shifting functions. Their formal properties indicate why they were inscribed\, yet their function also depended on who was looking at them\, when they were looking\, and why they were looking. \n\nThis lecture sheds light on a fascinating epigraphic habit bound up with political and religious mentalities and with questions of literacy\, numeracy\, and transparency. It also contributes to a growing body of research on the function and materiality of inscribed monuments in antiquity. \nOnline and in-person\nTo attend in person in Athens\, please register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1041842297357?aff=oddtdtcreator \nTo attend online via Zoom webinar\, please register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_eHFX1yU3Q4WEnSqEjcKehA 
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/jones-the-function-and-significance-of-inscribed-accounts-in-classical-athens/
LOCATION:British School at Athens\, Upper House\, 52 Souedias Street\, Athens\, Greece
CATEGORIES:Upper House Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Athens:20241209T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Athens:20241209T190000
DTSTAMP:20260522T200404
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SUMMARY:Islam Issa\, "The Alexandrian Dream"
DESCRIPTION:image: Islam Issa gives his prize-winning address at the Runciman Award Ceremony 2024\, © Julian Anderson \nBSA / Anglo Hellenic League lecture\nProfessor Islam Issa (Birmingham City University)\, “The Alexandrian Dream”\nBIO Islam Issa is an award-winning author\, broadcaster and curator\, named by the BBC as ‘one of the UK’s most significant new thinkers’. He is Professor of Literature and History at Birmingham City University\, has written several academic books and curated internationally renowned exhibitions. He writes regularly for BBC History Magazine and has presented and featured in television and radio documentaries on the BBC and Netflix. His book\, Alexandria: The City that Changed the World\, is a Sunday Times and TLS Book of the Year and the winner of this year’s Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award. \nThe Runciman Award and this event are kindly sponsored by the Athanasios C. Laskaridis Charitable Foundation and the A. G. Leventis Foundation \n  \nTo attend in person please register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/islam-issa-the-alexandrian-dream-tickets-1041862648227?aff=oddtdtcreator \nTo attend online via webinar\, please register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_QC0WPfamQRaOqgDfxddLvw
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/the-alexandrian-dream/
LOCATION:British School at Athens\, Upper House\, 52 Souedias Street\, Athens\, Greece
CATEGORIES:Anglo Hellenic League lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241203T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241203T180000
DTSTAMP:20260522T200404
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SUMMARY:Gordon Davies\, "Filming Archaeology in Hellas: Technopolis City of Athens (and beyond)"
DESCRIPTION:image: Technopolis City of Athens (June 2022)\, Long Run Productions\, commissioned by Gordon Davies\, courtesy of Technopolis City of Athens | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International \nOnline Friends Webinar\nDr Gordon Davies (Cambridge Museum of Technology)\, “Filming Archaeology in Hellas: Technopolis City of Athens (and beyond)”\nABSTACT: Experience a different side of Athens in a series of immersive-documentary videos: landscapes\, cityscapes and soundscapes that explore filming the city’s industrial legacy at Technopolis City of Athens (and beyond). Accompanied with producer’s commentary and ‘making-of-video’ interviews with contributors that discuss (curious) connections between industrial architecture\, Classical antiquity and the history of film-making. Offered as a ‘sequel’ to BSA Friends’ webinar Historical & Contemporary Archaeology in Greece (Thomas Gallant\, July 2022) this video-webinar will investigate how: \n\narchaeology has influenced contemporary industrial-design in Athens (featuring: Κεραμεικός | Kerameikos Metro station)\nindustrial archaeology belongs in Athens’ urban architecture (featuring: Γκαζοχώρι | ‘Gas village’)\nancient topography\, mythology and literary sources (such as Aristotle’s Poetics) can inform (post)industrial spaces\narchaeologists (of all periods) can harness film techniques for visual storytelling beyond linear (verbal) narratives.\n\nProject context:\nThis research originated as a ‘twinning project’ between two industrial museums in the European Route of Industrial Heritage for presentation to an Association for Industrial Archaeology workshop (The Architecture of Industry\, 2023) in co-operation with: \n\nTechnopolis City of Athens (Hellenic Ministry of Culture | Department of Modern Culture and Intangible Assets) for site access\nHellenic Vault of Industrial Digital Archives\n\nDrone videography by Long Run Productions in co-operation with the Hellenic Civil Aviation Authority. Project facilitated by the British School at Athens. \nBIO: A lapsed ancient-worlder who has since spent a career in the technology industry\, Gordon Davies has advised the British School at Athens Development Committee and also staggered around the Athens Classic Marathon (with a finishers’ medal to prove it!). This archaeological-videography project originated with the goal to ‘twin’ industrial museums within the European Route of Industrial Heritage.\nThe result was a video-documentary The Architecture of Industry presented to the Association for Industrial Archaeology (2023). Current research includes production of a video-essay: Industrial Architecture as Cinematic Stage to feature the ΑΗΣ ΦΑΛΗΡΟΥ steam-electric power-plant in Athens that hosted an episode (Cosmogony) of Chris Marker’s television series about the reception of Ancient Greece: The Owl’s Legacy. \nOnline only \nTo attend the online webinar\, please register here:  https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_r37xLnAtTZ2QoXpDHUq8Dg
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/filming-archaeology-in-hellas-technopolis-city-of-athens-and-beyond/
CATEGORIES:BSA Friends Lecture
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SUMMARY:Dimitris Plantzos\, "Greeks\, Macedonians\, Thracians\, and a few others: Inventing the Ancestors in Southeastern Europe"
DESCRIPTION:Frederic Edwin Church\, The Parthenon (1871). New York\, Metropolitan Museum \nUpper House Seminar\nProfessor Dimitris Plantzos (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)\, “Greeks\, Macedonians\, Thracians\, and a few others: Inventing the Ancestors in Southeastern Europe”\nIn this lecture\, Dimitris Plantzos examines the complex interplay between archaeology and nationalist imagination in Southeastern Europe. Focusing on the construction of ancestral narratives\, he explores how modern nations in the Balkans have appropriated antiquity to craft identities rooted in imagined continuities with ancient peoples. From Thracians in Bulgaria to Macedonians in North Macedonia and Illyrians in Albania\, these historical reinventions serve as tools for national distinction\, political leverage\, and cultural legitimacy.\nPlantzos critiques the “archaeopolitical” use of material heritage\, which transforms archaeological findings into instruments of ideological storytelling. Through examples such as the monumental Seuthes III tomb in Bulgaria and the “antiquization” of Macedonian identity\, he examines how archaeology has been mobilized to forge exceptionalist claims\, often steeped in pseudohistory and crypto-colonial anxieties.\nThe lecture situates these phenomena within a broader framework of European modernity and its enduring fascination with classical antiquity. It addresses the challenges posed by the politicization of archaeology\, emphasizing its role in shaping contemporary discourses of identity and memory in a geopolitically contested region. \nTo attend in person please register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1041865366357?aff=oddtdtcreator \nTo attend online via webinar\, please register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ZMo-YoSxTHCtqiNH7MBtAQ
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/greeks-macedonians-thracians-and-a-few-others-inventing-the-ancestors-in-southeastern-europe/
LOCATION:British School at Athens\, Upper House\, 52 Souedias Street\, Athens\, Greece
CATEGORIES:Upper House Seminar
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SUMMARY:Artificial Intelligence in Libraries
DESCRIPTION:International Conference of the Committee for the Support of Libraries \nThe Organizing Committee for Library Support (OEEB) invites you to the International Conference “Artificial Intelligence in Libraries.” \nThe conference will focus on best practices for integrating Artificial Intelligence technologies into libraries\, archives\, and research centers\, aiming to enhance the professional development of Greek librarians and information specialists. Presentations will cover topics such as cataloging using AI\, digital preservation\, data analysis\, and service personalization\, offering substantial solutions for improving efficiency\, resource management\, and access to information. \nParticipants will have the opportunity to engage with leading experts from Germany\, Spain\, Norway\, the United Kingdom\, and Greece and exchange ideas on how Artificial Intelligence can enhance workflows and contribute to the evolving role of libraries in the digital age. \nThe BSA Library as a member of the Organizing Committee for the Support of Libraries is co-organizing the conference. \nFor more details and the full program visit the conference website.
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/artificial-intelligence-in-libraries/
LOCATION:Goethe-Institut Athen\, Omirou 14-16\, Athens\, Greece
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Athens:20241129T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Athens:20241201T183000
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SUMMARY:Half a Century of Archaeological Science in Greece: Past\, Present\, &\, Future
DESCRIPTION:Half a Century of Archaeological Science in Greece: Past\, Present\, & Future\nCelebrating 50 Years\, The Marc and Ismene Fitch Laboratory for Archaeological Science\nOn November 29th\, 2024\, the Fitch Laboratory at the British School at Athens (BSA) will celebrate its 50th anniversary. Since its inception in 1974\, the Fitch has grown from a small experiment into an international hub for archaeological science. As the first laboratory of its kind in Greece—and among only a few globally—the Fitch Laboratory’s history traces the development of the field globally\, as well as in Greece. \nOn this occasion the Fitch Laboratory team welcomes the opportunity to reflect and celebrate Half a Century of Archaeological Science in Greece. We have organised an international conference where leading experts in the field will explore how archaeological science has contributed to our understanding of the human past in Greece\, focusing on three main topics: Movement and Mobility\, Everyday Life\, Landscape Histories and Environment. \nPlease find below the preliminary programme and registration links for in person and online attendance. \n\nBook of Abstracts & Conference Programme:\n   \nRegistration required:\nUpdate: We are now fully booked for in-person attendance\, but do please register to view the conference online. \nOnline Registration (viewing only) \nTo help us accommodate as many people as possible\, please only register for in-person attendance if you are certain you can attend. Space is limited\, so it’s important that everyone who registers is able to participate. \nWhen registering\, you can choose to attend specific days. If you only plan to attend one or two days\, please select those days in the registration form. If you plan to attend the entire conference\, make sure to register for all three days. \nPracticalities:\nThe conference entrance is located at Souedias 52. The nearest metro station is Evangelismos\, just a few minutes’ walk away. \nThe event will take place in the British School at Athens’ Library. Please note that large bags are not permitted in the library\, so we kindly ask that you bring only small bags with the necessary items. \n    \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/fitchanniversaryconference2024/
LOCATION:British School at Athens\, Library\, 52 Souedias Street\, Athens\, Greece
CATEGORIES:Fitch Lab 50th Anniversary
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SUMMARY:Byron @200: Poets\, Patriots & Philhellenes
DESCRIPTION:BSA Friends Greece event\n“BYRON @200: Poets\, Patriots & Philhellenes”\nA collective reading curated by poet\, playwright and literary translator\, Ginger F. Zaimis\, in conjunction with the British School Athens and BSA Friends that presents a selection of poets\, writers & history keepers in celebration of Lord Byron and the 200th anniversary of his death. The series of short talks\,\nreadings and poetry are narrated through historical perspectives\, comparative literature and contemporary modernisms in the English and Greek languages. They delineate Byron through his travels from Italy to Greece on the cusp of Greek Revolution seen through his contemporaries\, patriots\, statesmen and philhellenes thereof. \nThe talk/reading will be accompanied by traditional costume\, dress & dance courtesy the Λύκειο Ελληνίδων\, including Messolonghi and other\nregions). \nThe poets and authors presented are: Orfeas Apergis\, poet is reading his poem\, “Πας ρομαντικός φιλέλλην”; Dr Konstantinos Bouras\, poet\, playwright & literary translator is reading a dedicated poem entitled\, “Lord Byron”; Anna Griva\, poet & literary translator\, is presenting her poem on Byron’s death entitled\, “A Silent Revolution” from her collection Demons; Rana Haddad\, novelist and poet is reading a selection of her poetic prose in dedication to Byron entitled\, “Machines writing poetry: A Letter to Lord Byron from 2024”; and the curator of BRYON @200: Poets\, Patriots & Philhellenes\, Ginger F. Zaimis is presenting highlights from\, “Byron & Shelley: the Italian & Greek Years” inclusive of a dedicated trilogy of sonnets to Byron. \nLikewise the writers\, authors and historians presenting their short talks include: Dr Dimitrios Stathakopoulos\, Ottomanologist & historian\, presenting “Byron’s View of the Ottoman Empire”; Dr Ioannis Petropoulos\, Director Emeritus\, Centre for Hellenic Studies\, Harvard University is reading excerpts and perspectives from “Childe Harold”; Dr. Sofka Zinovieff\, writer & author\, is reading an excerpt from Trelawny’s “Records of Shelley and Byron and the Author”; H.E.M. Fokion Zaimis\, Deputy Governor & statesman\, is reading excerpts entitled\, “Financing a Revolution: Bryon\, Zaimis and other Statesmen”; and Dr Meletis Meletopoulos\, historian & author is presenting concurrent histories of Greek forefathers and Byron who liberated Greece from the Ottoman Empire. Penny Saccopoulou / Πέννυ Σακκοπούλου\, Philologist and Member of the Lykeion ton Ellinidon / Φιλόλογος\, Μέλος του Λυκείου των Ελληνίδων\, will introduce the traditional costumes\, dancers and dances. \n  \nBios: \nAnna Griva / Άννα Γρήβα (b. in Athens) she studied Philology in Athens and Rome. She holds a PhD in Italian Renaissance Literature and has published six poetry collections; the most recent\, “The Lost Goddess” (2023) and the collection “Demons” (2020) which is honored with the Award by the Academy of Athens. Her poems and short stories have been translated into many languages. Likewise\, she translates Italian literature\, with an emphasis on female Renaissance Poetry. Her translation of the poems of Laura Battiferra was honored in 2020 by the Italian Institute of Athens. She has also published a study (with Markos Dendrinos) on the Platonic Parmenides (Plato’s Parmenides\, Ontology of one in the Platonic theory of ideas\, 2021) and a monograph on the Sapphic poetry\, Aphrodites (2022). She teaches Italian Literature and Creative Writing at the Hellenic Open University and the University of Athens. \nGinger F. Zaimis an American poet\, playwright\, polymath and literary translator. She is the author of seven monographs\, the architect of the two new poetry forms (the Portico & Triptych)\, PEN America’s Finalist for Best First Poetry Collection\, Excavated Athens to Alexandria (2015)\, a Keats-Shelley Rome Fellow and Poetry Judge (2017). Her work is translated in multiple languages and her keynote talks/readings presented at world libraries\, museums\, institutes and universities including the Freud Museum London\, the Research Centre for Greek Philosophy\, the Athens Academy\, Bibliotheca Alexandria and the American School of Classical Studies in Athens to name a few. Her Ancient Greek to English verse translations include\, the Stoics Cleanthes’ Hymn to Zeus and Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations (work-in-progress). She is an educator and Board Member at Fordham University London. Her newest collection is a progressed mythology of Sophocles’ Antigone written as a book-length poem in the Renaissance form\, the Heroic crown of sonnets entitled\, Antigone the Heroic Crown (2023). \nKonstantinos Bouras / Κωσταντίνος Μπούρας (b. Kalamata\, Greece) is a poet\, playwright and novelist. A graduate of Mechanical Engineering from the National Metsovio Institute of Technology in Athens\, as well as\, Theatrical Studies from the School of Philosophy at Athens University and a post graduate in Theater (D.E.A.) from Paris III (La nouvelle Sorbonne). His plays are influenced by Greek mythology and poetry marked by the search for the sublime\, lyricism and sensuality in the Cavafian genre and true to the Classical Greek ideal of beauty. He is a distinguished member of the International Society of Poets\, a active member of the International Theatrical Institute\, the International Writers and Artists Association\, the European Institute of Theatrical Research\, and the Centre for Research and Studies in Modern Greek Theatre. \nOrfeas Apergis / Ορφέας Απέρης (b. Athens\, 1974) is a Greek poet and has published six collections of poetry. Recent publications include “Tyfland” (poetry\, Nefeli eds\, 2023); and “Crow\, by Ted Hughes” (an annotated Greek translation\, Gutenberg eds\, 2024\, forthcoming). \nRana Haddad is a writer\, translator (Arabic to English) and a former TV journalist who read English Literature at Cambridge University. She has worked as an Associate Producer for the BBC\, Channel 4 and other broadcasters. Born in Syria\, she lived in the UK for thirty years. Her first novel\, the acclaimed Unexpected Love Objects of Dunya Noor was short-listed for the UK Polari First Book Prize and is now part of a post-colonial and diaspora literary\ncurricula at universities including Cambridge\, SOAS\, Vassar College and more. Her writing includes a collection of essays\, poetry and her forthcoming second novel which is set in the late 20th Century London where Romanticism and scientific invention are dominant themes. \nMeletis Meletopoulos / Μελέτης Η. Μελετόπουλος is a historian and author. He has a PhD in Economics and Social Sciences from the University of Geneva. His books include “Ο άρχοντας με τα πολλά πρόσωπα: Xρονικό μιας οικογένειας 1685-1920”\, “Ιδεολογία του δεξιού κράτους 1949-1967” and “Παναγιώτης Κανελλόπουλος: Ο πολιτικός\, ο διανοούμενος και η εποχή του” to name a few. He is also a keeper of history and patriot whose forefathers assisted in liberating Greece from the Ottomans in 1821. \nIoannis (John) Petropoulos is a distinguished scholar who read Classics at Harvard with a PhD in Philosophy from Oxford University. He is a Professor of Ancient Greek Literature & Classics\, Director Emeritus at the Centre for Hellenic Studies\, Harvard University and a Gulbenkian Fellow and Professor of Humanities at the University of Lisbon. \nDimitrios Stathakopoulos / Δημήτρης Σταθακόπουλος is an Ottomanologist\, historian and author. He has a PhD from Panteion University in LLM International Maritime Law\, a lawyer of the Supreme Court of Greece (Areios Pagos) and Member of BOD of the Hellenic Public Procurement Authority. Likewise a maestro\, musician\, patriot and keeper of history whose forefathers assisted in liberating Greece from the Ottomans in 1821. \nH.E.M. Fokion A. Zaimis / Φωκίων A. Ζαϊμης a born Athenian and Deputy Governor of Achaia & Western Greece (2019-present)\, a statesman\, patriot\, keeper of history and political heir to a legacy whose forefathers assisted in liberating Greece from the Ottomans in 1821. \nSofka Zinovieff (b. in London) has Russian ancestry and lives in Athens. She has written about Greece as an anthropologist (with a PhD from Cambridge)\, a journalist and an author. Her books include Putney ( a novel)\, Eurydice Street: A Place in Athens and The House on Paradise Street. Her next novel\, Stealing Dad is forthcoming in May 2025. Her Podcast documentary series is: Athens Unpacked. \nPenny Saccopoulou / Πέννυ Σακκοπούλου\, Philologist and Member of the Lykeion ton Ellinidon / Φιλόλογος\, Μέλος του Λυκείου των Ελληνίδων. \nStelios Lekkas / Στέλιος Λεκκας exhibits a traditional στολή of a high-ranking military officer\, indicative of central Mainland Greece. It is a certified replica of the documented original hand-made by Zoe Steliou\, in the city of Messolonghi.\n\nConstantino Nikolaidis /Κωνσταντίνος Νικολαΐδης exhibits a traditional στολή mainly worn in Roumeli\, central Mainland Greece by military officers during battle. It is a certified replica of the documented original hand-made by Nikolaos Plakidas\, in the city of Messolonghi.\n\nHybrid event \nTo attend in-person in Athens\, please register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/byron-200-poets-patriots-philhellenes-tickets-1074159884129?aff=oddtdtcreator \nTo attend online via webinar\, please register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_zNLrKP0kSgO9yOdVeyK0MQ \n  \nimage: portrait of Lord Byron frocked in Northern Epirus dress by Thomas Phillip 1813\, Collection: British Embassy Athens \n 
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/byron-at-200-poets-patriots-philhellenes/
LOCATION:British School at Athens\, Upper House\, 52 Souedias Street\, Athens\, Greece
CATEGORIES:BSA Friends event
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SUMMARY:From ceramic islandscapes to mobility dynamics in the Late Chalcolithic-Early Bronze Age northeast Aegean
DESCRIPTION:Upper House Seminar\nDr Sergios Menelaou (BSA Williams Fellow in Ceramic Petrology)\, “From ceramic islandscapes to mobility dynamics in the Late Chalcolithic-Early Bronze Age northeast Aegean”\nAbstract: The geo-cultural region of the northeast Aegean\, encompassing the Greek islands and the western Anatolian coast\, is crucial to understanding the dynamics of the Late Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age (EBA)\, a period characterised by extensive cultural\, social\, and technological interactions and transformations. This lecture presents a systematic analysis of ceramics from key sites in the region\, including Poliochni (Lemnos)\, Thermi (Lesbos)\, Emborio (Chios)\, and the Heraion (Samos)\, aiming both to characterize the local pottery-making traditions and to investigate the role of cross-regional connectivity of these sites with the wider Aegean island- and coastscapes. By taking a diachronic approach\, this research explores ceramic production\, specialisation\, and circulation\, as well as the exchange of craft knowledge across the northeast Aegean during the late 4th and 3rd millennia BC. Despite extensive excavations and publications since the mid-20th century\, these sites have been largely overlooked in the broader context of Aegean-Anatolian prehistory. Our research challenges this oversight by proposing that this region was a central hub for cultural and technological transmission\, with communities that were far more interconnected and socially complex than previously assumed. \nBio: Sergios Menelaou\, currently the Williams Fellow in Ceramic Petrology at the Fitch Laboratory of the British School at Athens (BSA)\, is an archaeologist specializing in the integrated analysis of pottery from the Aegean and Cyprus. His research focuses primarily on prehistoric Aegean\, Anatolian\, and Cypriot archaeology\, with a particular emphasis on island societies and their interconnectedness.\nHaving pursued his undergraduate studies at the University of Cyprus (2008-2012)\, Sergios earned his MSc in Archaeological Materials from the Department of Archaeology at the University of Sheffield in 2013. He completed his PhD at the same institution in 2018\, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at Koç University (ANAMED (Research Center for Anatolian Civilisations) in Istanbul from 2018 to 2019. Between 2020 and 2022 he acted as the Principal Investigator of the project titled ‘Borderlands as areas of mobility and connectivity during the third millennium BC: Examining regional ceramic technologies between the east Aegean islands\, western Anatolia and Cyprus’ at the University of Cyprus.\nWorking mostly on Bronze Age pottery assemblages\, Sergios employs a multifaceted methodology that integrates traditional morphostylistic approaches with laboratory-based analytical techniques\, with a particular focus on recovering technological insights into pottery production\, usage\, and circulation. His current research project at the BSA builds upon his previous work in the eastern Aegean\, through the investigation of Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age ceramic traditions of legacy island-sites such as Poliochni-Lemnos\, Thermi-Lesbos\, and Emporio-Chios. The overarching goal is to reconstruct the shifting mechanisms of interaction networks between these islands and their Anatolian peraiai.\n \n  \nTo attend in person please register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1041867422507?aff=oddtdtcreator \nTo attend via zoom\, please register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_UAX8s9AKS_WzOhEPYu7BMg \n  \nimage: The geographical focus and methodological approach of the project\, courtesy of Sergios Menelaou (base image from Google Earth)
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/from-ceramic-islandscapes-to-mobility-dynamics-in-the-late-chalcolithic-early-bronze-age-northeast-aegean/
LOCATION:British School at Athens\, Upper House\, 52 Souedias Street\, Athens\, Greece
CATEGORIES:Upper House Seminar
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SUMMARY:Peter Sarris\, "Writing the Reign of Justinian" SPBS Autumn Lecture
DESCRIPTION:SPBS / BSA Autumn Lecture\nProf. Peter Sarris (Cambridge)\, “Writing the Reign of Justinian”\n\nProfessor Sarris\, a leading authority on the study of Justinian’s reign\, a pivotal period in Byzantine history. His latest book\, JUSTINIAN: EMPEROR\, SOLDIER\, SAINT\, has garnered critical acclaim and won prestigious awards\, including the London Hellenic Prize.\n\n\nDate: Wednesday November 13th\, 2024\nTime: 5:00 PM (London)\n\nIn Person: Bush House Lecture Theatre 2 (4.04)\, King’s College London\nOnline: Zoom (Please register in advance below)\n\nThis event is open to all! Whether you’re a Byzantine scholar or simply curious about this remarkable era\, don’t miss this opportunity to gain insights from a leading expert.\n\n\nFor those who would like to attend online\, please make sure that you have registered in advance using this zoom link:   https://bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcrdeChrzsoGtZxcgi-PmazEW_PyDGBaXx1\n\nFor those of you wishing to attend in person at Bush House Lecture Theatre 2 (4.04)\, King’s College London\, please confirm your attendance by emailing Dr Alex Vukovich  alexandra.vukovich@kcl.ac.uk
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/spbs-peter-sarris/
LOCATION:King’s College London\, Strand Campus\, Strand\, London\, WC2R 2LS\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:SPBS lecture
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SUMMARY:John K Davies\, "Re-imagining ancient Greek landscapes"
DESCRIPTION:image: A Cretan landscape. Courtesy of JK Davies \nProfessor John K Davies (Liverpool)\, “Re-imagining ancient Greek landscapes”\n\n\nPLEASE NOTE THAT THIS LECTURE HAS BEEN CANCELLED.\n\n\n\n\nDue to unforeseen circumstances\, Professor John K. Davies had to cancel his lecture. We hope to reschedule it for next year.\n\n\n 
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/re-imagining-ancient-greek-landscapes/
LOCATION:Senate House (Room 349)\, London\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:BSA Friends Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Athens:20241105T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Athens:20241105T183000
DTSTAMP:20260522T200404
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LAST-MODIFIED:20241030T141413Z
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SUMMARY:From commingled bones to stories: forensic tools in archaeology
DESCRIPTION:Fitch Wiener Seminar\nIoanna Anastopoulou “From commingled bones to stories: forensic tools in archaeology”\n  \nIn-person only\, 5pm (Greece) \nat the Wiener Lab\, American School of Classical Studies at Athens
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/bastien-rueff-illuminating-the-past-from-the-lamp-to-the-light-in-minoan-crete-2/
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:20241104T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Athens:20241104T200000
DTSTAMP:20260522T200404
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SUMMARY:Seeking the Divine in a Faraway Place: Western Greeks and Sanctuaries Abroad
DESCRIPTION:BSA / NHRF / ICS Autumn Lecture\nProfessor Judith Barringer (University of Edinburgh)\, “Seeking the Divine in a Faraway Place: Western Greeks and Sanctuaries Abroad”\n  \nABSTRACT Greek colonies in Magna Graecia\, founded in the eighth and seventh centuries BCE\, soon established their own sanctuaries\, religious practices\, temples\, etc. in their new communities. Yet colonial cities and individuals within them invested great quantities of effort and money to make dedications and create bonds with sanctuaries very far from their own homes\, even centuries after the founding of a given colonial city. In some cases\, the deities were the same as those worshipped at nearby sanctuaries\, yet the dedication was destined for a sanctuary on the mainland of Greece\, the Aegean islands\, or Asia Minor. This talk considers the benefits accrued to both western Greek donors and the sanctuaries they patronized and will touch on colonial western Greek notions of ethnicity\, self-perception\, and self-representation. \nBIO Judy Barringer received her PhD in Classical Archaeology from Yale University in 1990. She has taught at several colleges and universities in the USA and joined the staff at the University of Edinburgh in 2005. Her scholarly work centers on the archaeology\, art\, and culture of Greece\, particularly the intersection between art\, myth\, and religion\, from the Archaic through Hellenistic periods. She is especially interested in why images\, particularly sculpture and vase painting\, appear as they do\, where images and structures are placed\, and how they acquire meaning for ancient patrons and viewers from their physical and social contexts. \nShe has received numerous awards\, including fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens\, a British Academy Larger Research Grant\, a Senior Fellowship at the Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften in Vienna in 2011-2012\, and a Marie Curie Fellowship from the Gerda Henkel Stiftung (2013-2015) at the Freie Universität in Berlin. She also was elected as a Korrespondierendes Mitglied of the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut. \nHer publications concentrate on vase painting iconology\, myth and religion\, social history\, and contextual readings of sculpture in both public sanctuaries and private contexts. Her most recent monograph is Olympia: A Cultural History (Princeton University Press\, 2021)\, and she published a collection of essays that she co-edited with François Lissarrague: Images at the Crossroads (Edinburgh University Press\, 2022). Her textbook\, The Art and Archaeology of Ancient Greece (Cambridge University Press 2014) received the  PROSE (Professional Scholarly Excellence) Award for the best textbook in the Arts and Humanities from the American Association of Publishers (2016) and the Bolchazy Book Award (2018). Forthcoming is a volume co-edited with Gunnel Ekroth and David Scahill\, Logistics in Greek Sanctuaries: Exploring the Human Experience of Visiting the Gods (Brill). Her lecture is drawn from her current research project\, for which she received another two-year scholarship from the Gerda Henkel Stiftung in 2022. \n  \nHybrid lecture\, online and in person \nLivestream: https://www.youtube.com/live/6ZTdNEvLK6A \n 
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/barringer_seeking-the-divine-in-a-faraway-place-western-greeks-and-sanctuaries-abroad/
LOCATION:National Hellenic Research Foundation\, 48\, Vasileos Constantinou Ave.\, Athens\, 11635\, Greece
CATEGORIES:BSA/NHRF/ICS lecture
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SUMMARY:Timeless Connections: Linking Britain and Greece through Archaeological Science
DESCRIPTION:Celebrating 50 Years\, The Marc and Ismene Fitch Laboratory for Archaeological Science\nWe are delighted to invite you to celebrate 50 years of the Marc and Ismene Fitch Laboratory for Archaeological Science on the 24th of October\, 2024. The event will take place at the British Academy\, in the Wolfson Room\, from 18:30-21:00. \nThis special event will be an evening of three talks that will showcase the laboratory’s significant achievements\, future ambitions\, and the crucial role it has played in connecting Britain and Greece through archaeological science. The programme is available below. \nThe series of talks be followed by a celebratory reception. \nRegistration required:\nPlease register at the following link to secure a place: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1006694258627?aff=oddtdtcreator  \nProgramme:
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/timeless-connections-linking-britain-and-greece-through-archaeological-science/
LOCATION:British Academy\, 10-11 Carlton House\, London\, SW1Y 5AH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Fitch Lab 50th Anniversary
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