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SUMMARY:Dr Carlotta Gardner\, "Revisiting ancient ceramic production in the northern Peloponnese: the ceramic landscapes of Corinth and Sikyon "
DESCRIPTION:Dr Carlotta Gardner\, “Revisiting ancient ceramic production in the northern Peloponnese: the ceramic landscapes of Corinth and Sikyon ” \nAbstract \nThe northern Peloponnese provides evidence of prolific ceramic production from all periods and across the entire region\, documented in the excavated ceramic assemblages and by the growing number of confirmed production centres and kiln sites. The region stands out as an area that has continuously attracted a large amount of science-based work on archaeological ceramics. Despite this long and rich history of such inquiries a number of key questions remain\, and particularly concerning characterisation of different production centres in the region. This has been shown to be problematic\, mainly due to the homogenous geology of the region. \nThis paper will present results from an ongoing project which explores the ceramic landscape of the Corinth-Sikyon region. By using the ceramic landscape approach and scientific analysis\, we investigated the provenance and technology of a range of ceramic objects from the Archaic through to Roman period\, alongside a study of the clayey raw materials. Our aim is to understand how the various ceramic workshops in this region were organised\, how they interacted with each other as well as other crafts and industries\, and how they worked interacted with the surrounding landscape. \nRegister to attend IN PERSON here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/revisiting-ancient-ceramic-production-in-the-northern-peloponnese-tickets-566256537547
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/dr-carlotta-gardner-tbc/
CATEGORIES:Upper House Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Athens:20230302T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Athens:20230302T193000
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SUMMARY:Alison Hadfield\, “In Touch with the Past: How Artefact Handling Promotes Memory and Wellbeing”
DESCRIPTION:Alison Hadfield (University of St. Andrews)\, “In Touch with the Past: How Artefact Handling Promotes Memory and Wellbeing” \nThe speaker will focus on her research on the memory and wellbeing benefits of ancient artefact handling for people living with dementia. Alison will share with us the creative learning programmes that she has organised and executed using sensory approaches across schools\, in community groups\, prisons and at festivals in Scotland\, and in the United Kingdom more broadly. \nThe aim of these programmes has been to promote literacy skills\, creativity and self-confidence\, all using exciting archaeology. \nEvents will be held in person at the Upper House (Director’s Residence)\, followed by a reception. Entrance for the first event is open to all free of charge. You will be able to attend future events in this series and much\, much more\, including curator-guided museum visits and online lectures by leading researchers\, by subscribing to be a Friend of the BSA. Come & find out what events are planned & what the British School at Athens is all about!”
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/alison-hadfield-in-touch-with-the-past-how-artefact-handling-promotes-memory-and-wellbeing/
CATEGORIES:BSA Friends event
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Athens:20230220T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Athens:20230220T210000
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SUMMARY:Prof. Rebecca Sweetman\,"The Work of the BSA in 2022" and Prof. Katherine Harloe\, "The Beyond Notability Project: Re-evaluating Women’s Work in Archaeology\, History and Heritage in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries"
DESCRIPTION:Professor Rebecca Sweetman (BSA Director) The Work of the BSA in 2022 and Professor Katherine Harloe (ICS Director) The Beyond Notability Project: Re-evaluating Women’s Work in Archaeology\, History and Heritage in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries \nAbstract: Beyond Notability (beyondnotability.org) is a three-year AHRC-funded collaboration between the Institute of Classical Studies\, the University of Southampton and the Society of Antiquaries of London that is transforming understandings of women’s work in archaeology\, history and heritage in Britain between the 1870s and 1950. Although academic research and citizen-science initiatives have enabled figures like Jane Harrison\, Amelia Edwards and Gertrude Bell to enter the popular imagination\, women’s contributions to British intellectual and cultural life remain underappreciated. Political disenfranchisement\, gendered social roles\, and economic dependency left women in informal\, ancillary positions in museums and other cultural institutions. Their work was often overlooked by contemporaries\, and married names and non-professional status make their activities and networks difficult to reconstruct. \nArchives can unlock the history of women’s work and provide a fuller and more inclusive understanding of the past. Yet many of them are uncatalogued and hard to access. \nBeyond Notability brings together expertise in archaeology\, classics\, intellectual and social history\, and digital humanities to enlarge our view of women’s archaeology\, history\, and heritage work in late 19th and early 20th century Britain. It looks beyond ‘pioneering’ or ‘notable’ individuals to illuminate neglected female artists\, donors\, lecturers\, exhibitors\, writers and more. It follows their stories through national\, local and regional archives to recover their forgotten intellectual and cultural contributions. \nAs the project approaches its mid-point\, Katherine Harloe will discuss its aims\, methods and\, progress\, and some emerging connections with the BSA. \nPlease register here to attend online via Zoom: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_xSBo4CqmSG2HA7iF0DPTPA \nMonday 20 February 2023\, 7pm (UK) / 9pm (Greece) \nOnline only via Zoom
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/annual-open-lectures-london/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Athens:20230216T190000
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SUMMARY:Prof. Rebecca Sweetman (BSA\, Director)\, “The Work of the BSA in 2022” and Dr Andrew Shapland (Ashmolean)\, “Labyrinth: Knossos\, Myth and Reality”
DESCRIPTION:Professor Rebecca Sweetman (BSA\, Director)\, “The Work of the BSA in 2022” and Dr Andrew Shapland (Ashmolean)\, “Labyrinth: Knossos\, Myth and Reality”
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/prof-rebecca-sweetman-bsa-director-the-work-of-the-bsa-in-2022-and-dr-andrew-shapland-ashmolean-knossos-looking-for-the-labyrinth-2/
LOCATION:Archaeological Society\, 22 Panepistimiou Street\, Athens\, Greece
CATEGORIES:Open Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Athens:20230214T190000
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SUMMARY:Prof. Rebecca Sweetman (BSA\, Director)\, “The Work of the BSA in 2022” and Dr Andrew Shapland (Ashmolean)\, "Labyrinth: Knossos\, Myth and Reality"
DESCRIPTION:Professor Rebecca Sweetman (BSA\, Director)\, “The Work of the BSA in 2022” and Dr Andrew Shapland (Ashmolean)\, “Labyrinth: Knossos\, Myth and Reality”
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/prof-rebecca-sweetman-bsa-director-the-work-of-the-bsa-in-2022-and-dr-andrew-shapland-ashmolean-knossos-looking-for-the-labyrinth/
LOCATION:Aristotle University of Thessaloniki\, Cast Gallery\, Thessaloniki\, Greece
CATEGORIES:Open Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Athens:20230208T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Athens:20230208T193000
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SUMMARY:Nefeli Pirée Iliou\, "In Search of the Greek and Roman agricultural economies in Epirus during the early Imperial period"
DESCRIPTION:Image:”In the vicinity of the fortified farm at Malathrea\, southwestern modern-day Albania (Investigated by the Albanian Institute of Archaeology)”\nNefeli Pirée Iliou\, “In Search of the Greek and Roman agricultural economies in Epirus during the early Imperial period” \nAbstract \nIn the ancient world different farms and country houses existed. Some have held the spotlight\, like villas that proliferated in Roman times\, and as a result became linked to so-called “Roman” agricultural practices. Large-scale production sold in far-away markets\, and luxuriously self-indulgent country lifestyles became synonymous with villas\, and with the way that aristocrats managed land in the Roman Empire. Villas\, however\, were not alone. Different country houses also existed\, like fortified farms\, which emerged in the region of Epirus in northwest Greece during the Hellenistic period\, and flourished in early Roman\ntimes. Fortified farms\, being like villas country houses\, have awkwardly been squeezed into the villa category\, but they do not comfortably fit into it. If fortified farms grew out of communities in pre-Roman times\, could they be interpreted as a farm typical of Greek\, rather than Roman\, agriculture? In my talk I investigate agricultural economies of different areas of Epirus dotted by these two forms of country houses\, and explore whether using them we can distinguish between a “Greek” and a “Roman” agriculture. \nWednesday 8th February 2023\, 4pm (UK) / 6pm (Greece) \nRegister to attend IN PERSON here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/in-search-of-the-greek-and-roman-agricultural-economies-in-epirus-tickets-536932107387 \nRegister to attend ONLINE here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_XfTBG4NXRJ2yn1FgwKfhEg
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/nefeli-piree-iliou-in-search-of-the-greek-and-roman-agricultural-economies-in-epirus-during-the-early-imperial-period/
LOCATION:British School at Athens\, Upper House\, 52 Souedias Street\, Athens\, Greece
CATEGORIES:Upper House Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Athens:20230207T190000
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SUMMARY:Graham Shipley\, "Space and place in early Hellenistic and Classical Messenia"
DESCRIPTION:BSA Friends’ Lecture (hybrid: in-person and online) \n  \nProf. Graham Shipley (University of Leicester) \nAbstract: In this lecture I plan to outline some developing reflections on Classical and early Hellenistic Messenia as a dynamic landscape\, attempting to apply concepts such as regionality\, civic territories\, and routes as well as certain geographical notions explored by the late Yi-Fu Tuan. What kind of meanings should we expect places\, and the spaces between them\, to have accrued both before and after the end of Spartan domination? \nPlease register here to attend ONLINE via Zoom: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_zCRoUkBaQG6FGKU63rY0JQ \nPlease register here to attend IN PERSON in London\, UK: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/space-and-place-in-early-hellenistic-and-classical-messenia-tickets-530428645357
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/graham-shipley-space-and-place-in-classical-messenia/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Athens:20230207T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Athens:20230207T180000
DTSTAMP:20260522T200403
CREATED:20230111T130915Z
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SUMMARY:Artemios Oikonomou\, 'Understanding commercial activities: new data from core formed glass from Greece and beyond'
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Artemios Oikonomou\, ‘Understanding commercial activities: new data from core formed glass from Greece and beyond’ \nInstitute of Nuclear and Particle Physics\, NCSR Demokritos & Science and Technology in Archaeology and Culture Research Center \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/artemios-oikonomou-understanding-commercial-activities-new-data-from-core-formed-glass-from-greece-and-beyond/
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:20230131T190000
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DTSTAMP:20260522T200403
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LAST-MODIFIED:20230125T125626Z
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SUMMARY:Roderick Beaton\, "British and other Philhellenes in the Greek Revolution during the 1820s"
DESCRIPTION:BSA Friends’ Lecture (hybrid: in-person and online) \nProf. Roderick Beaton (KCL)\, “British and other Philhellenes in the Greek Revolution during the 1820s” \nAbstract: From the very beginning\, the Greek Revolution was never a purely local affair\, for Greeks alone. In April 1821 Petrombey Mavromichalis\, who had raised the standard of revolution at Kalamata\, issued a call for ‘the aid of all the civilized nations of Europe’. The call was answered\, from just about every corner of the European continent and even from the still-new United States of America. The ‘philhellenes’\, as they soon became known\, were volunteers who risked and often lost their lives fighting in a war far from home. Many more were active back in their own countries\, to stimulate public awareness through the press and pressure groups\, and to influence policy-makers in their governments. What motivated those volunteers to risk everything\, and supporters of the cause to mobilise in so many different countries? Some have suggested that the philhellenic movement in the 1820s marked the beginning of what we now call ‘humanitarian intervention’. Others have seen the volunteers as deluded idealists\, adventurers\, or even spies. In this talk I argue that the philhellenes were prepared to risk their lives in somebody else’s war because they believed that they\, too\, had a stake in the conflict. The Ottomans stood in the way of an emerging new Europe\, built on classical foundations\, that the philhellenes saw as their own. In the end\, though\, it was not by winning battles that the philhellenes influenced the outcome of the conflict\, but rather as the wedge in the door that forced the governments of the European powers to take a hand. The involvement of the philhellenes\, right from the beginning\, ensured the internationalisation of the Greek struggle – and therefore\, ultimately\, its outcome in the creation of the independent Greek nation-state that we know today. \nPlease register to attend in-person in London (Room G35\, Senate House\, London) here: British and other Philhellenes in the Greek Revolution during the 1820s Tickets\, Tue\, Jan 31\, 2023 at 5:00 PM | Eventbrite \nPlease register to attend online via Zoom here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6sOFzAQzQ-eqUIIkz_d5_Q \n  \nTuesday 31 January 2023\, 5pm (UK) / 7pm (Greece)
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/roderick-beaton-british-and-other-philhellenes-in-the-greek-revolution-during-the-1820s/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Athens:20230125T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Athens:20230125T190000
DTSTAMP:20260522T200403
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SUMMARY:Literature in the Aftermath of the 1922 Asia Minor Catastrophe: Reception
DESCRIPTION:Image: Refugees at Knossos\, 1922. Image reproduced with permission of the UN Archives. The original image shows on p. 190 of League of Nations\, Greek Refugee Settlement (Geneva\, 1926) https://owncloud.unog.ch/s/CnijycaeZtxXsac#pdfviewer \n  \nLiterature in the Aftermath of the 1922 Asia Minor Catastrophe: Reception \n  \nThis is the second of two panel discussions co-organised with the Centre for Hellenic Studies and Aiora Press\, concentrating on reception issues: Have works by Stratis Doukas\, Ilias Venezis and others withstood the test of time? How have they been received in other cultures such as in Turkey\, as well as in the Greek context? Have different versions of the texts affected reception? Which works were selected to last through time and what fell by the wayside? \nChair\nProf. Gonda Van Steen (KCL)\n\nGonda Van Steen is Koraes Chair of Modern Greek and Byzantine History\, Language and Literature and Director of the Centre for Hellenic Studies.\n\n \nParticipants\n\nAnastasia Lemos\n‘The Early Literature of the Asia Minor Disaster: Three Themes for Consideration’ \nI propose briefly to review three themes relating to the early literature of the Asia Minor disaster: The first is how some works survived and became canonical and others were largely forgotten. The second is how the canonical works themselves morphed in time. I will focus on the example of Number 31328 by Venezis which underwent major changes between its first appearance in 1924 and its finally settled state in 1952. Third\, I will touch on foreign reception of the work alluding to Mario Vitti’s early interest and his prompting of a student to study successive versions of Number 31328 nearly fifty years ago but focusing on Turkish translation and reception which is particularly interesting since some of the works had earlier been banned. \n\nDimitris Tziovas\n‘Nostalgia and Trauma: From Testimonial to Archival Narratives on the Asia Minor Disaster’\n\nThere are broadly two kinds of narrative on 1922 and its aftermath: the nostalgic novels about lost homelands and testimonial accounts on captivity and refugee experience. My talk will focus on these two kinds of narrative and how recent novels have transcended this earlier pattern by moving away from testimonial accounts to archival research and focusing on the earlier peaceful coexistence of Greeks and Turks or acknowledging the atrocities on both sides. \n\n\n Maria Nikolopoulou\n\n\n‘Questioning the National Narrative: The Role of Prose Fiction in the Memory of the Asia Minor Campaign’ \nThe 1922 defeat of the Greek army in the Asia Minor Campaign and the resulting persecution of Asia Minor Christians\, the refugee influx to the Greek state and the 1923 compulsory exchange of populations constitute a watershed in both the Greek and the Turkish national consciousness. In the 100 years that have passed\, the resulting national narratives are often competing and very different. They are closely connected to the state of the relations between Greece and Turkey. Literature in Greece took on the role of the guardian of the memory of these traumatic events\, often questioning the national narrative and playing an instrumental role in the shaping of the refugee identity. In the post-war period the refugee memory was connected to the Left and a nostalgia for a pre-modern Ottoman past in both Greece and Turkey. In the recent decades\, there is a number of best sellers with Asia Minor thematics\, connected to the ’lost homelands’ nostalgia. At the same period\, certain writers\, such as Thanassis Valtinos and Dimosthenis Papamarkos question the national narrative\, by focusing on the silenced aspects of Asia Minor campaign. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease register here to attend online via Zoom: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_b4HYo1zMTfCWibGL6NMqCQ \n  \nWednesday 25 January 2023\, 5pm (UK) / 7pm (Greece)
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/literature-in-the-aftermath-of-the-1922-asia-minor-catastrophe-reception/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Athens:20230124T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Athens:20230124T190000
DTSTAMP:20260522T200403
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SUMMARY:Michael Cosmopoulos\,  "Homer and the Mycenaeans: The Mycenaean City of Iklaina and the Iliad"
DESCRIPTION:BSA Friends’ Lecture (online only) \n  \nProf. Michael Cosmopoulos\, “Homer and the Mycenaeans: The Mycenaean City of Iklaina and the Iliad” \nAbstract: For thousands of years Homer’s Iliad has remained the classic tale of love\, honor\, and war.  Exciting archaeological discoveries in the past 150 years have unearthed the great palaces of the Homeric heroes and revived the fascinating society of the Mycenaeans.  In antiquity itself\, and in our memory of antiquity\, the great palaces at Mycenae\, Tiryns\, Pylos\, and Troy stand at the crossroads between myths and historical reality.The world of the Mycenaeans still holds\, however\, many surprises.  Recent excavations at the site of Iklaina have brought to light one of the capitals of the Mycenaean state of Pylos. Massive Cyclopean structures\, monumental buildings decorated with beautiful wall paintings\, advanced urban infrastructure allow us a glimpse into previously unknown aspects of the Homeric epics. \nIn this illustrated lecture Professor Cosmopoulos will present the exciting archaeological discoveries at Iklaina and discuss their significance for the historical foundation of Homer’s epics. \nPlease register to attend online via Zoom here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_EkkOsVqnSECYfE1vvOd4ww \n  \nPlease do consider making a donation. \nThe Friends of the BSA support the British School at Athens\, which is a charity. The Friends organise regular lectures – like this one – and trips to Greece. We also raise funds to enhance the BSA and recently covered the costs of the final phase of the ‘Digital Thessaly’ project\, making the archives of Alan Wace available to the wider public. \nYou can help us by making a donation here when you attend a lecture (we suggest £10 for Supporters\, £15 otherwise): https://www.bsa.ac.uk/donate/ \nCollectively\, all these gifts make a huge difference. \n  \nTuesday 24 January 2023\, 5pm (UK) / 7pm (Greece) \n  \n 
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/michael-cosmopoulos-pylos-iklaina-and-the-emergence-of-mycenaean-states/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Athens:20230124T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Athens:20230124T180000
DTSTAMP:20260522T200403
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SUMMARY:Ioanna Moutafi\, 'The curious case of Tomb 21: exploring mortuary change through funerary taphonomy in the Early Mycenaean Ayios Vasileios'
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Ioanna Moutafi\, ‘The curious case of Tomb 21: exploring mortuary change through funerary taphonomy in the Early Mycenaean Ayios Vasileios’ \nPost-Doctoral Research Fellow\, M. H. Wiener Laboratory\, ASCSA
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/ioanna-moutafi-the-curious-case-of-tomb-21-exploring-mortuary-change-through-funerary-taphonomy-in-the-early-mycenaean-ayios-vasileios/
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:20230123T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Athens:20230123T190000
DTSTAMP:20260522T200403
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SUMMARY:Postcards from Greece: This Afterlife\, a poetry reading and conversation to mark the publication of Stallings’ Selected Poems
DESCRIPTION:Postcards from Greece: This Afterlife\, a poetry reading and conversation to mark the publication of Stallings’ Selected Poems \nAlicia (A. E.) Stallings will read and discuss work from her four published collections of poetry gathered into her new selected poems\, This Afterlife\, poems that explore Greek mythology\, classical reception\, ancient and modern Greece\, and the diachronic strata of the city of Athens\, as well as translations of modern Greek poems engaged in classical reception. Stallings has lived over 20 years in Greece\, and will discuss how life here has shaped her own poetry\, and her readings of mythology and classical texts. \nBio: \nAlicia (A. E.) Stallings is an American poet\, critic\, and translator long resident in Athens. Among her classical verse translations are Lucretius’ The Nature of Things and Hesiod’s Works and Days for Penguin Classics\, and an illustrated version of the pseudo-Homeric Battle Between the Frogs and the Mice for Paul Dry Books. She has published four volumes of poetry\, which often engages with classical myth as well as life in modern Athens\, most recently Like (FSG)\, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. A new book of selected poems\, as well as a handful of translations from modern Greek is available in a new volume\, This Afterlife\, just out from FSG in the US and Carcanet in the UK. A recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArthur Foundations\, she is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. \nTo attend IN PERSON please register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/postcards-from-greece-this-afterlife-a-poetry-reading-tickets-514832496857 \nTo attend ONLINE please register here: Webinar Registration – Zoom
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/alicia-stallings-tbc/
CATEGORIES:Upper House Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Athens:20230118T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Athens:20230118T190000
DTSTAMP:20260522T200403
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SUMMARY:Literature in the Aftermath of the 1922 Asia Minor Catastrophe: Translation
DESCRIPTION:Image: Refugees at Knossos\, 1922. Image reproduced with permission of the UN Archives. The original image shows on p. 190 of League of Nations\, Greek Refugee Settlement (Geneva\, 1926) https://owncloud.unog.ch/s/CnijycaeZtxXsac#pdfviewer \n  \nLiterature in the Aftermath of the 1922 Asia Minor Catastrophe: Translation \n  \nThis is the first of two panel discussions co-organised with the Centre for Hellenic Studies and Aiora Press\, concentrating on translation issues: How can we convey pain in another language? What\, if anything\, remains untranslatable? \nChair\nProf. David Ricks (Professor Emeritus\, King’s College London)\n\n\nDavid Ricks is Professor Emeritus\, King’s College London\, and Honorary Senior Research Fellow\, University of Birmingham. His translations include versions from Cavafy\, Sinopoulos\, Vayenas\, and Ganas\, and he is working on a translation of selected short stories by Michail Mitsakis for Aiora Press.  \n  \nPetro Alexiou \n ‘The Challenges of Conveying the Underlying Historical Emotions of Trauma’  \n I will present three challenges involved in translating the Greek text of A Prisoner of War’s Story (1929) into English for a contemporary readership. (i) Can the translation convey the narrator’s horrendous and complex ordeal? In particular\, when it comes to the narrator’s words for repeated killings and arbitrary executions\, can the translation find the appropriate lexical equivalents? In other words\, can the translation convey the underlying historical emotions of the novella? (ii) Can the novella’s intrinsic dual cultural and linguistic element be conveyed? How can we signal the change or mix of language to readers? (iii) Given that the Greek-Turkish War (1919-22) and centuries of co-existence amongst religious and linguistic communities in the Ottoman Empire are still not familiar to many readers\, how can this information be conveyed within or parallel to the text? I will use examples from the Greek and the English translation to illustrate.  \nJoshua Barley \n‘Translating the unspeakable – the language of lament’  \n Lament is the ultimate example of ‘speaking the unspeakable’. My focus for discussion is how the language of Greek folk laments can be translated into English – and how this language can be understood by the foreign reader. I will refer both to laments proper and to a demotic song about the destruction of Smyrna\, which draws on motifs of the laments.  \nVictoria Solomonidis-Hunter \n‘Smyrna 1922: Solace through translation’  \n Kosmas Politis\, a witness of the 1922 events\, wrote his novel  Στου Χατζηφράγκου  [At  Hadjifrangou] in 1962\, on the 40th anniversary of the Asia Minor Catastrophe as a memorial to his much-loved Smyrna. He was 74 years old and had found solace through describing in detail the city of his youth\, which now existed only in the memory of those who knew it before the fire.   \nIn 1992\, the novel was translated by Osman Bleda into Turkish and was published under the title Yitik Kentin Kırk Yılı İzmir’in [Forty Years of the Lost City of Izmir]\, which paraphrased the original Greek subtitle of the novel Τα Σαραντάχρονα μιας Χαμένης Πολιτείας.  \nAs a young girl\, Gülfem Kâatçılar İren had also lived through the 1922 events which had left her with indelible trauma. She found solace by revisiting the ‘lost’ city of her childhood through the translated novel. She was 77 years old and went on to publish her own memoirs.  \nThe presentation will relate the events as experienced by the young Gülfem and juxtapose her memories with Kosmas Politis’ own recollections. The aim is to highlight that\, with Smyrna itself as the main ‘hero’ of the novel\, here translation acts as mediator\, conveying the shared pain for the lost city and granting solace to the trauma suffered by both sides.  \nThis contribution is dedicated to the memory of Peter Mackridge (12 March 1946 – 16 June 2022)\, who brought so much to the critical study and evaluation of Kosmas Politis’ Στου Χατζηφράγκου.  \n\n\n\nPlease register here to attend online via Zoom: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Gpw17ZNDTyG7ykV5W-cUrA \n  \nWednesday 18 January 2023\, 5pm (UK) / 7pm (Greece) \nThe second session will focus on reception issues and will take place on Wednesday 25 January 2023.
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/literature-in-the-aftermath-of-the-1922-asia-minor-catastrophe-translations/
CATEGORIES:Panel Discussion
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Athens:20230110T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Athens:20230110T190000
DTSTAMP:20260522T200403
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SUMMARY:Supporter Event: John Bennet\, "Documentary archaeology in Messenia\, or what does an 18th c. AD defter  have to do with 13th c. BC clay tablets?"
DESCRIPTION:BSA Friends’ Virtual Lecture \nThis is an exclusive event for BSA Supporters only. If you would like to join us\, please consider signing up as a Supporter for as little as £40 (£20 for students) if you have not already done so. You can find out more\, and sign up\, here: https://www.bsa.ac.uk/join-us-2/become-a-supporter/ \nProf. John Bennet (Professor of Aegean Archaeology\, University of Sheffield)\, “Documentary archaeology in Messenia\, or what does an 18th c. AD defter have to do with 13th c. BC clay tablets?” \nAbstract: Our understanding the past is enriched by the deploying both texts and material remains where both are available. Combining these two data categories productively is not always easy\, but one helpful way of doing so is to link the discursive world of texts with the physical world of objects through place-names. Whether texts are rare\, as in the Aegean Late Bronze Age\, or abundant\, as in Ottoman–Venetian Messenia\, the possibility of situating places and activities within the real world enriches our understanding of those periods and places. This paper explores this theme\, drawing on archaeological and textual data relating to Messenia separated by three millennia. \n  \nTuesday 10 January 2023\, 5pm (UK) / 7pm (Greece)
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/john-bennet-documentary-archaeology-in-messenia-or-what-does-an-18th-c-ad-defter-have-to-do-with-13th-c-bc-clay-tablets/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Athens:20221213T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Athens:20221213T200000
DTSTAMP:20260522T200403
CREATED:20220922T114520Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221121T124307Z
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SUMMARY:Michael Llewellyn Smith\, "A.A. Pallis\, from Greek abroad to Greek in Greece"
DESCRIPTION:Sir Michael Llewellyn Smith\, “A.A. Pallis\, from Greek abroad to Greek in Greece” \nAbstract \nThe talk will introduce the life and work of A.A. Pallis\, son of the Alexander Pallis whose translation of the Gospels caused such scandal. A.A. Pallis described himself as a Ξενιτεμενος Ελληνας. His work carried him from Manchester and Liverpool to Egypt\, Greece and the Balkans\, and throughout the Near East\, in the service of Britain\, Greece and the League of Nations\, and the tasks of refugee resettlement between the wars. \nPlease register for ONLINE attendance here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN__Wqp7EcBQgmsM8OqGtKnow \nTo attend IN PERSON please register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/michael-llewellyn-smith-aa-pallis-from-greek-abroad-to-greek-in-greece-tickets-472544592597 \nTuesday 13 December 2022\, 5pm (UK) / 7pm (Greece)
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/michael-llewellyn-smith-tba/
CATEGORIES:Upper House Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Athens:20221212T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Athens:20221212T190000
DTSTAMP:20260522T200403
CREATED:20220922T114624Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221205T143201Z
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SUMMARY:Lyndsay Coo\, "New approaches to sisterhood in Greek tragedy"
DESCRIPTION:Image: Two Sisters by Per Krohg \nLyndsay Coo (University of Bristol / BSA Visiting Fellow)\, “New approaches to sisterhood in Greek tragedy” \nAbstract: Greek tragedy contains numerous scenarios where the relationship between sisters is implicated in political action: these include the Danaids in Aeschylus’ Suppliant Women\, Antigone and Ismene in Sophocles’ Antigone\, and the Erechtheids in Euripides’ Erechtheus\, to name just a few. However\, many previous studies have glossed over the representation of sisterhood by assuming that it is marked by either contrast (e.g. between a ‘weaker’ and a ‘stronger’ sister)\, or by unquestioned female solidarity. This characterisation of sisterhood has come under scrutiny from work in family sociology\, which has demonstrated that sisters’ relationships often involve complex ambiguous or negative emotions and practices; similarly\, scholars in political theory have drawn attention to how sisters may model forms of political action that do not focus on a single heroic individual but rather involve conspiratorial\, collaborative or covert forms of resistance. By drawing on approaches to sisterhood from disciplines outside of Classics\, this lecture aims to shed new light on this under-studied familial relationship in Greek tragedy. \nPlease register here for ONLINE attendance: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_C12y6NFfSM-t0s2iiYZm6Q \nTo attend IN PERSON please register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lyndsay-coo-new-approaches-to-sisterhood-in-greek-tragedy-tickets-472543940647
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/lyndsay-coo-tba/
CATEGORIES:Upper House Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Athens:20221207T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Athens:20221207T180000
DTSTAMP:20260522T200403
CREATED:20221130T113430Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221205T095058Z
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SUMMARY:Carlotta Gardner\, “Recognising wood ash tempered ceramics. The impact of wood ash temper on textural\, chemical and mineralogical compositions of ceramic bodies”
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Carlotta Gardner (Fitch Laboratory\, British School at Athens)\, “Recognising wood ash tempered ceramics. The impact of wood ash temper on textural\, chemical and mineralogical compositions of ceramic bodies”
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/carlotta-gardner-recognising-wood-ash-tempered-ceramics-the-impact-of-wood-ash-temper-on-textural-chemical-and-mineralogical-compositions-of-ceramic-bodies/
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:20221206T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Athens:20221206T190000
DTSTAMP:20260522T200403
CREATED:20220918T162332Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221129T093632Z
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SUMMARY:Supporter Event: Rebecca Sweetman\, "Sparta Acropolis: Memory\, Tradition and Christianization"
DESCRIPTION:BSA Friends’ Virtual Lecture \nThis is an exclusive event for BSA Supporters only. If you would like to join us\, please consider signing up as a Supporter for as little as £40 annually (£20 for students) if you have not already done so. You can find out more\, and sign up\, here: https://www.bsa.ac.uk/join-us-2/become-a-supporter/ \nProf. Rebecca Sweetman (BSA\, Director)\, “Sparta Acropolis: Memory\, Tradition and Christianization” \nAbstract: In 2000\, the British School at Athens\, in collaboration with the Byzantine Eforia at Sparta\, returned to the then so-called church of Osios Nikon on the Acropolis of Sparta. Although the BSA had undertaken excavations on the site nearly a century before that\, they had never been published and fundamental questions relating to the date of the church\, architectural phases its dedication and the wider context in which it was constructed had never been addressed. The work in Sparta then led to a comprehensive study of the Late Antique churches of the Peloponnese which I undertook between 2011 and 2014. An examination of the contextualized topographic analysis of the churches and with the application of theories of memory and tradition\, it quickly became clear that contrary to accounts in the literary sources that processes of Christianization were more peaceful and gradual than purported. \nIn this paper I will first introduce some of the recent work of the BSA on the Sparta acropolis\, before turning to the Acropolis Basilica and the wider context of Christianization in the Peloponnese. The aim is to suggest alternative views to the traditional idea of destructive change with the coming of Christianity in Greece. \n  \nTuesday 6 December 2022\, 5pm (UK) / 7pm (Greece) \n 
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/rebecca-sweetman-the-sparta-acropolis-basilica-in-the-late-antique-peloponnese/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Athens:20221205T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Athens:20221205T200000
DTSTAMP:20260522T200403
CREATED:20220914T101116Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221121T123157Z
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SUMMARY:Antonis Kalogeropoulos\, "Digital News Consumption in Greece"
DESCRIPTION:Dr Antonis Kalogeropoulos (University of Liverpool)\, “Digital News Consumption in Greece” \nAbstract \nGreece is a global outlier in digital news consumption. Trust in legacy news organizations is very low while Greeks online rely heavily on alternative sources like social media for their news. Dr Kalogeropoulos will present qualitative and quantitative data that address how Greeks navigate the digital news landscape\, their motivations for using social media to get news\, as well as the ways Greek news organizations have adapted their news distribution strategies in the current media environment. This talk will further discuss the implications of digital news disruption in Greece and internationally. \nPlease register here for ONLINE attendance: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_MOfvTUOMRGCf2euN350xzg \nRegistration for IN PERSON attendance: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/antonis-kalogeropoulos-digital-news-consumption-in-greece-tickets-472542496327
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/dr-antonis-kalogeropoulos-digital-news-consumption-in-greece/
CATEGORIES:Upper House Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Athens:20221128T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Athens:20221128T200000
DTSTAMP:20260522T200403
CREATED:20220922T114407Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221122T080638Z
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SUMMARY:Vasif Sahoglu\, "New Evidence for Thera Eruption Tsunamis at Çeşme - Bağlararası in western Anatolia"
DESCRIPTION:Vasif Sahoglu (Ankara University)\, “New Evidence for Thera Eruption Tsunamis at Çeşme – Bağlararası in western Anatolia” \nAbstract \nDisasters\, whether natural or anthropogenic\, can be drivers of landscape and cultural change. The Late Bronze Age Thera eruption was one of the largest natural disasters witnessed in human history. Its impact\, consequences\, and timing\, has dominated the discourse of ancient Mediterranean studies for nearly a century. Despite the eruption’s high intensity and tsunami-generating capabilities\, associated tsunami deposits are reported from relatively few locations. Even more surprising is the lack of human remains linked to this event. In contrast\, descriptions of pumice\, ash and tephra deposits are more widely published. A well-preserved volcanic ash layer and chaotic destruction horizon were identified in stratified deposits at Çeşme-Bağlararası\, a coastal settlement in western Türkiye. In order to interpret these deposits\, archaeological and sedimentological analysis were performed. According to the results\, the archaeological site was hit by a series of strong tsunamis that caused damage and erosion\, leaving behind a thick layer of debris\, distinguishable by its physical\, biological\, and chemical signature. An articulated human skeleton discovered within the tsunami debris is an in situ victim related to the Late Bronze Age Thera eruption event. This talk will present the archaeological evidence at Çeşme – Bağlararası\, discuss the unique preservation seen at the site and what it adds to the understanding of coastal deposit preservation more broadly. \nTo attend in person please register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/vasif-sahoglu-new-evidence-for-thera-eruption-tsunamis-at-cesme-tickets-472506839677 \nRegister for ONLINE attendance here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Zk7yLcZWSaaqM3ZAAWCE-g \nMonday 28 November 5pm (UK) / 7pm (Greece)
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/vasif-sahoglu-new-evidence-for-thera-eruption-tsunamis-at-cesme-baglararasi-in-western-anatolia/
CATEGORIES:Upper House Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Athens:20221123T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Athens:20221123T170000
DTSTAMP:20260522T200403
CREATED:20220928T094548Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221107T045756Z
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SUMMARY:‘Interdisciplinary Approaches to Mortuary Data’
DESCRIPTION:LBA/EIA/Archaic Aegean ECR group mini conference (Zoom)\, hosted by the British School at Athens: ‘Interdisciplinary Approaches to Mortuary Data’ \nCo-organised by Hannah Jingwen Lee (Sheffield) and Michael Loy (BSA) \nThis is to be the fourth in a series of meetings aimed at laying the foundations for a collaborative network of Early Career Researchers with interests broadly embracing the archaeology of the Aegean region from the Late Bronze to the Archaic Period. The network first met in 2021 on the initiative of James Whitley\, Robin Osborne and Irene Lemos\, largely aiming to connect scholars who had not had opportunity to meet one another during lockdown phases of the pandemic. Events are designed to provide opportunities for PhD/DPhil students and early-stage postdocs to make short presentations relating to their research interests and to receive helpful and constructive feedback from their peers. \nThis fourth meeting on 23 November will focus on interdisciplinary approaches to mortuary data during the LBA/EIA/Archaic periods. Papers will reflect on varying approaches to the study of mortuary data\, interrogate the legacies of Classics and anthropological archaeology within this context\, and encourage participants to think about collaborative working through the cross-pollination of ideas. ‘Mortuary data’ here does not refer specifically to funerary archaeology analyses\, but rather any and all information that can be gathered from mortuary contexts and used to inform our thinking on ancient life- and deathways. Closing remarks will be provided by Jane Rempel\, Lecturer in Classical Archaeology at the University of Sheffield\, and Efthymia Nikita\, Assistant Professor in Bioarchaeology at the Science and Technology in Archaeology and Culture Research Centre (STARC)\, The Cyprus Institute\, and the event will be chaired by Hannah Lee\, who is currently completing her PhD research at the University of Sheffield. \nThe conference will be hosted on Zoom. Please note that we prefer to keep this mini-conference as a ‘closed’ event for ECRs\, to maintain the informal\, work-in-progress and workshop nature of the group. Anyone wishing to participate should contact Michael Loy\, contact details below\, to request a Zoom link for the event. \nProgramme: https://www.bsa.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/EIA-mini-conference-23-Nov-2022_programme.pdf \nWednesday 23rd November 2022\, 14.00 to 17.00 (UK time)
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/interdisciplinary-approaches-to-mortuary-data/
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Athens:20221122T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Athens:20221122T190000
DTSTAMP:20260522T200403
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SUMMARY:Pamela Armstrong\, "Lost in translation: Byzantine Lakonia & the Amyklaion"
DESCRIPTION:BSA Friends’ Lecture (hybrid: in-person & online) \nDr Pamela Armstrong (University of Oxford)\, “Lost in translation: Byzantine Lakonia & the Amyklaion” \nAbstract: This lecture considers the results of the British School at Athens’ survey of Lakonia\, directed by Professors Joost Crouwel and Bill Cavanagh\, for the Byzantine period. A presentation of the changing landscape over the course of six centuries east of the river Eurotas\, where the survey operated\, is then anchored in textual evidence for the landscape west of the great river. In particular the site of the Amyklaion is presented as an important Christian religious centre throughout the same centuries. \nThis lecture will take place in-person in the Senate Room at Senate House\, London (Senate House Library – Google Maps). It will also be livestreamed via Zoom. \nTo attend IN PERSON please register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lost-in-translation-byzantine-lakonia-the-amyklaion-tickets-465669789877 \nTo attend ONLINE please register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0H_gb5kPQuOvIpZeobvvAA  \nTuesday 22 November 2022\, 5pm (UK) /7pm (Greece)
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/pamela-armstrong-lost-in-translation-byzantine-lakonia-the-amyklaion/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Athens:20221121T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Athens:20221121T203000
DTSTAMP:20260522T200403
CREATED:20220922T122113Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221115T115158Z
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SUMMARY:"Political violence in Greece: continuities and new directions"
DESCRIPTION:“Political violence in Greece: continuities and new directions” \nSince the Athens riots of 2008\, Greece has experienced serious episodes of violence with clear political connotations. Framed as a fight against austerity\, an expression of anti-immigrant stances or an anti-establishment struggle\, political violence has reached unprecedented levels. The panel will address current debates and newly emerging topics in political violence\, including the strategic use of violence\, its causes and consequences\, spatial and temporal dynamics of violence\, continuities and discontinuities of political violence\, the connections between non-violent action and political violence as well as between different types of violence. It focuses on both right-wing and left-wing extremism in order to understand their evolution in the post-1974 era\, their similarities\, differences and interactions. \n1st roundtable discussion of the Joint Seminar of BSA and the Greek Politics Specialist Group on Modern Greek Studies \nSpeakers \nVasiliki Georgiadou\, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences\nStathis Kalyvas\, All Souls College\, University of Oxford\nLamprini Rori\, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens\nNicolas Sevastakis\, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki\nRoman Gerodimos (Bournemouth University) \nCoordinator\nEirini Karamouzi\, University of Sheffield \nTo join the webinar please click here: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85975337403?pwd=MkhNUkxYUU5hMWsyUU5wQjljT2JUdz09 \nFor in person attendance please register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/political-violence-in-greece-continuities-and-new-directions-tickets-449367920547
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/lamprini-rori-and-eirini-karamouzi-on-aspects-of-political-violence-in-greece/
CATEGORIES:Upper House Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Athens:20221114T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Athens:20221114T200000
DTSTAMP:20260522T200403
CREATED:20220922T114139Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221107T133640Z
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SUMMARY:Antti Lampinen\, "Nativism in Herodes' Sophistic Attica: Rural Heroes\, Hellenic Purity and the Bust of 'Sauromates'"
DESCRIPTION:Dr Antti Lampinen (Finnish Institute at Athens)\, “Nativism in Herodes’ Sophistic Attica: Rural Heroes\, Hellenic Purity and the Bust of ‘Sauromates'” \nABSTRACT: That some second-century figures under the broad umbrella of Second Sophistic entertained nativist conceptions of Hellenicity is not news as such. Dio of Prusa was not only a fairly outspoken critic of the Roman rule\, but saw the utility of using physiognomic readings as a tool of invective; his pupil Polemo of Laodicea doubled down on this physiognomical chauvinism\, going as far as picking only the ‘purest Greece’ as his pupils\, if Philostratus is to be believed. Polemo clearly presented himself as being able to distinguish a morally superior\, physiognomically distinct ‘Hellenic’ type\, and he seems to have been similarly explicit about this category having become vulnerable to intermixture for a variety of reasons. My paper will first discuss the nativist rhetoric and ethnically expressed essentialism in some of the sophistic works that formed Polemo’s circle\, as well as the curious anecdote about the rural demi-god Agathion that Philostratus quotes from Herodes Atticus’ letters. Finally\, I will focus on a portrait bust at the Acropolis Museum of Athens\, conventionally attributed to a Bosporan king\, possibly Sauromates II\, though not on particularly strong grounds. I will suggest a possible alternative interpretation of the piece\, which might in this reading be connected to the Marathonian ‘Heracles of Herodes’ (Philostr. VS 552-554). \nFor online attendance please register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_4Of-dJv1RCeIMgqpQR45lg \nFor in person attendance please register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/antti-lampinen-nativism-in-herodes-sophistic-attica-tickets-458441951217
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/antti-lampinen-nativism-in-herodes-sophistic-attica-rural-heroes-hellenic-purity-and-the-bust-of-sauromates/
CATEGORIES:Upper House Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Athens:20221108T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Athens:20221108T200000
DTSTAMP:20260522T200403
CREATED:20220829T081345Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221101T124802Z
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SUMMARY:Chrysanthi Gallou\, Jon Henderson and Bill Cavanagh\, "Pavlopetri – the Sunken City Explored"
DESCRIPTION:BSA Friends’ Lecture (online only) \nDr Chrysanthi Gallou\, Dr. Jon Henderson & Professor Bill Cavanagh\, “Pavlopetri – the Sunken City Explored” \n  \nAbstract: Pavlopetri\, off the coast of Laconia\, Greece\, has remains dating from at least 3\,500 BC through to the Protogeometric period c.900 BC. Underwater research over the past decade\, as a joint project by the Greek Underwater Ephorate and the University of Nottingham\, has traced structures over 8 hectares of the seabed consisting of intact domestic buildings\, larger public constructions\, courtyards\, streets\, funerary structures\, graves and rock-cut tombs. This lecture will review the remains recorded underwater\, how they came to be submerged\, and will consider the nature of occupation at the site during the Aegean Bronze Age and the role of the town as a gateway port. \nPlease register to attend online here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_lWkNpxKTTreskPJ3_d9jKw \nPlease consider a donation to the Friends of the BSA \nThe Friends of the BSA support the British School at Athens\, which is a charity. The Friends organise regular lectures – like this one – and trips to Greece. The Friends also raise funds to enhance the BSA and recently covered the costs of the final phase of the ‘Digital Thessaly’ project\, making the archives of Alan Wace available to the wider public. \nYou can help us by making a donation (we suggest £10 for Supporters\, £15 otherwise) via our online portal: https://www.bsa.ac.uk/donate/ \nPlease do consider making a donation. Collectively\, all these gifts make a huge difference! \n  \nTuesday 8 November\, 5pm (UK) / 7pm (Greece)
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/chrysanthi-gallou-and-jon-henderson-title-tbc/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Athens:20221031T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Athens:20221031T210000
DTSTAMP:20260522T200403
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SUMMARY:Sophia Zoumbaki and Constantine Cartalis\, "Monuments of cultural heritage threatened by climate change: A suggestion of how to read the past and protect the future"
DESCRIPTION:Sophia Zoumbaki (The National Hellenic Research Foundation) and Constantine Cartalis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)\, “Monuments of cultural heritage threatened by climate change: A suggestion of how to read the past and protect the future” \nAbstract \nClimate change is an inevitable natural process which human communities always had to face. Nowadays this phenomenon is accelerated by anthropogenic causes and has evolved to become one of the most threatening dangers for our planet\, raising also numerous practical and ethical issues\, one of them being the responsibility to protect world cultural heritage. We will discuss on the links between climate change and cultural heritage and focus on results of an interdisciplinary research project (implemented by the University of Thessaly\, the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and the National Hellenic Research Foundation) aiming at contributing to the efforts to preserve the cultural capital of Greece from the impacts of ongoing climate change. A number of archaeological sites and monuments located at climate vulnerable eco-systems have been selected as cases for a closer investigation with the prospect of offering a useful tool to decision-making authorities as well as an example for the prediction and management of crises related to climate dangers. The development of a platform based on a multi-criteria system provides models of high spatial resolution aiming at the prediction of climatic dangers in the sites in question\, classifying natural threats and assessing the sensitivity and adaptive capacity in each case. The analysis of historical sources and archaeological data offers the parameter of diachrony to the investigation of existing environmental weaknesses in the micro-scale of a certain region as well as of the effects of natural events\, which can only be assessed by their impact on concrete human societies. As a fruit of this project\, concrete management planning and interventions necessary for each individual case are suggested in order to address the challenge to ensure the safekeeping and sustainability of cultural treasures. \nMonday 31 October\,  5.00pm (UK) / 7.00pm (Athens) \nFor online attendance please register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_O7fBRo5gQaGIhRMmhZweeA  \nFor in person attendance please register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/monuments-of-cultural-heritage-threatened-by-climate-change-tickets-450474379997
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/sophia-zoumbaki-and-constantine-kartalis-on-archaeology-and-climate-change/
LOCATION:British School at Athens\, Upper House\, 52 Souedias Street\, Athens\, Greece
CATEGORIES:Upper House Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Athens:20221025T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Athens:20221025T190000
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SUMMARY:Paul Cartledge\, “Sparta: how odd?”
DESCRIPTION:BSA Friends’ Lecture (online only) \nProfessor Paul Cartledge (University of Cambridge)\, “Sparta: how odd?” \nAbstract: For most non-Spartan ancient Greeks the community and polity of Sparta seemed decidedly odd: very military\, exceptionally if not excessively pious\, unusually liberal towards its women citizens\, and unique in its compulsory educational cycle that included institutionalised homosexuality/pederasty. Against them a modern trend of scholarship contends that Sparta was not all that odd\, really. This lecture will side\, decidedly and decisively\, with the majority of non-Spartan ancient Greeks. \nWebinar registration: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_CoAcSkxcSR-L7dkKO6a_Bw  \nIt is customary to ask for a small donation (we suggest £10 for existing Supporters\, £15 otherwise) at events in our Friends’ Lecture Series. \nYou can donate to the BSA Friends’ Fund here. Please quote “Friends” in the additional comments field. \nThis lecture will not be recorded. \nTuesday 25 October 2022\, 5pm (UK) / 7pm (Greece)
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/paul-cartledge-sparta-how-odd/
CATEGORIES:BSA Friends' Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Athens:20221017T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Athens:20221017T200000
DTSTAMP:20260522T200403
CREATED:20220920T124143Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221005T093136Z
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SUMMARY:Michael J. Boyd with Colin Renfrew and members of the Keros team\, "The creative cultural nexus of Keros"
DESCRIPTION:Michael J. Boyd with Colin Renfrew and members of the Keros team\, “The creative cultural nexus of Keros” \nAbstract \nThe third millennium in Europe is marked by expanding horizons\, the increasing importance of information\, and by new identities forged in connectivity. In the Aegean\, these changes are manifest in a series of creative social experiments that ultimately lead toward the large-scale\, complex societies of the second millennium. The island of Keros is located south of Naxos in the central Cyclades. Previously a backwater\, on the side lanes of connectivity\, suddenly around 2750 BCE it became a central haven. Waves of visitors brought with them choice material destined for deposition in the now well-documented cult area at Kavos. But over a 500-year period of often intense activity visitors were also attracted to the adjacent islet of Dhaskalio. Here a monumental and planned architectural complex housed skilled metalworkers and the imported material and agricultural produce of other islands. Understanding the role of Dhaskalio\, and its place in island networks\, has been the goal of the Keros-Naxos Seaways Project since 2015. This paper outlines our initial thinking on what drove the early stages of proto-urbanisation at Dhaskalio. The parameters that enabled the creation\, manifestation\, and negotiation of identity were connectivity and information transmission; creativity in material production and in the physical reimagination of space; the direction and process of communal acts of labour; and the organisation at a distance of landscape and agricultural resource manipulation and exploitation. The added parameters of time and space allow us to envisage the drawing in of people and materials to the site\, and their subsequent onward journeys: the people transformed by their experience\, and the materials transformed in the workshops of the site. The creative cultural nexus of Keros is the prism through which we can begin to understand how identity creation in the mid-third millennium became rooted in place\, in space\, and in community action. \nPlease register in advance for this webinar: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_WI2s5sqWTKyFI7kkKQPTww \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. \nFor in person attendance please register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/425594975027 \nMonday 17 October 2022\, 5pm (UK) / 7pm (Greece)
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/michael-boyd-tba/
CATEGORIES:Upper House Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Athens:20221012T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Athens:20221012T180000
DTSTAMP:20260522T200403
CREATED:20221003T061525Z
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SUMMARY:Single-grain optical dating: continuous progress and lingering pitfalls
DESCRIPTION:FITCH-WIENER LABS SEMINAR SERIES  \n“Single-grain optical dating: continuous progress and lingering pitfalls” \nProfessor Zenobia Jacobs (Centre for Archaeological Science\, University of Wollongong\, Australia)\nWednesday\, 12th October 2022\, 17:00 p.m. \nThe seminar will take place at the Wiener Laboratory (American School of Classical Studies at Athens) For any enquiries\, tel.: 213-000-2400 (133) Email: infoWienerLab@ascsa.edu.gr \nMasks are strongly recommended in the premises of the Wiener Lab. \nFlyer available here
URL:https://www.bsa.ac.uk/events/single-grain-optical-dating-continuous-progress-and-lingering-pitfalls/
LOCATION:American School of Classical Studies at Athens\, Wiener Laboratory\, 54 Souidias Street\, Athens\, 10676\, Greece
CATEGORIES:Fitch-Wiener Seminar
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