Professor Violetta Hionidou (University of Newcastle), ‘Using emmenagogues and abortifacients in Modern Greece, 1830-1967’ Abstract Greece currently has one of the most liberal laws on abortion. While we know quite a lot about abortion in Greece in the second half of the 20th century, we know much less about earlier times. This paper will explore when, […]
Elias Kolovos (University of Crete), ‘Romaiika: Towards a History of the Greek Lands under Ottoman Rule’ Abstract The seminar will discuss the history of the Greek lands under Ottoman rule, between the fourteenth and the early nineteenth century, as a shared history of Christian and Muslim communities: to the south of Mount Olympus, more or less, […]
Source: Constantinos A. Doxiadis Archives© Constantinos and Emma Doxiadis Foundation Syma Tariq (University of the Arts London / BSA Arts Residency holder), "Dreaming of Entopia: Constantinos Doxiadis in Pakistan" Abstract Greek architect and town planner Constantinos Doxiadis played an enormous role in the urban […]
Image: Statue of Bishop Germanos of Old Patras at the Monastery of Agia Lavra, Kalavryta. 2021 will mark the bicentenary of the outbreak of the Greek Revolution, or War of Independence. As that anniversary approaches, this talk takes a long view, beginning with the European settlement reached at the Congress of Vienna in 1814-15, […]
Professor Christy Constantakopoulou (Birkbeck, University of London), "Gods, Slaves, Goats and Pirates in the Aegean Islands. Insular Life and Inter-island Connectivity in the Classical and Hellenistic Periods." Abstract The lecture will explore some little-known stories of island connectivity from the Classical and early Hellenistic Aegean. The presence of many islands is a dominant feature of […]
Dimitris Sotiropoulos (University of Athens), ‘Populism, party politics, and the economic crisis: contrasting the case of Greece with the case of Portugal’ Discussant: Lamprini Rori (University of Exeter) Research webinar series on Modern Greek Studies organised by the British School at Athens and the Greek Politics Specialist Group Organisers: Eirini Karamouzi (University of Sheffield) and […]
Beyond words: history and translation in modern Greek fiction – David Ricks (King’s College London), Karen Emmerich (Princeton), Lambrini Kouzeli (journalist and translator), and Joshua Barley (translator). A panel discussion exploring how translators manage the reader's historical awareness in relation to modern Greek fiction and how these works can be made relevant for a contemporary audience. This […]
This exhibit will celebrate the work of creatives worldwide who have experienced quarantine, lockdown, isolation as part of the coronavirus pandemic. Please reserve your free ticket for this event on Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/quarantine-art-exhibition-tickets-118120530687 Entry to the exhibition will be according to booked times slots so that we can ensure physical distancing on the premises. Booking is […]
This exhibit will celebrate the work of creatives worldwide who have experienced quarantine, lockdown, isolation as part of the coronavirus pandemic. Please reserve your free ticket for this event on Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/quarantine-art-exhibition-tickets-118120530687 Entry to the exhibition will be according to booked times slots so that we can ensure physical distancing on the premises. Booking is […]
Prof. Paul Cartledge (University of Cambridge), “Thebes: the (nearly) lost city of Ancient Greece” The city of Thebes in ancient Greece has too often been 'forgotten' - for various reasons. But actually there were two ancient cities of Thebes, not just one: the City of Myth (Kadmos, Oedipus and co) and the City of History […]
Prof. Michael Scott (University of Warwick), "The View from the Aegean: Greek perspectives on a global ancient world" We are used to thinking about Greece in its hey-day as well connected to - and its inhabitants keen explorers of - a wide Mediterranean world. We know well the stories of particular Greeks who ventured further […]
Stefano Frullini (University of Cambridge / BSA), "Synoikisms, tradition and reality: the cases of Elis and Mantinea" This event is hosted by AthENIS (Athens Early-Career Network of International Scholars), the new group for postgrads and postdocs, showcasing early-career researchers’ current projects and working papers in an informal and constructive environment. Zoom lecture invitation will be […]
Dr Carrie Sawtell (BSA, Macmillan-Rodewald Student), "Χρηστὸς / χρηστή in 4th and 3rd century BC Attic Epitaphs" Variously translated as excellent, good, useful and worthy, among others, the epithet χρηστὸς / χρηστή when used in fourth-century BC Attic epitaphs is taken as denoting the servile status of the deceased. The epithet was used across the […]
HE Kate Smith (British Ambassador to Greece), "Gennadios in London" Ioannis Gennadios was an exceptional figure of Western diplomacy. Living in London for a period spanning seventy years he penetrated into British customs and character always remaining a great Greek patriot. From 1862, when he first set foot in London to 1932, when he died […]
Annual Garden Party
Tulsi Parikh (Richard Bradford-McConnell Student / University of Cambridge), "The Material of Polytheism in Archaic Greece"
Professor Charles Brittain (Cornell University), "Protagorean hermeneutics"
Mark Letteney (Princeton University / ASCSA), "Water to Aelia Capitolina: The Pools of Solomon from Hadrian to the British Mandate" This event is hosted by AthENIS (Athens Early-Career Network of International Scholars), the new group for postgrads and postdocs, showcasing early-career researchers’ current projects and working papers in an informal and constructive environment. Zoom lecture […]
Professor Antonis Kotsonas (Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University / BSA Bader Archive Lecturer 2019-2020), "Politics, research agendas, and the history of archaeology in Crete: an archival perspective on the exploration of ancient Lyktos (c. 1880 – 1940)" Politics and research agendas have had a major role in shaping the […]
"The Greek language after Antiquity: recent research and future directions in historical linguistics” PROGRAMME
Dr Nicholas Salmon (BSA), "Archives and Attribution: Reconstructing the British Museum’s excavation of Rhodes" This presentation will focus on the excavation of Rhodes by British Vice Consul Alfred Biliotti and French artist Auguste Salzmann in the mid-nineteenth century, and how archives relating to this excavation can be used to retrieve the context of archaeological finds […]
Dr Emily Kneebone (BSA, Early Career Fellow / University of Nottingham), "Imagined landscapes in imperial Greek epic poetry"
Hundreds of places in Athens and Attica, and more broadly in Greece and across Europe, are referred to in the speeches of the Attic Orators, the canon of ten speechwriters and politicians from the fifth and fourth centuries BC. Among them are demes and sanctuaries, buildings and even walls. The precise location of many of […]
Prof. John Bennet (Director, BSA) Dr David Lewis- Title TBC
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED DUE TO THE SPREAD OF COVID-19.
Dr Charlotte Van Regenmortel (Groningen)
Professor Voula Tsouna (University of California), "Socrates and Critias debate the techne analogy. The Argument from Relatives' (Charm. 167c8-169c2)" Co-organized by the BSA and the Research Centre for Greek Philosophy (Academy of Athens)
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED DUE TO THE SPREAD OF COVID-19. Friends x SPBS Annual Lecture James first studied Cypriot fortifications when pursuing a master’s under Prof. Allen ‘Castles’ Brown at KCL. He only returned to this interest for his second doctoral thesis (Cardiff University 2010), supervised by Prof. Denys Pringle, which he developed into […]
Professor Voula Tsouna (University of California), "The techne analogy, the Argument from Benefit' (Charm. 169c3-175a8), and its aftermath in the Republic" Co-organized by the BSA and the Research Centre for Greek Philosophy (Academy of Athens)
Archaeology is just one of the many disciplines that have approached the understanding of the site of Troy and the events in its history. In some ways, it occupies an awkward position between myth and the reality of the site. What is the role of archaeology in the modern consumption of Troy? Do archaeologists just […]
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO THE SPREAD OF COVID-19. Political extremism has been present in Greece since 1974. Despite the adoption of a counter-terrorist governmental strategy around the turn of the millennium which temporarily limited episodes of violent extremism, violence remains a serious problem. By its unprecedented magnitude and durée, the ongoing financial crisis […]
Professor Mike Edwards (Honorary Research Fellow, Royal Holloway, University of London / Visiting Fellow, BSA), "Places in the Attic Orators: a philologist and his topography"
This workshop will focus on seafaring in the Mediterranean of the Neolithic Period, and will stimulate discussion on the topic for featuring in an international documentary film 'Moving Stones'. We aim to discuss how throughout the Neolithic Period the seas, far from being obstacles, were major vectors of transportation and communication. All welcome. Joint workshop […]
The Early Ottoman Peloponnese - A Study in the Light of an Annotated Editio Princeps of the TT10 – 1/14662 Ottoman Taxation Cadastre (ca. 1460 – 1463). In this book, Georgios C. Liakopoulos presents a unique insight into late Byzantine Peloponnese society and its economy, and how these were incorporated into the Ottoman Empire, using […]
The Work of the School in 2019 by Professor John Bennet (Director, BSA) Dr Bettina Tsigarida (Director, Ephorate of Antiquities of Pella), "Νέες διαστάσεις στην έρευνα της αρχαίας ελληνικής πόλης: το ερευνητικό πρόγραμμα της Ολύνθου"
The lecture restates the reasons for equating the territory known to the Hittites as Ahhiyāwā with the lands of the late Bronze Age Achaean Greeks. Diplomatic relations between the two realms are examined with particular attention to the city called Wilusa by the Hittites. Finally, it is asked to what extent, if any, the […]
The Work of the School in 2019 by Professor John Bennet (Director, BSA) Dr Zosia Archibald (University of Liverpool), "New Dimensions of an Ancient City: the Olynthos Project (2014-2019)"
The Work of the School in 2019 by Professor John Bennet The Work of the Fitch Laboratory 2009-2019: Linking Britain with the Mediterranean by Dr Evangelia Kiriatzi (Fitch Laboratory Director, BSA) The Marc and Ismene Fitch Laboratory was founded over 45 years ago within the British School at Athens to promote the application of scientific […]
Gian Piero Milani (PhD student, University of Oxford), "The Collection of Allied Aerial Photographs of the British School at Athens”
Setting a bridge between biological and cultural remains: Novel methods for the reconstruction of physical activity in the past
Moderator: Dionysios Stathakopoulos, King’s College London. Dionysios Stathakopoulos has been teaching at King's College London since 2005. He read Byzantine and Medieval History at the University of Münster and received his PhD from the University of Vienna. He is a social historian of the Byzantine world and has published widely on epidemics and famines, the practice […]
A half-day symposium on ceramic production and maritime distribution in the Aegean and East Mediterranean, and long-distance links between Greece, the West Mediterranean and South West Britain during the 5th to 7th centuries AD.
Panel discussion: Migration and Diaspora, co-organized with King's College London Participants: Eirini Avramopoulou (Panteion University), "Intersecting stories of displacement and crisis:Ethnographic accounts from the island of Leros" Maria Christina Chatziioannou (National Hellenic Research Centre),"Some Theoretical Insights Regarding the Use ofHistorical Sources in Diaspora and Transnational Studies: the Greek communities of England as a case study" […]
Tokens: The Athenian Legacy to Modern World PROGRAMME AND ABSTRACTS
'A Greek Ballad' is the first collection in English of the renowned Greek poet Michális Ganás, translated by David Connolly and Joshua Barley and published by Yale University Press. On the evening there will be readings in Greek from the poet himself and in English from Joshua Barley, who will introduce the book. There will […]
Meagan Dennison, "Evaluating the role of domestic dogs from archaeological contexts"
Best-selling author Victoria Hislop will be in conversation with John Kittmer (Chair, Anglo-Hellenic League) about her passion for Greece and the role that Greece plays in her writing, including her latest book Those Who Are Loved. Spaces will be allocated on a first come, first served basis. RSVP at Kate Smith: bsa@britac.ac.uk This event is […]
Michael Loy (BSA, Assistant Director), "Luxury and commodity shipping routes in archaic Greece"
Since the turn of the 21st century there has been an unprecedented wave of creative responses to the Iliad, by prizewinning novelists and poets as well as cinema and TV producers. Professor Edith Hall (KCL) will explore the similarities and radical divergences between several of these responses, to ask why a poem with roots in […]
Political extremism has been present in Greece since 1974. Despite the adoption of a counter-terrorist governmental strategy around the turn of the millennium which temporarily limited episodes of violent extremism, violence remains a serious problem. By its unprecedented magnitude and durée, the ongoing financial crisis has triggered the emergence of circumstances that promote the toleration, acceptance and use […]
No formal courses were taught at the BSA before 1973, the year of the first annual undergraduate programme. This was the brainchild of the then Assistant Director, Robin Barber, and helped to inspire a second, this time for UK school teachers in Ancient History, established in 1979. Both initiatives occurred under the directorship of […]
Ceramic Petrology Group Annual Meeting
Dr Maria Ntinou (Center for Interdisciplinary Research & Innovation, University of Thessaloniki /LIRA Laboratory, Department of Archaeology, University of Thessaloniki), "Firewood for the hearths. Woodlands of the Argolid from the Middle Paleolithic to the Neolithic."
A book discussion co-organized with the Institute for Mediterranean Studies-FORTH Discussants Professor Emerita Olga Katsiardi-Hering (University of Athens) Professor Maria Fusaro (University of Exeter) Co-Ordinator Professor Gelina Harlaftis (Institute for Mediterranean Studies-FORTH & Hellenic Open University)
A poetry and spoken word performance by Vanessa Kisuule and Pavlina Marvin On the occasion of the British Council’s 80th anniversary celebrations in Greece and of the UK being the Country of Honour at Public Book Awards, the British Council in collaboration with Public Bookstores, have invited Vanessa Kisuule and Pavlina Marvin to join forces […]
Dr Sergios Menelaou (Fitch Laboratory, British School at Athens) : “Shifting modes of connectivity between the Cyclades, the southeast Aegean and western Anatolia: A diachronic ceramic study of prehistoric Samos, East Aegean”
This BSA Ambassador event was organised in collaboration with Newcastle University where Dr Matthew Skuse (St Andrews) will present 'The nature of cult activity at Perachora'. After the paper we will be heading to Pani's Café (61-65 High Bridge, NE1 6BX) for dinner. If you would like to join us, please email Joseph Skinner (Joseph.Skinner@newcastle.ac.uk) […]
Onyeka Igwe is the 2019 BSA Arts Bursary holder and returns from a residency in Athens to share her encounters with the archive. Igwe researches the colonial imagination, its knowledges and influence on the archive and then uses a methodology, critical proximity, to create moving image works that attempt to activate archive material in […]
