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 […]
Dr Polyxeni Adam-Veleni (Director, General Directorate of Antiquities, Hellenic Ministry of Culture & Sports): 'Θεσσαλονίκη: μια μεγαλειώδης μητρόπολη της Αρχαίας Μακεδονίας'
The excavation of Knossos, one of the most important sites of the ancient world, is inextricably linked with Sir Arthur Evans. Evans discovered the ruins of a monumental complex and the remains of a hitherto unknown civilization, formulating the prevailing view of it. Inspired by Evans’ work, artist Teresa Valavani has created a collage collection […]
A. Hobbs, Plato’s Republic, Ladybird Expert Series – 34 Plato's Republic addresses questions of urgent concern in these troubled times. How can we prevent democracies being subverted to tyrannies by cynical demagogues? How can we protect truth from fake news and 'alternative facts'? And, ultimately, why do humans form societies and what is needed for […]
Dr Philip Kenrick: Cyrenaica: A Greek Pentapolis - but so much more
Robert Pitt (CYA): ‘Early British Travellers to Athens and the Hunt for Inscriptions: Some Overlooked Epigraphic Manuscripts of the 17th and 18th Centuries’
Maria Andreadaki-Vlazaki (Hon. Secretary General, Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports), "Sacrificial rituals in the Mycenaean palatial centre of Kydonia (Khania, Crete)" Kydonia, the most important ancient city in Western Crete, traditionally one of the three cities founded in Crete by Minos, occupied the Kastelli Hill in the centre of the Old Town of Khania. […]
Prof. Peter Thonemann (University of Oxford): "An eternal memorial of goodwill towards their kinsmen" :Abdera and Teos after the Third Macedonian War Abstract: One of the most extraordinary ancient Greek inscriptions ever discovered was unearthed in 2017 at the excavations of the Ionian city of Teos in Asia Minor. It records, in thrilling and moving […]
Craftspeople Mobility in the Archaeological, Historical and Ethnographic Record – A Comparative Perspective from the Aegean PROGRAMME ABSTRACTS
Ann Eldridge: Monemvasia: People, Place, Presence
The Knossos Research Centre of the British School at Athens warmly invites you to attend Amica silentia lunae, the “Friendly Silence of the Moon”, an evening of music and poetry at the Villa Ariadne, at 21:00 on Sunday 18 August. Please ensure you arrive by 20:45. This free event is part of the August Full […]
The British School at Athens (Knossos Research Centre) and the Knossos Cultural Association are organising a cultural event on EROTOKRITOS, the romance composed by Vincenzo Cornaros in early 17th century Crete. The romance consists of 10,102 fifteen-syllable rhythmed verses and its central theme is the love between Erotokritos and Aretousa. It constitutes a classic example […]
Earth Water Fire, Celebrating Cretan Pottery from Antiquity to the Present The Thrapsano Cultural Association is organising a series of cultural events centred on Cretan pottery, in collaboration with the British School at Athens (Knossos Research Centre) and the Centre for the Study of Modern Ceramics - G. Psaropoulos Foundation, co-organised by the Region of […]
Annual Garden Party
Dr Margaret Mountford (Chair, Egypt Exploration Society), "Papyrology: is anything new under the sun?" Dr Margaret Mountford will present a brief introduction to the famous Oxyrhynchus papyri, their contents, and their initial excavation. The lecture will take a closer look at a number of ancient texts that suggest people’s preoccupations have not changed much over […]
Onyeka Igwe (BSA Arts Bursary Holder/London College of Communication), "Being Close to, with or Amongst: other ways of Knowing the Archive"
Vayia Xanthopoulou & Ioannis Iliopoulos (Department of Geology, University of Patras), "Assessment of the clayey raw material suitability for ceramic production in Northern Peloponnese"
Professor George Boys-Stones (University of Durham), "The Rationality of the Stoic God"
Dr Chryssanthi Papadopoulou (BSA Assistant Director), "Exorcising Fear: Ritual Performances in Classical Athens"
Dr Lambrini Rori (BSA Early Career Fellow / University of Exeter), "Political violence in crisis-ridden Greece. Evidence from the radical right and the radical left"
The diversity of Greek music is apparent from the rich variety of local traditions and from the richness of urban popular music both established and emerging. This conference aims to explore and evaluate that diversity, and its causes, from broader musical, sociological and artistic perspectives. This is of great value in itself and also sheds […]
Petrie, Pendlebury, and Hogarth in Greece and Egypt - A panel discussion Flinders Petrie, John Pendlebury, and David Hogarth - in their excavations at Naukratis, Amarna, Ephesos and Knossos - developed ground-breaking archaeological approaches during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This discussion explores the connections between these pioneers and their archaeological institutions - […]
Sketchbooks and journals from the Ionian Mission © Trustees of the British Museum Celeste Farge (British Museum), "The Society of Dilettanti's Second Ionian Mission: William Gell's journals at the British School at Athens and the British Museum" William Gell (1777- 1836) - Classicist, traveller and topographer - was famously referred to by Byron as […]
Dr Ioanna Moutafi, "Another Keros mystery: exploring the unusual burial choices at the Early Cycladic island of Keros"
Charlotte Van Regenmortel (BSA Macmillan-Rodewald Student / PhD candidate, University of Leicester), "Warriors into workers: Military service as wage labour in the Late Classical and Early Hellenistic periods"
Dr Colin Macdonald, "Tradition and Innovation in the Protopalatial and Neopalatial Architecture of Knossos”
Prof. Glynis Jones (BSA Fitch Visiting Fellow / University of Sheffield), "The origin and spread of agriculture: what do the plants have to say? "
