Michael Loy, “Luxury and commodity shipping routes in archaic Greece”
British School at Athens, Upper House 52 Souedias Street, Athens, GreeceMichael Loy (BSA, Assistant Director), "Luxury and commodity shipping routes in archaic Greece"
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Edith Hall: 21st-Century Responses to the Homeric Iliad
Wolfson Auditorium, The British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AHSince 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 […]
Lamprini Rori: ‘The Landscape of Political Violence in Crisis-Ridden Greece’
The University of Manchester, University Place, 3.214 , United KingdomPolitical 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 […]
Robin Barber & Tony Spawforth: Instruction in an Antique Land: The First Taught Courses at the BSA, 1973-1989
Senate House (Room 349) Malet Street, London, United KingdomNo 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
British School at Athens, Upper House 52 Souedias Street, Athens, GreeceCeramic Petrology Group Annual Meeting
Maria Ntinou, “Firewood for the hearths. Woodlands of the Argolid from the Middle Paleolithic to the Neolithic.”
American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Wiener Laboratory 54 Souidias Street, Athens, GreeceDr 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."
Katerina Galani, “British Shipping in the Mediterranean during the Napoleonic Wars: the untold story of a successful adaptation.”
British School at Athens, Upper House 52 Souedias Street, Athens, GreeceA 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
British School at Athens 52 Souedias Street, Athens, GreeceA 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 […]
Sergios Menelaou: “Shifting modes of connectivity between the Cyclades, the southeast Aegean and western Anatolia: A diachronic ceramic study of prehistoric Samos, East Aegean”
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”
Matthew Skuse: The nature of cult activity at Perachora
Armstrong Building (ARMB.2.50, Building 22), Newcastle University, UKThis 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: Scenes from the BSA Archive
British Academy, Lecture Hall , United KingdomOnyeka 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 […]
Polyxeni Adam-Veleni: ‘Θεσσαλονίκη: μια μεγαλειώδης μητρόπολη της Αρχαίας Μακεδονίας’
British School at Athens, Upper House 52 Souedias Street, Athens, GreeceDr Polyxeni Adam-Veleni (Director, General Directorate of Antiquities, Hellenic Ministry of Culture & Sports): 'Θεσσαλονίκη: μια μεγαλειώδης μητρόπολη της Αρχαίας Μακεδονίας'
Dancing with the Bull: Sir Arthur Evans and the palace of Knossos
The Knossos Research Centre Knossos, GreeceThe 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
British School at Athens, Upper House 52 Souedias Street, Athens, GreeceA. 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 […]
Philip Kenrick: Cyrenaica: A Greek Pentapolis – but so much more
Senate House (Room G22-26) Malet Street, London, United KingdomDr Philip Kenrick: Cyrenaica: A Greek Pentapolis - but so much more
Robert Pitt: ‘Early British Travellers to Athens and the Hunt for Inscriptions: Some Overlooked Epigraphic Manuscripts of the 17th and 18th Centuries’
British School at Athens, Upper House 52 Souedias Street, Athens, GreeceRobert 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, “Sacrificial rituals in the Mycenaean palatial centre of Kydonia (Khania, Crete)”
Senate House (Room 349) London, United KingdomMaria 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. […]
Peter Thonemann: “An eternal memorial of goodwill towards their kinsmen”: Abdera and Teos after the Third Macedonian War
The Institute of Historical Research/NHRF 48, Vasileos Constantinou Ave., Athens, GreeceProf. 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
British School at Athens, Upper House 52 Souedias Street, Athens, GreeceCraftspeople Mobility in the Archaeological, Historical and Ethnographic Record – A Comparative Perspective from the Aegean PROGRAMME ABSTRACTS
Ann Eldridge: Monemvasia: People, Place, Presence
British School at Athens, Upper House 52 Souedias Street, Athens, GreeceAnn Eldridge: Monemvasia: People, Place, Presence
Amica silentia lunae
British School at Athens, Villa Ariadne Knossos, GreeceThe 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 […]
Erotokritos: για μια αγάπη άδολη
British School at Athens, Villa Ariadne Knossos, GreeceThe 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
Thrapsano Crete, GreeceEarth 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
British School at Athens, Upper House Garden Souedias 52, Athens, GreeceAnnual Garden Party
Margaret Mountford, “Papyrology: is anything new under the sun?”
British Academy, Lecture Hall , United KingdomDr 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, “Being Close to, with or Amongst: other ways of Knowing the Archive”
British School at Athens, Upper House 52 Souedias Street, Athens, GreeceOnyeka 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, “Assessment of the clayey raw material suitability for ceramic production in Northern Peloponnese”
American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Wiener Laboratory 54 Souidias Street, Athens, GreeceVayia Xanthopoulou & Ioannis Iliopoulos (Department of Geology, University of Patras), "Assessment of the clayey raw material suitability for ceramic production in Northern Peloponnese"
George Boys-Stones, “The Rationality of the Stoic God”
Professor George Boys-Stones (University of Durham), "The Rationality of the Stoic God"
Chryssanthi Papadopoulou, “Exorcising Fear: Ritual Performances in Classical Athens”
British School at Athens, Upper House 52 Souedias Street, Athens, GreeceDr Chryssanthi Papadopoulou (BSA Assistant Director), "Exorcising Fear: Ritual Performances in Classical Athens"
Lambrini Rori, “Political violence in crisis-ridden Greece. Evidence from the radical right and the radical left”
British School at Athens, Upper House 52 Souedias Street, Athens, GreeceDr Lambrini Rori (BSA Early Career Fellow / University of Exeter), "Political violence in crisis-ridden Greece. Evidence from the radical right and the radical left"
Popular Music of the Greek World Conference
British School at Athens, Upper House 52 Souedias Street, Athens, GreeceThe 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
Wolfson Auditorium, The British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AHPetrie, 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 - […]
Celeste Farge, “The Society of Dilettanti’s Second Ionian Mission: William Gell’s journals at the British School at Athens and the British Museum”
British School at Athens, Upper House 52 Souedias Street, Athens, GreeceSketchbooks 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 […]
Ioanna Moutafi, “Another Keros mystery: exploring the unusual burial choices at the Early Cycladic island of Keros”
Senate House (Room 349) Malet Street, London, United KingdomDr Ioanna Moutafi, "Another Keros mystery: exploring the unusual burial choices at the Early Cycladic island of Keros"
Charlotte Van Regenmortel, “Warriors into workers: Military service as wage labour in the Late Classical and Early Hellenistic periods”
British School at Athens, Upper House 52 Souedias Street, Athens, GreeceCharlotte 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"
Colin Macdonald, “Tradition and Innovation in the Protopalatial and Neopalatial Architecture of Knossos”
British School at Athens, Upper House 52 Souedias Street, Athens, GreeceDr Colin Macdonald, "Tradition and Innovation in the Protopalatial and Neopalatial Architecture of Knossos”
Glynis Jones, “The origin and spread of agriculture: what do the plants have to say? “
British School at Athens, Upper House 52 Souedias Street, Athens, GreeceProf. Glynis Jones (BSA Fitch Visiting Fellow / University of Sheffield), "The origin and spread of agriculture: what do the plants have to say? "
The British School at Athens and its work in 2018
University of St. Andrews, Swallowgate, Room S11 St. Andrews, United KingdomThe British School at Athens and its work in 2018 - Speakers: John Bennet, Huw Halstead and Daniel Knight
Christina Ichim, “Dying to connect: a mortuary approach to southern Aegean connectivity in the middle and late Bronze Age”
British School at Athens, Upper House 52 Souedias Street, Athens, GreeceChristina Ichim (BSA Richard Bradford McConnel Student / PhD candidate, UCL), "Dying to connect: a mortuary approach to southern Aegean connectivity in the middle and late Bronze Age"
Jonathan Hall, “Chasing the shadows of the past in Late Ottoman Argos.”
British School at Athens, Upper House 52 Souedias Street, Athens, GreeceProf. Jonathan Hall (University of Chicago), “Chasing the shadows of the past in Late Ottoman Argos.”
Gonda Van Steen, “Adoption, Memory, and Cold War Greece”
British School at Athens, Library 52 Souedias Street, Athens, GreeceProfessor Gonda Van Steen (King’s College London), "Adoption, Memory, and Cold War Greece"
Ricardo Fernandes, “Integrating isotopic, archaeological, and historical evidence for high-quality reconstruction of past human lifeways”
American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Wiener Laboratory 54 Souidias Street, Athens, GreeceDr. Ricardo Fernandes, (Head of Radiocarbon Lab, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History Research Associate, University of Oxford; Associate Professor, Masaryk University), Integrating isotopic, archaeological, and historical evidence for high-quality reconstruction of past human lifeways (diet, nutrition, mobility, and chronology) from the Greek Bronze Age to the collapse of the Roman Empire
Angela Trentacoste, “Of cattle and connectivity: investigating the morphometric change in ancient livestock”
American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Wiener Laboratory 54 Souidias Street, Athens, GreeceAngela Trentacoste, “Of cattle and connectivity: investigating the morphometric change in ancient livestock”
Sarah Broadie, “Putting mathematics in its place in Plato’s Republic”
British School at Athens, Upper House 52 Souedias Street, Athens, GreeceProfessor Sarah Broadie (University of St. Andrews), "Putting mathematics in its place in Plato’s Republic" The discussion will centre on two questions: (a) what to make of the inferiority of mathematics to dialectic (the main locus for this is the Divided Line in Book VI)? And (b) what is the real purpose of the mathematical […]
Ο Sir Arthur Evans, ο Μεγάλος Πόλεμος και η ειρήνευση του μινωικού πολιτισμού
British School at Athens, Upper House 52 Souedias Street, Athens, GreeceΟ Sir Arthur Evans, ο Μεγάλος Πόλεμος και η ειρήνευση του μινωικού πολιτισμού ( British School at Athens, Upper House, workshop between 3.00 pm - 6.15 pm and at 8.30 pm the concert will take place at the Olympia Municipal Music Theatre Maria Callas)
Sarah Broadie, “What has Plato’s Divided Line to do with his Sun-image of the good?”
Elli Lambridis Philosophical Library Athens, GreeceProfessor Sarah Broadie (University of St Andrews), "What has Plato's Divided Line to do with his Sun-image of the good?" We know from the text that there is a close connection, but Plato leaves us with the task of working out exactly what it is. The explanation involves (of course) the so called dialectical method, […]
Ruth Macrides, Byzantium and Modern Greece in Scotland
Senate House (Room G22-26) Malet Street, London, United KingdomDr Ruth Macrides, Byzantium and Modern Greece in Scotland
The Work of the School in 2018 and lecture by Roderick Beaton “1919: Venizelos’ Asia Minor policy revisited”
Archaeological Society 22 Panepistimiou Street, Athens, GreeceThe Work of the School in 2018 by Professor John Bennet (Director, BSA) and lecture by Professor Roderick Beaton (King's College London), "1919: Venizelos' Asia Minor policy revisited" - One hundred years ago this year, in on 2/15 May 1919, Greek troops landed in Smyrna. For many the event was a vindication of Venizelos’s policies […]
The Work of the School in 2018 and lecture by Roderick Beaton “Ο Λόρδος Μπάιρον και η Ελληνική Επανάσταση: από τον θρύλο στην πολιτική πραγματικότητα”
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Cast Gallery Thessaloniki, GreeceThe Work of the School in 2018 by Professor John Bennet (Director, BSA) and lecture by Professor Roderick Beaton (King's College London) "Ο Λόρδος Μπάιρον και η Ελληνική Επανάσταση: από τον θρύλο στην πολιτική πραγματικότητα" - The heroic legend of Byron’s voluntary self-sacrifice is well known. But what was his real contribution to the Greek […]
Judith Barringer, “The message is in the medium: White-ground lekythoi and stone grave markers in Classical Athens.”
British School at Athens, Upper House 52 Souedias Street, Athens, GreeceProf. Judith Barringer (University of Edinburgh), “The message is in the medium: White-ground lekythoi and stone grave markers in Classical Athens.” Video
Gerald J. Conlogue, “Field Radiography: Non-Traditional Applications of Medical and Industrial Radiography”
American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Wiener Laboratory 54 Souidias Street, Athens, GreeceProfessor Gerald J. Conlogue (Bioanthropology Research Institute, Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut), "Field Radiography: Non-Traditional Applications of Medical and Industrial Radiography"
The Work of the School in 2018 and lecture by Colin Renfrew and Michael Boyd “The sanctuary on Keros and the settlement of Dhaskalio in the light of recent research”
British Academy (London) 10 Carlton House Terrace, London, United KingdomThe Work of the School in 2018 by Professor John Bennet (Director, BSA) and lecture by Professor Lord Colin Renfrew and Dr Michael Boyd (University of Cambridge) "The sanctuary on Keros and the settlement of Dhaskalio in the light of recent research"
Rosemary Jeffreys, “Gilded wreaths from Phoinikas, Thessaloniki”
Senate House (Room G22-26) Malet Street, London, United KingdomMs Rosemary Jeffreys (University of Oxford), "Gilded wreaths from Phoinikas, Thessaloniki" Ms Jeffreys will present some unpublished gilded wreaths from Phoinikas, Thessaloniki, which date to the second quarter of the fourth century BC. These wreaths are in an extraordinary state of preservation, having been placed in a sealed cist grave, in which even some textiles […]
Sevasti Triantaphyllou, “Bodies on fire: tracing the practice of burning the human remains in the prehistoric Aegean through macroscopic and analytical methods”
American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Wiener Laboratory 54 Souidias Street, Athens, GreeceDr Sevasti Triantaphyllou (Assistant Professor, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), "Bodies on fire: tracing the practice of burning the human remains in the prehistoric Aegean through macroscopic and analytical methods"
Dimitris Plantzos, Classical Encounters: Past and present in contemporary Greece
British School at Athens, Upper House 52 Souedias Street, Athens, GreeceProfessor Dimitris Plantzos (Associate Professor, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens), "Classical Encounters: Past and present in contemporary Greece" (How does Greece's famed Classical antiquity shape the country's present? Why is this happening? And what is its impact on the forging of modern Greek socila and cultural identities? Dimitris Plantzos will explore these questions using […]
Translations. Modern Greek literature through a translator’s lens
British School at Athens, Upper House 52 Souedias Street, Athens, GreeceTranslations. Modern Greek literature through a translator's lens - Prof. Roderick Beaton (King's College London), Prof. Patricia Barbeito (Rhode Island School of Design), Prof. Dionysis Kapsalis (poet, Director, National Bank of Greece Cultural Foundation), Alicia Stallings (poet and translator), Aris Laskaratos (Founder, Aiora Press)
Edyta Marzec, “Provenance and Technology of Hellenistic Colour-coated Ware Pottery from Nea Paphos on Cyprus”
American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Wiener Laboratory 54 Souidias Street, Athens, GreeceDr Edyta Marzec (Post Doctoral Research Fellow, BSA Fitch Laboratory), "Provenance and Technology of Hellenistic Colour-coated Ware Pottery from Nea Paphos on Cyprus"
Dimitris Plantzos, “Mind the gap: revisiting Greece’s national “sites of trauma”
British School at Athens, Upper House 52 Souedias Street, Athens, GreeceProf. Dimitris Plantzos (University of Athens), "Mind the gap: revisiting Greece’s national “sites of trauma”
Lorrice Douglas, “The Value of Fragments”
British School at Athens, Upper House 52 Souedias Street, Athens, GreeceLorrice Douglas is an artist and researcher at Chelsea College of Art, University of the Arts London. She will be giving a talk on her recent residency at the British School at Athens, raising the particularities of entering the archaeological scholarly community as an artist and how those two worlds meet.
Evangelia Kiriatzi & Maria Duggan “The British School at Athens and the work of the Fitch Laboratory: linking Britain and the Mediterranean”
Newcastle University, Armstrong Building, Room 2.16 Newcastle, United KingdomEvangelia Kiriatzi (Fitch Lab Director, BSA) & Maria Duggan (BA PDF, Newcastle & BSA), "The British School at Athens and the work of the Fitch Laboratory: linking Britain and the Mediterranean" Dr Evangelia Kiriatzi will first provide an overview of the history and operation of the British School at Athens and its role in promoting and facilitating […]