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Polyxeni Adam-Veleni, “Thessaloniki, a Metro-polis through the centuries”

Senate House (Room 349) Malet Street, London, United Kingdom

Dr Polyxeni Adam-Veleni (Director General of Antiquities and Cultural Heritage, Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports),  "Thessaloniki, a Metro-polis through the centuries" During excavations of the Metropolitan Railway in modern Thessaloniki, significant antiquities in seven stops emerged. A new, unknown until now, town nearby, an unknown Roman cemetery of a rich village, many burials in the […]

Lorrice Douglas, “The Value of Fragments”

British Academy (London) 10 Carlton House Terrace, London, United Kingdom

Lorrice Douglas (BSA Arts Bursary holder 2017/18), will give a talk on "The Value of Fragments" Lorrice is an artist and researcher at Chelsea College of Art, University of the Arts London. She will be talking about her recent residency at the British School at Athens, raising the particularities of entering the archaeological scholarly community as […]

Phiroze Vasunia, “The Prose of the World: Hegel, Plutarch, Herodotus”

National Hellenic Research Foundation 48, Vasileos Constantinou Ave., Athens, Greece

Prof. Phiroze Vasunia (University College London) in collaboration with the National Hellenic Research Foundation and the Institute of Classical Studies In many cultures, prose comes after verse. Masters of Greek prose such as Herodotus and Plato were acutely self-conscious of the poets and poems that preceded them and they sought to fashion a medium that […]

Philip Mansel, “Alexandria, from Mohammed Ali to Farouk: the rise and fall of a royal capital”

British School at Athens, Upper House 52 Souedias Street, Athens, Greece

Dr Philip Mansel (author and historian), "Alexandria, from Mohammed Ali to Farouk: the rise and fall of a royal capital" Dr Philip Mansel considers the modern history of Alexandria between 1805 and 1952 from the point of the dynasty which ruled it, the House of Mohammed Ali, rather than from that of its Egyptian or […]

MANIAS: modern desires for Greek pasts

British Academy 10-11 Carlton House, London, United Kingdom

A panel discussion with Prof Liz Prettejohn (York), Prof Nicoletta Momigliano (Bristol), Dr Katherine Harloe (Reading), Dr Andrew Shapland (British Museum), and Dr Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis (St. Andrews). Why do we engage with the Greek past? Building on the recent BSA publications of Cretomania (2017) and Hellenomania (2018), this panel brings together specialists on Greek material […]

Dimitris Papanikolaou, “Critically queer and haunted: on how (not) to do the history of Greek (homo)sexuality”

British School at Athens, Upper House 52 Souedias Street, Athens, Greece

Prof. Dimitris Papanikolaou (University of Oxford), "Critically queer and haunted: on how (not) to do the history of Greek (homo)sexuality" ABSTRACT - Developing a history of modern Greek queer emergence and homosexual subcultures has always been a challenge. While for many outside Greece the country has always been quite queer anyway (and for many travelers, […]

Annual Garden Party

British School at Athens 52 Souedias Street, Athens, Greece

Annual Garden Party

British School at Athens 52 Souedias Street, Athens, Greece