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
Past Events – Page 7 – British School at Athens
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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 […]
Polyxeni Adam-Veleni, “Thessaloniki, a Metro-polis through the centuries”
Senate House (Room 349) Malet Street, London, United KingdomDr 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 […]
Leandro Fantuzzi, “Revisiting the origin of the Punic Amphorae from Corinth’s ‘Punic Amphora Building'”
American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Wiener Laboratory 54 Souidias Street, Athens, GreeceDr Leandro Fantuzzi (Fitch Laboratory, British School at Athens), “Revisiting the origin of the Punic Amphorae from Corinth's 'Punic Amphora Building'. New evidence on trade networks between Classical Corinth and the Punic West”
Lorrice Douglas, “The Value of Fragments”
British Academy (London) 10 Carlton House Terrace, London, United KingdomLorrice 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, GreeceProf. 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, GreeceDr 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 KingdomA 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, GreeceProf. 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, […]
Book launch: Armand Marie Leroi, “The Lagoon: how Aristotle invented science”
British School at Athens, Upper House 52 Souedias Street, Athens, GreeceProf. Armand Marie Leroi (Imperial College London), "The Lagoon: how Aristotle invented science" Video
Storytelling Performance of the Odyssey by Hugh Lupton and Daniel Morden
British School at Athens, Upper House Garden Souedias 52, Athens, GreeceStorytelling Performance of the Odyssey by Hugh Lupton and Daniel Morden (co-organised with The Danish Institute at Athens)