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Annual Open Lectures of the British School at Athens on Tuesday 18th February 2025 held at the British Academy
The Work of the BSA: 2025 Annual Open Lecture Athens – The Coastal World of Minoan Palaikastro
Annual Open Lectures of the British School at Athens, Thursday 13th February 2025, the Archaeological Society (Lecture Hall), 22 Panepistimiou Street, Athens.
Jan Sienkiewicz, “Islands Between Palaces: The ‘Mycenaean’ Civilisation Reconsidered”
According to the dominant scholarly narrative, after the collapse of the Neopalatial civilisation, the Aegean societies underwent the so-called ‘Mycenaeanisation’, as the regional centre of cultural, economic, and political influence shifted from ‘Minoan’ Crete to the ‘Mycenaean’ southern Greek mainland. This narrative, however...
Dr Pamela Armstrong, “The Two Castles of Torone”
Torone sits on a headland at the southern tip of the Sithonia peninsula in the Chalkidiki on the north coast of Greece. From the headland it is possible to see eastwards beyond Athos...
David Ricks, “Poetry between Languages: Writing and Translating Poetry in English and Greek”
This hybrid panel session, held on 20 January 2025 at the British School at Athens, takes as its starting point With Signs Following (Reading: Two Rivers Press 2024) the newly published poetry collection of David Ricks (Professor Emeritus, King’s College London). The two-hour-long session starts at 17:00 (Greek time) and will be chaired by Professor Sir Roderick Beaton, Chair of the BSA Council. The speakers are...
Professor Islam Issa, “The Alexandrian dream”
Islam Issa is an award-winning author, broadcaster and curator, named by the BBC as ‘one of the UK’s most significant new thinkers’. He is Professor of Literature and History at Birmingham City University, has written several academic books and curated internationally renowned exhibitions. He writes regularly for BBC History Magazine and...
Experience a different side of Athens: landscapes, cityscapes and soundscapes that explore the city’s industrial legacy at Technopolis City of Athens (and beyond).
A video-essay containing immersive documentaries that explore visual connections between industrial architecture, antiquity and traditions...
In this lecture, Dimitris Plantzos examines the complex interplay between archaeology and nationalist imagination in Southeastern Europe. Focusing on the construction of ancestral narratives, he explores how modern nations...
The Work of the BSA: 2025 Annual Open Lecture London – The Moving Van of Metaphor: An Anglophone poet, translator, and classicist in Greece
The Work of the BSA: 2025 Annual Open Lecture Athens – The Coastal World of Minoan Palaikastro
Jan Sienkiewicz, “Islands Between Palaces: The ‘Mycenaean’ Civilisation Reconsidered”
Dr Pamela Armstrong, “The Two Castles of Torone”
David Ricks, “Poetry between Languages: Writing and Translating Poetry in English and Greek”
Professor Islam Issa, “The Alexandrian dream”
Filming Archaeology in Hellas: Technopolis City of Athens (and beyond) – Produced and presented by Dr. Gordon Davies
Professor Dimitris Plantzos, “Greeks, Macedonians, Thracians, and a few others: Inventing the Ancestors in Southeastern Europe