Video Gallery
Stephen Duckworth, “Nineteenth century travellers in Crete – Edward Lear, Pashley and Spratt”
Whilst Western travellers to the newly independent Greece in the 19th century after independence were often critical of the performance and effectiveness of the new government, travel in Crete was very different. It was still under Ottoman rule after...
Since the earliest days of modern travel to Greece, landscape and the rural environment have been an object of fascination among foreign visitors. A preoccupation with ancient ‘topography’ and ‘picturesque’ views are familiar tropes in images produced by travellers, and the nostalgic sense that rural Greece offers....
Prof. Gelina Harlaftis (IMS/FORTH), Onassis Business History, 1924-1975
Aristotle Onassis is the most famous shipowner of the 20th century, the archetype and image of the shipowning magnate, the symbol of Greek enterprise on a global scale. He created the shipping business of the new global era, which...
This lecture presents a synopsis of my doctoral thesis that aimed to examine the architectural and depositional complexity of the best documented tholos cemeteries in south-central Crete during...
In the corpus of inscriptions from Delos during the Second Athenian Domination (167/6 – 88 BCE), we come across various formal and informal groups associated with the island’s athletic education institutions.
Prof Kostas Kotsakis, “A solar flare in 5259 BCE solves the Dispilio riddle”
Dispilio by Kastoria Lake is Greece’s first systematically excavated wetland site. It contains waterlogged wooden piles, C14 dated to the 6th millennium BCE at a density of almost 1000 piles per 500 square metres.
Tina Rowe, Artist in Residence Talk
UAL Research Resident Artist Tina Rowe will talk about the residency and the ways that this experience has evolved her approach to her PhD.
Stephen Duckworth, “Nineteenth century travellers in Crete – Edward Lear, Pashley and Spratt”
Sebastian Marshall, “Beyond the Classical Landscape: Photographs of Rural Greece from the SPHS Image Collection”
Prof. Gelina Harlaftis (IMS/FORTH), Onassis Business History, 1924-1975
Dr Flora Michelaki, “The tholos cemeteries in south-central Crete and their social implications during Pre- and Protopalatial periods”
Dr Matthew Evans (Warwick/BSA), “Group Identity, Representation, and the Gymnasium on Late Hellenistic Delos”
Prof Kostas Kotsakis, “A solar flare in 5259 BCE solves the Dispilio riddle”
Tina Rowe, Artist in Residence Talk
Panel Discussion – Committee for Society, Arts & Letters