Videos – Page 4 – British School at Athens

January 20, 2025

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…

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December 17, 2024

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…

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November 25, 2024

BYRON @200: Poets, Patriots & Philhellenes

A collective reading curated by poet, playwright and literary translator, Ginger F. Zaimis, in conjunction with the British School Athens and BSA Friends that presents a selection of poets, writers & history keepers in celebration of Lord Byron and the 200th anniversary of his death. The series of short talks, readings and poetry…

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November 18, 2024

Dr Sergios Menelaou, “From ceramic islandscapes to mobility dynamics in the Late Chalcolithic-Early Bronze Age northeast Aegean”

The geo-cultural region of the northeast Aegean, encompassing the Greek islands and the western Anatolian coast, is crucial to understanding the dynamics of the Late Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age (EBA), a period characterised by extensive cultural, social, and technological interactions and transformations. This lecture presents…

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