Panel Discussion – Committee for Society, Arts & Letters
Translation and the sound of ancient Greek music: The second of two panel discussions exploring how the sounds of Greek poetry influence their modern translation into both words and music.
Upper House Seminars
Prof John Bennet, “Never the twain shall meet: reflections on text and image in Minoan Crete”
The world of Neopalatial Crete was visually rich; it was also a literate world. Yet these two categories, as we define them, never combine in the same field.
Dr Stamatoula Panagakou, “Aspects of the Political Philosophy of the British Idealist Philosopher Bernard Bosanquet”
Bernard Bosanquet (1848-1923) was one of the most important British Idealist philosophers. Author of numerous books which cover topics from logic, metaphysics and aesthetics to ethics, religion and political philosophy…
Professor Amy Smith “Redressing Aphrodite on Sir William Hamilton’s Meidias hydria”
In anticipation of the Meidias hydria’s first return to Athens since its unspecified journey to Etruscan shores in antiquity, Professor Smith reevaluates the message of the Meidias hydria, with a focus on its central figure…
Richard Clogg, “Cousins and allies?: the Special Operations Executive and the Office of Strategic Services in Greece”
SOE, the Special Operations Executive, was established in July 1940 when Britain’s fortunes, following the Dunkirk evacuation, were at their lowest ebb. It is sometimes suggested that Britain at this juncture stood alone against the might of the Axis but Britain was able to call on the resources of the
Minoan Seminar, “The three West Court Kouloures at Knossos: between the First and Second Palace periods”
The main aim of this seminar is to discuss the ceramic material from Evans’s stone-lined rubbish pits’ deposits, i.e. the Kouloures Deposits, which have been published to some extent in MacGillivray’s book Knossos Pottery Groups of the Old Palace Period (1998). The three West Court Kouloures were constructed….
The Treaty of Lausanne (1923) and its impact on the Muslim population of Crete
More than any other population group, the Muslims who left Crete epitomise the trauma and paradoxes of the 1923 population exchange. They were intensely attached to the island, monoglot in Greek, and shared a material culture with their Christian neighbours. While thousands of Muslims had already left the island in the preceding decades…
Joshua Whitaker, Artist Researcher in Residence: ‘Acid History‘
Acid History’ is neither a record of psychedelic culture nor a catalogue of LSD experience. ‘Acid’ is deployed within the seminar, as Jeremy Gilbert has theorised it, as an adjective— a term that is both mystical in its practice and adamant in its materialism…
Revolutionising the archives: The BSA George Finlay collection, the Greek Revolution and the digital condition
Michalis Sotiropoulos (BSA 1821 Fellow in Modern Greek Studies) Abstract: To what extent can the digital transformation of an archive enhance, or even change, our understanding of Philhellenism and its […]
Looking at Byzantium through materials: the case of stucco (ca 850-1453)
In 1890, Robert W. Schultz and Sydney Barnsley spent two months at the monastery of Hosios Loukas, documenting the byzantine remains of the monastery on behalf …