The remains of the two castles at Torone, photo by Teddy Catling Hybrid Friends' Lecture Dr Pamela Armstrong (University of Oxford), "The Two Castles of Torone" Abstract: 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 […]
Upper House Seminar Dr Jan Sienkiewicz (University of Cambridge/British Museum/BSA), "Islands Between Palaces: The ‘Mycenaean’ Civilisation Reconsidered" Abstract: 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’ […]
Annual Open Lectures 2025 Thessaloniki Please join us for the Annual Open Lectures of the British School at Athens on Tuesday 11th February 2025 at 7 p.m. which will be held in-person only. The lecture will take place in the Cast Gallery of the Faculty of Philosophy, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. The […]
Annual Open Lectures 2025 Athens Please join us for the Annual Open Lectures of the British School at Athens on Thursday 13th February 2025 at 7 p.m. which will be held in-person only at the Archaeological Society (Lecture Hall), 22 Panepistimiou Street. The Work of the British School at Athens in 2024 […]
Annual Open Lectures 2025 London Please join us for the Annual Open Lectures of the British School at Athens on Tuesday 18th February 2024 at 5.30 pm which will be held in-person only at the British Academy, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AH. credit Kostas Mantziaris The following lectures will be presented, with Professor […]
Artemis holding two long torches, 4th century B.C., Megara. National Archaeological Museum of Athens. NM 4540. Photo by George E. Koronaios (22 July 2018) via Wikimedia Commons, shared under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 licence. Visiting Fellow Lecture Dr Theodora Jim (University of Nottingham), "Thinking through Greek and Chinese gods from a comparative perspective" In-person only […]
Upper House Seminar Lady Marina Marks in conversation with Bruce Clark, "The Uses of Oppression: The Ottoman Empire through its Greek Newspapers, 1830–1862" Lady Marks and Bruce Clark will discuss the research for her recently published book The Uses of Oppression: The Ottoman Empire through its Greek Newspapers, 1830–1862 (Harvard University Press, 2024). Abstract: During […]
Elderly olive trees growing on the edge of an agricultural terrace, Kythera, photo: Dr Valasia Isaakidou Hybrid Friends' Lecture Professor Paul Halstead (Professor Emeritus, University of Sheffield), “The importance of olive growing and oil exports in Archaic-Classical Athens: the contribution of 'citizen science'” Abstract: Scholars have long argued about how ‘primitive’ or ‘modern’ was the […]
