Events Calendar – British School at Athens
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 Work of the British School at Athens in 2024
Professor Rebecca Sweetman
BSA Director
BSA Director
The coastal world of Minoan Palaikastro
Professor Carl Knappett
Department of Art History, University of Toronto
Lying on the eastern tip of Crete, the coastal Minoan site of Palaikastro would appear to be a prime location for a trading entrepôt. But how connected was Palaikastro with the rest of the island, the wider Aegean, and beyond? This presentation will reflect on the changing status of the site over the two millennia of its Bronze Age occupation, drawing both on recent work and the long legacy of BSA scholarship dating back to 1902.
Carl Knappett has held the Walter Graham/Homer Thompson Chair in Aegean Prehistory at the University of Toronto since 2008. His interests range from network methods and theories of materiality to the intersections of art history with archaeology. His main specialism is pottery analysis, having studied and published ceramic assemblages from Crete, the Cyclades, and Anatolia. He has directed fieldwork at the east Cretan site of Palaikastro since 2012. In 2024 he was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship for a new book project on containers and containment.
When: 11 February @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm EET
Where: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Cast Gallery – Thessaloniki –