BSA Friends' Lecture

Nikos Daskalothanasis, “The first educational art institution in Greece: the history of the Athens School of Fine Arts”

British School at Athens, Upper House 52 Souedias Street, Athens, Greece

BSA Friends' lecture Professor Nikos Daskalothanasis (Athens School of Fine Arts), "Το πρώτο ίδρυμα καλλιτεχνικής εκπαίδευσης στην Ελλάδα: η ιστορία της Ανωτάτης Σχολής Καλών Τεχνών της Αθήνας" Please note: the lecture will take place in Greek Abstract: The aim of the lecture is to reconstruct the history of the first educational artistic institution of the […]

Pamela Armstrong, “The Two Castles of Torone”

Senate House (Room 261) London, United Kingdom

  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 […]

Paul Halstead, “The importance of olive growing and oil exports in Archaic-Classical Athens: the contribution of ‘citizen science’”

Senate House (Room 261) London, United Kingdom

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 […]