British School

Sir John Boardman, the eminent British classical archaeologist and art historian, often hailed as "Britain's most distinguished historian of ancient Greek art," has passed away at the age of 96.

Oxford University's Foteini Dimirouli will be conducting an online seminar on "C.P. Cavafy in the World: Origins, Trajectories and the Diasporic Poet," hosted by the British School at Athens, on February 1, starting at 7 p.m. local time.

University of Oxford professor emeritus of ancient history Robert Parker has been invited by the British School at Athens to deliver a lecture on "New Discoveries and New Problems in Greek Religion," on Tuesday, December 8, at 7 p.m. Greek time.

The British School at Athens presents a virtual lecture with Dr Carrie Sawtell (BSA, Macmillan-Rodewald Student), on the use of the epithet χρηστὸς / χρηστή when used in 4th century BC Attic epitaphs to denote the servile status of the deceased in the broader context of master-slave relationships. The lecture will take place on June 8 at 8 p.m. local time on Zoom.

The Archaeological Collection of Koufonissi, housed near the island's port, presents a selection of fascinating finds from excavations carried out by the British School at Athens and the University of Cambridge for more than a decade on the nearby islet of Daskalio, once a promontory of Keros, where they discovered the remains of Early Cycladic (3,200-2,100 BC) settlements.

Dr Lamprini Rori, an early career fellow at the British School at Athens and a lecturer in politics at the University of Exeter in the UK, will be speaking on the subject of "Political Violence in Crisis-ridden Greece: Evidence from the Radical Right and the Radical Left" at the BSA on Monday, May 20. The lecture starts at 7 p.m. and admission is free of charge.

Diana Wardle presents a series of experimental reproductions of Aegean clothing worn in the Late Bronze Age, produced with the same kind of materials and traditional methods used during the period, at the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki.

University of Sheffield Professor Glynis Jones will be delivering the Marc & Ismene Fitch Laboratory annual lecture at the British School at Athens on Monday, May 6, at 7 p.m.

The Culture Ministry Thursday announced the discovery of an "exceptionally important" Early Bronze Age settlement on the islet of Daskalio off the coast of Keros in the Cyclades group of islands during the Keros-Naxos Seaways research program - a four-year project being conducted by the British School at Athens and the University of Cambridge and directed by Colin Renfrew and Michael Boyd.

"Adoption, Memory and Cold War Greece" is the subject of a lecture that Gonda Van Steen, a professor at King's College, London, will deliver at the British School library on Wednesday, April 3. Van Steen is the Koraes Chair of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and Literature, and director of the Center for Hellenic Studies. The Athens lecture starts at 7 p.m.