Thanks to a European Union grant, one of Joannes Gennadius's scrapbooks with images from the Balkan wars is now available on the web.
The following lectures were presented by the School during the 2012–2013 academic year (October–April) and earlier. They are listed in order of presentation, most recent first. All lectures run approximately 60 minutes unless otherwise noted.
For Live video streaming from Cotsen Hall click here:
http://www.ascsa.edu.gr/index.php/about/livestream
The ASCSA is able to share videocasts of presentations in Cotsen Hall to a worldwide audience thanks to the generosity of the Paul and Alexandra Canellopoulos Foundation, Mr. Lloyd E. Cotsen and Mrs. Margit Cotsen, and Alexander E. Zagoreos.
April 2013
"Presentation of the Elias Venezis Archive"
Anna Venezi Kosmetatou (Venezis' daughter), Takis Theodoropoulos (Writer), Demetra Papaconstantinou (Demos Fellow) and Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogan (Doreen Canaday Spitzer Archivist) will present the Elias Venezis' archive.
April 9, 2013
"St. Luke and the Icon of the Virgin Kykkotissa in Cyprus"
Annemarie Weyl Carr, Southern Methodist University
April 2, 2013
March 2013
"Αρχείο Κωνσταντίνου Βοβολίνη - Μεγάλο Ελληνικό Βιογραφικό Λεξικό"
Stathis Kalyvas, Kostas Kostis, Antonis Papagiannidis
March 11, 2013
"ATHENS OPEN MEETING - The American School of Classical Studies at Athens - 2013"
James C. Wright, Director, American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Jeremy Rutter, AIA Gold Medalist 2013
March 8, 2013
February 2013
"Ο Ιωάννης Γεννάδιος και οι καλές τέχνες"
Μαρία Γεωργοπούλου, Διευθύντρια Γενναδείου Βιβλιοθήκης
February 20, 2013
"Mapping the Jewish Communities of the Byzantine Empire: A New Web-Based Resource”
Nicholas de Lange, Professor Emeritus of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University of Cambridge
February 13, 2013
"Brute Force Philology? Text Mining the Classics”
Helma Dik, (University of Chicago and ASCSA Whitehead Professor)
February 12, 2013
January 2013
"Vassilis Aravantinos, More Sphinxes and Puzzles from Mycenaean- Palatial Thebes”
Vassilis Aravantinos, Επίτιμος Έφορος Αρχαιοτήτων Βοιωτίας
January 22, 2013
"George Mavrogordatos and Ayhan T. Aktar, “The 1923 Exchange of Populations. An Ongoing Debate”"
George Mavrogordatos, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, and Ayhan T. Aktar, Istanbul Bilgi University
January 15, 2013
December 2012
"“The Norton Anthology of Greek Poetry: Translations, Anthologies and their Critical Excess”"
Karen Van Dyck, Fulbright Fellow and Professor at Columbia University
December 11, 2012
"Mapping the Ancient Environment: The Contribution of Manuscripts and Texts"
Alain Touwaide, Smithsonian Institution
December 3, 2012
November 2012
"Picturing Anatolia: The Photographs of John Henry Haynes"
Robert Ousterhout, University of Pennsylvania
November 27, 2012
"Archaeology, the longue durée, and regional histories: 5,000 years of settlement in the Nemea Valley"
James C. Wright, American School of Classical Studies
November 19, 2012
October 2012
“1453: How Important Was It?”
Molly Greene, Princeton University
October 30, 2012
The Age of Titans: Great Ships of the Hellenistic Monarchs
William Murray, University of South Florida
October 16, 2012
Αρχαία Κόρινθος,Φενεός,Τενέα: Tα πρόσφατα ευρήματα Κωνσταντίνος Κίσσας
Κωνσταντίνος Κίσσας, ΛΖ’ ΕΠΚΑ
October 2, 2012
May 2012
Archives Lecture
“Our Complicity in this Classical Looting: Triangulating the Past at Sardis, 1922–1925.”
Fikret Yegül (University of California, Santa Barbara).
May 29, 2012
Walton Lecture - Henry Maguire (Johns Hopkins University). “Nectar and Illusion: Art, Nature, and Rhetoric in Byzantium.”
Henry Maguire (Johns Hopkins University)
May 8, 2012
Nancy Bookidis (Assistant Director Emerita, Corinth Excavations, ASCSA) “Corinth: A Portrait of an Idiosyncratic Greek City”
Nancy Bookidis (Assistant Director Emerita, Corinth Excavations, ASCSA)
May 22, 2012
Artemis Cooper “Patrick Leigh Fermor in Greece.”
Artemis Cooper (Biographer)
May 24, 2012
April 2012
Malcolm H. Wiener Lecture
Michael D. Glascock (University of Missouri-Columbia). “Chemistry and Provenance: Production and Exchange of Ceramics from Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean.”
Michael D. Glascock (University of Missouri-Columbia)
April 24, 2012
Joanita Vroom (University of Amsterdam). “Mr. Turkey Goes to Turkey. How a Dutch Diplomat Wined and Dined in 18th-century Constantinople.”
Joanita Vroom, University of Amsterdam
April 3, 2012
March 2012
Stathis Kalyvas (Yale University). “Αντίσταση και Εμφύλιος: Διερευνώντας μία δύσκολη διαπλοκή.”
Stathis Kalyvas, Yale University
March 13, 2012
OPEN MEETING - The American School of Classical Studies at Athens - 2012 Watch it Online!
Jack L. Davis (Director, American School of Classical Studies at Athens)
March 9, 2012
February 2012
Edward E. Cohen “Financial Crisis! Economic Lessons from Ancient Athens.”
Edward E. Cohen, University of Pennsylvania
February 7, 2012
January 2012
Glenn A. Peers “Forging Byzantine Animals: Manuel Philes in Renaissance France.”
Glenn A. Peers, University of Texas at Austin
January 31, 2012
Richard Hodges “An ‘Ice Age Settling on the Roman Empire”
Richard Hodges, University of Pennsylvania
December 13, 2011
November 2011
Vassilis Vassilikos (Author). “Λογοτεχνία και τεχνολογία.”
Vassilis Vassilikos (Author)
November 29, 2011
Björn Forsén (University of Helsinki). “Sanctuary of Secrets”
Bjorn Forsen, University of Helsinki
November 22, 2011
October 2011
Οδυσσέας Ελύτης. Στοιχεία μιας ποιητικής ταυτότητας
Ioulita Iliopoulou, Gennadious Library
October 18, 2011
Recent Prehistoric Finds at the Costa Navarino Resort in Messenia
Jörg Rambach (ΛΗ’ ΕΠΚΑ)
October 18, 2011
Exploring Greek Manuscripts in the Gennadius Library
Gennadius Library
October 11, 2011
April 2011
The Americans and the Greeks, 1949-1959: Intervention and Modernization
Evanthis Hatzivassiliou, University of Athens
April 12, 2011
Animals in the Agora: Reconstructing Cultural Life in Ancient Athens from Zooarchaeological Remains
Michael MacKinnon, University of Winnipeg
April 5, 2011
March 2011
30th Annual Walton Lecture: “Kings, Princes and Powers: Venizelos and Dilemmas of National Revival”
Sir Michael Llewellyn Smith, King’s College London
March 29, 2011
Open Meeting of the Work of the School / The Goddess and the Ancestors at Mochlos, Crete
Jack L. Davis, Director, ASCSA; Jeffrey S. Soles, University of North Carolina-Greensboro
(runs 1 hr. 50 min.)
March 11, 2011
Baldness in the Greek and Roman Imagination
Corey Brennan, Mellon Professor at the American Academy of Rome
March 1, 2011.
February 2011
New Excavations at Stobi 2009–2010
Silvana Blazevska, National Institution Stobi
February 22, 2011
Mycenaean Wall-Paintings in Context New Discoveries and Old Finds Reconsidered - WORKSHOP
2 - Day WORKSHOP (KERA)
February 12, 13, 2011
Telltale Depictions: A Contextual View of Mycenaean Wall-Paintings
John Bennet, University of Sheffield
February 11, 2011
January 2011
Η Ελλάδα του Ortelius μέσα από τους χάρτες της Συλλογής Σαμούρκα
George Tolias, National Hellenic Research Foundation
January 20, 2011
December 2010
Working in Cotton, Metal and Fayence: Ottoman Artisans in the Early Modern Age
Suraiya Faroqhi, Bilgi University, Istanbul
December 14, 2010
Exiles in Pisa, 1821. Mavrokordatos the Shelleys and the Greek Revolution
Roderick Beaton, King’s College London
December 8, 2010
Παλιές και νέες αρχαιολογικές ανακαλύψεις στη Μεσσηνία
Xeni Arapogianni, Directorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities, Kalamata
December 7, 2010
November 2010
The Quality of Life in Classical Antiquity
Walter Scheidel,Stanford University
November 23, 2010
October 2010
A Decent Burial: Commemoration and Community in Roman Corinth
Kathleen Slane, University of Missouri-Columbia
October 19, 2010
Οι Φαναριώτες και ο πρώιμος Διαφωτισμός (1680-1780)
Jacques Bouchard, Interuniversity Center for Neohellenic Studies of Montreal (Université de Montréal)
Phrixos B. Papachristidis, McGill University
October 12, 2010
Graphic Greeks: Ancient Greece in Three Comics Narratives
Apostolos Doxiades and Alekos Papadatos, Logicomix
Eric Shanower, Age of Bronze
October 5, 2010