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Hesperia 80.1 Now Online

Tracey Cullen
04/19/2011
Hesperia enters its 80th year of publication with issue 80.1. Articles include an excavation report from Azoria, Crete, an analysis of the ancient circuit wall of Athens, and a return visit to Thucydides and Pylos.

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Videocast: The Americans and the Greeks, 1949-1959


04/15/2011
On April 12, 2011, Evanthis Hatzivassiliou (University of Athens) delivered the Archives lecture, "The Americans and the Greeks, 1949-1959: Intervention and Modernization."

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Videocast: Animals in the Agora


04/08/2011
On April 5, 2011, Malcolm Wiener Visiting Research Professor Michael MacKinnon (University of Winnipeg) delivered the lecture, "Animals in the Agora: Reconstructing Cultural Life in Ancient Athens from Zooarchaeological Remains."

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Videocast: 30th Annual Walton Lecture


04/07/2011
On March 29, Sir Michael Llewellyn Smith, King’s College London, presented "Kings, Princes, and Powers: Venizelos and Dilemmas of National Revival" in Cotsen Hall.

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Corinth Excavations 2011 season begins


04/04/2011
On April 4, 2011 the excavation season began in Ancient Corinth.

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Videocast: Open Meeting 2011


04/01/2011
ASCSA Director Jack L. Davis gave an update of the activities of the School and affiliated excavations for the past year to a packed audience in Cotsen Hall on March 11 and again in Thessaloniki on March 17. Jeffrey Soles also gave the lecture, "The Goddess and the Ancestors at Mochlos, Crete." The March 11 meeting was the first time this event was broadcast live, allowing institutions and friends of the School in the U.S. and elsewhere to watch in real time.

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Videocast: Baldness in the Greek and Roman Imagination


03/25/2011
Are bald men smarter, more attractive, more accomplished on the battlefield?  Some ancient Greeks and Romans certainly thought so!  At least sometimes!  In a brisk and often humorous overview of ancient texts, Corey Brennan, Mellon Professor at the American Academy of Rome held his audience enthralled in his lecture "Baldness in the Greek and Roman Imagination" on March 1, 2011.

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New Research Interface for ASCSA.net


03/24/2011
A new web research interface is available on ASCSA.net, and tips on using the online database.

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John Camp Honored by the Society of Athenians


03/23/2011
Agora Excavations Director John McK. Camp II was honored on March 14th, 2011 by the Society of Athenians as a philhellene and for his many years of archaeological work in Athens.

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Annual Report Online


03/09/2011
The annual report for the School covering the years 2008-2009 and 2009-2010 has recently been published and is available online.

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Videocast: New Excavations at Stobi, 2009–2010


03/04/2011
On February 22, 2011, Silvana Blazevska of the National Institute of Stobi lectured on "New excavations at Stobi 2009–2010" in Cotsen Hall. Watch the lecture here.

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Hesperia 79.4 Now Online

Tracey Cullen
02/11/2011
The latest issue of Hesperia is now available!

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Aristomenes Arberores (1938-2011)


02/10/2011
Friend, mentor, and retired Foreman of the Corinth Excavations, Aristomenes Arberores passed away on February 10, 2011.

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Ancient Corinth Featured in Greek TV Series


01/31/2011
A new Greek series on SKAI-TV entitled 1821 features Corinth Excavations Director Guy Sanders discussing a 17th-18th c. Christian-Muslim cemetery on the Corinth site.

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Exhibition “Abraham Ortelius’ Greece. Maps from Margarita Samourka’s Collection”

Maria Smali
01/27/2011
Exhibition in the Basil Room of the Gennadius Library

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Videocast: Η Ελλάδα του Ortelius μέσα από τους χάρτες της Συλλογής Σαμούρκα


01/26/2011
Στις 20 Ιανουαρίου ο Γιώργος Τόλιας του Ινστιτούτου Νεοελληνικών Ερευνών του ΕΙΕ έδωσε διάλεξη στο Cotsen Hall με θέμα Η Ελλάδα του Ορτέλιου μέσα από τους χάρτες της Συλλογής Σαμούρκα.

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Details Announced for Alumni Week


01/26/2011
Come celebrate the School's 130th Anniversary! New details have been posted for Alumni Week in Greece, June 3–12, 2011.

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Schliemann’s Archaeological Diaries Now Available

Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogan
01/20/2011
Thanks to funding from the Institute for Aegean Prehistory, Schliemann's archaeological diaries (A 12, A 13, A 14, A15, and A 18) are now available electronically in the Archives.

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Crete in Transition (Hesperia Supplement 45) by Brice L. Erickson Now Available

Andrew Reinhard
01/12/2011
Crete in Transition: Pottery Styles and Island History in the Archaic and Classical Periods (Hesperia Supplement 45) by Brice L. Erickson debuted at the AIA Annual Meeting in San Antonio. Copies are now available for purchase via the David Brown Book Company and Oxbow Books.

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Videocast: Working in Cotton, Metal and Fayence: Ottoman Artisans in the Early Modern Age


01/06/2011
On December 14, 2010, Suraiya Faroqhi, prolific author and currently professor of history at Istanbul's Bilgi University, delivered a riveting lecture on crafts, textiles and guilds in the Ottoman Empire. Watch it here.

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