Lecture Video Archive
The following lectures were presented by the School during the 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.
Live video streaming from Cotsen Hall
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.
September 2019
“Himera: Excavations in the Western Necropolis. The Common Graves of the Soldiers Fallen in the Battles of 480 and 409 BC”
Stefano Vassallo, Soprintendenza di Palermo
September 12, 2019
“Αναχρησιμοποίηση λίθων. Ναός Παναγίας Γοργοεπηκόου”
Manolis Korres, Academy of Athens
September 10, 2019
June 2019
"When Hollywood Came to Greece: Spyros Skouras and the Politics of Cine-Antiquity"
Konstantinos Nikoloutsos, Saint Joseph's University
June 25, 2019
"From Kallias to Kritias: Athens in the Second Half of the 5th Century"
International Conference
June 6-8, 2019
May 2019
"Destruction, Survival, and Economic Recovery in the Greek World (May 16-18)"
International Conference
May 16-18, 2019
"Dressing Empire: Ottoman Costume Albums and Transculturation"
Elisabeth Fraser, University of South Florida
May 28, 2019
April 2019
"Annual Open Meeting 2019"
"Work of the School" - Jenifer Neils, Director, ASCSA
"Αφιέρομα στις Εφορίες Αρχαιοτήτων" - Sylvian Fachard, Mellon Professor, ASCSA
"Shaping and Negotiating Sacred Terrain - The Sanctuary of The Great Gods on Samothrace", Bonna Wescoat, Emory University
April 19, 2019
"Echoes of the Classics - A Voice and Piano Recital by CHIMERA"
The concert is sponsored by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens and the Athens Centre.
April 11, 2019
March 2019
"Up from Slavery: The Extraordinary Story of John Wesley Gilbert, First African-American Student of the American School, 1890-91"
Annual Archives Lecture
John W.I. Lee, University of California, Santa Barbara
March 21, 2019
"The Genetic History of Plague: On the Doorstep to the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean"
Annual Malcolm H. Wiener Lecture
Johannes Krause, Max-Planck Institute
March 14, 2019
"Ο Ρόλος των Ελλήνων στη Διαμόρφωση της Σύγχρονης Αιγύπτου 19ος-20ος αιώνες"
Αλέξανδρος Κιτροέφ, Haverford College - Πενσυλβάνια
March 12, 2019
February 2019
"Bleeding Bodies, War & Collective Trauma in Aeschylus’ Agamemnon"
Angeliki Tzanetou, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
February 22, 2019
"Hunting Heroes: Recent Excavations in the Athenian Agora"
John McK. Camp, Randolph-Macon College
February 14, 2019
January 2019
"20 Years in Crete: The Impact of the INSTAP East Crete Study Center"
Tom Brogan, INSTAP East Crete Study Center
January 17, 2019
"My Family and Other Animals: Pets in Ancient Greek Art"
Tyler Jo Smith, University of Virginia
January 17, 2019
December 2018
"Όστρακα and Οστρακισμός: New Discoveries in the Athenian Agora"
James Sickinger, Florida State University
December 13, 2018
"Subsequent Medeas: Reperformance and Spectatorship of Greek Tragedy"
C.W. Marshall, University of British Columbia
December 6, 2018
November 2018
"Shoot the Messenger: Waiting Wives and False Reports in Greek Tragedy"
Erika Weiberg, Florida State University
November 29, 2018
"The Glittering Sound of Imperial Violence: The Music for the Feast of the Exaltation on the Cross of Hagia Sophia"
Bissera V. Pentcheva, Professor of Art History, Stanford University
November 29, 2018
"Continuity and Change in the Dramatic Festivals of Early Roman Greece, 2nd-1st c. BCE"
Mali Skotheim, University of Wisconsin
Co-sponsored with the Roman Seminar
November 8, 2018
"Celebrating the 550th anniversary of George Castriot Skanderbeg’s death"
Dr. Machi Paizi-Apostolopoulou, Research Director Εmerita, Institute of Historical Studies, National Hellenic Research Foundation
Dr. Dorian Koçi, Director of the National Historical Museum of Albania
November 6, 2018
October 2018
“Crete in the Ice Age. Clever Seadogs and Gullible Deer”
Thomas Strasser, Providence College
October 19, 2018
“Oropos and the Messy Margins of the Attic Polis”
Jessica Lamont, Yale University
October 04, 2018
May 2018
"Diving into the Wreck - The Antikythera Mechanism, Lord Byron_s Last Days, Tear Gas in the Lyceum, a Poetry Reading"
Dr. Scot McKendrick, Head of Western Heritage Collections, British Library
May 2, 2018
April 2018
37th Annual Walton Lecture
“English Collectors of Greek Manuscripts at the British Library: Lord Guilford and Anthony Askew”
Dr. Scot McKendrick, Head of Western Heritage Collections, British Library
April 24, 2018
“The Later Colts of Corinth Revisited: Current Status of a Numismatic Study”
Lee L. Brice, Whitehead Professor ASCSA
April 19, 2018
March 2018
“Found in Τranslation”
A panel discussion with Karen Van Dyck, Alicia E. Stallings and Fr. John Raffan.
Haris Vlavianos - moderator of the discussion
March 27, 2018
“Geo-ethnoarchaeology: Ethnography and microscopic study of modern sites as an interpretative tool for archaeological research”
Dr. David Friesem, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, UK Zinman Institute of Archaeology, University of Haifa, Israel
March 27, 2018
“A Silver Service and a Gold Coin? Recontextualizing Silver Vessels in the Getty Museum”
Justin St. P. Walsh, Chapman University
March 22, 2018
Athens Open Meeting 2018
"The Work of the School," Jenifer Neils, Director, ASCSA
March 9, 2018
"Making a Byzantine Holy Land- The Impact of Monastic Activity in the Mazi Plain, Attica"
Fotini Kondyli, University of Virginia
March 6, 2018
"Diachronic Survey on the Borders of Attica: The Mazi Archaeological Project"
Sylvian Fachard, Mellon Professor, ASCSA, Alex Knodell, Carleton College, Kalliope Papangeli, Ephorate of West Attica
March 1, 2018
February 2018
"The Road to Piraeus: Athenian Realien and Plato’s Republic"
Geoff Bakewell, Whitehead Professor, ASCSA
February 22, 2018
January 2018
"Συρία. Ιστορία, άνθρωποι, μνημεία"
Μαρία Γεωργοπούλου, Γιώργος Μαγγίνης, Μαρία Φακίδη & Ντόρα Μηναΐδη
January 23, 2018
December 2017
"The Myth and Cult of Opheltes at Nemea"
Jorge Bravo, University of Maryland
Decenber 14, 2017
“Why are Scientists Afraid of ED-XRF Analysis in Art and Archaeology?”
Prof. Sariel Shalev (The Zinman Institute of Archaeology, University of Haifa)
***2017-2018 Fitch Wiener Labs Seminar Series***
Decenber 5, 2017
November 2017
"The Best Way to Send Knowledge is to Wrap it Up in a Person"
Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogan, Doreen C. Spitzer Archivist ASCSA
Annual Archives Lecture co-organized with the Fulbright Foundation in Greece
November 30, 2017
"70 Χρόνια Fulbright στην Ελλάδα «Παιδεία και Ανάπτυξη» "
Γιάννης Στουρνάρας, Ευαγγελία Κουνέλη, Δημήτρης Α. Σωτηρόπουλος
November 15, 2017
"Hadrian’s Forgotten Heir: A New Portrait of Aelius Caesar from Eva-Loukou"
Marco Galli, La Sapienza, Rome
November 9, 2017
"The Enigma of Cappadocia"
Robert Ousterhout, University of Pennsylvania
November 7, 2017
October 2017
"Con que soavità… Με πόση γλυκύτητα"
Επέτειος των 450 χρόνων από τη γέννηση του Claudio Monteverdi
October 31, 2017
"The Prospect for Ancient Proteins in Archaeology"
Annual Malcolm H. Wiener Lecture 2017
Matthew Collins, University of York - University of Copenhagen
October 24, 2017
"Public Sacred Space, Private Votive Portraits: The Case of the City Eleusinion in Athens"
Sheila Dillon, Duke University
October 19, 2017
September 2017
"Democracy Forum: Then & Now: Women, Immigration, Democracy"
ROUND TABLE
Mary Lefkowitz, Geoffrey Bakewell, Sheila Dillon, Jenifer Neils
September 15, 2017
"Learning from Myth: The Case of the Trojan Horse"
Mary Lefkowitz, Wellesley College
September 14, 2017
May 2017
"One Hundred Years of Dialogue: Latin American Approaches to Hellenism"
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
May 18-20, 2017
"Excavations on the Ismenion Hill in Thebes, 2011-2016"
Professors Stephanie Larson, Associate Professor, Bucknell University, and Kevin Daly, Mellon Professor of Classical Studies, ASCSA,
May 4, 2017
April 2017
"Plagues and Pestilence in Thebes"
Prof. Maria Liston, Department of Anthropology, University of Waterloo, Canada; Whitehead Professor, ASCSA
April 27, 2017
"Thirty-Sixth Annual Walton Lecture - The Colonel’s Dictatorship: the View from London"
Richard Clogg, Emeritus Fellow of St Antony’s College, Oxford
April 25, 2017
"Human-Environment Dynamics in the Peloponnese and Beyond: Ideas-Methods-Results"
Conference on Environment and Human Activity in the Peloponnese, 6-9 April, organized in cooperation with the Swedish Institute at Athens.
April 7 - 8, 2017
March 2017
"The ‘Hypereia Krini’ at Ancient Pherai"
Dr. Dylan K. Rogers, Assistant Director, ASCSA
March 30, 2017
"Honey from Hymettus: Platonic Philosophy in the Cave of Pan?"
Prof. Paul Kalligas, Director of the European Cultural Centre of Delphi
March 23, 2017
"Visualising 500 Years of Circulation of Greek Incunabula in European and American Collections"
Dr. Cristina Dondi, Oakeshott Senior Research Fellow in the Humanities, Lincoln College, Univ. of Oxford, Secretary of the CERL
March 21, 2017
"Διεθνές Συνέδριο “Ιδιωτικές, δημόσιες και εκκλησιαστικές βιβλιοθήκες στην Ελλάδα - Σεμινάριο: Ασφάλεια, συντήρηση, καταλογογράφηση, ψηφιοποίηση και χρηματοδότηση"
Gennadius Library - Aikaterini Laskaridi Foundation
March 21, 2017
"ASCSA Annual Open Meeting" -"Work of the School During 2016" and Keynote Lecture, "The Pastness of the Past: Reflections on Archaeology in Greece."
James C. Wright, Director of ASCSA
March 10, 2017
"Honouring Odysseus: celebrating the work of Robert Laffineur"
J. Driessen, E. Kountouri, J. Wright, J. Bennet
March 3, 2017
Ferbruary 2017
"Architecture of a Minoan Community: American and American-Greek Projects at Gournia, 1901-2016"
Prof. John C. McEnroe, The John and Anne Fischer Professor of Fine Arts, Hamilton College; Whitehead Professor, ASCSA
February 9, 2017
January 2017
"They Both Sent Their Women Home: C.M. Woodhouse’s War in Greece in Fiction, Memoir, and History"
Prof. David Roessel, School of Arts and Humanities, Stockton University
Naijasia Thomas of Stockton University - Woodhouse's "The Saddle"
January 31, 2017
"The Sanctuary of Hera on Samos from its Minoan origins to the time of Polycrates - new evidence"
Prof.Dr.Dr.h.c. Wolf-Dietrich Niemeier, Director Emeritus, German Archaeological Institute at Athens
January 26, 2017
November 2016
"History in Tune: The Ottoman Music Tradition"
Panagiotis Poulos, Lecturer at the Dept. of Turkish and Modern Asian Studies of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Okan Murat Öztürk, Associate Professor at the Başkent University, Ankara on "Describing Any Melody: Makam Knowledge in the Ottoman Musical Writings"
November 28, 2016
"Ακολουθίες Αγίων και Χάρτινες Εικόνες"
Αναστασία Τούρτα, Επίτιμη Διευθύντρια του Μουσείου Βυζαντινού Πολιτισμού και Διευθύντρια του Ευρωπαϊκού Κέντρου Βυζαντινών και Μεταβυζαντινών Μνημείων, και ο Κρίτων Χρυσοχοΐδης, Ομότιμος Διευθυντής Ερευνών στο Εθνικό Ίδρυμα Ερευνών
November 18, 2016
"Phaleron Delta: the Archaic Necropolis at the Southern Edge of the City"
Dr. Stella Chrysoulaki, Ephor, Ephorate of Antiquities of Piraeus, Western Attica, and the Islands
November 8, 2016
"International Conference,New Approaches and Paradigms in the Study of Greek Architecture"
Prof. Philip Sapirstein, Assistant Professor, History of Art, University of Nebraska, and Dr. David Scahill, ASCSA
November 3-5, 2016
October 2016
"Converting Risk into Knowledge:Religion & Economics of the Sea at the Bronze Age-Iron Age Transition"
Barbara Kowalzig, Associate Professor of Classics and History, New York University
October 20, 2016
"History in Shadows: Shadow Theater Venues and Audiences in Greece and Turkey"
Prof. Serdar Öztürkr , Department of Radio Television and Cinema, Faculty of Communication in Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey
October 18, 2016
"Lord of the Gold Rings: The Grave of the Griffin Warrior of Pylos"
Sharon R. Stocker and Jack L. Davis, Department of Classics, University of Cincinnati
October 6, 2016
"Fairy Tale Logic: The Philosophy of Mythology through the Eyes of Poetry"
Ginger F. Zaimis, Arts and Literary Chair (Greece) for the International Friends of Bibliotheca Alexandrina, The Library of Alexandria.
October 4, 2016
September 2016
"Glimpses of the Past in the Cultural Expressions of Greece and Turkey - Session I"
History in Motion: Relating the Past through Cinema and Televized Serials
Yannis Papadopoulos & Thanassis Agathos, “Byzantium in Greek Cinema and Television”
September 20, 2016
"The New York Times : Athens Democracy Forum - Ancient Democracy & Religion, Migration. Power + Money"
Eleni Tsakopoulos-Kounelakis, Philanthropists and former Ambassador to Hungary
Josiah Ober, Tsakopoulos-Kounelakis, Professor in Honor of Constantine Mitsotakis, Professor of Political Science and Classics, Stanford University
Michel Zaboulakis, Professor of History & Methodology of Economics Department of University of Thessaly
David Lewis, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, University of Edinburgh
September 14, 2016
June 2016
"The Flora Graeca before Sibthorp"
Dr. Alain Touwaide, Institute for the Preservation of Medical Traditions
June 30, 2016
"Tales from the Wiener Lab: Contributions of the Archaeological Sciences to Classical Studies"
Dr. Melinda Zeder, Smithsonian Institution
June 3, 2016
May 2016
"Was Heinrich Schliemann a Good Archaeologist? What His Books Reveal"
Curtis Runnels, Professor of Archaeology, Boston University
May 24, 2016
"An Earthly Paradise. Μπαξές, Περιβόλι and Ύπαιθρος in the Aegean"
Harriet Blitzer, Professor of Art History, Buffalo State College
May 10, 2016
April 2016
"Ολοκληρωμένη Διαχείριση Τοπίων Προκλήσεις και Προοπτικές"
ASCSA, Med-Ina, and PIOP
April 25, 2016
"Flora Graeca Sibthorpiana and the botanical exploration of Greece"
Arne Strid, Professor emeritus, former Director of the Göteborg Botanical Garden
April 18, 2016
"Connections: A Flute & Piano Recital in the Greek & American Spirit"
Natalia Gerakis (flute) and Apostolos Palios (piano)
April 1, 2016
March 2016
"ASCSA Open Meeting, Athens"
Prof. James C. Wright (Director, ASCSA) and Prof. C. Brian Rose (University of Pennsylvania)
March 11, 2016
"New Sophistry:Reassessing the Importance of the Sophists in the Life of 5th Century Greece"
Prof. Richard McKirahan, Pomona College
March 03, 2016
February 2016
"Murder on Black Mountain: Love and Death on a Nineteenth Century Greek Island"
Thomas W. Gallant, University of California San Diego
February 23, 2016
"New Underwater Research at Antikythera"
Dr. Brendan Foley, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
February 18, 2016
35th Annual Lecture in Ηonor of Francis R. Walton - "The Peacock and the Basket, the Marble and the Brick. Architectural ornaments and their materiality in a transcultural perspective. Constantinople to Bukhara (6th to 10th century)"
Prof. Dr. Gerhard Wolf Director, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz - Max-Planck-Institut
February 16, 2016
"Hetty Goldman at Colophon: A ‘Notebook Excavation’ in the Archives of the ASCSA"
Dr. Ulrike Muss, University of Vienna
February 04, 2016
January 2016
"Sauroktonos: Apollo? Praxiteles?"
Prof. Jenifer Neils, Case-Western University
January 21, 2016
December 2015
"The Politics of Consumption in an Archaic Cretan City"
Prof. Donald Haggis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
December 10, 2015
November 2015
"Sikyon in Context"
Prof. Yannis Lolos (Department of History, Archaeology and Social Anthropology, University of Thessaly)
November 12, 2015
"Βλέμματα εκ του μακρόθεν: Άγιον Όρος και γυναίκες της Δύσεως,1880-1980"
Veronica della Dora, Chair of Human Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London
November 10, 2015
September 2015
"ΟΞΥΔΕΡΚΕΙΝ ΑΤ KORAKOU: A CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION OF C.W.BLEGEN’S 1915-1916 EXCAVATIONS"
A Conference sponsored by the Institute of Aegean Prehistory and by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens
September 4-6, 2015
June 2015
"The Ottoman Monuments of Athens"
Machiel Kiel
June 2, 2015
May 2015
"International Conference: “Athens and Attica in Prehistory"
ASCSA, Ministry of Culture, Faculty of History and Archaeology, University of Athens, and the Museum of Cycladic Art
May 27-31, 2015
"Σαν τα παλιά τα παραμύθια"
Αφήγηση παραμυθιών για μικρούς και μεγάλους - Σάσα Βούλγαρη
May 10, 2015
"Της Μοίρας το Χρυσό Δαχτυλίδι"
Αφήγηση παραμυθιών για ενήλικο κοινό - Σάσα Βούλγαρη
May 7, 2015
"The Mystic Lettrist 'Abd al-Rahman al-Bistami and the Origins of Ottoman Historical Consciousness"
Cornell Fleischer, Kanuni Suleyman Professor, Ottoman and Modern Turkish Studies, University of Chicago
May 5, 2015
April 2015
"Telling the Whole Story at Multi-Period Sites"
Dr. Gaetano Palumbo Program Director North Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia World Monuments Fund
April 25, 2015
"The Topography of Ottoman Athens. Archaeology & Travel - Symposium"
Symposium in the Gennadius Library
April 23-24, 2015
"Why we love and fear philia:The challenges of writing about friendship"
Gregory Jusdanis, Humanities Distinguished Professor, The Ohio State University, Department of Classics
April 2, 2015
March 2015
"Work of the ASCSA during 2014" & "Archaeology, History and Science: a Microscopic Approach"
James C. Wright, Director of ASCSA; Professor of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology, Bryn Mawr College and Dr. Panagiotis Karkanas, M. H. Wiener Laboratory for Archaeological Science, ASCSA
March 13, 2015
February 2015
A New Reconstruction of the Archaic Parthenon
Elisavet P. Sioumpara, Service for the Restoration of the Acropolis Monuments (Υ.Σ.Μ.Α.) - Greek Ministry of Culture
February 12, 2015
Ottoman Athens, 1458-1833 Exhibition & Lecture by John Camp “Dodwell and Ottoman Athens, 1805”
John Camp II, Director of the Athenian Agora Excavations, ASCSA; Stavros Niarchos Professor of Classics, Randolph-Macon College
February 10, 2015
January 2015
George Cram Cook, Susan Glaspell, and the Experience of Delphi
Linda Ben-Zvi, Professor Emerita, Theater Studies, Tel Aviv University; English and Theater, Colorado State University
January 29, 2015
The Power of Sculpture at Roman Corinth, Capital of the Province Achaia
Aileen Ajootian, Professor of Classics and Art, Department of Classics, The University of Mississippi and 2014-15 Whitehead Professor
January 22, 2015
Ιστορίες Μαγείας από το Βυζάντιο στην Ευρώπη
Alexander Alexakis, University of Ioannina
January 13, 2015
December 2014
A Sacred Law from the Athenian Agora
Kevin Daly, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Classical Studies, ASCSA and Associate Professor of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean
December 11, 2014
Ανασκαφές στα Νεκροταφεία της Πύδνας
Ματθαίος Μπέσιος & Αθηνά Αθανασιάδου, ΚΖ’ Εφορεία Προϊστορικών και Κλασικών Αρχαιοτήτων
December 4, 2014
October 2014
Χαρτογραφία και Ιατρική “στον απόηχο του χρόνου και του χώρου”. Διδάγματα από την Ιστορία
Dr. Panayotis N. Soucacos
October 14, 2014
Voice, Signature, Mask: The Byzantine Author
Stratis Papaioannou, Associate Professor of Classics, Brown University and 2014-15 Whitehead Professor, ASCSA
October 9, 2014
«Ψυχῆς Ἄκος» Ημερίδα για την επέτειο 200 χρόνων από την ίδρυση της Σχολής & της Βιβλιοθήκης Μηλεών
Bertrand Bouvier, Πασχάλης Κιτρομηλίδης, Ντία Φιλιππίδου
October 3, 2014
September 2014
The Song of the Earth
Theatrical performance of Stratis Myrivilis’s “The Song of the Earth”
Direction-Adaptation-Interpretation: Stratis Panourios
Composition-Kanun-Song: Lida Xydia
Costume & Stage Editor: Vera Zefki
September 29, 2014
May 2014
“Harvesting the Sea: Aegean Societies and Marine Animals in Context”
Wiener Laboratory, Organized by Tatiana Theodoropoulou, Wiener Laboratory Post-Doctoral Fellow
May 29-31, 2014
“Poseidon’s Net: Sanctuaries and Sea Routes”
Margaret M. Miles, Andrew W. Mellon Professor, ASCSA; Professor of Art History and Classics, University of California, Irvine
May 22, 2014
“The Alternative Archaeologies of Eva Palmer Sikelianos”
Artemis Leontis, Αν. Καθηγήτρια Νέων Ελληνικών, Πανεπιστήμιο Michigan
May 06, 2014
April 2014
“Reconsidering the Largest EBA Cycladic Cemetery: The Recent Excavations at Chalandriani on Syros”
Marisa Marthari, Ephor emerita, 21st Ephoreia of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities
April 29, 2014
“Samothrace and the NE Aegean in Prehistory”
Dimitris Matsas, Ephor, 19th Ephoreia of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities
April 10, 2014
March 2014
ATHENS OPEN MEETING
“Work of the School during 2013” and “Rupestral Inscriptions in the Greek World”
James C. Wright, Director, ASCSA; Professor of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology, Bryn Mawr College
Merle Langdon, Research Professor, University of Tennessee at Knoxville; former Mellon Professor, ASCSA
March 14, 2014
“Building Archaeology: Corinth’s Forgotten Architects”
Kostis Kourelis, Assistant Professor, Franklin and Marshall College, Department of Art and Art History
March 11, 2014
February 2014
“Same River, Different Waters: Official Dining in the Agora”
Ann Steiner, NEH Fellow, ASCSA; Shirley Watkins Steinman Professor of Classics, Franklin & Marshall College
February 27, 2014
“Επισκέπτες και Αναγνώστες στη Λαυρεντιανή Βιβλιοθήκη”
Paschalis Kitromilides, Prof. of Political Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
February 18, 2014
“ Landscape Ecology and the End of Antiquity: The Archaeology of Deforestation in South Coastal Turkey”
Nicholas Rauh, NEH Fellow, ASCSA; Professor of Classics, Purdue University
February 6, 2014
January 2014
“Η χαρτογραφία του Κλαύδιου Πτολεμαίου”
Άρτεμις Σκούταρη, Sylvia Ioannou Foundation
January 28, 2014
“Bouphonia: Killing Cattle on the Acropolis”
NJeremy McInerney, Whitehead Professor, ASCSA; Davidson Kennedy Professor, University of Pennsylvania
January 23, 2014
December 2013
“How the Mycenae Lion Gate Relief Was Made: New Evidence and Implications”
Nicholas Blackwell, Assistant Director, ASCSA
December 12, 2013
“Ötzi and Modern Mummy Research-The Life and Death of the 5300-year-old Tyrolean Iceman”
Albert Zink, Director of the Institute for Mummies and the Iceman, European Academy of Bolzano, Italy
December 5, 2013
Musical Humors - Concert
Katerina Ktona & Effi Minakoulis
December 3, 2013
November 2013
“Colloquium: “From Ptolis to Polis: Issues in the Transition of Political Economies”
Maria Iacovou, Professor, Archaeological Research Unit, University of Cyprus Donald Haggis, Nicholas A. Cassas Professor of Greek Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Alexander Mazarakis-Ainian, Professor of Classical Archaeology, University of Thessaly Catherine Morgan, OBE. Director, BSA James Wright, Director, ASCSA
November 26, 2013
“Το πάθος με το γράψιμο. Μια εκδήλωση για το Βαγγέλη Ραπτόπουλο και το Αρχείο του"
Βασίλης Βασιλικός, Αλέξης Ζήρας, Αλέξης Πανσέληνος & Βαγγέλης Ραπτόπουλος
November 12, 2013
“Dissent and Democracy: Freedom of Thought and Freedom of Religion in the Athens of Socrates"
Richard Janko, Whitehead Professor, ASCSA; Gerald F. Else Distinguished Professor of Classical Studies, University of Michigan
November 7, 2013
October 2013
“The Emergence of a Warlike Elite at Mitrou, East Lokris, in the Prepalatial Bronze Age”
Aleydis Van de Moortel, NEH Fellow, ASCSA; Associate Professor of Classics, University of Tennessee
October 10, 2013
Reconfiguring Constantinople: Story Spaces & Storied Imperial Places in the Madrid Skylitzes MSS
Elena Boeck, Associate Professor of Art History, DePaul University
October 7, 2013
May 2013
Μαρία Μαυρουδή, Ελληνική φιλοσοφία στην αυλή του Μωάμεθ Β΄
Μαρία Μαυρουδή, University of California, Berkeley Ελληνική φιλοσοφία στην αυλή του Μωάμεθ Β΄
May 29, 2013
“Houses around the Athenian Agora. New Thoughts on Old Mosaics”
Barbara Tsakirgis, Vanderbilt University
May 28, 2013
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