September 12, 2019
Gennadius Library at the 85th IFLA Congress
The new Digital Humanities project Traveltrails was presented as a Poster Session at the 85th IFLA Congress at the Athens Megaron on Monday 26 and Tuesday 27 August, 2019.
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September 9, 2019
Gennadius Library acquires 18th century paper icon of Mount Sinai
The Library acquired a very rare paper icon with a general view of Mount Sinai (Γενική ἄποψις τοῦ Ὄρους Σινᾶ), at the June Vergos Auction in Athens
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September 9, 2019
Πίναξ Γεωγραφικός της Ελλάδος, Vienna, 1800 donated by Curtis Runnels
Professor Curtis Runnels donates to the Gennadius Library, Anthemos Gazis’s printing of the first map of modern Greece based on an original by Reghas Ferraios (Πίναξ Γεωγραφικός της Ελλάδος, Vienna, 1800) with contemporary hand coloring.
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September 5, 2019
A visit to Gennadius Library – ARA Greece
ARA Greece recently visited Gennadius Library, one of the most important libraries in Greece. It came into existence from a donation by Joannes Gennadius, a collector and bibliophile, who gave his personal collection of 25.000 (!) volumes back in 1922 for its creation. This number has kept growing ever since, reaching today a total of 138.000.
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September 4, 2019
Hesperia 88.3 Now Online!
Topics include a LH wheelmade terracotta bovid figure from Pylos, LBA Aiginetan coarse pottery at Kanakia on Salamis, an ornate woven textile from 9th-century Gordion, and the concept of the Ionian agora.
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August 26, 2019
Jewish Women's Archives and Gladys Weinberg
The ASCSA Archives provided the image for a biographical entry about archaeologist Gladys Davidson Weinberg (1909-2002) in the Jewish Women's Archives online encyclopedia. We chose a photo from 1945 showing Gladys Weinberg on the roof of a building in Athens.
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Gennadius Library Hours
The Gennadius Library has undergone a major reclassification project of its collections according to the Library of Congress system. This change allows stack access to the Library’s research collections.
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Ωράριο Γενναδείου Βιβλιοθήκης
Η Γεννάδειος Βιβλιοθήκη αναταξινόμησε τις συλλογές της σύμφωνα με το σύστημα της Βιβλιοθήκης του Κογκρέσου, ώστε να επιτραπεί η ανοικτή πρόσβαση στις ερευνητικές συλλογές της.
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August 2, 2019
Videocast - When Hollywood Came to Greece: Spyros Skouras and the Politics of Cine-Antiquity
Lecture by Prof. Konstantinos Nikoloutsos, Saint Joseph's University
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July 30, 2019
Panagiotis Karkanas Contributes to Groundbreaking Paper That May Alter the Story of Human Prehistory
Dr. Panagiotis Karkanas, Malcolm H. Wiener Laboratory for Archaeological Science Director at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, contributed to a groundbreaking paper about Apidima Cave fossils. A skull fragment discovered there is the oldest modern human fossil ever discovered in Europe and hints that humans began leaving Africa far earlier than once thought.
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July 23, 2019
Videocast - From Kallias to Kritias: Athens in the Second Half of the 5th Century
International Conference, 6-8 June 2019
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July 19, 2019
Beauty Event - Corinth
A collaboration between the ASCSA, The American College of Greece-PIERCE, the 3rd Gymnasium of Corinth, Diazoma, Olympia Odos, and the Greek Ministry of Culture in 2019.
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July 17, 2019
Margarita Lymberaki's famous novel "Three Summers" in English thanks to Karen Van Dyke
One of the best coming-of-age Greek novels, Τα Ψάθινα Καπέλα, published in 1946 by Margarita Lymberaki (also spelled as Liberaki), is available in English, thanks to Karen Van Dyke's painstaking translation.
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July 16, 2019
Videocast - Dressing Empire: Ottoman Costume Albums and Transculturation
Elisabeth Fraser, University of South Florida
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July 16, 2019
Videocast - 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.
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July 3, 2019
Videocast - Συνάντηση με το Σταύρο Ξαρχάκο: Ένας περίπατος σε μια δημιουργική πορεία που συνεχίζεται αδιάκοπα.
Σύλλογος Φίλων Γενναδείου Βιβλιοθήκης
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July 2, 2019
Videocast - Destruction, Survival, and Economic Recovery in the Greek World (May 16-18)
International Conference, 16-18 May 2019 Organized by Sylvian Fachard and Edward Harris
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Blegen library will close at 16.30
We regret to inform you that today, June 26, Blegen Library will close at 16.30. We're very sorry for the inconvenience.
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June 26, 2019
Q&A with Incoming ASCSA Assistant Director Eric Driscoll
The American School welcomes Eric Driscoll, a former Regular Member and two-time Associate Member, as the new ASCSA Assistant Director.
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June 24, 2019
“Open Day” at ASCSA Corinth Excavations: A New Chapter of On-site Programming
New "Open Day" program at Corinth Excavations invites student and adult groups to observe stages of the archaeological process both on and off the field.
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June 20, 2019
Clayton Lehmann's Summer Seminar Reads Elytis and Seferis in the School's Archives
Clayton Lehmann's Summer Seminar Reads Elytis and Seferis in the School's Archives
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Blegen library closed on Monday, June 17th
Blegen library will be closed to visitors on Monday, June 17th in observance of Pentecost.
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June 10, 2019
Hesperia 88.2 Now Online!
Topics include Mycenaeanization on Melos in the Late Bronze Age, food markets in Roman Greece, pottery and architecture from the Late Roman South Basilica at Polis on Cyprus, and Butrint in the Venetian through Ottoman periods.
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Blegen Library's video and manual on Library of Congress Classification system
Blegen Library has just opened for its members and will soon be open to its visitors using Library of Congress Classification system for its collections. Please watch below a video and study a brief manual on the new system.
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