British School at Athens

📢 Event reminder!
Dr Lorenzo Calvelli (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice), “A View from Athens. Reassessing Cyriac of Ancona’s Vita and Commentaria”
📆 Mon 15 December 2025
⏰ 18:00 (GR) / 16:00 (UK)
📍 Location: BSA Upper House and online
🔗 More info and registration: www.bsa.ac.uk/.../lorenzo-...

British School at Athens : Lorenzo Calvelli following the footsteps of Cyriac of Ancona through Athens What did Athens look like in April 1436? Which ancient monuments were still standing when Cyriac of Ancona first climbed the Acropolis? How did he move through the city and […]

🏦 Lorenzo Calvelli following the footsteps of Cyriac of Ancona through Athens

Read more and join us for Lorenzo's Visiting Fellow Lecture next week!

www.bsa.ac.uk/2025/12/09/l...

📢 Last chance! Join our brilliant course: "History and Philosophy of the Olympic Games – understanding ancient ideas and communicating modern ideals" - the deadline has been extended to 14.12.25!

🌐 Info: www.bsa.ac.uk/courses/hist...

📢 Event reminder!
Join us next week for the online UK Friends' Lecture by Emeritus Professor Edward Harris (Durham University) on “A New Approach to the Attic Countryside: Markets in the Demes”.
📆 Tue 9 Dec 2025
⏰ 17:00 (UK) / 19:00 (GR)
📍 online only
🔗 www.bsa.ac.uk/.../edward-h...

📄 Call for papers: Women Archaeologists and War. 4th workshop on Women in the Archaeology of Greece, jointly organised by @efathenes.bsky.social and the BSA.

🌐 Info: www.bsa.ac.uk/events/call-...
📅 Workshop: 9-10 Mar 2026
📍 Where: EFA & BSA, Athens
⏳Deadline for abstracts: 31 Dec 2025

#EFAevents
It's on!
December 2-4, join us for our first @lachronique.bsky.social
geodata hackathon !
👉 www.efa.gr/events/geoda...

British School at Athens : Hassapoyannes-Blandford Post-Doctoral Fellowship in North Kynouria Studies The British School at Athens is pleased to announce a new three year (0.5 FTE) Post-Doctoral Fellowship: Hassapoyannes-Blandford Post-Doctoral Fellowship in North Kynouria Studies. Thanks to generous ...

Thanks to generous support from Katharine Hassapoyannes & David Blandford, the BSA is now inviting applications for the inaugural Hassapoyannes-Blandford Post-Doctoral Fellow in North Kynouria Studies.
🌐 www.bsa.ac.uk/.../hassapoy...
📸 Kato Meligous Kastraki church from west. Photo by R. Sweetman

📣 Event reminder! Join us for next week's next week's panel discussion hosted by the BSA in cooperation with the Badisches Landesmuseum, Karlsruhe.

📆 Mon 8 December 2025
⏰ 18:00 (GR) / 16:00 (UK)
📍 Location: BSA Upper House and online
🔗 More info and registration: www.bsa.ac.uk/events/archa...

📣 Event reminder!
Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies & British School at Athens Autumn Joint Lecture by Dr Vicky Manolopoulou (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)
🗓️4 December at 4:00–5:00pm GMT
🚩Newcastle University & online
🔗Webinar registration: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/c33a77...

British School at Athens : Job Advertisement: Co-editor of Archaeological Reports Co-editor of Archaeological Reports Honorarium: £500 per annum Closing Date: 12.00 noon EET 31 December 2025 The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies (SPHS) and the British School at […]

📣 Opportunity Alert!

The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies (SPHS) and the British School at Athens (BSA) invite applications for the role of co-editor of Archaeological Reports (AR).

📄 Find out more: www.bsa.ac.uk/2025/11/26/j...
⏳Deadline: 12.00 noon EET 31 December 2025

📣 Event reminder!

Join us for next week's Upper House Seminar by our current Richard Bradford McConnell student Ben Cassell (King’s College London).

📆 Mon 1 December 2025
⏰ 18:00 (GR) / 16:00 (UK)
📍 Location: BSA Upper House and online
🔗 Info and registration: www.bsa.ac.uk/events/ben-c...

YouTube video by ΚΡΗΤΗ TV Προσωπικές Ιστορίες | Κωστής Χρηστάκης - Τετάρτη 26 Νοεμβρίου στις 21:45 - trailer

📺 Tune in to Crete TV on Wednesday to catch Knossos Curator Kostis Christakis on Personal Stories! Συντονιστείτε στo Κρήτη TV την Τετάρτη για να δείτε τον Κωστή Χριστάκη, Επιμελητή του Ερευνητικού Κέντρου Κνωσού, στην εκπομπή Προσωπικές Ιστορίες! 📺

▶️ Trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8-X...

The “Επιστροφές | Reappearances" program combined a hands-on restoration workshop with community participation, focusing on the revival of an old stone-paved path (kalderimi), part of Aristi’s historic network in Zagori.
#mountainsofgreece #boulouki #communityworkshop #Kalderimi #zagorochoria

ΕΠΙΣΤΡΟΦΕΣ | REAPPEARANCES YouTube video by Boulouki

Still thinking about Mountains? 🗻

Check out this film featuring @archaeo-zagori.bsky.social (one of the organisers of last month's conference @mountainsofgreece.bsky.social) which documents the brilliant Boulouki project that Faidon covered in his conference paper.

www.youtube.com/watch?featur...

British School at Athens : Strengthening Collaboration Between the BSA & Charles University in Prague Earlier this year, the British School at Athens (BSA) and Charles University in Prague entered into a two-year agreement (launched in February) to host Dr Petra Tušlová at the Fitch […]

Strengthening Collaboration Between the BSA & Charles University in Prague:
www.bsa.ac.uk/2025/11/18/s...

📣 Event reminder!

Join us for next week's event by our current Artist in Residence Ilenia Cipollari (University of the Arts London).

📆 Mon 24 November 2025
⏰ 18:00 (GR) / 16:00 (UK)
📍 Location: BSA Upper House and online
🔗 More info and registration: www.bsa.ac.uk/events/ileni...

British School at Athens : Nominations to Council by Supporters – 2026 Nominations are invited for one vacancy on Council, to serve for four years from 1 April 2026. The current membership of Council can be found by visiting the Governance page […]

🗳 Calling all BSA Supporters - you can now nominate a member of Council!
📅 Deadline: 19 December 2025
🔗 Info: www.bsa.ac.uk/2025/11/17/n...
⚠️ Please note: Nominations may only be made by current BSA Supporters who are up to date with their subscriptions.

British School at Athens An Institute for Advanced Research

All of them have events coming up at the BSA, or have had already in the case of Nico's excellent Visiting Fellow Lecture this week, and there will be plenty of opportunities to catch them around the BSA soon. www.bsa.ac.uk/events/

Welcome everyone!

Our current Studentship holders are Ben Cassell, the Richard Bradford McConnell Student (King's College London) and Dr Nikki Vellidis, the Cary Student (University of Oxford), pictured here. Dr James Hua, the Macmillan-Rodewald Student (University of Oxford) will be joining us in January 2026.

This year's Visiting Fellows are Prof. Nicoletta Momigliano (University of Bristol) and Dr Lorenzo Calvelli (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia).

The current BSA/UAL Artist in Residence is Ilenia Cipollari (Wimbledon College of Arts).

💫 A big BSA welcome!

We're delighted to officially welcome our current Visiting Fellows, Students and Artist in Residence to the BSA for the academic year 2025-26.

British School at Athens : Vacancy on the Crete Subcommittee Applications are invited from those interested in becoming a member of the Crete Subcommittee (https://www.bsa.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Annexe-A_ToR_Oct-2025.pdf) to serve for four years from ...

📢 Vacancy on the Crete Subcommittee

Applications are invited from those interested in becoming a member of the Crete Subcommittee to serve for four years from 1 April 2026.

Check out our website to find out more! www.bsa.ac.uk/2025/11/07/v...

Deadline: Friday 19 December

Participants will be able to tailor their study toward their personal interests by choosing topics to research and share either in traditional academic papers and presentations, professional exercises such as lesson-plans or news features, or digital media such as websites and blog-posts

The BSA offers a dynamic course for postgrad students &professionals (eg athletes, coaches, teachers, journalists, tour-guides, & sport managers) seeking to explore the ancient origins of the Olympic Games and effectively communicate their educational value and significance to their target audience

British School at Athens : History and Philosophy of the Olympic Games: understanding ancient ideas and communicating modern ideals

🗓 Course dates: 30 March – 5 April 2026
📍Location: Greece, with on-site visits and immersive learning
🌐 Info: www.bsa.ac.uk/courses/hist...
🔚 Deadline: 1 Dec 2025
📧 For questions: assistant.director [at] bsa.ac.uk

📢 Course Alert!

Discover the rich legacy of the Olympics in our one-week residential course at the British School at Athens: “History and Philosophy of the Olympic Games – understanding ancient ideas and communicating modern ideals”

The Turing Scheme The Turing Scheme is the UK Government's global programme to provide funding for international opportunities in education and training across the world.

Calling SAS Students: Turing Scheme Funding is available to support travel to a partner institution and work or study abroad.

Partners include @bsrome.bsky.social @britschoolathens.bsky.social
The Centre for Studies on the Classical Tradition (OBTA) at the University of Warsaw shorturl.at/yUCPi

👏 This recognition is a testament to Edyta’s outstanding research and dedication to advancing archaeological scholarship.

#Congratulations #ResearchExcellence #FitchLaboratory #Archaeology #HellenisticWorld #Amphorae #Cyclades #Award #PetrosDGoneosAward

Her awarded study — “Amphorae and Economy: The Role of Cycladic Production in the Hellenistic World” — explores the economic and cultural significance of Cycladic amphorae and their role in the wider trade networks of the Hellenistic period.

cycladic.gr/research/chr...

🎉 Congratulations to Edyta Marzec!

We are delighted to share that Edyta Marzec, a long-standing member of the Fitch Laboratory team, has been awarded the Petros D. Goneos Award for the 2025–26 academic year.