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British School at Athens : Research Awards

All awards can be found on the BSA Research Awards page:
👉 www.bsa.ac.uk/research-awa...
Please be sure to visit the individual award pages for full application details, prerequisites, and eligibility criteria.

📢 Deadline Extended for several awards – 7.3.26 📢

• The Hector & Elizabeth Catling Bursary
• The Hector & Elizabeth Catling Doctoral Award
• The Vronwy Hankey Memorial Travel Award for Pre-Doctoral Students
• The Elizabeth Catling Memorial Fund for Archaeological Draughtpersonship

📜 Women Archaeologists and War - programme
📆 09/03/2026📌 École Française d'Athènes & online
📆 10/03/2026📌 British School at Athens & online
To attend in person at the BSA on 10/03/26, please register via our website:
👉 www.bsa.ac.uk/events/women...
#britishschoolatathens #BSAevents #EFAevents #women

British School at Athens : Alex Long, “Platonic protreptic and the unity of the Phaedrus” Philosophy Seminar Professor Alex Long (University of St Andrews), “Platonic protreptic and the unity of the Phaedrus“ Abstract: Plato’s Phaedrus is widely regarded as the first expression in the Gree...

📃 "Platonic protreptic and the unity of the Phaedrus"
📆 Wed 4 March 2026
⏰ 17:00 (GR) / 15:00 (UK)
📍 Location: Elli Lampridis Philosophical Library and online
🔗 More info and registration: www.bsa.ac.uk/events/alex-...

📣 Event reminders!

📃 "The city-cosmos contrast in Plato’s Timaeus and Critias"
📆 Tue 3 March 2026
⏰ 17:00 (GR) / 15:00 (UK)
📍 Location: BSA Upper House and online
🔗 More info and registration: www.bsa.ac.uk/events/alex-...

📣 Event reminder!
Join us for next week's Upper House Seminar by Professor Peter Pavúk (Charles University, Prague).

📆 Mon 2 March 2026
⏰ 18:00 (GR) / 16:00 (UK)
📍 Location: BSA Upper House and online
🔗 More info and registration: www.bsa.ac.uk/.../peter-pa...

British School at Athens : New publications by Ben Cassell, Richard Bradford McConnell Student Ben Cassell (KCL), our current Richard Bradford McConnell studentship holder, has had two new publications come out recently: Amy Arden, Ben Cassell, ‘The Renewal of Spartan Society: Cognitive and Emb...

Ben has had two new publications come out recently in
the Journal of Cognitive Historiography and Mnemosyne, Supplements. Congratulations Ben, καλοτάξιδο!

Check them out: www.bsa.ac.uk/.../new-publ...

The view from the desk of our current Richard Bradford McConnell studentship holder, Ben Cassell (KCL).

Thanks to @hetanshah.bsky.social, Chief Executive at @britishacademy.bsky.social, for visiting us this week!

British School at Athens : Spotlight on our 2025 School Teacher Fellow The BSA’s School Teacher Fellowship is offered each year to enable a teacher to pursue a project in Greece designed to enhance their teaching (for example by researching a course, […]

In July 2025, Gary Watson (Bishopsgarth School, Stockton-on-Tees) spent a week in Athens as our School Teacher Fellow. Read more: www.bsa.ac.uk/2026/02/11/s...

British School at Athens : Spotlight on our 2025 School Teacher Fellow The BSA’s School Teacher Fellowship is offered each year to enable a teacher to pursue a project in Greece designed to enhance their teaching (for example by researching a course, […]

"Developing the series of lessons, I focused on the question ‘Why were the Ancients so Significant?’, which also subliminally answers a common question asked by pupils: ‘why should I learn this? Or, why do I need to know this?’ "

British School at Athens An Institute for Advanced Research

🛩 Next stop, Thessaloniki! See you there on the 17th February for the second stop in our road show with guest lecturer Andrew Bevan, followed by Athens on the 19th www.bsa.ac.uk/events/

British School at Athens : A full house for the London Annual Open Lectures 2026 Despite the rain, last night’s Annual Open Lectures in London were a great success and very well attended with nearly 200 people with us in person and almost the same […]

💫 London Annual Open Lectures with @wmarybeard.bsky.social and a full house at King's College London!

www.bsa.ac.uk/2026/02/04/a...

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Annual of the British School at Athens Vol. 120 (2025) www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @britschoolathens.bsky.social
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📢 Event reminder!
'Translation and the Magnitude of Historical Figures: Michalis Ganas and Translation'
📅 Date: Mon 9 Feb 2026
🌐 Online panel discussion
👥 Chair: David Ricks, Panel: John Stathatos, Vassilis Letsios, Joshua Barley
👉 Register here: www.bsa.ac.uk/events/trans...

📄 Access the full article on the Sparta excavations online:
www.cambridge.org/.../73710E78....

🌟 A Byzantine archaeologist active across Greece, Rossana brings together ceramic research, material culture studies and scientific approaches.

...Working in collaboration with Evangelia Kiriatzi on material from the British School at Athens excavations at the Sparta Theatre, directed by Prof Catherine Morgan (Oxford University), she identified local manufacturing traditions, regional networks and imported wares.

Spotlight on our recent Fitch Bursar, Rossana Valente 🔬

The research of Rossana Valente (Roma Tre University) underpins her Fitch bursary project 'Circulating Sparta', which uses petrographic analysis to uncover how pottery production, exchange and connectivity evolved in Byzantine Sparta...

💫 We're delighted to announce that next year's fellows will be:

🔴Dr Estelle Strazdins - Early Career Fellow
🔵Dr Anja Slawisch - Visiting Fellow

Congratulations, both!

#britishschoolatathens #Fellowships

...as well as museum trips, lectures, and object handling sessions in Athens! Thank you to everyone who participated in the course and to everyone who helped with the organisation!

Over the last two weeks, the BSA hosted 10 postgraduate students for the course The Art and Archaeology of Bronze Age Greece. The course, led by Matthew Haysom and Rachel Phillips, took students to Bronze Age sites in the Argolid, around Attica and central Greece, and to the island of Aegina...

🎓 Congratulations to the participants of the first 'The Art and Archaeology of Bronze Age Greece' course!

#britishschoolatathens #bsacourse #postgraduatecourse #bronzeagegreece #neverstoplearning #archaeologylovers

BYZANTIUM AND BLOOMSBURY
This one-day online workshop will focus on the interest of members of the Bloomsbury Group in Byzantium, especially Byzantine art.
🗓️1 April 2026
🕙10am-5pm
🔗 Info & register: www.byzantium.ac.uk/byzantium-an...
🎟️ Reduced fees for BSA members!

British School at Athens : School Teacher Fellowship

🎓 Calling all UK teachers! The BSA School Teacher Fellowship is open for applications!
👉 www.bsa.ac.uk/awards/fello...
Deadline: 27.2.26
#TeacherFellowship #TeachingHistory #ClassicsForAll #BritishSchoolAtAthens #StateSchoolTeachers #EducationEquity

⛏️ In fieldwork & publication news, you can now catch up on the West Area of Samos Archaeological Project's findings published in the BSA Annual and currently available on Cambridge University Press' First View: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Abstract: Can we talk of ’empire’ when studying the behaviour of Greek states in the fifth and fourth centuries BCE? Does using this terminology clarify or obscure our understanding of how states and… Professor Polly Low (Durham University), “Towards a new history of ancient Greek empire(s)”

The empire in classical Greece was an idea shaped and reshaped by Athenian imperialism in the 5th century. As this seminar details, Athens laid the groundwork with the Delian League, turning an alliance into an extractive empire.

Feat. Polly Low at @britschoolathens.bsky.social

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British School at Athens : Video Archive

Missed out on our events last term? Don't worry! Plenty of our lectures and talks are now available on our Video Archive!
⏯ watch back now: www.bsa.ac.uk/video-archive/

📣 Event reminder!
Joshua Barley, ‘Athens Tales’ Book Presentation
📅 Wed 28 Jan 2026
🕙 18:00 (EET) in-person & online
📍 BSA Upper House, Souedias 52, Athens
🌐 Info & registration: www.bsa.ac.uk/events/joshu...