Video Archive by Year


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.


April 2024

Annual Open Meeting 2024

Bonna D. Wescoat, Director of the School
“Report on the Activity the School 2023”

Susan I. Rortoff, Washington University
“What does Hellenistic Pottery Mean?

April 12, 2024


Feburary 2024

Παναγιώτης Γεννάδιος (1848-1917). Πρωτοπόρος της ελληνικής γεωπονίας

Χαράλαμπος Μπακιρτζής,
Επίτιμος Έφορος Αρχαιοτήτων
Προέδρος ΔΣ ουσείου Βυζαντινού Πολιτισμού
February 8, 2024

 

41st Annual Walton Lecture - Achilles, Odysseus… Erotokritos?

Richard P. Martin
Stanford University
February 7, 2024

 

Archives Annual Lecture 2024 - The Other Athenians: Members of a Foreign School at Athens

Lucile Arnoux Farnoux (University of Tours)
Alexandre Farnoux (Paris-Sorbonne University)
February 2, 2024

 


January 2024

 

Markets in the Demes, A New Approach to the Attic Countryside

Edward Harris (University of Durham)
Sylvian Fachard (University of Lausanne and Swiss School of Archaeology in Greece) 
January 18, 2024

 

Ottoman No More: “Oi Mikrasiatai Yper tōn Deinopathountōn Adelfōn tōn”

Yiorgo Topalidis,
Flagler College
January 9, 2024

 


December 2023

 

Τα Φυλακτά της ύστερης αρχαιότητας: Η διατήρηση και ο μετασχηματισμός τους από τη Xριστιανική κοινωνία.

Δρ Παναγιώτης Καμπάνης,
Μουσείο Βυζαντινού Πολιτισμού
December 14, 2023

 

The Near East Relief Orphanage of Syros

Lefteris Zorzos, Syros Near East Relief Project
Nina Georgiadou, Syros Near East Relief Project
Eleftheria Daleziou, Archives, ASCSA
December 12, 2023

 


November 2023

 

Παρουσίαση της Έκθεσης “Λατρεμένη Κωνσταντινούπολη”

Φανή-Μαρία Τσιγκάκου,
Ιστορικός Τέχνης
November 30, 2023

 

Greece and the Post-1922 International Humanitarian Aid: The Untold Story

Dimitris Kamouzis 
Center for Asia Minor Studies
November 20, 2023

 

Cult of Zeus Sosipolis and its temple in Magnesia

Görkem Kökdemir
University of Ankara
November 10, 2023

 


June 2023 

 

Μονή Παντοκράτορος Κωνσταντινούπολης. Ο Ξενών και η Pala d’ Oro του Αγίου Μάρκου Βενετίας

Στέφανος Ι. Γερουλάνος
Καθηγητή Χειρουργικής
Πανεπιστημίου Ζυρίχης
& Ιστορίας Ιατρικής Πανεπιστημίου Ιωαννίνων
June 15, 2023

 


May 2023

 

100 χρόνια από την Σύμβαση της Λωζάννης: George Devine Treloar, ο αφανής ήρωας που συνέτρεξε χιλιάδες Μικρασιάτες πρόσφυγες

Αθανάσιος Σπύρου
Πρέσβης της Αυστραλίας 
May 24, 2023

 

40th Annual Walton Lecture: “Byzantine Adrianople becomes Ottoman Edirne: The Birth of a Capital”

Professor Amy Singer
Brandeis University
May 23, 2023

 

How Rome Became Byzantium: New Light from DNA, Ice Cores, and Harvard’s Science of the Human Past

Professor Michael McCormick
Francis Goelet Professor of Medieval History at Harvard; Chair, Science of the Human Past
May 4, 2023

 


April 2023

 

Portrait Statuary in Athens: A View from the Athenian Agora

Sheila Dillon, 
Duke University
April 28, 2023

 

Cult, Memory and Identity in Roman Corinth

Barbette Spaeth, 
College of William & Mary
April 20, 2023

 

Open Meeting 2023

Bonna D. Wescoat, Director of the School
“Report on the School’s Activity 2022”

Sharon Stocker & Jack Davis, University of Cincinnati
“The Princes of Pylos: A Mycenaean Mortuary Landscape”

 


March 2023

 

The North Aegean from Homer to Philip II: Migration and Relocation at Methone from Prehistory to 1923

Sarah Morris,
University of California, Los Angeles
March 30. 2023

 

Εκτόπιση και εξόντωση των Ελλήνων Εβραίων (1943-1944). Ιστορία και μνήμη

Δρ. Οντέτ Βαρών-Βασάρ,
Ιστορικός, Συνεργάτις Εβραϊκού Μουσείου Ελλάδας
March 22, 2023

 

The Asia Minor Disaster and the Humanitarian Response: International Philanthropic Organizations and the Arrival of the Refugees in Greece 1918-1924

American School of Classical Studies, Archives
Foundation of the Hellenic Parliament
March 16, 2023

 

The Hephaisteion: Its Date, Interior and Purpose

Margaret M. Miles
Edward A. Dickson Emerita Professor, University of California, Irvine
March 9, 2023

 

Athletics in Homer’s Odyssey

Sanjaya Thakur,
Colorado College
March 2, 2023

 


Feburary 2023

 

Artists’ Mobility and Circulation of Luxury Toreutics in the Greek World

Athanasios Sideris,
Charles University
February 23, 2023

 

The Will of a Byzantine Child: Children’s Agency and Child Labor in Byzantium

Καθ. Youval Rotman, Πανεπιστήμιο Tel Aviv
Υπότροφος Cotsen Traveling 2022-2023
Feburary 21, 2023

 

“Hopeless, Hopeless, Mercy!”: Pontic Memories with Athanasios Stylidis and Christopher C. King

Thanasis Stylidis, Yannis Gosios, Nikiforos Fouliras, Stavros Karypidis and Christopher C. King
Feburary 15, 2023

 

Beyond the Northern Aegean: Architectural Interactions across Northern Greece, Macedonia, Thrace, and the Black Sea Regions in the Hellenistic Period - Day 3

Watch Day 3 of our "Beyond the Northern Aegean" lecture series
Feburary 11, 2023

 

Beyond the Northern Aegean: Architectural Interactions across Northern Greece, Macedonia, Thrace, and the Black Sea Regions in the Hellenistic Period - Day 2

Watch Day 2 of our "Beyond the Northern Aegean" lecture series
Feburary 10, 2023

 

Beyond the Northern Aegean: Architectural Interactions across Northern Greece, Macedonia, Thrace, and the Black Sea Regions in the Hellenistic Period - Day 1

Watch Day 1 of our "Beyond the Northern Aegean" lecture series
Feburary 09, 2023

 


December 2022

 

Americans and Antiquity in Anatolia at the End of Empire

Annual Archives Lecture
Christina Luke, Koç University
December 15, 2022

 

Symposium: Athens and Attica in the Early Iron Age and the Archaic Period - Day 4

Watch Day 4 of our "Symposium" lecture series
December 11, 2022

 

Symposium: Athens and Attica in the Early Iron Age and the Archaic Period - Day 3

Watch Day 3 of our "Symposium" lecture series
December 10, 2022

 

Symposium: Athens and Attica in the Early Iron Age and the Archaic Period - Day 2

Watch Day 2 of our "Symposium" lecture series
December 9, 2022

 

Symposium: Athens and Attica in the Early Iron Age and the Archaic Period - Day 1

Watch Day 1 of our "Symposium" lecture series
December 8, 2022

 


November 2022
 

Nostalgia for the East: The Bitter-Sweet Poetics of Loss

Gail Holst-Warhaft, Cornell University
November 8, 2022

 

Old Statues on New Bases in Roman Athens

Catherine Keesling, Georgetown University
November 3, 2022

 


October 2022

 

The Epic of Anatolia in the Greek Imagination

David Ricks, King’s College London

October 20, 2022

 

Invisible Capital: How the Refugees of 1923 Transformed the Social, Cultural and Religious Life of Athens

Bruce Clark, "The Economist"

October 18, 2022

 

Burned in Memory? The Changing Meanings of Smyrna

Jeffrey Olick, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Sociology and History, University of Virginia

October 11, 2022

 


July 2022

 

An Earthly Paradise: Μπαξές, Περιβόλι and Ύπαιθρος in the Aegean

Harriet Blitzer, Buffalo State College

July 28, 2022

 


June 2022

Αγία Έδρα/Κράτος Βατικανού: Ιστορική διαμόρφωση, σχέσεις με Ελλάδα

Πάνος Καλογερόπουλος, Πρέσβης ε.τ.

June 29, 2022

 

Κ. Π. Καβάφης: Ένας Εικαστικός

Δημήτρης Δασκαλόπουλος

June 27, 2022

 

 “Σμύρνη: η όμορφη εποχή"

Σύλλογος Φίλων Γενναδείου Βιβλιοθήκης
Ιωάννα Πετροπούλου, Ιστορικός
Μιμή Ντενίση, Ηθοποιός & Θεατρική Συγγραφέας

June 14, 2022

 

Rethinking the Greek School of Byzantine Architecture

Robert G. Ousterhout, University of Pennsylvania

June 10, 2022

 


May 2022

Φόρος τιμής στον κλασικό πολιτισμό και στον Κωνσταντίνο Καβάφη

Σύλλογος Φίλων Γενναδείου Βιβλιοθήκης, Υπό την αιγίδα της Πρεσβείας της Ιταλίας στην Ελλάδα

Nuccio Ordine, Renata Lavagnini and Cristiano Luciani

May 31, 2022

 

 

Φόρος τιμής στον κλασικό πολιτισμό και στον Κωνσταντίνο Καβάφη

Σύλλογος Φίλων Γενναδείου Βιβλιοθήκης, Υπό την αιγίδα της Πρεσβείας της Ιταλίας στην Ελλάδα

Nuccio Ordine, Renata Lavagnini and Cristiano Luciani

May 31, 2022

 

Simon of Athens, two Byzantine manuscripts and a lost bronze horse from the Athenian Agora

Anne McCabe, Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents, Oxford

May 25, 2022

 

 

Simon of Athens, two Byzantine manuscripts and a lost bronze horse from the Athenian Agora

Anne McCabe, Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents, Oxford

May 25, 2022

 

The Unsung History of Greek Jewish Women in the early 20th century

Christopher C. King, Ethnomusicologist

May 24, 2022

 

Καππαδόκες Ρωμιοί: Eλληνική ταυτότητα, ορθόδοξη συνείδηση και τουρκικός εθνικισμός (1919-1923)

Friends of the Gennadius Library

Alexis Alexandris, Ambassador Ad Honorem

May 18, 2022

 

Recent Excavations at the Sanctuary of Artemis in Amarynthos, Euboea

Sylvian Fachard (University of Lausanne, Director of the Swiss School of Archaeology in Athens)

Angeliki Simosi (Ephor of Antiquities ofEuboea)

Tamara Saggini (Swiss School of Archaeology in Greece)

May 12, 2022

 

Annual Open Meeting - 2022

Open Meeting

Jenifer Neils, Director ASCSA  

“The Work of the School”

Charles K. Williams II, Director Emeritus, Corinth Excavations

Roberto Nardi, Centro di Conservazione Archeologica-Roma
“Conservation in Progress: The Wall Paintings of Ancient Corinth”

May 6, 2022

 


April 2022

 

“Sparing the Vanquished”: Empire and the Provinces from Hadrian to Justinian

Byzantinte Dialogues from the Gennadius - Episode 9

Marion Kruse, University of Cincinnati

April 12, 2022

 

“Sparing the Vanquished”: Empire and the Provinces from Hadrian to Justinian

Byzantinte Dialogues from the Gennadius - Episode 9

Marion Kruse, University of Cincinnati

April 12, 2022

 

"Σμύρνη (19ος- αρχές 20ου αιώνα): Οι διαδρομές των ανθρώπων και των βιβλίων"

Σύλλογος Φίλων Γενναδείου Βιβλιοθήκης

Ιωάννα Πετροπούλου, Ιστορικός

April 6, 2022

 

 

«Ένα πρόγραμμα για την Αθήνα». Δημόσια Συζήτηση

Ίδρυμα Schwarz & Γεννάδειος Βιβλιοθήκη της Αμερικανικής Σχολής Κλασικών Σπουδών στην Αθήνα

Γεώργιος-Στυλιανός Πρεβελάκης, ομότιμος καθηγητής Γεωπολιτικής στη Σορβόννη, μόνιμος αντιπρόσωπος της Ελλάδας στον ΟΟΣΑ

Παντολέων Σκάγιαννης, ομότιμος καθηγητής Πολιτικής των Υποδομών Πανεπιστημίου Θεσσαλίας, Τμήμα Χωροταξίας, Πολεοδομίας & Περιφερειακής Ανάπτυξης

Θωμάς Δοξιάδης, Principal doxiadis

Ρένα Κλαμπατσέα, αναπλ. καθηγήτρια ΕΜΠ, πρώην ΓΓ Χωρικού Σχεδιασμού και Αστικού Περιβάλλοντος ΥΠΕΝ

Μιχαήλ Ιακωβίδης, καθηγητής Στρατηγικής και Καινοτομίας στο London Business School

Συντονίζει ο Ανδρέας Γιακουμακάτος, καθηγητής Αρχιτεκτονικής στην Ανωτάτη Σχολή Καλών Τεχνών

April 4, 2022

 


March 2022

 

Athena’s Horsemen: Equestrian Dedications from the Athenian Acropolis

Hippos Lecture Series, Episode 6

Mary Ann Eaverly, University of Florida

March 10, 2022

 

 

Γεώργιος Γεννάδιος: Ήρωας του Ναυπλίου και διδάσκαλος του γένους

Σύλλογος Φίλων Γενναδείου Βιβλιοθήκης

Λεωνόρα Ναβάρη, Ιστορικός του βιβλίου

March 9, 2022

 

The Residue of Eden: Myth and Medicine in Early Christian Anointing Practices

Byzantinte Dialogues from the Gennadius - Episode 8

John David Penniman, Bucknell University, Pennsylvania & NEH Fellow, ASCSA

March 8, 2022

 

Περί Ιππικής: On Ancient Greek Horsemanship

Hippos Lecture Series, Episode 5

Carol Mattusch, George Mason University

March 3, 2022

 


February 2022

 

History on Horseback: An Equestrian Perspective of the Ancient World

Hippos Lecture Series, Episode 4

Carolyn Willekes, Mount Royal University

February 24, 2022

 

Aristocrats and Horses in Democratic Athens

Hippos Lecture Series, Episode 3

Judy Barringer, University of Edinburgh

February 17, 2022

 

Reflections on the Athenian Cavalry

Hippos Lecture Series, Episode 2

Glenn Bugh, Virginia Tech

February 10, 2022

 

Heinrich Schliemann …yet again! Why still delve into his biography 200 years after his birth?

Dr. Michaela Zavadil, Austrian Academy of Sciences

February 3, 2022

 


January 2022

 

The Medici Riccardi Horse Head in the National Archaeological Museum of Florence

Hippos Lecture Series, Episode 1

Mario Iozzo,Director, National Archaeological Museum of Florence

January 20, 2022

 


December 2021

 

Genuine Alliance or Reluctant Partners? The German Archaeological Institute and the Nazi Ancestral Heritage Research and Teaching Society

Annual Archives Lecture 2021

Alexandra Kankeleit, Freie Universität Berlin

December 16, 2021

 

Η αμερικανική ναυτική μοίρα της Μεσογείου και η ελληνική επανάσταση: Η επιχείρηση στη Μύκονο και ο ρόλος του πειρατή Μερμελέχα

Gennadius Library - Hybrid Lecture

Antonis Kotsonas, New York University

December 14, 2021

 

Loving the Poor: Charity and Justice in Byzantine Greece

American School - Hybrid Lecture

Teresa Shawcross, Elizabeth A. Whitehead Distinguished Scholar

December 2, 2021

 


November 2021

 

1821: Ideology and History in the 20th Century

Gennadius Library - Webinar Series

Efi Gazi, University of the Peloponnese

Kostis Karpozilos, Contemporary Social History Archives (ASKI)

Mark Mazower, Columbia University

November 30, 2021

 

Voices of the Lost Children of Greece, 1948-1968

Gennadius Library - Hybrid Lecture

Gonda Van Steen, King’s College London
&
Mary Cardaras, California State University, East Bay

November 23, 2021

 

Byzantine Dialogues from the Gennadius Library: 'By this conquer’: Relics as Weapons in Byzantium

Byzantine Dialogues from the Gennadius Library- Episode 7

Brad Hostetler, Kenyon College

November 16, 2021

 

Η εσωτερική μετατόπιση της Μεγάλης Ιδέας: Το Τάμα του Έθνους και η μνήμη του ‘21 στα χρόνια της δικτατορίας

Γεννάδειος Βιβλιοθήκη - Webinar Series

Δημήτρης Αντωνίου, Πανεπιστήμιο Columbia

November 9, 2021

 

Leading the Spirits of Youth to Excellence: Greek Citizen Training in Context

American School - Hybrid Lecture

Nigel Kennell,
University of British Columbia
Elizabeth A. Whitehead Distinguished Scholar, ASCSA

November 4, 2021

 

The Odyssey in Song: A One-Man Modern Folk-Opera Performance of Homer's Epic

Musical Performance - Lecture

Joe Goodkin,
Singer / Songwriter

November 3, 2021

 

 

Architecture as Ideology and Politics: the Monument of the Revolution

Γεννάδειος Βιβλιοθήκη - Hybrid Lecture

Παναγιώτης Τουρνικιώτης, Εθνικό Μετσόβειο Πολυτεχνείο, Σχολή Αρχιτεκτονικής

November 2, 2021

 


October 2021

 

Βοστώνη, η πρωτεύουσα του Αμερικανικού φιλελληνισμού

Φίλοι Γενναδείου Βιβλιοθήκης - Webinar Series

Στράτος Ευθυμίου, Γενικός Πρόξενος της Ελλάδος στη Βοστώνη

Δρ. Μανώλης Παράσχος, Ομότιμος καθηγητής του Πανεπιστημίου Emerson, Βοστώνης

October 20, 2021

 

Το 1821 εξ ανατολών

Γεννάδειος Βιβλιοθήκη - Webinar Series

Μαρία Μαυρουδή, UC, Berkeley

Χριστίνα Φίλιου, UC, Berkeley

Μαρίνος Σαρηγιάννης, Ινστιτούτο Μεσογειακών Σπουδών, ITE

October 18, 2021


September 2021

 

“Religious Tolerance and the Twilight of the Ancient World.”

Gennadius Library - 39th Annual Walton Lecture

Stephen Greenblatt, Harvard University

September 29, 2021


June 2021

 

Philhellenism and the Development of Female-led Reform in the United States

Gennadius Library - Webinar Series

Maureen Connors Santelli,
Associate Professor of History, Northern Virginia Community College

June 1, 2021

 


May 2021

 

Purple dye production in the Bronze Age Aegean: archaeological, historical and experimental evidence

Live from the Lab

Rena Veropoulidou,
Programmatic Post-Doctoral Fellow, The M.H. Wiener Laboratory for Archaeological Science

May 25, 2021

 

Αλληγορίες από τον Καζαντζάκη. Ο Θεός φταίει που έκανε τον κόσμο τόσο ωραίο.

Γεννάδειος Βιβλιοθήκη - Webinar Series

Βαγγέλης Ραπτόπουλος,
Συγγραφέας

May 12, 2021

 


April 2021

 

Η Ιστορία έχει πρόσωπο. Οι μορφές των Αγωνιστών από τους συγχρόνους τους καλλιτέχνες

Σύλλογος Φίλων Γενναδείου Βιβλιοθήκης - Webinar Series

Χαρίκλεια Γ. Δημακοπούλου,
Διδάκτωρ του Δημοκριτείου Πανεπιστημίου Θράκης στην Ιστορία του Δικαίου

April 14, 2021

 

From Orphans to Humanitarians: Wartime Refugees and the Making of Greek America

Gennadius Library - Webinar Series

Dr. Thomas W. Gallant, Nicholas Family Endowed Chair Professor of Modern Greek History & Archaeology
University of California, San Diego

April 6, 2021

 

Macedonian Painting and the Transformation of Familiar Images in a Funerary Context

Greek Painting in Context Webinar Series, Episode 6

Olga Palagia,
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (emerita)

April 1, 2021

 


March 2021

 

Neourgia: The Restoration of Icons in the Premodern World

Byzantine Dialogues from the Gennadius Library - Episode 6

Ivan Drpić,
Associate Professor and Undergraduate Chair, University of Pennsylvania

March 23, 2021

 

The Gigantomachy on the Athena Parthenos Shield

Greek Painting in Context Webinar Series, Episode 5

Jenifer Neils,
American School of Classical Studies

March 18, 2021

 

’Etruscanizing’ Athenian Painted Pottery

Greek Painting in Context Webinar Series, Episode 4

Sheramy Bundrick,
University of South Florida

March 11, 2021

 

«Η ιστορική πινακοθήκη της Ελληνικής Επανάστασης και η διαμόρφωση της εθνικής μνήμης»

Γεννάδειος Βιβλιοθήκη - Webinar Series

Χριστίνα Κουλούρη,
Πρύτανις, Πάντειο Πανεπιστήμιο Κοινωνικών και Πολιτικών Επιστημών

March 9, 2021

 

Women in Greek Archaeology: Celebrating International Women’s Day at the ASCSA

Sarah Morris, UCLA

Lucia Nixon, Oxford University

Kim Shelton, UC Berkeley

Aleydis Van de Moortel, University of Tennessee

Bonna Wescoat, Emory University

Jenifer Neils, American School of Classical Studies

March 8, 2021

 

Wall Paintings in Archaic Greek Temples: Kalapodi and Isthmia

Greek Painting in Context Webinar Series, Episode 3

Wolf-Dietrich Niemeier,
German Archaeological Institute

March 4, 2021

 


February 2021

 

In Search of Contexts: The Wall Paintings of the Mycenaean Palace at Pylos Revisited

Greek Painting in Context Webinar Series, Episode 2

Hariclia Brecoulaki,
National Hellenic Research Foundation

February 25, 2021

 

Beyond Iconography: The Frescoes from the House of the Frescoes at Knossos

Greek Painting in Context Webinar Series, Episode 1

Emilia Oddo,
Tulane University

February 18, 2021

 

Το Οικουμενικό Πατριαρχείο Μετά τον Ψυχρό Πόλεμο

Ημέρα Μνήμης Ιωάννου & Ανθής Γενναδίου
Σύλλογος Φίλων Γενναδείου Βιβλιοθήκης

Άλκης Κούρκουλας
Eπικεφαλής του Αθηναϊκού Πρακτορείου Ειδήσεων στην Τουρκία

February 10, 2021

 

Byzantine Intellectuals having Fun in Justinianic Constantinople

Byzantine Dialogues from the Gennadius Library - Episode 5

Alexander Alexakis,
Professor of Byzantine Philology at the University of Ioannina

February 2, 2021
 


January 2021

 

A Prosperous Realm Beyond Borders: Byzantine-Islamic Trade in the Early Middle Ages, 9th-11th Centuries

Byzantine Dialogues from the Gennadius Library - Episode 4

Koray Durak,
Associate Professor, Department of History, Bogazici University
Vice-director of Byzantine Studies Research Center, Istanbul

January 26, 2021

 

Monuments for 1821: Fruitless Proposals for a Panhellenic Heroon

Γεννάδειος Βιβλιοθήκη - Webinar Series

Δώρα Φ. Μαρκάτου,
τ. Αναπληρώτρια Καθηγήτρια Πανεπιστημίου Ιωαννίνων

January 19, 2021

 

The Organization of Constantinople - Οργάνωσις Κωνσταντινουπόλεως

Γεννάδειος Βιβλιοθήκη - Webinar Series

Αικατερίνη Μπούρα,
Πρόεδρος των Φίλων της Γενναδείου Βιβλιοθήκης

Νατάσα Λαιμού,
Visiting Research Fellow, King’s College London

January 12, 2021

 


December 2020

Annual Open Meeting 2020

Jenifer Neils,
Director of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Kontantinos Karathanasis,
Student Associate Member, American School

Panagiotis (Takis) Karkanas,
Director of the Wiener Laboratory for Archaeological Science

Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogran,
Doreen Canaday Spitzer Archivist, American School

Maria Georgopoulou,
Director of the Gennadius Library, American School

December 10, 2020

 


November 2020

 

"Eustathios of Thessaloniki on Homer and Excellent Oratory"

Byzantine Dialogues from the Gennadius Library - Episode 3

Baukje van den Berg,
Assistant Professor of Byzantine Studies at Central European University (Vienna)

November 24, 2020

 

"The Ancient Methone Archaeological Project (AMAP): The Movie"

John K. Papadopoulos, Professor of Archaeology & Classics, UCLA

Jeff Vanderpool, Archaeological and Cultural Heritage Photographer and Imaging Specialist

November 19, 2020

 

"The Red Monastery Church (Upper Egypt): Its Significance and Conservation"

Byzantine Dialogues from the Gennadius Library - Episode 2

Elizabeth S. Bolman,
Professor in the Liberal Arts, Case Western Reserve University

November 10, 2020

 

"Live from the Agora - The Stoa of Attalos"

Live from the Agora - Episode 4

John McK. Camp II, Director of Excavations at the Athenian Agora

November 5, 2020

 

"ΙΩΝ ΔΡΑΓΟΥΜΗΣ: Από το εγώ στις μυλόπετρες της ιστορίας"

Σύλλογος Φίλων Γενναδείου Βιβλιοθήκης

Θόδωρος Ν. Σωτηρόπουλος, Πρέσβης ε.τ.

Σύντομη παρέμβαση, Αλέξης Αλεξανδρής, Πρέσβης ε.τ., και ιστορικός

November 4, 2020

 


October 2020

 

"Sixty Years Exploring Prehistoric Kea"

In collaboration with the University of Cincinnati

Jack L. Davis
Miriam Caskey
Lyvia Morgan
Natalie Abell

October 22, 2020

 

"Byzantine Literature. Everything You Always Wanted to Know About It (But Were Afraid to Ask)"

Byzantine Dialogues from the Gennadius Library - Episode 1

Stratis Papaioannou,
Professor of Byzantine Philology at the University of Crete

October 20, 2020

 

"A Victim of his Times Ion Dragoumis and the Struggle for the ‘National Soul’ of Greece."

Archives Webinar

Roderick Beaton,
Emeritus Koraes Professor of Modern Greek & Byzantine History, Language & Literature at King’s College London

October 15, 2020

 

"Live from the Agora - The Temple of Hephaestus"

Live from the Agora - Episode 3

John Camp,
Director of Excavations, at the Athenian Agora of the American School of Classical Studies

October 8, 2020
 


September 2020

 

"Commemorating the Battle of Salamis"

2.500 years from the Battle of Salamis

John R. Hale,
Director of Liberal Studies University of Louisville

With a response by: 

Geoffrey R. Pyatt, 
U.S. Ambassador to the Hellenic Republic

September 29, 2020
 

"Uncovering the Identity of Corinth"

Live from Corinth, Episode 3

Dr. Ioulia Tzonou,
Associate Director of Corinth Excavations

Eleni Gizas, 
Steinmetz Family Foundation Museum Fellow, Corinth Excavations

September 25, 2020
 

"Athenian Pottery Up Close"

Live from the Agora, Episode 2

Jenifer Neils,
Director of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens

September 17, 2020
 

"Archaeological Survey and Regional Approaches to the Study of Aegean Landscapes"

Methods in Archaeology of Greece, Episode 1

Jack L. Davis,
Carl W Blegen Professor of Greek Archaeology at the University of Cincinnati

Alex R. Knodell,
Associate Professor of Classics and Director of the Archaeology Program at Carleton College

September 10, 2020
 

"The Royal Stoa"

Webinar - "Live from the Agora" Episode 1

John Camp,
Director of Excavations, at the Athenian Agora of the American School of Classical Studies

September 3, 2020
 



August 2020

 

Plagues and Pandemics in the Past: The Evidence from Thebes

Webinar - "Live from the Lab" Episode 3

Dr. Maria Liston,
Senior Associate Member, Malcolm H. Wiener Laboratory for Archaeological Science

August 6, 2020


July 2020

 

Τα μνημεία της Αρχαίας Κορίνθου και οι ανθρώπινες ιστορίες τους: Εκπαιδευτικές Δράσεις και Προοπτικές

Webinar - "Live from Corinth" Episode 2

Παναγιώτα Κασίμη,
Προϊσταμένη της Εφορείας Αρχαιοτήτων Κορινθίας
Ioulia Tzonou,
Associate Director of Corinth Excavations

July 16, 2020


June 2020

 

"Alketas of Halieis, being blind, saw a dream”: Personal Stories of Sickness and Cure in the Asklepieion in Ancient Corinth

Webinar - "Live from Corinth" Episode 1

Dr. Ioulia Tzonou,
Associate Director of Corinth Excavations Eleni Gizas,
Steinmetz Family Foundation Museum Fellow at Ancient Corinth

June 30, 2020

 

Museums, Society, and the Public Interest

Gennadius Library - Webinar Series

Daniel H. Weiss
President and CEO, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

June 24, 2020

 

"The Birth of Democracy in Ancient Athens: A Bioarchaeological Perspective"

Webinar - "Live from the Lab" Episode 2

Jane E. Buikstra, Regents’ Professor and Founding Director, Center for Bioarchaeological Research, Arizona State University
Trustee of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens

June 16, 2020

 

"Late Bronze Age Tablewares as an Index of Behavioural Variation, a Metrical and Volumetric Study "

Webinar

Charles Sturge, Ione Mylonas Shear Fellow, American School of Classical Studies at Athens

June 2, 2020

 

"Gender, Cultural Elites and the Cold War in Greece. A Case Study Approach Based on the Life and Work of Alison Frantz and Ekaterini Myrivili"

Gennadius Library - Webinar Series

Despina Lalaki, M. Alison Frantz Fellow, American School of Classical Studies at Athens

June 2, 2020


May 2020

 

"Destruction, Survival, and Economic Recovery in the Greek World"

Webinar

Sylvian Fachard, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Classical Studies, ASCSA
Edward Harris, Professor Emeritus of Ancient History, Durham University

May 26, 2020

 

"Live from the Lab"

Webinar

Flint Dibble, Post Doctoral Fellow, Wiener Laboratory for Archaeological Sciences
Megan Dennison, Research Associate, Wiener Lab for Archaeological Sciences

May 19, 2020


March 2020

 

"Ionic Polychromy - Beyond Doric Analogies and Homogenizing Methodologies"

Webinar / Tea Talk

Samuel Holzman, Senior Associate Member, ASCSA — Jacob Hirsch Postdoctoral Fellow

March 19, 2020

 

"A Site for All Periods: The Diachronicity of Mochlos, East Crete"

Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogan, Doreen Canaday Spitzer Archivist - ASCSA

March 5, 2020


January 2020

 

"The Legacy of Francesco Morosini in Crete, Athens and the Morea"

Gennadius Library - Conference

January 23 & 24, 2020


December 2019

 

"Euchenor’s Corinth: Mycenaean Habitation from Acrocorinth to Korakou"

Ioulia Tzonou, Assistant Director - ASCSA Corinth Excavations

December 5, 2019


November 2019

"Erasing Macedonians: The Politics of Athenian Space in 200 B.C."

Julia Shear (NEH Fellow, American School of Classical Studies)

November 21, 2019

 

“Socrates and the Health of Athens”

Cynthia Patterson - Distinguished Whitehead Professor 2019-2020 - ASCSA

November 14, 2019


October 2019

 

"Goats and Other Animals at Azoria: Public Feasting and Domestic Dining in Context"

Flint Dibble - Wiener Laboratory Postdoctoral Fellow

October 31, 2019

 

"Spolia: Programmatic, Enigmatic, Problematic"

Gennadius Library - Lecture

Dale Kinney, Bryn Mawr

October 29, 2019

"Watchdogs of the People? The Demagogues of Ancient Greece"

Matthew Simonton, Arizona State University

October 24, 2019

 

"Εκδήλωση για τα 50 χρόνια από τον θάνατο του Στράτη Μυριβήλη"

Γεννάδειος Βιβλιοθήκη - Παρουσίαση

Μάριος Κυπαρίσσης-Μώρος, Παντελής Μπουκάλας, Γιώργος Συρίμης και η Λένα Παπαληγούρα

October 15, 2019

 

“Notion Archaeological Research Project: The Biography of an Ancient Greek City in Ionia”

Christopher Ratté, Michigan

October 3, 2019


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”

Γεννάδειος Βιβλιοθήκη - Διάλεξη

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"

Gennadius Library - Lecture

Elisabeth Fraser, University of South Florida

May 28, 2019


April 2019

 

"Annual Open Meeting 2019"


"Work of the School" - Jenifer Neils, Director, ASCSA

"Αφιέρωμα 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"

Γεννάδειος Βιβλιοθήκη - Διάλεξη

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"

Gennadius Library - Lecture

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"

Γεννάδειος Βιβλιοθήκη - Παρουσίαση

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"

Gennadius Library - Lecture/Reading

Douglas Burnet Smith, St. Francis Xavier University

May 2, 2018


April 2018

 

37th Annual Walton Lecture: “English Collectors of Greek Manuscripts at the British Library: Lord Guilford and Anthony Askew”

Gennadius Library - Walton Lecture

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”

Gennadius Library - Panel Discussion

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

"Nessun Dorma! Ancient Greece after Sunset," Angelos Chaniotis, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton

March 9, 2018

 

"Making a Byzantine Holy Land- The Impact of Monastic Activity in the Mazi Plain, Attica"

Gennadius Library - Lecture

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"

Γεννάδειος Βιβλιοθήκη - Παρουσίαση Έκθεσης

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"

Gennadius Library - Lecture

Robert Ousterhout, University of Pennsylvania

November 7, 2017


October 2017

 

"Con que soavità… Με πόση γλυκύτητα"

Γεννάδειος Βιβλιοθήκη - Συναυλία

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"

Gennadius Library - 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"

Gennadius Library - Walton Lecture

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"

Gennadius Library - Lecture

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 - Conference

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"

Gennadius Library - Lecture

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"

Γεννάδειος Βιβλιοθήκη - Πσρουσίαση

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"

Gennadius Library - Lecture

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"

Gennadius Library - Lecture/Reading

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"

Gennadius Library - Lecture

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"

Gennadius Library - Lecture

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"

Gennadius Library - Lecture

Curtis Runnels, Professor of Archaeology, Boston University

May 24, 2016

 

"An Earthly Paradise. Μπαξές, Περιβόλι and Ύπαιθρος in the Aegean"

Gennadius Library - Lecture

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"

Gennadius Library - Lecture

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"

Gennadius Library - Lecture

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)"

Gennadius Library - Walton Lecture

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"

Gennadius Library - Lecture

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"

Gennadius Library - Lecture

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"

Γεννάδειος Βιβλιοθήκη - Παρουσίαση

Αφήγηση παραμυθιών για μικρούς και μεγάλους - Σάσα Βούλγαρη

May 10, 2015

 

"Της Μοίρας το Χρυσό Δαχτυλίδι"

Γεννάδειος Βιβλιοθήκη - Παρουσίαση

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"

Gennadius Library - Lecture

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"

Gennadius Library - Conference

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”

Gennadius Library - Lecture

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

Gennadius Library - Lecture

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

Gennadius Library - Lecture

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

Gennadius Library - Lectures

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”

Gennadius Library - Theatrical Performance

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”

Gennadius Library - Lecture

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

Gennadius Library - Lecture

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”

Gennadius Library - Lecture

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

Gennadius Library - 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"

Γεννάδειος Βιβλιοθήκη - Παρουσίαση

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

Gennadius Library - Lecture

Elena Boeck, Associate Professor of Art History, DePaul University

October 7, 2013


May 2013

 

Μαρία Μαυρουδή, Ελληνική φιλοσοφία στην αυλή του Μωάμεθ Β΄

Gennadius Library - Lecture

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"

Gennadius Library - Lecture

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"

Gennadius Library - Lecture

Annemarie Weyl Carr, Southern Methodist University

April 2, 2013


March 2013

 

"Αρχείο Κωνσταντίνου Βοβολίνη - Μεγάλο Ελληνικό Βιογραφικό Λεξικό"

Γεννάδειος Βιβλιοθήκη - Παρουσίαση

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”

Gennadius Library - Lecture

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”"

Gennadius Library - Lecture

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”"

Gennadius Library - Lecture

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"

Gennadius Library - Lecture

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?”

Gennadius Library - Walton Lecture

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.”

Gennadius Library - Walton Lecture

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.”

Gennadius Library - Lecture

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.”

Gennadius Library - Lecture

Joanita Vroom, University of Amsterdam
April 3, 2012


March 2012

 

Stathis Kalyvas (Yale University). “Αντίσταση και Εμφύλιος: Διερευνώντας μία δύσκολη διαπλοκή.”

Gennadius Library - Lecture

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.”

Gennadius Library - Lecture

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.”

Gennadius Library - Lecture

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

Gennadius Library - Lecture

Ioulita Iliopoulou, Gennadius 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 - Book Presentation

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”

Gennadius Library - Walton Lecture

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

Gennadius Library - Lecture

George Tolias, National Hellenic Research Foundation
January 20, 2011