ASCSA Newsletter

July 1, 2015

Greek President Tours the Gennadius Library

President of the Hellenic Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos visited the ASCSA on June 29 and toured the Gennadius Library, where he was shown the Library's treasures.

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Corinth Ends 2015 Season

June 26, 2015

Corinth Ends 2015 Season

Our 2015 excavation season at Corinth has come to a successful end as the third session supervisors wrap up their final reports over the next week. Also we highlight 3D scanning at Peirene fountain by Cyark.

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June 24, 2015

President and Vice-President of Haverford College Visit the Gennadius Library

Daniel Weiss, president of Haverford College, and friends visit the Gennadius Library

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June 19, 2015

From Rome to Athens

From Rome to Athens. Lindsay Harris, Mellon Professor, and Kim Bowes, Director of the American Academy in Rome, on a short two-day visit to the ASCSA. On June 17th, Kim Bowes also delivered a fascinating talk at Cotsen Hall, titled "Roman Peasants: Food, Lives, Landscape."

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June 10, 2015

Hesperia 84.2 Now Online!

Topics in this issue include the lower portion of the Sanctuary of Zeus on Mt. Lykaion, the results of excavations at the Nemean Sanctuary of Zeus, a reassessment of the Southeast Fountain House, and an analysis of the inscription Agora I 5178.

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June 8, 2015

Malcolm Wiener Awarded Gold Cross by the Hellenic Republic

In a special ceremony at the Embassy of Greece in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, June 3, 2015, ASCSA Trustee Chairman Malcolm Hewitt Wiener was awarded the Gold Cross of the Order of Honor by the Hellenic Republic for his contribution to the study of Aegean Prehistory.

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VIDEOCAST - The Ottoman Monuments of Athens

June 5, 2015

VIDEOCAST - The Ottoman Monuments of Athens

Machiel Kiel will give a lecture on "The Ottoman Monuments of Athens: Remarks on their dates of construction, identity of their patrons and their place in the general framework of Ottoman Architecture".

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VIDEOCAST - International Conference: “Athens and Attica in Prehistory

June 5, 2015

VIDEOCAST - 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

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June 2, 2015

Interim Board President Appointed

William T. Loomis has been appointed Acting President of the Board, filling in for Robert A. McCabe who is taking a leave of absence.

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May 28, 2015

Graduate Students of the Athens, Patras, and Aegean Universities at the ASCSA

Μεταπτυχιακοί φοιτητές των πανεπιστημίων Αθηνών, Πατρών και Αιγαίου στην ΑΣΚΣΑ

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May 26, 2015

Colgate University Students at the Wiener Lab

Rebecca Ammerman, professor of Classics at the University of Colgate, and fourteen of her students visited the Wiener Lab.

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May 25, 2015

Unconventional Living Arrangements: The “Quartet” of Ploutarchou Street

Παράδοξη συγκατοίκηση: το "κουαρτέτο της οδού Πλουτάρχου". Από τον Δημήτρη Ρηγὀπουλο στην Καθημερινή της Κυριακής (24/5/20015).

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May 20, 2015

University of Chicago Students at the ASCSA

Jonathan Hall, professor of Classics at the University of Chicago, and fifteen of his students visited the American School of Classical Studies as part of a study-abroad program entitled "Greek Antiquity and Its Legacy."

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May 19, 2015

Corinth Excavations 2015: Midseason Photos

Corinth Excavations has reached the midpoint of the 2015 excavation season with three teams digging in the Frankish area south of Temple E and two teams in the Agonotheteion of the South Stoa.

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Eutychia Mosaic Conservation

May 18, 2015

Eutychia Mosaic Conservation

The conservation team, Nicol Anastassatou, Charis Delis and Spyros Armenis, continues their work on the Agonotheteion mosaic with enthusiasm made possible by a generous grant from the Stockman Family Foundation. They are now in the process of removing the mortar substratum, into which the tesserae were set initially, from each of the pieces of the mosaic.

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May 18, 2015

Schliemann Aficionados at the Gennadius Library

On the initiative of Alfonso Lucini Mateo, Ambassador of Spain to Athens, and his wife, Carmen Serrano de Haro, architect of the Spanish Ministry of Public Treasury, a small group of Spanish intellectuals visited the Archives of the Gennadius Library on the evening of May 14th, 2015.

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VIDEOCAST - Σαν τα παλιά τα παραμύθια

May 11, 2015

VIDEOCAST - Σαν τα παλιά τα παραμύθια

Αφήγηση παραμυθιών για μικρούς και μεγάλους Σάσα Βούλγαρη

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VIDEOCAST - Της Μοίρας το Χρυσό Δαχτυλίδι

May 8, 2015

VIDEOCAST - Της Μοίρας το Χρυσό Δαχτυλίδι

Αφήγηση παραμυθιών για ενήλικο κοινό Σάσα Βούλγαρη

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VIDEOCAST - The Mystic Lettrist ‘Abd al-Rahman al-Bistami and the Origins of Ottoman Historical

May 8, 2015

VIDEOCAST - The Mystic Lettrist ‘Abd al-Rahman al-Bistami and the Origins of Ottoman Historical

Cornell Fleischer, Kanuni Suleyman Professor, Ottoman and Modern Turkish Studies, University of Chicago

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May 7, 2015

Students from University of Michigan visiting the ASCSA

Artemis Leontis, professor of Modern Greek in the Department of Classical Studies at the University of Michigan, and eight of her students visited the the Archives of the American School of Classical Studies as part of a 10-day study tour of Athens, Santorini, and Delphi.

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May 5, 2015

Climate change, human population growth, or both?

"Climate change, human population growth, or both? Upper Paleolithic subsistence shifts in southern Greece". Dr. Maria Ntinou, former Wiener Laboratory Fellow has published this recent article in Quaternary International (under her affiliation with the lab).

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VIDEOCAST - Telling the Whole Story at Multi-Period Sites

April 28, 2015

VIDEOCAST - Telling the Whole Story at Multi-Period Sites

WORKSHOP Athens Society of the Archaeological Institute οf America and ASCSA

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VIDEOCAST - The Topography of Ottoman Athens. Archaeology & Travel - Symposium

April 28, 2015

VIDEOCAST - The Topography of Ottoman Athens. Archaeology & Travel - Symposium

A two-day symposium (April 23-24) featured twelve lectures that explored the topography of Ottoman Athens in Cotsen Hall in conjunction with the exhibition "Ottoman Athens, 1458-1833".

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April 27, 2015

Students from Athens University Conducting Archival Research at ASCSA

Φοιτητές του Πανεπιστημίου Αθηνών και αρχειακή έρευνα στην ΑΚΣΚΑ

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April 24, 2015

Symposium on Ottoman Athens Concluded

Λήξη των εργασιών του συμποσίου για την Οθωμανική Αθήνα

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