September 20, 2012
Studite Project on Byzantine Bookbindings
Gennadius Manuscripts showcased in European Study Program
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Πρόγραμμα Διαλέξεων 2012-2013
Η Γεννάδειος Βιβλιοθήκη διοργανώνει κάθε χρόνο σειρά διαλέξεων που πραγματοποιούνται στο αμφιθέατρο Cotsen Hall της Αμερικανικής Σχολής Κλασικών Σπουδών στην Αθήνα (Αναπήρων Πολέμου 9).
Read MoreSeptember 11, 2012
Ενημερωθείτε ηλεκτρονικά για τις εκδηλώσεις της Γενναδείου Βιβλιοθήκης
Εγγραφείτε τώρα στην ηλεκτρονική λίστα εκδηλώσεων της Γενναδείου από την ιστοσελίδα μας
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Read MoreSeptember 11, 2012
Gennadius Library Lectures for 2012-2013
The Gennadius Library maintains a busy program of lectures in Cotsen Hall, the auditorium of the American School (entered from 9, Anapiron Polemou Street).
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September 6, 2012
Summer’s in Session
Summer Session II 2012 Director Tim Winters reports on a fabulous summer exploring the breadth and width of Greek archaeology and history. The participants visited sites from the prehistoric period right up to the twentieth century and learned a good deal about modern life in Greece as well.
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September 6, 2012
Q and A with New Director James Wright
Jim Wright arrived in Athens this summer to become its new director for a five-year term starting June 30th. A professor and chair of the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology at Bryn Mawr (a spawning ground for many notable ASCSA alumni), Professor Wright has had a long association with the American School. We were able to catch the new Director to ask a few questions just before the new school year.
Read MoreSeptember 3, 2012
School Members Report on Productive Year
Spending a year at the School can be a career-defining experience. Several members of the Class of 2011-12 report on their research progress and share some preliminary conclusions about their topics of interest.
Read MoreSeptember 3, 2012
Managing Committee Makes Appointments, Announces Election Results
Catch up on Managing Committee business from the committee meeting, held on May 15, 2012 in New York City, and subsequent Managing Committee actions.
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August 1, 2012
Departing Managing Committee Chair Mary Sturgeon Offers Final Thoughts
Summer has seen new faces at the School. Joining us have been new Director James Wright, new Assistant Director Nicholas Blackwell, and new Managing Committee Chair Jenifer Neils. While they are getting established in their new positions, we wanted to take this moment to say goodbye to outgoing ManCom Chair Mary Sturgeon. Mary has been chair since 2007 and has played an integral role in the School's administration. We asked her for a few parting remarks before she took off for her research in Corinth.
Read MoreJuly 27, 2012
More Schliemann Diaries and Copybooks on the Web
Recent funding from the Institute for Aegean Prehistory has enabled us to digitize a considerable part of the Schliemann Papers and make them available on the School's website.
Read MoreJuly 11, 2012
Scholar Season in Corinth
Scholar season in Ancient Corinth is that time each year, after the excavation has finished and the village panagyri celebrations have passed, when the Corinth Museum fills with students and professors working on material collected from ASCSA excavations since 1896.
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July 9, 2012
Research Spotlight: Heather Graybehl on Late Roman Petrography
At the American School Excavations at Corinth, Heather Graybehl is currently conducting a petrographic study of Late Roman cooking pots, coarsewares, and amphorae from Panayia Field. She describes her work here.
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July 5, 2012
New Isthmia Volume: Q and A with Joe Rife
Joseph L. Rife discusses the challenges and rewards of investigating bones and burials at the Isthmus for his new book, The Roman and Byzantine Graves and Human Remains (Isthmia IX).
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June 22, 2012
Renovated Stoa of Attalos; New Digital Library Debuts
A renovated Stoa of Attalos and new digital library for the Agora Excavations are set to debut July 18, 2012. Annotated excavation notebooks and 360 degree object photography on the web, as well as newly conserved (and some never before seen) sculpture in the Stoa galleries are all to be unveiled. See a preview here.
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June 20, 2012
Q and A with Departing Director Jack Davis
Jack Davis and Shari Stocker leave the director's house in Athens for the last time on June 30 amid a whirlwind of activity and final engagements (including a public service announcement filmed for Greece tourism!) Already five years have passed since he arrived in Greece and we interviewed him about his plans for the School. Here, we ask him to reflect on his term.
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June 14, 2012
Academic Program Visits Turkey
Barbara Tsakirgis, Vanderbilt University, and Vice Chair of the ASCSA Managing Committee, recounts the late spring 2012 trip to Turkey led by Agora Excavations director John Camp. As befits ASCSA trips, the itinerary was ambitious, with sites never before visited on a School trip. There was also time made for good eating, a snowball fight . . . and mint juleps?
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June 7, 2012
VIDEOCAST-Fikret Yegül “Our Complicity in this Classical Looting: Triangulating the Past at Sardis
Archives Lecture Fikret Yegül (University of California, Santa Barbara). “Our Complicity in this Classical Looting: Triangulating the Past at Sardis, 1922–1925.”
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May 31, 2012
Artemis Cooper “Patrick Leigh Fermor in Greece.”
Artemis Cooper (Biographer). “Patrick Leigh Fermor in Greece.”
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May 31, 2012
VIDEOCAST - Artemis Cooper “Patrick Leigh Fermor in Greece.”
Artemis Cooper (Biographer). “Patrick Leigh Fermor in Greece.”
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May 29, 2012
VIDEOCAST - Corinth: A Portrait of an Idiosyncratic Greek City - Nancy Bookidis
Corinth: A Portrait of an Idiosyncratic Greek City Dr. Nancy Bookidis (Assistant Director Emerita, Corinth Excavations, ASCSA)
Read MoreMay 24, 2012
Παρουσίαση Αρχείου Γεωργίου Ν. Παπαϊωάννου
Στις 16 Μαΐου 2012, σε ένα κατάμεστο ακροατήριο, στο Αμφιθέατρο Cotsen της Αμερικανικής Σχολής Κλασικών Σπουδών, ανακοινώθηκε η ολοκλήρωση της καταγραφής του Aρχείου Παπαϊωάννου και η ανάρτηση του καταλόγου του στην ιστοσελίδα των Αρχείων της Γενναδείου Βιβλιοθήκης. Την παρουσίαση του αρχείου ανέλαβαν οι ιστορικοί Αλέξης Μάλλιαρης από το Τμήμα Αρχείων της Αμερικανικής Σχολής, ο Γιώργος Αντωνίου από το Διεθνές Πανεπιστήμιο Ελλάδας και ο Στάθης Καλύβας από το Πανεπιστήμιο Yale. Την παρουσίαση συμπλήρωσε η προσωπική μαρτυρία της κόρης του Παπαϊωάννου και μια εκ των τριών δωρητριών του αρχείου, κ. Νάντια Τζεβελέκου. Χαιρετισμό απηύθυνε ο Δήμαρχος Αγρινίου Παύλος Μοσχολιός.
Read MoreMay 18, 2012
Το τελευταίο τεύχος του Gennadeion News διαθέσιμο τώρα και σε ηλεκτρονική μορφή
Κυκλοφόρησε το εαρινό τεύχος του Gennadeion News
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May 18, 2012
Henry Maguire “Nectar and Illusion: Art, Nature, and Rhetoric in Byzantium.”
Walton Lecture Henry Maguire (Johns Hopkins University). “Nectar and Illusion: Art, Nature, and Rhetoric in Byzantium.”
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