January 6, 2011
Videocast: Working in Cotton, Metal and Fayence: Ottoman Artisans in the Early Modern Age
On December 14, 2010, Suraiya Faroqhi, prolific author and currently professor of history at Istanbul's Bilgi University, delivered a riveting lecture on crafts, textiles and guilds in the Ottoman Empire. Watch it here.
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January 5, 2011
Videocast: Exiles in Pisa, 1821. Mavrokordatos the Shelleys and the Greek Revolution
Roderick Beaton, Professor at King's College, London delivered this presentation on December 8 in Cotsen Hall as part of the Gennadeion's lecture series. Watch it in full here.
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January 5, 2011
Videocast: Παλιές και νέες αρχαιολογικές ανακαλύψεις στη Μεσσηνία
Xeni Arapogianni, head of the Directorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities in Kalamata, attracted an enthusiastic audience to Cotsen Hall on December 7, 2010 to learn about recent archaeological discoveries in Messenia.
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January 5, 2011
Videocast: The Quality of Life in Classical Antiquity
How great was life in Ancient Greece anyway? Stanford University Professor Walter Scheidel draws some surprising conclusions in this lecture on November 23 at Cotsen Hall.
Read MoreDecember 30, 2010
Gennadeion Newsletter Now Online
The issue of Gennadeion News for Fall 2010 was recently published and distributed to all members and friends of the Gennadius Library. Read the issue online and in color.
Read MoreDecember 29, 2010
Fall 2010 Issue of ákoue Now Online
The Fall 2010 edition of the School newsletter ákoue can be read online and in color here.
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New Research Interface for ASCSA.net
A new web research interface is available on ASCSA.net, and tips on using the online database.
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Leventis Foundation Awards Summer Session Program Grant to Gennadius Library
The A.G. Leventis Foundation has generously provided funding for the 2011 and 2013 summer sessions in Medieval Greek at the Library.
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SAVE THE DATE: ASCSA CELEBRATES 130th ANNIVERSARY
Preliminary program of events for celebrations during Alumni Week in Greece, June 3-12, 2011
Read MoreNovember 29, 2010
Paper by Christos Kolovos about Dimitri Mitropoulos and Constantinos Kydoniatis
Στο πλαίσιο του συνεδρίου Δημήτρης Μητρόπουλος (1896-1960): πενήντα χρόνια μετά. Μέγαρο Μουσικής Αθηνών, 12-13 Νοεμβρίου 2010 ο βιολονίστας και μουσικός Χρήστος Ηλ. Κολοβός συμμετείχε στο συνέδριο με την παρακάτω ανακοίνωση «Δημήτρης Μητρόπουλος – Κωνσταντίνος Κυδωνιάτης· σχέση άδολης φιλίας, Δασκάλου και μαθητή, Θεού και πιστού. Μια σχέση ζωής». Τον ευχαριστούμε θερμά για την προθυμία του να μας παραχωρήσει αντίγραφο της ομιλίας του.
Read MoreNovember 11, 2010
Η Γεννάδειος Βιβλιοθήκη κλειστή στις 25 & 26 Νοεμβρίου 2010
Η Γεννάδειος Βιβλιοθήκη θα παραμείνει κλειστή την Πέμπτη 25 και την Παρασκευή 26 Νοεμβρίου 2010
Read MoreNovember 10, 2010
Storage Issues Lead to Excavation of Loring Apotheke
Items currently in the apotheke not claimed by June 2012 will be removed and a new storage policy will be set effective fall 2011.
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November 8, 2010
Roman Sculptural Polychromy at Corinth
Extensive work in the storerooms of the Corinth Museum has identified numerous vestiges of ancient painting and gilding on the Roman marble statues excavated at Corinth by the American School of Classical Studies.
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October 29, 2010
Videocast: A Decent Burial: Commemoration and Community in Roman Corinth
Kathleen Slane, NEH fellow at ASCSA in 2010-11, spoke to a large and enthusiastic audience about the variety of forms of commemoration of death represented at Corinth in Roman times.
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October 28, 2010
Videocast: Οι Φαναριώτες και ο πρώιμος Διαφωτισμός (1680-1780)
A Gennadius Library presentation on October 12 featured Prof. Jacques Bouchard lecturing on the Phanariots and early Enlightenment (in Greek).
Read MoreOctober 26, 2010
Corinth Workrooms Renovated
The main ASCSA workroom at the museum in Ancient Corinth received a facelift in July and September 2010. Photos inside...
Read MoreOctober 25, 2010
Ο μαέστρος που κατέκτησε τις κορυφές
Ο μαέστρος που κατέκτησε τις κορυφές. Άρθρο της Ίσμας Τουλάτου για τον Δημήτρη Μητρόπουλο στο ΒΗΜΑ, Κυριακή 17 Οκτωβρίου 2010
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October 22, 2010
“We came to Greece to do things”: A Look Back on Summer Session 2010
Prep school teacher and summer session participant Sean O'Neil characterizes his six weeks traveling through Greece as full of eye-opening learning experiences in a country where nothing stands still. Join him here as he recounts Summer Session II of 2010 (with slideshow).
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October 21, 2010
Fall Trips Underway for 2010
The fall trips are underway! Mellon Professor Margie Miles reports that this year's Regular Members are a "congenial and lively" group and describes here the activity-packed trip to western and northern Greece (with slideshow).
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October 20, 2010
Videocast: Graphic Greeks
The ASCSA lecture series kicked off on October 5 with a special feature: three talks by award-winning cartoonists, all of whom draw on Greek antiquity for ideas, themes, and inspiration.
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Ford Foundation in Greece
The Ford Foundation in Greece (1970-1976). A Catalogue of its Records at the Gennadius Library of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.
Read MoreOctober 19, 2010
New Phone Number for ASCSA
The American School can now be contacted at a new telephone number effective immediately.
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The Gennadius Library closed on October 28, 2010
The Library will be closed on October the 28th.
Read MoreOctober 11, 2010
Έκθεση “Ο Ιωάννης Γεννάδιος και ο Κόσμος του”
Εκατοντάδες συνέρευσαν στη βιβλιοθήκη για τα επίσημα εγκαίνια της ομαδικής εικαστικής έκθεσης «Ο Ιωάννης Γεννάδιος και ο Κόσμος του» στις 8 Ιουνίου 2010.
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