Please join us online, on Zoom, at 1:00pm (ET) on Tuesday, September 17, for the first of three Information Sessions about the ASCSA Academic Year Program. All prospective applicants to the Academic Year Program for 2025/2026 are welcome. The event requires online registration in advance.
Later sessions will be offered at 11:00am (ET) on Monday, October 21, and at 2:00pm (ET) on Wednesday, December 4.
Corinth Excavations’ research and residence facilities were filled to capacity during the Summer of 2009. No less than 28 researchers used the hostel and museum facilities for their work. Book early for next year!!!
Read MoreA landmark in the study of ancient glass from Greece, Agora XXXIV presents 404 vessels, representing almost every type of glass known from antiquity.
Read MoreMaritime archaeologist and former ASCSA Managing Committee member Lionel Casson passed away July 18, 2009 at age 94.
Read MoreThe School's combined annual reports for the years 2006-07 and 2007-08 can now be viewed online.
Read MoreThe number of volunteers and field personnel swell in summer when the Agora's excavation season is underway. Here are some of the faces of summer 2010.
Read MoreThe 2009 summer excavation season at the Agora is wrapping up with various pursuits undertaken as described here.
Read MoreThe Blegen Library's collection of CD-ROMs and DVDs is now housed in the Main Reading Room and so is accessible to any library user. The collection includes media that accompany books as well as resources that are available only in CD-ROM or DVD format.
Read MoreLouis Lord's History of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1882-1942 is now available on-line!
Read MoreThe 2009 season at Corinth was characterized by teamwork and dialogue shown by 19 students members and three supervisors. Excavation clarified the 10th and 11th century A.C. phasing of the courtyard house, which fell into disuse in the 12th century and was refurbished in the 13th century. Corinth Excavations serves as a field school for training members of the ASCSA in excavation methodologies.
Read MoreAn ASCSA Member, Research Fellow, and author of numerous articles on Hellenistic pottery, G. Roger Edwards passed away June 9 at age 94.
Read MoreDavid Voros, a professor at the University of South Carolina where he coordinates the painting program, is exhibiting his drawings at the Blegen Library from June 19 to July 15, 2009. In the exhibition, he presents selected works from a series of drawings he completed while a Visiting Senior Member at ASCSA in the Fall of 2007.
Read MoreThe Excavations at the Ancient Agora have begun their season which extends to the end of July.
Read MoreThe Director's Lecture series concludes for the season with "Out of Africa and into Eurasia: An Eastern Mediterranean Perspective" a presentation by Professor Katerina Harvati, Max Planck Institute. This lecture was co-sponsored by the Wiener Laboratory.
Read MoreThe Director's Lecture Series continues with a presentation by John Papodopoulos of University of California, Los Angeles on "Greece and its Northern Neighbors from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age: Molossis, Illyria and Corinthians."
Read MoreAn interesting find has recently passed through the Wiener Laboratory—one which could shed light on the taxonomy, environment, and way of life during the Plio-Pleistocene of Greece.
Read MoreAt a dinner of the American School's Trustees held at the Yale Club in New York on May 15, Trustee Emeritus James H. Ottaway Jr. was honored for his support of the ASCSA publishing program.
Read MoreBritain may have the one with the big ears who picked Camilla over Diana, but Princeton office has its own Prince Charles in Charles Watkinson, Director of Publications. Charles was feted at the Princeton office May 20th in celebration of his upcoming July 11th wedding to Heather Rypkema.
Read MoreTwo of the most admired finds from the Corinth Excavations, the statues of Gaius and Lucius Caesar, have left to be exhibited in Haltern am See, Germany. Augustus’ grandsons and heirs will be part of the exhibit “Imperium-Conflict-Myth."
Read MoreDay of Florence-Anthi Gennadius organised by the Association of Friends of the Gennadius Library
Read MoreVideocast of the April 28, 2009 presentation at Cotsen Hall. Speaker: Rebecca Ammerman, Colgate University
Read MoreThe first training session of the 2009 season in Corinth was successfully completed on Friday. Nine regular members and one associate member participated.
Read MoreThis April, the Library sent out its first annual appeal mailing to all friends of the Library. These unrestricted funds will be used to support the Library’s daily operation including staff salaries, book acquisitions, lectures, and other programs offered by the Gennadeion.
Read MoreThe Annual Wiener Laboratory Workshop was held on March 12th, 2009 and organized by 2008-2009 Fellows Dr. Christina Tsoraki (Geoarchaeology Fellow, University of Sheffield), Dr. Niels Andreasen (Geoarchaeology Fellow, University of Cambridge), and Dr. Rozalia Christidou (Faunal Studies Fellow, University of Crete). The theme for this workshop was "Stone and Bone Tools."
Read MoreAnother Easter comes to Greece and the School celebrates with the requisite lamb roast . . . and feats of strength? Member Katie Rask reports on the festivities.
Read MoreWe still need your donations to make our goal for the ASCSA annual appeal ending June 30, 2009.
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