January 5, 2009
New Publication: Roman Pottery: Fine-Ware Imports
This long-awaited seminal work by John W. Hayes, one of the world's leading experts on Roman pottery, will be an essential reference work for scholars throughout the Mediterranean.
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New Publication: Fragmentary Decrees from the Athenian Agora
In Hesperia Suppl. 38, Michael B. Walbank presents the editiones principes of 100 fragmentary inscriptions from the Athenian Agora, providing new insights into the workings of the Athenian state.
Read MoreJanuary 3, 2009
ASCSA Lecture Series on Video: Alexander in the Age of Augustus
ASCSA initiates its lecture series with selected speakers now available on videocast. This lecture was given Nov. 18, 2008 by Professor Peter van Minnen, University of Cincinnati, and entitled “Alexandria in the Age of Augustus: The View from Cleopatra’s Palace (via Green Mummifiers).”
Read MoreJanuary 2, 2009
Angeliki Laiou, Professor of Byzantine History [1941-2008]
Angeliki E. Laiou, one of the world’s leading historians of the Byzantine empire and of the Crusades, died on December 11, 2008. Ms. Laiou was a past ASCSA Samuel E. Kress Professor as well as an advisor and lecturer at the Gennadius Library. She is remembered here by Gennadius Library Director Maria Georgopoulou.
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December 30, 2008
Summer Session 2008: Understanding Ancient Greece Through a Modern Lens
Summer Session '08 participant Mindy Wolfrom describes her six-week tour of the best of archaeological Greece. As she explains, it's not "just" about the ruins. Through the students' varied backgrounds and a series of thought-provoking onsite discussions by their leader Gerald Lalonde and others, she gained an understanding of ancient Greece through a modern lens.
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December 29, 2008
Conservation of a Coin Hoard
Getting a find out of the ground is only the beginning of the story, as Conservator Amandina Anastassiades and Assistant Conservator Karen Lovén demonstrate in this case study of a coin hoard from the Agora Excavations’ conservation lab. (Updated for 2009)
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December 29, 2008
Research Spotlight: Sarah Lepinski and Roman Wall Paintings
Sarah Lepinski was recently conferred her PhD for her work on Roman wall paintings in Corinth's Panayia Field, and she will soon publish the first extensive study of pigments from Roman Greece. She writes here of her time at the ASCSA and the Corinth Excavations.
Read MoreDecember 17, 2008
School Remains Strong Despite Economic Challenges
A message from the Board of Trustees on the state of the School during these turbulent times.
Read MoreDecember 11, 2008
ASCSA Announces Trip to Central Anatolia
The American School invites members and alumni on its trip to Central Anatolia on May 2-15, 2009. Find itinerary and registration details here.
Read MoreDecember 2, 2008
Elemam Extends Corinth Network
Thanks to the Mellon Foundation, EU/Information Society grant, and the School's Information Systems & Technology Manager, Tarek Elemam, the ASCSA workrooms in the Ancient Corinth museum and Hill House now enjoy coverage under the same network.
Read MoreDecember 1, 2008
Corinth in Denmark
From November 27-29, Guy Sanders and associate member Sarah James participated in the Pottery, Peoples and Places conference organized by Mark Lawall and Pia Guldager Bilde.
Read MoreNovember 20, 2008
Rehak Fellowship Available for Members
Information follows on applying for the Paul Rehak fellowship.
Read MoreNovember 10, 2008
Anne Gilliland Gives First Archives Lecture
On Tuesday, November 4, Prof. Anne J. Gilliland of UCLA gave the Annual Archives Lecture at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. Her topic was, "Digital Records, Digital Documents, and Digital Archives: The Past, the Present and the Future." Anne Gilliland is Professor and Chair of the Department of Information Studies at the University of California Los Angeles, and Director of the Center for Information as Evidence. A Fellow of the Society of American Archivists, her research and teaching interests address the various intersections of information technology, recordkeeping and cultural heritage, including digital records management and digital curatorship. You can view her presentation and read her text.
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November 5, 2008
From the Archives: George Bass’s Travelogue
The recent issue of ákoue included excerpts from a journal written by former Managing Committee member George Bass detailing his trip as a student to the Nedha Gorge in 1956. Included here is a slideshow to illustrate and illuminate Bass's journal entries.
Read MoreNovember 2, 2008
Students Greeted Warmly in Pylos
Members participating in the trip to the Peloponnese were treated to the hospitality of Eleni Samaraki.
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2008-2009 Annual Appeal Underway
The annual appeal has recently been sent out to all members and friends of the American School. Read the Director's special message here and consider making a gift to the ASCSA.
Read MoreOctober 22, 2008
Digital Records, Digital Documents and Digital Archives: The Past, the Present and the Future.
The American School of Classical Studies at Athens invites you to a lecture by Professor Anne Gilliland, University of California at Los Angeles, Digital Records, Digital Documents and Digital Archives: The Past, the Present and the Future, Tuesday, November 4, 2008, at 7:00 p.m. in Cotsen Hall, 9 Anapiron Polemou Street (Kolonaki).
Read MoreOctober 20, 2008
A Full House in Ancient Corinth
Hill House and the ASCSA workrooms in the Museum of Ancient Corinth are very busy places this autumn. Things began to pick up at the beginning of October with a visit by Conrad Steinman and three of his colleagues studying ancient auloi...
Read MoreOctober 13, 2008
$1 million grant from Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
A recent grant award of $1 million from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation provides endowment support to augment pre-doctoral fellowships and for the School’s core academic program.
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Mellon Foundation Grant $1m to ASCSA
ASCSA receives $1 million grant from the Research Universities and Humanistic Scholarship Program of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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New Head Librarian Joins Blegen
On October 1, the School welcomed Karen Bohrer to the post of Head Librarian of the Blegen Library. She was previously Director of the Bissell Library at the American College of Thessaloniki.
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Hesperia Volume 78:2, 2009
The second 2009 issue of Hesperia, the Journal of the ASCSA, is now available.
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Corinth launched on JSTOR
The published results of excavations conducted by the ASCSA at Corinth since 1896 are now available through the JSTOR electronic archive.
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Corinth: 150 years of the New City
The city of New Corinth celebrated its sesquicentennial anniversary with a conference held 26-28 September. Corinth Excavations offered papers by Guy Sanders and Ioulia Tzonou-Herbst...
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Well-Watered Corinth
On Sunday afternoon in the basement of the Ancient Corinth museum, associate member Sarah James had expected to continue research on Hellenistic ceramics but was greeted to the sight of water pouring from the ceiling...
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