October 7, 2015
Corinth Photographers Leave their Collection to the ASCSA
In 1959 two young women, Ino Ioannidou and Lenio Bartziotou, opened a photographic studio in Athens on 9 Valaoritou.
Read MoreSeptember 28, 2015
Distinguised Guests from the Carnegie Council at the Gennadius Library
Joel H. Rosenthal, president of the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, and Stephen D. Hibbard, vice chairman of the Carnegie Council and a partner at Shearman & Sterling, visited the Gennadius Library on September 16th, 2015, in the company of GL Overseer Phaedon Tamvakakis.
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September 18, 2015
VIDEOCAST - How Did Democracy Work in Ancient Athens?
Dr. Kevin F. Daly, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Classical Studies, ASCSA
Read MoreSeptember 17, 2015
Archaeodiet in the Greek World Published
Archaeodiet in the Greek World: Dietary Reconstruction from Stable Isotope Analysis, edited by Anastasia Papathanasiou, Michael P. Richards, and Sherry C. Fox, is now published and available for sale.
Read MoreSeptember 15, 2015
More Schliemann Aficionados at the Gennadius Library
One of Spain's most famous architects and painters Juan Navarro Baldeweg and his wife visited the Gennadius Library last week having one wish: to see Heinrich Schliemann's notebooks
Read MoreSeptember 11, 2015
The 2015 – 2016 Academic Year Malcolm H. Wiener Laboratory Fellows Projects
The Malcolm H. Wiener Laboratory Committee awarded five new fellowships for the 2015- 2016 academic year. Dr. McNamee (Post-Doctoral Research Fellow) is on her second year of her project entitled: “Starches and Grains: Reconstructing Subsistence in Mainland Greece through the Bronze Age.”
Read MoreSeptember 10, 2015
ASCSA Lends Venues, Voices to Global Democracy Forum
School Director Jim Wright and Mellon Professor Kevin Daly will be participating in this forum on September 14-16 sponsored by the International New York Times and held in part in the School's Cotsen Hall and the Stoa of Attalos.
Read MoreSeptember 8, 2015
ASCSA Student Associate Member, Marie-Philippine Montagné
Ms Marie-Philippine Montagné (University of Aix- Marseille, France) made use of the Malcolm H. Wiener Laboratory facilities for her study on use-wear analysis of obsidian and flint Bronze Age tools.
Read MoreSeptember 8, 2015
Tübingen University postgraduate student, Lucia Leierer
Ms Lucia Leierer (Tübingen University, Work group Prehistory and Archaeology Science, Geoarchaeology) visited the Malcolm H. Wiener Laboratory for a week in the context of the Malcolm H. Wiener Laboratory- Tübingen University Memorandum of Understanding.
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September 7, 2015
VIDEOCAST - ΟΞΥΔΕΡΚΕΙΝ ΑΤ KORAKOU: A CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION OF C.W.BLEGEN’S 1915-1916 EXCAVATIONS
A Conference sponsored by the Institute of Aegean Prehistory and by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens Athens and Corinth, September 4-6, 2015
Read MoreAugust 31, 2015
Hesperia 84.3 Now Online!
Topics in this issue include the excavations at Gournia as well as those conducted at the Athenian Agora, the term of the treasurers of Athena, a Boiotian red-figure calyx krater, the hands and dating of Athenian dramatic festival inscriptions, and the use of spolia in William of Moerbeke's church at Merbaka.
Read MoreAugust 12, 2015
Annual Report for 2013-2014 Available Online
The annual report of the School for 2013-2014 has been published and is now available to download.
Read MoreJuly 21, 2015
The Hellenic Initiative, Quicken Loans Visit the School
The ASCSA continued to host more visitors throughout the month of June as leadership from The Hellenic Initiative and a group from Quicken Loans were introduced to the work of the School.
Read MoreJuly 9, 2015
An Old Friend Visits the ASCSA
Michael Tremonte, ASCSA Regular Member 1989-1990, and his wife Joanna Riesman visited the School's Archives and the Gennadius Library
Read MoreJuly 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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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.
Read MoreJune 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
Read MoreJune 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."
Read MoreJune 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.
Read MoreJune 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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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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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
Read MoreJune 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.
Read MoreMay 28, 2015
Graduate Students of the Athens, Patras, and Aegean Universities at the ASCSA
Μεταπτυχιακοί φοιτητές των πανεπιστημίων Αθηνών, Πατρών και Αιγαίου στην ΑΣΚΣΑ
Read MoreMay 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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