February 12, 2018
Q&A with Corinth’s Director Christopher Pfaff
Christopher Pfaff, Associate Professor of Classics at Florida State University, began as Director of the Corinth Excavations in July. He shares his reflections on and plans for the site in this Q&A.
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February 12, 2018
Q&A with New Mellon Professor Sylvian Fachard
The American School's Mellon Professor Sylvian Fachard tells us what he is excited about in his first year teaching as Mellon Professor, his research interests, and what it was like to see the Olympic flame pass through Greece in this extended Q and A.
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February 12, 2018
Georges Names Courtyard
John A. Georges recently donated $500,000 to name the Georges Family Courtyard Terrace. Thanks to Georges’s gift, the School is delighted to announce that the new Ioannis Makriyannis Wing of the Gennadius Library will be inaugurated on Saturday, June 2, 2018.
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January 31, 2018
Reopening of the Library
We are proud to announce that during the months of August, September and October 2017, the research collections of the Gennadius Library were tagged with RFID security tags and the books, including the periodicals of the “Dory Papastratou Reading Room,” were moved to new mobile shelving in the new Ioannis Makriyannis Wing, which will be officially inaugurated in June 2018.
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January 31, 2018
Επαναλειτουργία της Βιβλιοθήκης
Είμαστε στην ευχάριστη θέση να ανακοινώσουμε ότι κατά το τρίμηνο Αυγούστου - Οκτωβρίου 2017 ολοκληρώθηκε η πρώτη φάση του εκσυγχρονισμού των συλλογών της Γενναδείου Βιβλιοθήκης, η οποία πραγματοποιείται χάρη σε χρηματοδότηση των ιδρυμάτων Σταύρος Νιάρχος, Mellon και Goldsmith.
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January 29, 2018
New Publication: The Early Iron Age: The Cemeteries (Agora XXXVI)
The American School of Classical Studies at Athens is pleased to announce the publication of The Early Iron Age: The Cemeteries (Agora XXXVI) by John K. Papadopoulos and Evelyn Lord Smithson.
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January 29, 2018
Virtual Field Trip, Anyone?
Corinth Excavations' newest outreach effort is aimed at bringing K-12 students to Corinth... digitally.
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January 24, 2018
VIDEOCAST - Συρία. Ιστορία, άνθρωποι, μνημεία
Εισαγωγικές ομιλίες - Μαρία Γεωργοπούλου, Γιώργος Μαγγίνης, Μαρία Φακίδη & Ντόρα Μηναΐδη
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January 5, 2018
American School’s Annual Report for 2015-2016
The ASCSA Annual report for its 135th anniversary year 2015-2016 is now online.
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December 21, 2017
Holiday Greetings from the American School
Holiday Greetings from the American School
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December 21, 2017
VIDEOCAST - “Why are Scientists Afraid of ED-XRF Analysis in Art and Archaeology?”
Sariel Shalev, University of Haifa
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December 20, 2017
VIDEOCAST - The Myth and Cult of Opheltes at Nemea
Jorge Bravo, University of Maryland
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December 19, 2017
Inside the ASCSA Publications Office
What does a day at the Publications Office look like? What do they have coming up on the docket?
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December 15, 2017
Meet a Member: John Haberstroh
Meet John Haberstroh, a Ph.D. student studying Ancient Mediterranean History at the University of California, Riverside. He is currently is a Regular Member at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.
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Blegen Library Christmas holiday hours 2017
During the Christmas holiday period, the Blegen library will be closed to visitors on the following days: December 25-26, 2017, January 1, January 6, 2018. No new cards will be issued and no orientations will take place between December 25th and January 6th.
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December 4, 2017
VIDEOCAST - ‘The Best Way to Send Knowledge is to Wrap it Up in a Person’
Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogan, Doreen C. Spitzer Archivist ASCSA Annual Archives Lecture co-organized with the Fulbright Foundation in Greece.
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December 1, 2017
Meet a Member: Elina Salminen
Meet Elina Salminen, an Associate Member at the American School working on a dissertation on the mortuary record of northern Greece from the Archaic to the Early Hellenistic period.
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November 23, 2017
Hesperia 86.4 Now Online!
The American School of Classical Studies at Athens is pleased to announce the publication of Hesperia 86.4. Topics in this issue include the presentation of a recently discovered Late Minoan I sealstone from Pylos; a look at Solon’s abolishment of debt in Archaic Athens; the publication of a previously unpublished votive deposit uncovered near the Sanctuary of Zeus at Nemea; and a look at the work of Georg von Peschke, a celebrated artist employed by ASCSA excavations in the first half of the 20th century.
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November 22, 2017
VIDEOCAST - 70 Χρόνια Fulbright στην Ελλάδα «Παιδεία και Ανάπτυξη»
Γιάννης Στουρνάρας, Ευαγγελία Κουνέλη, Δημήτρη Α. Σωτηρόπουλος
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November 21, 2017
VIDEOCAST - Hadrian’s Forgotten Heir: A New Portrait of Aelius Caesar from Eva-Loukou
Marco Galli, La Sapienza, Rome
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November 21, 2017
Meet a Member: Eliza Gettel
Meet Eliza Gettel, a PhD candidate working on a dissertation on political institutions of the Greek world under Roman imperium.
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November 14, 2017
Access to the Archives in the Blegen Library
Owing to the transfer of the Archives in the Blegen Library to the East Wing of the Gennadius Library, researchers will not be able to access the School’s archival collections between January 15th and May 31st, 2018.
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Οι Επίτροποι Ανακοινώνουν τον Αποδέκτη του Βραβείου της Γενναδείου Βιβλιοθήκης για το 2018
Οι Επίτροποι της Γενναδείου Βιβλιοθήκης της Αμερικανικής Σχολής Κλασικών Σπουδών στην Αθήνα θα απονείμουν στο Ίδρυμα Σταύρος Νιάρχος το «Βραβείο της Γενναδείου Βιβλιοθήκης» του 2018 για την εξαιρετική συνεισφορά του Ιδρύματος στην προώθηση του πολιτισμού της Ελλάδας από την ύστερη αρχαιότητα και μετά.
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November 9, 2017
VIDEOCAST - The Enigma of Cappadocia
Robert Ousterhout, University of Pennsylvania
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November 3, 2017
Overseers Announce Recipient of the 2018 Gennadius Prize
The Overseers of the Gennadius Library of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens have announced the Stavros Niarchos Foundation as the winner of the Gennadius Prize awarded for outstanding contributions to the advancement of knowledge of post-antique Greece.
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