Media Coverage

The American School of Classical Studies in the news. 

September 20, 2012

Βιβλιογραφικές προτάσεις online

Bιβλιογραφικές προτάσεις μέσω του καταλόγου AMBROSIA.

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September 20, 2012

Book suggestions in Ambrosia

As of October 1, 2012 we will only accept book suggestions online.

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September 20, 2012

Centre du Conservation du Livre

Senior Librarian visits the Centre du Conservation du Livre in Arles

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September 20, 2012

Studite Project on Byzantine Bookbindings

Gennadius Manuscripts showcased in European Study Program

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September 11, 2012

Πρόγραμμα Διαλέξεων 2012-2013

Η Γεννάδειος Βιβλιοθήκη διοργανώνει κάθε χρόνο σειρά διαλέξεων που πραγματοποιούνται στο αμφιθέατρο Cotsen Hall της Αμερικανικής Σχολής Κλασικών Σπουδών στην Αθήνα (Αναπήρων Πολέμου 9).

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September 11, 2012

Ενημερωθείτε ηλεκτρονικά για τις εκδηλώσεις της Γενναδείου Βιβλιοθήκης

Εγγραφείτε τώρα στην ηλεκτρονική λίστα εκδηλώσεων της Γενναδείου από την ιστοσελίδα μας

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September 11, 2012

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September 11, 2012

Gennadius Library Lectures for 2012-2013

The Gennadius Library maintains a busy program of lectures in Cotsen Hall, the auditorium of the American School (entered from 9, Anapiron Polemou Street).

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Summer’s in Session

September 6, 2012

Summer’s in Session

Summer Session II 2012 Director Tim Winters reports on a fabulous summer exploring the breadth and width of Greek archaeology and history. The participants visited sites from the prehistoric period right up to the twentieth century and learned a good deal about modern life in Greece as well.  

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Q and A with New Director James Wright

September 6, 2012

Q and A with New Director James Wright

Jim Wright arrived in Athens this summer to become its new director for a five-year term starting June 30th. A professor and chair of the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology at Bryn Mawr (a spawning ground for many notable ASCSA alumni), Professor Wright has had a long association with the American School. We were able to catch the new Director to ask a few questions just before the new school year.

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September 3, 2012

School Members Report on Productive Year

Spending a year at the School can be a career-defining experience. Several members of the Class of 2011-12 report on their research progress and share some preliminary conclusions about their topics of interest.

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September 3, 2012

Managing Committee Makes Appointments, Announces Election Results

Catch up on Managing Committee business from the committee meeting, held on May 15, 2012 in New York City, and subsequent Managing Committee actions.

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Departing Managing Committee Chair Mary Sturgeon Offers Final Thoughts

August 1, 2012

Departing Managing Committee Chair Mary Sturgeon Offers Final Thoughts

Summer has seen new faces at the School. Joining us have been new Director James Wright, new Assistant Director Nicholas Blackwell, and new Managing Committee Chair Jenifer Neils. While they are getting established in their new positions, we wanted to take this moment to say goodbye to outgoing ManCom Chair Mary Sturgeon. Mary has been chair since 2007 and has played an integral role in the School's administration. We asked her for a few parting remarks before she took off for her research in Corinth.

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July 27, 2012

More Schliemann Diaries and Copybooks on the Web

Recent funding from the Institute for Aegean Prehistory has enabled us to digitize a considerable part of the Schliemann Papers and make them available on the School's website.

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July 11, 2012

Scholar Season in Corinth

Scholar season in Ancient Corinth is that time each year, after the excavation has finished and the village panagyri celebrations have passed, when the Corinth Museum fills with students and professors working on material collected from ASCSA excavations since 1896.

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Research Spotlight:  Heather Graybehl on Late Roman Petrography

July 9, 2012

Research Spotlight:  Heather Graybehl on Late Roman Petrography

At the American School Excavations at Corinth, Heather Graybehl is currently conducting a petrographic study of Late Roman cooking pots, coarsewares, and amphorae from Panayia Field. She describes her work here.

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New Isthmia Volume: Q and A with Joe Rife

July 5, 2012

New Isthmia Volume: Q and A with Joe Rife

Joseph L. Rife discusses the challenges and rewards of investigating bones and burials at the Isthmus for his new book, The Roman and Byzantine Graves and Human Remains (Isthmia IX).

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Renovated Stoa of Attalos; New Digital Library Debuts

June 22, 2012

Renovated Stoa of Attalos; New Digital Library Debuts

A renovated Stoa of Attalos and new digital library for the Agora Excavations are set to debut July 18, 2012. Annotated excavation notebooks and 360 degree object photography on the web, as well as newly conserved (and some never before seen) sculpture in the Stoa galleries are all to be unveiled. See a preview here.

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Q and A with Departing Director Jack Davis

June 20, 2012

Q and A with Departing Director Jack Davis

Jack Davis and Shari Stocker leave the director's house in Athens for the last time on June 30 amid a whirlwind of activity and final engagements (including a public service announcement filmed for Greece tourism!) Already five years have passed since he arrived in Greece and we interviewed him about his plans for the School. Here, we ask him to reflect on his term.

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June 18, 2012

Hesperia 81.2 Now Online

The June 2012 issue of Hesperia is now available!

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Academic Program Visits Turkey

June 14, 2012

Academic Program Visits Turkey

Barbara Tsakirgis, Vanderbilt University, and Vice Chair of the ASCSA Managing Committee, recounts the late spring 2012 trip to Turkey led by Agora Excavations director John Camp. As befits ASCSA trips, the itinerary was ambitious, with sites never before visited on a School trip. There was also time made for good eating, a snowball fight . . . and mint juleps?

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VIDEOCAST-Fikret Yegül “Our Complicity in this Classical Looting: Triangulating the Past at Sardis

June 7, 2012

VIDEOCAST-Fikret Yegül “Our Complicity in this Classical Looting: Triangulating the Past at Sardis

Archives Lecture Fikret Yegül (University of California, Santa Barbara). “Our Complicity in this Classical Looting: Triangulating the Past at Sardis, 1922–1925.”

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Artemis Cooper “Patrick Leigh Fermor in Greece.”

May 31, 2012

Artemis Cooper “Patrick Leigh Fermor in Greece.”

Artemis Cooper (Biographer). “Patrick Leigh Fermor in Greece.”

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VIDEOCAST - Artemis Cooper “Patrick Leigh Fermor in Greece.”

May 31, 2012

VIDEOCAST - Artemis Cooper “Patrick Leigh Fermor in Greece.”

Artemis Cooper (Biographer). “Patrick Leigh Fermor in Greece.”

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VIDEOCAST - Corinth: A Portrait of an Idiosyncratic Greek City - Nancy Bookidis

May 29, 2012

VIDEOCAST - Corinth: A Portrait of an Idiosyncratic Greek City - Nancy Bookidis

Corinth: A Portrait of an Idiosyncratic Greek City Dr. Nancy Bookidis (Assistant Director Emerita, Corinth Excavations, ASCSA)

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