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Read MoreSenior Librarian visits the Centre du Conservation du Livre in Arles
Read MoreGennadius Manuscripts showcased in European Study Program
Read MoreΗ 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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Read MoreThe Gennadius Library maintains a busy program of lectures in Cotsen Hall, the auditorium of the American School (entered from 9, Anapiron Polemou Street).
Read MoreSummer 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.
Read MoreJim 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.
Read MoreSpending 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.
Read MoreCatch up on Managing Committee business from the committee meeting, held on May 15, 2012 in New York City, and subsequent Managing Committee actions.
Read MoreSummer 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.
Read MoreRecent 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.
Read MoreScholar 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.
Read MoreAt 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.
Read MoreJoseph 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).
Read MoreA 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.
Read MoreJack 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.
Read MoreBarbara 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?
Read MoreArchives Lecture Fikret Yegül (University of California, Santa Barbara). “Our Complicity in this Classical Looting: Triangulating the Past at Sardis, 1922–1925.”
Read MoreArtemis Cooper (Biographer). “Patrick Leigh Fermor in Greece.”
Read MoreArtemis Cooper (Biographer). “Patrick Leigh Fermor in Greece.”
Read MoreCorinth: A Portrait of an Idiosyncratic Greek City Dr. Nancy Bookidis (Assistant Director Emerita, Corinth Excavations, ASCSA)
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