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Videocast: Η Ελλάδα του Ortelius μέσα από τους χάρτες της Συλλογής Σαμούρκα

January 26, 2011

Videocast: Η Ελλάδα του Ortelius μέσα από τους χάρτες της Συλλογής Σαμούρκα

Στις 20 Ιανουαρίου ο Γιώργος Τόλιας του Ινστιτούτου Νεοελληνικών Ερευνών του ΕΙΕ έδωσε διάλεξη στο Cotsen Hall με θέμα Η Ελλάδα του Ορτέλιου μέσα από τους χάρτες της Συλλογής Σαμούρκα.

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January 26, 2011

Details Announced for Alumni Week

Come celebrate the School's 130th Anniversary! New details have been posted for Alumni Week in Greece, June 3–12, 2011.

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January 21, 2011

Schliemann’s Archaeological Diaries Now Available

Thanks to funding from the Institute for Aegean Prehistory, Schliemann's archaeological diaries (A 12, A 13, A 14, A15, and A 18) are now available electronically in the Archives.

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Videocast: Working in Cotton, Metal and Fayence: Ottoman Artisans in the Early Modern Age

January 6, 2011

Videocast: Working in Cotton, Metal and Fayence: Ottoman Artisans in the Early Modern Age

On December 14, 2010, Suraiya Faroqhi, prolific author and currently professor of history at Istanbul's Bilgi University, delivered a riveting lecture on crafts, textiles and guilds in the Ottoman Empire. Watch it here.

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Videocast: Exiles in Pisa, 1821. Mavrokordatos the Shelleys and the Greek Revolution

January 5, 2011

Videocast: Exiles in Pisa, 1821. Mavrokordatos the Shelleys and the Greek Revolution

Roderick Beaton, Professor at King's College, London delivered this presentation on December 8 in Cotsen Hall as part of the Gennadeion's lecture series. Watch it in full here.

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Videocast: Παλιές και νέες αρχαιολογικές ανακαλύψεις στη Μεσσηνία

January 5, 2011

Videocast: Παλιές και νέες αρχαιολογικές ανακαλύψεις στη Μεσσηνία

Xeni Arapogianni, head of the Directorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities in Kalamata, attracted an enthusiastic audience to Cotsen Hall on December 7, 2010 to learn about recent archaeological discoveries in Messenia.

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Videocast: The Quality of Life in Classical Antiquity

January 5, 2011

Videocast: The Quality of Life in Classical Antiquity

How great was life in Ancient Greece anyway? Stanford University Professor Walter Scheidel draws some surprising conclusions in this lecture on November 23 at Cotsen Hall.

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December 30, 2010

Gennadeion Newsletter Now Online

The issue of Gennadeion News for Fall 2010 was recently published and distributed to all members and friends of the Gennadius Library. Read the issue online and in color.

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December 29, 2010

Fall 2010 Issue of ákoue Now Online

The Fall 2010 edition of the School newsletter ákoue can be read online and in color here.

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December 20, 2010

New Research Interface for ASCSA.net

A new web research interface is available on ASCSA.net, and tips on using the online database.

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December 17, 2010

Leventis Foundation Awards Summer Session Program Grant to Gennadius Library

The A.G. Leventis Foundation has generously provided funding for the 2011 and 2013 summer sessions in Medieval Greek at the Library.

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December 2, 2010

SAVE THE DATE:  ASCSA CELEBRATES 130th ANNIVERSARY

Preliminary program of events for celebrations during Alumni Week in Greece, June 3-12, 2011

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November 29, 2010

Paper by Christos Kolovos about Dimitri Mitropoulos and Constantinos Kydoniatis

Στο πλαίσιο του συνεδρίου Δημήτρης Μητρόπουλος (1896-1960): πενήντα χρόνια μετά. Μέγαρο Μουσικής Αθηνών, 12-13 Νοεμβρίου 2010 ο βιολονίστας και μουσικός Χρήστος Ηλ. Κολοβός συμμετείχε στο συνέδριο με την παρακάτω ανακοίνωση «Δημήτρης Μητρόπουλος – Κωνσταντίνος Κυδωνιάτης· σχέση άδολης φιλίας, Δασκάλου και μαθητή, Θεού και πιστού. Μια σχέση ζωής». Τον ευχαριστούμε θερμά για την προθυμία του να μας παραχωρήσει αντίγραφο της ομιλίας του.

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November 11, 2010

Η Γεννάδειος Βιβλιοθήκη κλειστή στις 25 & 26 Νοεμβρίου 2010

Η Γεννάδειος Βιβλιοθήκη θα παραμείνει κλειστή την Πέμπτη 25 και την Παρασκευή 26 Νοεμβρίου 2010

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November 10, 2010

Storage Issues Lead to Excavation of Loring Apotheke

Items currently in the apotheke not claimed by June 2012 will be removed and a new storage policy will be set effective fall 2011.

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November 9, 2010

Hesperia 79.3 Now Online

The fall issue of Hesperia is now available!

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Roman Sculptural Polychromy at Corinth

November 8, 2010

Roman Sculptural Polychromy at Corinth

Extensive work in the storerooms of the Corinth Museum has identified numerous vestiges of ancient painting and gilding on the Roman marble statues excavated at Corinth by the American School of Classical Studies.

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Videocast: A Decent Burial: Commemoration and Community in Roman Corinth

October 29, 2010

Videocast: A Decent Burial: Commemoration and Community in Roman Corinth

Kathleen Slane, NEH fellow at ASCSA in 2010-11, spoke to a large and enthusiastic audience about the variety of forms of commemoration of death represented at Corinth in Roman times.

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Videocast: Οι Φαναριώτες και ο πρώιμος Διαφωτισμός (1680-1780)

October 28, 2010

Videocast: Οι Φαναριώτες και ο πρώιμος Διαφωτισμός (1680-1780)

A Gennadius Library presentation on October 12 featured Prof. Jacques Bouchard lecturing on the Phanariots and early Enlightenment (in Greek).

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October 26, 2010

Corinth Workrooms Renovated

The main ASCSA workroom at the museum in Ancient Corinth received a facelift in July and September 2010. Photos inside...

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October 25, 2010

Ο μαέστρος που κατέκτησε τις κορυφές

Ο μαέστρος που κατέκτησε τις κορυφές. Άρθρο της Ίσμας Τουλάτου για τον Δημήτρη Μητρόπουλο στο ΒΗΜΑ, Κυριακή 17 Οκτωβρίου 2010

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“We came to Greece to do things”: A Look Back on Summer Session 2010

October 22, 2010

“We came to Greece to do things”: A Look Back on Summer Session 2010

Prep school teacher and summer session participant Sean O'Neil characterizes his six weeks traveling through Greece as full of eye-opening learning experiences in a country where nothing stands still. Join him here as he recounts Summer Session II of 2010 (with slideshow).

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Fall Trips Underway for 2010

October 21, 2010

Fall Trips Underway for 2010

The fall trips are underway! Mellon Professor Margie Miles reports that this year's Regular Members are a "congenial and lively" group and describes here the activity-packed trip to western and northern Greece (with slideshow).

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Videocast: Graphic Greeks

October 20, 2010

Videocast: Graphic Greeks

The ASCSA lecture series kicked off on October 5 with a special feature: three talks by award-winning cartoonists, all of whom draw on Greek antiquity for ideas, themes, and inspiration.

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October 20, 2010

Ford Foundation in Greece

The Ford Foundation in Greece (1970-1976). A Catalogue of its Records at the Gennadius Library of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.

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