School’s 2013-2014 Events Season Underway
The American School is pleased to announce its schedule of lectures and events for the 2013–2014 academic year. If you can’t join us in Athens, you can watch online in real-time on our Livestream feed or from our lecture archive approximately one week after the lecture. All events take place in Cotsen Hall, 9 Anapiron Polemou St. at 7:00 P.M. unless otherwise noted. The ASCSA would like to thank the Paul and Alexandra Canellopoulos Foundation for their generous support, and Lloyd E. Cotsen and Margit Cotsen for the Gennadius Library series. (*) denotes Gennadius Library events (+) denotes Wiener Laboratory events Download the complete program as a PDF. October 08, 2013 *Reconfiguring Constantinople: Story Spaces & Storied Imperial Places in the Madrid Skylitzes MSS October 10, 2013 The Emergence of a Warlike Elite at Mitrou, East Lokris, in the Prepalatial Bronze Age October 15, 2013 *DOCUMENTARY FILM: The Other Town October 19, 2013, 11:00 - 17:00 *ΗΜΕΡΑ ΑΝΘΗΣ ΓΕΝΝΑΔΙΟΥ – Βιβλιαγορά - BOOKFAIR November 07, 2013 Dissent and Democracy: Freedom of Thought and Freedom of Religion in the Athens of Socrates November 12, 2013 *Το πάθος με το γράψιμο November 26, 2013 *COLLOQUIUM: From Ptolis to Polis: Issues in the Transition of Political Economies December 03, 2013 *CONCERT: Musical Humors December 05, 2013 +Ötzi and Modern Mummy Research - The Life and Death of the 5300-year-old Tyrolean Iceman December 12, 2013 How the Mycenae Lion Gate Relief Was Made: New Evidence and Implications January 15, 2014 *Ημέρα Μνήμης Ιωάννου Γενναδίου: “Ο Ιωάννης Γεννάδιος και η αναβίωση των Ολυμπιακών Αγώνων January 23, 2014 Bouphonia: Killing Cattle on the Acropolis January 28, 2014 *Η χαρτογραφία του Κλαύδιου Πτολεμαίου February 06, 2014 Landscape Ecology and the End of Antiquity: The Archaeology of Deforestation in South Coastal Turkey February 06, 2014 *Περί Ανατολής και Δύσης: ο παγκόσμιος χάρτης του Mateo Ricci (1604) February 18, 2014 *Επισκέπτες και Αναγνώστες στη Λαυρεντιανή Βιβλιοθήκη την Εποχή του Διαφωτισμού και του Ρομαντισμού February 27, 2014 Same River, Different Waters: Official Dining in the Agora March 11, 2014 Building Archaeology: Corinth’s Forgotten Architects March 14, 2014 Open Meeting on the work of the School during 2013  and special lecture, Rupestral Inscriptions in the Greek World (presented again March 20 in Thessaloniki) March 18, 2014 *The Balkan Dimensions of the Origins of the First World War April 10, 2014 Samothrace and the NE Aegean in Prehistory April 29, 2014 Reconsidering the Largest EBA Cycladic Cemetery: The Recent Excavations at Chalandriani on Syros May 06, 2014 *The Alternative Archaeologies of Eva Palmer Sikelianos May 22, 2014 Poseidon’s Net: Sanctuaries and Sea Routes May 30–31, 2014 +CONFERENCE: Harvesting the Sea