Watch our new episode with Mary Sturgeon, expert on Roman sculpture and Professor Emerita of Art and Art History at UNC Chapel Hill.
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Watch our latest episode as we interview Deborah Ruscillo
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Watch our latest episode featuring Trevor van Damme, Assistant Professor in the Archaeology and History of the Ancient Mediterranean at the University of Warwick.
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Michael Lindblom's The Shaft Graves and Other Late Helladic I and II Remains has been named the 2026 recipient of the Anna Marguerite McCann Award for Fieldwork Reports from the Archaeological Institute of America.
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Join us for an exciting talk with esteemed archaeologist and Corinth Excavations Assistant Director Emerita Dr. Nancy Bookidis. Learn about how she got involved in the field of archaeology and some of the mentors she found along the way.
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Watch our latest interview with Kathleen Lynch, Vice Chair of the Managing Committee of the American School
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Learn about the history, archaeology, and future of Corinth Excavations through candid interviews with archaeologists and scholars who make the excavations, research, and outreach possible.
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The Gennadius Library of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens will launch its 2026 Thalia Potamianos Annual Lecture Series, featuring eminent scholar and thought leader, Katherine E. Fleming.
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The Trustees of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens are pleased to announce that renowned archeologist Jack L. Davis has been selected as the 2026 recipient of the Athens Prize.
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Premiering at the School’s gala this past May, the film was produced in honor of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, recipient of this year’s prestigious Gennadius Prize.
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Με απόλυτη επιτυχία πραγματοποιήθηκε την Τρίτη 27 Μαΐου 2025, στο αμφιθέατρο Cotsen Hall της Αμερικανικής Σχολής, η τελική ημερίδα παρουσίασης των αποτελεσμάτων του έργου «Αναδεικνύοντας το πολιτιστικό περιεχόμενο της Αμερικανικής Σχολής με τη βοήθεια της τεχνητής νοημοσύνης», σηματοδοτώντας την ολοκλήρωση μίας καινοτόμου και πολυδιάστατης προσπάθειας για την αξιοποίηση της ψηφιακής τεχνολογίας στον τομέα του πολιτισμού.
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The American School of Classical Studies at Athens is honored to announce that its short film, Mary Lefkowitz & Women in Ancient Greece has been awarded the Anthropology Short Film Award at the 2025 Palenque International Film Festival.
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The event explored the vital role of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople in preserving and promoting Hellenism across the centuries, from the Byzantine Empire to the present day.
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The American School of Classical Studies at Athens is pleased to announce the publication of In the Name of Humanity: American Relief Aid in Greece, 1918–1929, edited by Eleftheria Daleziou, Maria Georgopoulou, and Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogan.
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The American School of Classical Studies at Athens is proud to announce the tremendous success of its Annual Gala, held on Thursday, May 8, 2025, at Gotham Hall in New York City.
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The American School of Classical Studies at Athens is pleased to announce the publication of 54 Souidias: A History of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, edited by Jenifer Neils.
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The Blegen and Gennadius libraries, the Archives, and the Wiener Laboratory will be closed to the public on February 28th.
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The American School of Classical Studies at Athens is pleased to announce a room in Loring Hall in memory of John Travlos.
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Dr. Julia L. Shear has honored the memory of Ronald S. Stroud with a generous gift of $400,000 in support of an endowed fellowship in his name, building upon the initial contributions from his family and friends.
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For many, the decision to give is deeply personal, often rooted in a transformative experience or the profound influence of a mentor. One such story is that of Curtis Runnels and Priscilla Murray, whose generosity was inspired by the enduring legacy of their colleague, Anne P. Chapin.
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Watch the year in review and see how your gift touches the lives of so many people!
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We are pleased to announce the publication of Hesperia 93.4! Topics in this issue include a unique Bronze Age rhyton found at Hala Sultan Tekke on Cyprus; a study of the incidence and impact of thunder, lightning, and earthquakes at the Sanctuary of Zeus at Mt. Lykaion; a preliminary report from the Lechaion Harbor and Settlement Land Project; and a reexamination of Schliemann’s documentation and publication of the so-called Priam’s Treasure from Troy.
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“Agora Scholars Speak” series. Each month, a new interview will be released featuring a different specialist who will share their experiences and expertise of working at the Agora.
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Graninger begins three-year appointment as the new Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Classical Studies.
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On September 26, 2024, the Archives of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens and the Poets Circle presented the closing ceremony of the 10th Athens World Poetry Festival and the Barbara Fields-Siotis Award Ceremony for 2024. The awardee was poet Alicia Stallings.
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Άρθρο της Λαμπρινής Κουζέλη στο ΒΗΜΑ (Κυριακή 4 Αυγούστου) για μια άλλη, άγνωστη όψη του γνωστού συγγραφέα της Γενιάς του '30 Άγγελου Τερζάκη βασισμένο στις αναμνήσεις του γιού του Δημήτρη Τερζάκη και σε έρευνα που πραγματοποίησε η δημοσιογράφος στο Τμήμα Αρχείων της Αμερικανικής Σχολής Κλασικών Σπουδών.
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On Tuesday June 11th, 2024, the American School of Classical Studies at Athens hosted a garden party to welcome its new Summer Session students.
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The American School of Classical Studies at Athens is pleased to announce the dedication of a room in Loring Hall in memory of Evelyn Lord Smithson.
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The American School is pleased to announce the release of its annual report covering the 2022-2023 academic year.
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On Thursday, May 9, 2024, the American School of Classical Studies at Athens hosted its eight annual Gala. Over 350 guests enjoyed an evening replete with culture, education, and inspiration at the majestic Gotham Hall in New York City.
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Watch the short film about our exhibition entitled "In the Name of Humanity".
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Watch the video archive of the concert by Natalia Geraki (flute), Apostolos Palios (piano), and Irini Karaianni, who performed works by Greek composers, born or raised in Alexandria, as well as compositions by Dimitri Mitropoulos, Argyris Kounadis, and Thodoros Antoniou, who were inspired by the poetry of the Alexandrian poet Constantine P. Cavafy.
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Watch a recording of our 2024 Annual Open Meeting
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Watch Alexandre Farnoux and Lucile Arnoux talking at the Annual Archives Lecture about the history of the French School at Athens.
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Watch the year in review and see how your financial support touches the lives of so many people!
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American School of Classical Studies at Athens is pleased to announce a new major gift from Diana E. E. and Fred S. Kleiner: a room in Loring Hall named in honor of Hesperia.
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Petros Themelis, one of the most prominent Greek archaeologists, professor and colleague, passed away on Friday, October 27th, at the age of 87.
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Read the latest edition of our Newsletter to find out what is happening at the American School.
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Μετά το επιτυχημένο αφιέρωμα στον πεζογράφο Άγγελο Τερζάκη, η δημοσιογράφος Λαμπρινή Κουζέλη συνεχίζει την έρευνά της με θέμα τη θέση του λογοτέχνη στην Ελλάδα. Στο "Βήμα της Κυριακής" (20 Αυγούστου) γράφει για τον ποιητή (και κατά βιοπορισμόν γιατρό) Τάκη Σινόπουλο, το αρχείο του οποίου φυλάσσεται στην Αμερικανική Σχολή Κλασικών Σπουδών.
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Η δημοσιογράφος Λαμπρινή Κουζέλη, μετά από έρευνα στο προσωπικό αρχείο του συγγραφέα στην Αμερικανική Σχολή Κλασικών Σπουδών, γράφει στο "Βήμα της Κυριακής" (6 Αυγούστου) για τις ποικίλες διαδρομές της ζωής και του έργου του Άγγελου Τερζάκη εντός και εκτός των ελληνικών συνόρων.
Read MoreIra D. Wallach Professor of History at Columbia University and a member of the Board of Overseers of the Gennadius Library honored at Gotham Hall in New York City.
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Watch the video archive of our annual Open meeting and learn about the important work that was carried out at the American School, for the past year, as well as the amazing new finds at the Palace of Nestor at Pylos.
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The American School is pleased to announce the release of its annual report covering the 2021-2022 academic year.
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Watch the year in review and see how your financial support touches the lives of so many people!
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Watch the video archive our Annual Archives lecture and learn more about the role of archaeologists from Princeton University in the Ottoman Empire during the first two decades of the 20th century, ca. 1900–1922
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Author of many books and articles and member of distinguished committees, George Leonard Huxley taught classics for twenty years at Queen’s University in Belfast (1962-1983). Before that he was the Assistant Director of the British School at Athens. From 1986 until 1989, Huxley served as the Director of the Gennadius Library at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ASCSA). In 2008, he donated his personal papers to the ASCSA Archives.
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Read the latest edition of our Newsletter to find out what is happening at the American School.
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Η περίφημη γενιά του 1930 σε αεροπλάνα και βαπόρια. Πέντε αφιερώματα από τη Λαμπρινή Κουζέλη, στο Βήμα της Κυριακής, αρχής γενομένης από την προηγούμενη Κυριακή (7 Αυγούστου). Πρώτο αφιέρωμα στα ταξίδια του ποιητή Γιώργου Σεφέρη.
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Ο συγγραφέας Βαγγέλης Ραπτόπουλος δημοσιεύει στη LIFO την αλληλογραφία του με τον Ηλία Πετρόπουλο (1928-2003). Οι επιστολές προέρχονται από τα προσωπικά αρχεία των δύο συγγραφέων που βρίσκονται κατατεθειμένα στο Τμήμα Αρχείων της Αμερικανικής Σχολής Κλασικών Σπουδών.
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John Lee's much anticipated book about the first African American archaeologist and member of the American School of Classical Studies in 1890-1891, John W. Gilbert, is finally out.
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Greek Printing Presses during the Revolution of 1821: the exhibition traces the trajectory of printing in Revolutionary Greece based on the collections of the Gennadius Library.
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Watch the opening lecture of our new virtual exhibition on Heinrich Schliemann, with Dr. Michaela Zavadil, and learn about Schliemann's excavations in Greece.
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"'Εφυγε" από κοντά μας η κυρία Λιλή Αλιβιζάτου, αδελφή του συγγραφέα και δοκιμιογράφου Γιώργου Θεοτοκά.
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Watch the video archive of our Annual Archives lecture with Alexandra Kankeleit, and learn about the relationship between the DAI and the SS Ahnenerbe and how DAI avoided being crushed by competing forces of that era.
Read MoreThe Blegen Library, during the Christmas holidays, will remain closed the following days: Friday, December 24, 2021; Saturday, December 25, 2021; Friday, December 31, 2021; Saturday, January 1, 2022; Thursday, January 6, 2022
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Με χαρά υποδεχτήκαμε στα Αρχεία της ΑΣΚΣΑ δέκα μαθητές και μαθήτριες και τη διευθύντρια του Λυκείου Βουλιαγμένης. Σκοπός της επίσκεψής τους; Να δούν από κοντά το αρχείο του ποιητή Τάκη Σινόπουλου.
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In anticipation of Heinrich Schliemann's birth bicentennial, Antike Welt has published a separate volume about the excavator of Troy and Mycenae with eleven scholarly contributions, including two by ASCSA members.
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Remembering Evi Touloupa (1924-2021), Ephor of Acropolis and a friend of the School.
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We were happy to receive 27 members of the Schliemann Gesellschaft from Ankershagen, Germany, who were on a tour of Greece, on the occasion of Heinrich Schliemann's 200th birth anniversary.
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In 1971, more than 10,000 Greeks, singing the national anthem and Mikis Theodorakis’s musical version of Seferis's “Denial” (Άρνηση), followed the car that carried his body from Plaka to the First Cemetery.
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Ο Νώντας Τσίγκας δημοσιεύει τα λεγόμενα "κρυμμένα" ημερολόγια (Οκτώβριος 1912 - Αύγουστος 1913) από το Αρχείο του Ίωνος Δραγούμη στην Αμερικανική Σχολή Κλασικών Σπουδών στην Αθήνα.
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In the papers of poet and Nobel laureate George Seferis, there is a collection of newspapers, magazines, and leaflets published either secretly or outside Greece during WW II. One of these magazines, ΑΕΡΑ, was published in Cairo and was thrown by airplanes into territories occupied by the Germans.
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Στις 19 Φεβρουαρίου η Αθήνα τιμά μια σπουδαία μορφή, την Αγία Φιλοθέη την Αθηναία (1522-1589). Η κατά κόσμον Ρηγούλα Μπενιζέλου ίδρυσε το πρώτο σχολείο θηλέων στη νεότερη Ελλάδα, όπου φτωχά κορίτσια της Αττικής, συχνά φυγάδες από χαρέμια, εύρισκαν καταφύγιο, προστασία, τροφή αλλά ακόμα εκπαιδεύονταν σε στοιχειώδη γράμματα και χειροτεχνία.
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To commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day on January 27, we share today the fascinating story of the rescue of 150 Jews with the help of Zoe S. Dragoumis-Palencia (1882-1964), whose papers are housed in the ASCSA Archives.
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Giannis Skaribas (1893-1984), the unconventional Greek poet, novelist and play writer died thirty seven years ago today on 21 January 1984. In case you wonder, yes, the ASCSA Archives do hold material related to the writer of "Το Θείο Τραγί" and "Ουλαλούμ".
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Florence 'Anthi' Gennadius died sixty-nine years ago today (σαν σήμερα), on 14 January 1952, at East Molsesey in Surrey, UK. After marrying Joannes Gennadius in 1932, she embraced her husband’s love for Greece and adopted her Greek name Anthi (Ανθή). Florence also supported Joannes's decision to present his entire collection to the American School of Classical Studies at Athens that led to the creation of the Gennadius Library.
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Μόλις κυκλοφόρησε ο κατάλογος της έκθεσης Ίων Δραγούμης: Στο Μεταίχμιο Ανατολής και Δύσης. Εκατό Χρόνια από τη Δολοφονία του.
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Dr. Annick Louis has published a new book about Heinrich Schliemann based on the four, different autobiographies that the famous excavator wrote.
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Watch the video archive of our annual Open Meeting, that was held in a new virtual format. Jenifer Neils, the Director of the School, was joined, for the first time, by members of the academic staff, in a discussion on the School’s diverse initiatives.
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Ένα νέο βιβλίο για τον συγγραφέα Άγγελο Τερζάκη (1907-1979), κορυφαίο εκπρόσωπο της περίφημης "Γενιάς του 1930", δημοσιεύτηκε πριν από λίγο καιρό. Βασισμένο σε έρευνα στο προσωπικό αρχείο του Τερζάκη που φυλάσσεται στα Αρχεία της Αμερικανικής Σχολής Κλασικών Σπουδών, ο συγγραφέας του, Θανάσης Αγάθος, διερευνά τη σχέση του Τερζάκη με τον ελληνικό κινηματογράφο της δεκαετίας του 1950.
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Τα Αρχεία της Αμερικανικής Σχολής Κλασικών Σπουδών στην Αθήνα απέκτησαν πρόσφατα δύο φωτογραφίες των ποιητών Τάκη Σινόπουλου και Γιώργη Παυλόπουλου, οι οποίες θα προστεθούν στα προσωπικά τους αρχεία που φυλάσσονται στην ΑΣΚΣΑ.
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Watch a very interesting webinar on Ion Dragoumis, a legendary figure in the Greek imagination because of his untimely death, by Professor, Roderick Beaton.
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Visit our latest exhibition on the life and work of Ion Dragoumis, a legendary figure in the Greek imagination because of his untimely death.
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As we are getting ready for the opening on October 15th of the exhibition "Ion Dragoumis: Between East and West. One Hundred Years After His Assassination," the Hellenic Post issued a commemorative set of stamps featuring Ion Dragoumis.
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In 1933, a Chinese student by the name Mao-Te Lo was admitted to the American School to attend the year-long program. He went on to become a famous translator of ancient Greek drama and comedy in China.
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This week the ASCSA Archives received a wonderful donation from Professor Martha J. Payne (ASCSA Associate Member 1978-1979) -her great-grandfather's diary from a trip to Greece in 1890.
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The ASCSA Archives is organizing a major exhibition titled "Ion Dragoumis: Between East and West. One Hundred Years After His Assassination."
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The main photo in LIFO's essay about John Fowles, his classic book "The Magus," and the "magic" island of Spetses, where most of the book's action takes place, comes from the Homer A. Thompson papers.
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Join us in watching the video archive of our webinar.
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There used to be only two Newsletters published per year. One in the spring, one in the fall. With one exception, however. In 1984, three issues were published.
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A blast from the past! A number of old ASCSA Newsletters from the late 1970s/early 1980s are now available through the Archives' webpage.
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When John Camp was the Mellon Professor of Archaeology at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens
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What made an anti-Semitic Spanish diplomat rescue 150 Macedonian Jews? His wife.
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Watch a lecture by our Doreen Canaday Spitzer Archivist, Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogan
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On February 19, 2020, C. Emil Peñarubia and thirteen Boston College High School students (Hyde Global Scholars program) visited the ASCSA Archives. The students were in Greece on a week long trip visiting monuments and archaeological sites in Athens and outside the city; their busy schedule included a visit to the ASCSA, to see the Heinrich Schliemann Papers.
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Robert B. Koehl, Professor of Archaeology at the Hunter College, City University of New York, with a group of his students, visited Gennadius Library and the ASCSA Archives on Thursday, January 16.
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Με χαρά υποδεχτήκαμε στα Αρχεία της Αμερικανικής Σχολής Κλασικών Σπουδών ομάδα υπαλλήλων από το Υπουργείο Μεταναστευτικής Πολιτικής.
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Use this list to join current American School members and staff for lectures, workshops, round table discussions and more at the 2020 AIA/SCS Annual Meeting in Washington DC.
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The son of Clarence G. Lowe, Charles E. Lowe, and his wife Robbi, visited the School on Wednesday, October 23rd. Clarence G. Lowe (1897-1965), Professor of Classics at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, served as Librarian of the Gennadius Library for six years, from 1931 to 1937.
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Days of Art Greece, a magazine publication that aims to promote the art and culture of Greece everyday, published a four page article on the Blegen Library in their latest edition.
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The ASCSA Archives provided the image for a biographical entry about archaeologist Gladys Davidson Weinberg (1909-2002) in the Jewish Women's Archives online encyclopedia. We chose a photo from 1945 showing Gladys Weinberg on the roof of a building in Athens.
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