✨ Welcome, Eva - Καλή αρχή!
Eva Vertoudaki, who arrived at the BSA in early March, is our new Library & Archive Assistant for the next 6 months.
Read more: bsa.ac.uk/2026/03/11/library-and-archive-assistant-eva-vertoudaki/
@tulsiparikh.bsky.social writes:
My work as Hassapoyannes-Blandford Postdoctoral Fellow focuses on the sacred landscapes of North Kynouria, through a project entitled Borderlands of the Sacred: religion, topography, and identity in North Kynouria from the Geometric to Byzantine period.
Congratulations @tulsiparikh.bsky.social, the inaugural Hassapoyannes Blandford Postdoctoral Fellow in North Kynouria Studies! Welcome back, Tulsi! Καλή αρχή!
www.bsa.ac.uk/2026/03/10/h...
📣 Event reminder!
R. M. Dawkins and the British School at Athens: from archaeology to dialects and folklore
📅 Friday 13 March 2026
🕑 2.00–6.30 pm, followed by a reception
📍 Queens' College (Bowett Room), Cambridge (in-person only)
🎫 Info & registration: www.ccgs.csah.cam.ac.uk/events/r-m-d...
See you tonight at the @efathenes.bsky.social
& tomorrow at the @britschoolathens.bsky.social !
#wearehiring!
We are now in search of a part-time (0.7 FTE) Public Engagement and Events Officer to be based at our Athens premises and to work closely with staff based in Athens and London, as well as with our Development team.
Full info and application form: www.bsa.ac.uk/2026/03/05/p...
🔬Join us for the next Fitch-Wiener Labs seminar🔬
Dr Maria Kaparou (Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (INN), NCSR Demokritos), will give a lecture on “Glass biographies I: corrosion and material identity"
📅March 11th, 17:00, in-person only
📍 Wiener Laboratory, ASCSA
💻 New on the BSA Video Archive!
"Remembering Colin Renfrew: a life’s work on the Cyclades and beyond" - a event presented by the Hellenic Ministry of Culture, British School at Athens, Athens Archaeological Society, and Ephorate of Antiquities of Cyclades.
👉 www.bsa.ac.uk/videos/remem...
📢 Event reminder!
Professor Cyprian Broodbank (University of Cambridge), “‘The Emergence of Civilisation’, and the Maghreb"
📆 Tue 10 March 2026
⏰ 18:00 (UK) / 20:00 (GR)
📍 Room 264, Senate House, London, and online via Zoom webinar
🔗 More details and registration: www.bsa.ac.uk/events/cypri...
Don’t miss this opportunity to apply for funding to support your research and professional development. We look forward to receiving your applications!
All awards can be found on the BSA Research Awards page:
👉 www.bsa.ac.uk/research-awa...
Please be sure to visit the individual award pages for full application details, prerequisites, and eligibility criteria.
📢 Deadline Extended for several awards – 7.3.26 📢
• The Hector & Elizabeth Catling Bursary
• The Hector & Elizabeth Catling Doctoral Award
• The Vronwy Hankey Memorial Travel Award for Pre-Doctoral Students
• The Elizabeth Catling Memorial Fund for Archaeological Draughtpersonship
📜 Women Archaeologists and War - programme
📆 09/03/2026📌 École Française d'Athènes & online
📆 10/03/2026📌 British School at Athens & online
To attend in person at the BSA on 10/03/26, please register via our website:
👉 www.bsa.ac.uk/events/women...
#britishschoolatathens #BSAevents #EFAevents #women
📃 "Platonic protreptic and the unity of the Phaedrus"
📆 Wed 4 March 2026
⏰ 17:00 (GR) / 15:00 (UK)
📍 Location: Elli Lampridis Philosophical Library and online
🔗 More info and registration: www.bsa.ac.uk/events/alex-...
📣 Event reminders!
📃 "The city-cosmos contrast in Plato’s Timaeus and Critias"
📆 Tue 3 March 2026
⏰ 17:00 (GR) / 15:00 (UK)
📍 Location: BSA Upper House and online
🔗 More info and registration: www.bsa.ac.uk/events/alex-...
📣 Event reminder!
Join us for next week's Upper House Seminar by Professor Peter Pavúk (Charles University, Prague).
📆 Mon 2 March 2026
⏰ 18:00 (GR) / 16:00 (UK)
📍 Location: BSA Upper House and online
🔗 More info and registration: www.bsa.ac.uk/.../peter-pa...
Ben has had two new publications come out recently in
the Journal of Cognitive Historiography and Mnemosyne, Supplements. Congratulations Ben, καλοτάξιδο!
Check them out: www.bsa.ac.uk/.../new-publ...
The view from the desk of our current Richard Bradford McConnell studentship holder, Ben Cassell (KCL).
Thanks to @hetanshah.bsky.social, Chief Executive at @britishacademy.bsky.social, for visiting us this week!
In July 2025, Gary Watson (Bishopsgarth School, Stockton-on-Tees) spent a week in Athens as our School Teacher Fellow. Read more: www.bsa.ac.uk/2026/02/11/s...
"Developing the series of lessons, I focused on the question ‘Why were the Ancients so Significant?’, which also subliminally answers a common question asked by pupils: ‘why should I learn this? Or, why do I need to know this?’ "
🛩 Next stop, Thessaloniki! See you there on the 17th February for the second stop in our road show with guest lecturer Andrew Bevan, followed by Athens on the 19th www.bsa.ac.uk/events/
💫 London Annual Open Lectures with @wmarybeard.bsky.social and a full house at King's College London!
www.bsa.ac.uk/2026/02/04/a...
journal cover
Annual of the British School at Athens Vol. 120 (2025) www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @britschoolathens.bsky.social
@cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org
📢 Event reminder!
'Translation and the Magnitude of Historical Figures: Michalis Ganas and Translation'
📅 Date: Mon 9 Feb 2026
🌐 Online panel discussion
👥 Chair: David Ricks, Panel: John Stathatos, Vassilis Letsios, Joshua Barley
👉 Register here: www.bsa.ac.uk/events/trans...
📄 Access the full article on the Sparta excavations online:
www.cambridge.org/.../73710E78....
🌟 A Byzantine archaeologist active across Greece, Rossana brings together ceramic research, material culture studies and scientific approaches.
...Working in collaboration with Evangelia Kiriatzi on material from the British School at Athens excavations at the Sparta Theatre, directed by Prof Catherine Morgan (Oxford University), she identified local manufacturing traditions, regional networks and imported wares.
Spotlight on our recent Fitch Bursar, Rossana Valente 🔬
The research of Rossana Valente (Roma Tre University) underpins her Fitch bursary project 'Circulating Sparta', which uses petrographic analysis to uncover how pottery production, exchange and connectivity evolved in Byzantine Sparta...
💫 We're delighted to announce that next year's fellows will be:
🔴Dr Estelle Strazdins - Early Career Fellow
🔵Dr Anja Slawisch - Visiting Fellow
Congratulations, both!
#britishschoolatathens #Fellowships
