⛏️ BSA Fieldwork Bursaries ⛏️ 👉 For full information and the application link, visit our website: www.bsa.ac.uk/2026/04/15/f... ⏳Deadline: 30 April 2026

📣 Event reminder! Next Wednesday, join us for a British School at Athens Friends Greece lecture. George Batzanopoulos, “John Craxton: Painting the Land of the Apollonian and the Dionysian” 📆 Wed 22 April 2026 ⏰ 18:00 (GR) / 16:00 (UK) 📍 BSA Upper House and online 🔗 www.bsa.ac.uk/.../george-b...

New inscriptions available via Attic Inscriptions Online!

Athens Archaeology Festival returns on October 17th 2026 and we’re looking for participants! Are you passionate about sharing the wonders of archaeology with diverse audiences in fun, interactive ways? If so, click below for more info and to apply: www.athensarchaeologyfestival.org/aaf2026-call...

📣 Event reminder! Upper House Seminar by James Hua (BSA), "Population Expulsions and Refugee Crises in the Archaic-Hellenistic Greek world: ubiquity, strategies, and exiles’ agency" 📆 Mon 20 April 2026 ⏰ 18:00 (GR) / 16:00 (UK) 📍 Location: BSA Upper House and online 🔗 www.bsa.ac.uk/events/james...

🔬 Opportunity - Fitch short-term fellowships 🔗 full info & application procedure: www.bsa.ac.uk/awards/fello... ⏳ deadline: 5 June 2026

🏺 Vacancy - Fitch Laboratory Williams Fellowship in Ceramic Petrology 🔗 full info & application procedure: www.bsa.ac.uk/awards/fello... ⏳ deadline: 12 June 2026

Opportunity alert! Library & Archive Assistant Apprenticeship 🔗Full information and the application details: www.bsa.ac.uk/awards/appre... ⏳Deadline: Friday 8 May 2026

Visit us during Open House Athens tomorrow! 📍52 Souidias Street, Athens 106 76 🕑 04/04/2026 10:00-16:00 (last entry: 20 minutes before closing time) 🎫 free entry with visitor QR code - register here: www.eventora.com/el/Events/oh... 📸 OHA 2025, photo: BSA

Read the latest blogs from Cambridge's #Archaeology journals! 🔗 https://cup.org/3NrnJKO @antiquity.ac.uk @saa-aap.bsky.social @britschoolathens.bsky.social

🔬Join us for the next Fitch-Wiener Labs seminar🔬 Dr Artemios Oikonomou (BSA Fitch Laboratory): “Glass Biographies II: Technology and the Afterlife of Glass" 📅April 1st at 17:00, in-person only 📍 Malcolm H. Wiener Laboratory for Archaeological Science Seminar room

📣Workshop reminder! We are delighted that the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies is offering reduced fees to members of the BSA (alongside their own members) for next week's online workshop Byzantium & Bloomsbury. Full info below!

📣 Event reminder! Dr Nikki Vellidis (BSA Cary Student), “Recognising ‘Hands’ of Mosaicists through Depictions of Women in the Mosaics of Imperial Era Greece” 📆 Mon 23 Mar 2026 ⏰ 18:00 (GR) / 16:00 (UK) 📍 Location: BSA Upper House and online 🔗 More info and registration: www.bsa.ac.uk/events/nikki...

✨ 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/

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...

📢 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

📣 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...

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!

"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?’ "

💫 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...

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...

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

🎓 Congratulations to the participants of the first 'The Art and Archaeology of Bronze Age Greece' course! #britishschoolatathens #bsacourse #postgraduatecourse #bronzeagegreece #neverstoplearning #archaeologylovers

BYZANTIUM AND BLOOMSBURY This one-day online workshop will focus on the interest of members of the Bloomsbury Group in Byzantium, especially Byzantine art. 🗓️1 April 2026 🕙10am-5pm 🔗 Info & register: www.byzantium.ac.uk/byzantium-an... 🎟️ Reduced fees for BSA members!

🎓 Calling all UK teachers! The BSA School Teacher Fellowship is open for applications! 👉 www.bsa.ac.uk/awards/fello... Deadline: 27.2.26 #TeacherFellowship #TeachingHistory #ClassicsForAll #BritishSchoolAtAthens #StateSchoolTeachers #EducationEquity

⛏️ In fieldwork & publication news, you can now catch up on the West Area of Samos Archaeological Project's findings published in the BSA Annual and currently available on Cambridge University Press' First View: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The empire in classical Greece was an idea shaped and reshaped by Athenian imperialism in the 5th century. As this seminar details, Athens laid the groundwork with the Delian League, turning an alliance into an extractive empire. Feat. Polly Low at @britschoolathens.bsky.social buff.ly/QIqW1RR

Missed out on our events last term? Don't worry! Plenty of our lectures and talks are now available on our Video Archive! ⏯ watch back now: www.bsa.ac.uk/video-archive/

📣 Event reminder! Joshua Barley, ‘Athens Tales’ Book Presentation 📅 Wed 28 Jan 2026 🕙 18:00 (EET) in-person & online 📍 BSA Upper House, Souedias 52, Athens 🌐 Info & registration: www.bsa.ac.uk/events/joshu...

POSTPONED: Please note that today's Fitch-Wiener seminar has been postponed due to the 'Red Code' weather alert and will take place on 25th February.

🏺Save the date! Conference: Roman Pottery in the South-Eastern Balkans - From Production to Distribution. The submission for abstracts will open in March 2026. Stay tuned! 📆 Dates: 22–23/10/2026 📍 Location: BSA 🌐 Further info: www.bsa.ac.uk/events/roman...

🚨DEADLINE EXTENDED - 23 January 2026 Call for Papers: "Ottoman Mobilities and Interactions" Symposium, 13-14 April 2026, Istanbul, Türkiye ℹ Check the Call for Papers at biaa.ac.uk/cfp-ottoman-...

Don't miss the deadline for our joint BIRI project via @thebiaankara.bsky.social!

BSA roadshow approaching!🚐 We are delighted that Prof Andrew Bevan (UCL) will be presenting at the BSA's Annual Open Lectures in Greece, alongside the Director's "Work of the School". Register: 🔹17/02/2026 Thessaloniki: www.bsa.ac.uk/.../annual-o... 🔸19/02/2026 Athens: www.bsa.ac.uk/.../annual-o...

📢 Event reminder! Καλή χρονιά / Happy New Year! 🎉 Join us for the first BSA event of the new year in London next week. ⏰ 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/lin-f...

Archaeological Reports Vol. 71 (2025) www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @hellenicsociety.bsky.social @britschoolathens.bsky.social Archaeology in Greece 2024–2025