This year’s Greek Film Days in Stockholm are dedicated to Pantelis Voulgaris, one of Greece’s most acclaimed and influential film directors and a leading figure of the New Greek Cinema movement. The programme is organized by the Swedish Institute at Athens, the Greek Cultural House Foundation and the Women’s Section of the Greek Association in Stockholm.

Vasso Zachari, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), will give a paper entitled

Ritual, myth and humour. Animals’ depictions at the altar.

The seminar takes place on Tuesday, October 13, 2026, at 17.00 (Athens) in a hy­brid for­mat with live pres­ence at the Swedish In­sti­tute at Athens, Mitseon 9, and on­line via Zoom. 

Welcome to the Autumn 2026 series of the Athens Greek Religion Seminar.

All seminars will take place at 17h (Athens) in a hybrid format with live presence at the Swedish Institute at Athens and online via Zoom.

Celebrate this year’s European Day of Languages with us at the Pedion tou Areos in Athens!

Saturday 26 September 2026, 10.00 - 14.00 Pedion tou Areos, Αrion area.

The Swedish Institutes at Athens and Rome welcome you to the next lecture in the series Bridges.

Dr. Ulf R. Hansson, University of Texas at Austin, will give a paper entitled

Adolf Furtwängler and the Great Systematisation of Antiquity: Die antiken Gemmen Project 1885-1900.

The lecture takes place on Tuesday, September 29, 2026, at 19h Athens time (18h Rome) in a hybrid format with live presence at the Swedish Institute at Athens, Mitseon 9, and online via Zoom.

Warmly welcome to a presentation of its two volumes (vol I: Introduction & vol. II: Theodore’s Life: Critical Edition of Versions α and β, with Annotated Translation of β) followed by a discussion led by Beatrice Caseau, Sorbonne University, and Stephanos Efthymiadis, Open University of Cyprus, in dialogue with the authors Stratis Papaioannou and Charis Messis.

Euthymios the Iberian, Theodore of Edessa
(Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Studia Byzantina Upsaliensia, 2026)

The event takes place on Tuesday, Sep­tem­ber 22, 2026, at 19.00 (Athens), in a hy­brid for­mat with live pres­ence at the Swedish In­sti­tute at Athens, Mit­seon 9, and on­line via Zoom.

The Swedish Institute at Athens and Nordic Academy are delighted to invite you to an author evening in Swedish with ARNE DAHL, one of Sweden’s most widely read authors.

When: Wednesday, September 9, 2026, at 7:00 PM
Where: Swedish Institute at Athens, Mitseon 9

Daria Resh, Swedish Institute at Athens, will give a paper entitled

What is in the Bath? Space and Ritual in the Byzantine Legends of St. Barbara.

The seminar takes place on Tuesday, September 15, 2026, at 17.00 (Athens) in a hy­brid for­mat with live pres­ence at the Swedish In­sti­tute at Athens, Mitseon 9, and on­line via Zoom.