Welcome to the Autumn 2025 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.

We are delighted to invite you to a joint panel co-organized by the Swedish Institute at Athens (SIA) and NORMED, which operates under the auspices of the Research Centre for the Humanities (RCH).

The panel will take place at the Danish Institute in Athens, Herefondos 14, on Monday, July 7, 2025, at 19:00.

George Papandreou
fm. Prime Minister of the Hellenic Republic, MP 

Kajsa Ekis Ekman
Journalist, Author of Κλεμμένη άνοιξη Το χρονικό της κρίσης με τη ματιά της σουηδής δημοσιογράφου (Κέδρος) and member of Nätverket för Grekland

Marie Mauzy
Author, scholar  

Panel chair: ALEXANDRA PASCALIDOU
Author, journalist

Welcome messages by Jenny Wallensten (SIA) and George Kalpadakis (Academy of Athens & NORMED). 

The Swedish Institute at Athens, KONSTFACK, the Athens School of Fine Arts (ASFA), and the Association of Friends of Silk warmly welcome you to the exhibition “Silk & Soufli”, which opens on Sunday, June 22 at 19:30 at Mansion Brika in Soufli.

The exhibition will be open until June 29, from 18:00 to 21:00. Free admission.

Pelayo Huerta Segovia, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid/American School of Classical Studies at Athens, will give a paper entitled

Immobilizing Hermes: The Herm in the Cult Spaces of Attica (6^th–5^th c. BCE).

The seminar takes place on Tuesday, June 10, 2025, at 17.00 (Athens) in a hy­brid for­mat with live pres­ence at the Norwegian In­sti­tute at Athens, Tsami Karatasou 5, and on­line via Zoom. 

The Swedish Institute at Athens welcomes you to Athens Jazz & Preveza Jazz Festival with Svante Söderqvist Trio.

• 24^th Athens Jazz on Saturday, May 31, 2025, at 9 p.m.
• 23^rd Preveza Jazz Festival on Sunday, June 1, 2025, at 9.45 p.m.

Furthermore, Svante Söderqvist  will give a master class for the students of the department of Music Studies at Ionian University followed by a concert.

• Master Class – Monday, June 2, 2025, at 15.30, at the Ionian Academy. For the students of the department of Music Studies at Ionian University, and all interested. 
• Concert –Monday, June 2, 2025, at 20.00, at the Ionian Academy. Free entrance. 

Aegeus-So­ci­ety for Aegean Pre­his­tory and the Swedish In­sti­tute at Athens in­vite you to the lec­ture

Reconstructing a timber and mudbrick building at Malia: an experimental study of Minoan carpentry techniques during Protopalatial period (TiMMA Project)

by Eleftheria Tsakanika (National Technical University of Athens) & Elena Maragoudaki (PhD experimental archaeology).

Friday, May 16, 2025, at 19.00 (Athens), at the Swedish Institute at Athens (Mitseon 9, Acropolis Metro station). 

The lecture will be held in English. 

Amalia Avramidou, Democritus University of Thrace, will give a paper entitled

Parthenos at Ancient Neapolis (Kavala): Identity and Cult.

The seminar takes place on Tuesday, May 13, 2025, at 17.00 (Athens) in a hy­brid for­mat with live pres­ence at the Swedish In­sti­tute at Athens, Mit­seon 9, and on­line via Zoom. 

The Nordic Library at Athens invites you to the exhibition Ghost Sensations / Machine Dreams, a photographic intervention by Andrew Hazewinkel into the collection of the Nordic Library at Athens, on view from 20 May to 18 June 2025.