Welcome to the Autumn 2022 series of the Athens Greek Religion Seminar.

All seminars will take place at 17h (Athens time) with
live presence at the Swedish Institute at Athens and via Zoom link.

Celebrate this year’s European Day of Languages with us at the Parko Eleftherias in Athens!

For the 10th consecutive year, the educational and cultural institutions and embassies from thirteen member countries of EUNIC Athens offer the visitors the opportunity to take part in a multilingual festival, join educational workshops for children, interact with the organisers and receive a range of gifts.

Saturday 24 September 2022, 10:00 to 14:00, at the Music and Arts Centre of the City of Athens, Parko Eleftherias (next to Megaro Mousikis metro station).

Frederick Whitling, Swedish Institute at Athens, will give a lecture entitled 

“Orient and Occident”, 1922. Excavations at Asine and a Swedish Institute – Athens, Constantinople, Rome, Smyrna?

The lecture will be given in a hybrid format on Wednesday, 22 June, 2022, at 19.00 (Athens time), with live presence at the Swedish Institute at Athens, Mitseon 9, and via Zoom link. 

The Swedish Institutes at Athens and Rome have the pleasure to announce the joint lecture series Bridges.

Ida Östenberg, University of Gothenburg, will give a lecture entitled

Dulce et Decorum – to Die for the Fatherland in Ancient Greece and Rome.

The lec­ture will be given in a hybrid format on Friday, June 17, 2022, at 18h Rome, 19h Athens time, with live presence at the Swedish Institute at Athens, Mitseon 9, and via Zoom link.

The Swedish Institute at Athens has invited Karin Hammar Fab 4 to perform at the:

• 21st Athens Technopolis Jazz Festival edition dedicated to "Women in Jazz" on Saturday, May 28, at 21.00 and
• Preveza Jazz Festival on Sunday, May 29, at 21.00

Furthermore, Karin Hammar Fab 4 will give a master class and a concert for the students of the department of Music Studies at Ionian University.

• Master Class – Monday, May 30, 2022, 7.00pm, at the Studio of the Municipal Theatre Corfu. For Ionian University jazz students and all interested.
• Concert – Monday, May 30 2022, at 9.30 pm, at the Studio of the Municipal Theatre Corfu.

Björn Forsén, University of Helsinki, will give a talk entitled Cults and Identities on Arcadian Mainalia.

The seminar takes place on Tuesday June 7, 2022, 17.00 (Athens time) with live presence at the Swedish Institute at Athens, Mitseon 9, and via Zoom link. 

On­line lec­ture, in Swedish, in the se­ries Swedish Field Ar­chae­ol­ogy in Greece: “Makrakomi”, by Anton Bonnier, Uppsala University.

The lec­ture takes place online on Wednes­day, May 11, 2022, at 8 pm EEST, via Zoom (link).