The Swedish Institute at Athens and the Retracing Connections Research Programme invite you to the sixth Retracing Connections online research dialogue. Join us with Aileen Das (University of Michigan), N. İpek Hüner (Boğaziçi University) and Ingela Nilsson (Uppsala University) for an online discussion about

Classical, Medieval, Oriental: Disciplinary Ideologies.

The Dialogue takes place online via Zoom on Tuesday, May 19, 2026, at 18.00 (Athens).

The Swedish Institute at Athens and the Austrian Archaeological Institute at Athens cordially invite you to a jointly organised lecture within the framework of the Athens Greek Religion Seminar

The Discovery of the Sanctuary of Poseidon at Samikon

by Birgitta Eder – Erofili-Iris Kolia – Sophia Zoumbaki.

The lecture takes place on Friday, May 22, 2026, at 18.00 (Athens) in a hy­brid for­mat with live pres­ence at the Austrian Archaeological Institute at Athens, Leoforos Alexandras 26, and on­line via Zoom. 

Svenska institutet i Athen utlyser möjlighet till praktik under HT 2026. 

Behörig att söka praktikplatserna är den som är student (eller nyligen har avlagt examen) i Antikens kultur och samhällsliv eller annat ämne relevant för institutets verksamhet, samt har goda kunskaper i svenska.

An­sö­kan skall vara In­sti­tu­tets biträdande direktör till­han­da se­nast den 31 maj. 

Welcome to the Spring 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.

The Swedish Institute at Athens and Aegeus - Society for Aegean Prehistory are pleased to present the Aegean Lectures for the first semester of 2026. All lectures will take place at the Swedish Institute at Athens (Mitseon 9, Acropolis metro station) at 19:00.

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

Beyond the surface: Technology and alteration of vitreous materials in the LBA Aegean

by Artemios Oikonomou (Fitch Laboratory, British School at Athens).

Friday, May 8, 2026, at 19.00 (Athens), at the Swedish Institute at Athens (Mitseon 9, Acropolis Metro station). 

The lecture will be held in English. 

Warmly welcome to a presentation of the volume Writing Herstory through Ancient Greek Letters: Representations of Women in Fictional Epistolography by Prof. Vassilios Vertoudakis & Dr Marianna Thoma, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, in dialogue with the author Dr Antonios Pontoropoulos (Affiliated researcher, Swedish Institute in Rome/Uppsala University).

The event will take place on Tuesday, May 5, 2026 at 19h (Athens), in a hy­brid for­mat with live pres­ence at the Swedish In­sti­tute at Athens, Mit­seon 9, and on­line via Zoom.

We are pleased to invite you to the the international Roundtable Resilience and Reconciliation: Democracy in Crisis and Repair across History, organized by the Swedish Institute at Athens in cooperation with the Netherlands Institute at Athens and the other Nordic institutes: the Finnish, the Danish and the Norwegian Institutes at Athens.

The Roundtable, consisting of three sessions, will take place in Athens on 28–29 April 2026 in a hybrid format, with live participation at the Finnish and Swedish Institutes at Athens, and online via Zoom.

28 April, 15:00 at the Finnish Institute at Athens
29 April, 9:30 at the Swedish Institute at Athens