All welcome to the workshop 

At the Crossroads of Greek Religion: Interactions with the Eastern Mediterranean.

The workshop takes place on Saturday, December 13, 2025, in a hy­brid for­mat with live pres­ence at the Swedish In­sti­tute at Athens, Mit­seon 9, and on­line via Zoom.

It is co-organized by Filippo Lepori (Uppsala University), Gunnel Ekroth (Uppsala University) and the Swedish Institute at Athens .

It is with great pleasure that we announce 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 two sessions, will take place on 29 April 2026 at the Swedish Institute at Athens.

The deadline for the submission of abstracts is 7 January 2026. 

We are delighted to invite you to the official Athens launch of the Digital Periegesis (periegesis.org) on Wednesday, 3 December 2025, 10 to 11 am, at the Swedish Institute at Athens, Mitseon 9. At the launch event, the Digital Periegesis team will present the interface, demonstrate its functions, and discuss its potential for research, education, and heritage engagement.

Please confirm your participation by email to info@periegesis.org 

The Swedish and Finnish Institutes at Athens invite you to the workshop 

Pigs in Ancient Greece. From Colloquial Porkers to sacrificial swine.

The workshop takes place on Friday, October 24, 2025, in a hy­brid for­mat with live pres­ence at the Swedish In­sti­tute at Athens, Mit­seon 9, and on­line via Zoom.

Various aspects of porcine animals will be discussed during the one day programme.

The Swedish Institute at Athens and the Departments of History and Archaeology and Philology of the University of Ioannina have the pleasure to announce the forthcoming conference From Asebeia to Atheism. Exploring the Fringes of Religiosity in the Greco-Roman World from the Archaic Period to Late Antiquity, which will take place at the Cultural Center "Dimitris Hatzis" (old Slaughterhouse) in Ioannina September 26-28, 2025. 

Organizing Committee:
Elias Koulakiotis, University of Ioannina, Department of History and Archaeology
Jenny Wallensten, Swedish Institute at Athens
Athanassia Zografou, University of Ioannina, Department of Philology

With generous support from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (the Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences).

The Swedish Institute at Athens and the Retracing Connections Research Programme invite you to the fourth Retracing Connections online research dialogue. Join us with Neil Price (Uppsala), Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson (Uppsala), Laila Kitzler Åhfeldt (Stockholm), Tristan Schmidt (Mainz) and moderator Jenny Wallensten (Athens) for an online discussion on

The Piraeus Lion: Whose Story. 

The Dialogue takes place online via Zoom on Tuesday, May 6, 2025, at 18.00 (Athens).

The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and the Swedish Institute at Athens are co-organizing the International Colloquium entitled

Intratextuality and Intertextuality in Senenca’s Naturales Quaestiones

which will take place on 28-29 March 2025, at the Swedish Institute at Athens (Mitseon 9).

Organizers:
Myrto Garani (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
Sophia Papaioannou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)

The Swedish Institute at Athens and the Retracing Connections Research Programme, in collaboration with the Princeton Athens Center for Hellenic Studies, invite you to the third Retracing Connections online research dialogue, with Panagiotis Agapitos (Mainz), Barbara Graziosi (Princeton), David Ricks (London) and moderator Ingela Nilsson (Uppsala), on the topic of

Greek Literature: Revolution, Revision, Reading. 

The Dialogue takes place online via Zoom on Tuesday, March 18, 2025, at 18.00 (Athens).