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).

All welcome to the workshop 

To Embrace and to Reject: Cultural Memories in Roman Macedonia (ca. 1st Century BC – 3rd Century AD).

The workshop takes place on Thursday, 21 and Friday, 22 November, 2024, in a hy­brid for­mat with live pres­ence at the Swedish In­sti­tute at Athens, Mit­seon 9, and on­line via Zoom.

It is co-organized by Georgia Galani (Swedish Institute at Athens) and Panagiotis Tselekas (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki).

The Swedish Institute at Athens and the Retracing Connections Research Programme invite you to the second Retracing Connections online research dialogue between speaker Fotini Kondyli (Virginia/Athens) and moderator Milan Vukasinovic (Uppsala), on the topic of

Layers of Urban History: From Modern to Byzantine Athens through the Athenian Agora Excavations Archives.

The Dialogue takes place online via Zoom on Tuesday, May 7, 2024, at 18.00 (Athens).

The Swedish Institute at Athens and the Retracing Connections Research Programme invite you to the first Retracing Connections online research dialogue between Myrto Veikou (Patras) and Markéta Kulhánková (Prague), moderated by Ingela Nilsson (Uppsala), on the topic of

From narrative to lived spaces: Digenis Akrites in recent research.

The Dialogue takes place online via Zoom on Tuesday, March 19, 2024, at 18.00 (Athens).