All welcome to the International Symposium Mountain worlds

Belonging in/to Place. Religious Conversations with the Environment in Ancient Greece and Egypt.

The workshop takes place on November 9, 2026 at the Swedish Institute in Athens (SIA).

Warmly welcome to a presentation of its two volumes (vol I: Introduction & vol. II: Theodore’s Life: Critical Edition of Versions α and β, with Annotated Translation of β) followed by a discussion led by Beatrice Caseau, Sorbonne University, and Stephanos Efthymiadis, Open University of Cyprus, in dialogue with the authors Stratis Papaioannou and Charis Messis.

Euthymios the Iberian, Theodore of Edessa
(Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Studia Byzantina Upsaliensia, 2026)

The event takes place on Tuesday, Sep­tem­ber 22, 2026, at 19.00 (Athens), in a hy­brid for­mat with live pres­ence at the Swedish In­sti­tute at Athens, Mit­seon 9, and on­line via Zoom.

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).

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

The Swedish Institute at Athens and the Retracing Connections Research Programme invite you to the fifth Retracing Connections online research dialogue. Join us with Sofia Lodén (Stockholm), Cameron Cross (Michigan), and moderator Adam Goldwyn (Fargo/Uppsala) for an online discussion on

Floire et Blancheflor across languages and culture: on a travelling tale from Persia to Iceland.

The Dialogue takes place online via Zoom on Tuesday, March 24, 2026, at 18.00 (Athens).

All welcome to the workshop 

Contemporary Polytheisms in Europe: Reflections on the Possibilities and Limitations of a Comparative Approach.

The workshop takes place on Friday, March 20, 2026, in a hy­brid for­mat with live pres­ence at the Swedish In­sti­tute at Athens, Mit­seon 9, and on­line via Zoom.

Organised by the École française d’Athènes and the Swedish Institute at Athens, with the support of the Programme ReligiS and of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities.

All welcome to the workshop 

“Material Religion” in Private Contexts:
Objects, Spaces, and Practices of Private Worship in Greece from the Classical to the Roman Era.

The workshop takes place on Monday, 16 and Tuesday, 17 March, 2026, in a hy­brid for­mat with live pres­ence at the Swedish In­sti­tute at Athens, Mit­seon 9, and on­line via Zoom.

It is co-organized by Hannah Smagh (Pennsylvania State University) and Beatriz Pañeda Murcia (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia).

Funding Entity: Riksbankens Jubileumsfond.

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.