In 2023, the Swedish Institute at Athens celebrated it’s 75th anniversary. Thanks to a generous grant from the Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation, the Institute was able to announce four research grants to celebrate this: two grants to Swedish researchers and two to Greek colleagues, to also celebrate 75 years of excellent cooperation between our countries. The four researchers will present the work made possible by the grants on Thursday, December 5, 2024, at 17:00-19:45, at the Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities in Stockholm. It will be an exciting journey that takes us from metalwork in prehistoric times to the architecture of the modern excavation site, via the sanctuary of the goddess Hera on Samos and the sharp sickle of the god Kronos.  

The Swedish Institutes at Athens and Rome welcome you to the next lecture in the series Bridges.

Jan Stubbe Østergaard will give a paper entitled

The recent history of research on the polychromy of Greek and Roman sculpture: The Copenhagen angle.

The lecture takes place on Tuesday, October 15, 2024, at 19h Athens time (18h Rome) in a hybrid format with live presence at the Swedish Institute in Rome, Via Omero 14, and via Zoom link.

The Swedish In­sti­tute at Athens in­vites you to the lec­ture

Heracles in Roman Macedonia: Abolished Symbol or Forgotten Memory?

by Georgia Galani (Swedish Institute at Athens).

Friday, October 11, 2024, at 19.00 (Athens), at the Swedish Institute at Athens, Mitseon 9. 

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

A tale of two sites: Technological traditions at the Pleistocene to Holocene boundary in Greece, based on evidence from Boila Rockshelter and Kephalari Cave

by Paraskevi Elefanti (Dr of Palaeolithic Archaeology).

Friday, March 29, 2024, at 19.00 (Athens), at the Swedish Institute at Athens (Mitseon 9, Acropolis Metro station). 

The lecture will be held in Greek. 

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

Stone technologies by the lake: the macrolithic assemblage from Neolithic Dispilio, Kastoria, NW Greece

by Tasos Bekiaris, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

Friday, February 23, 2024, at 19.00 (Athens), at the Swedish Institute at Athens (Mitseon 9, Acropolis Metro station). 

The lecture will be held in English. 

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

Little islands, big cultural issues. The Gavdos experience

by Katerina Kopaka, University of Crete.

Friday, December 15, 2023, at 19.00 (Athens), at the Swedish Institute at Athens (Mitseon 9, Acropolis Metro station). 

The lecture will be held in Greek. 

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

Intercommunal organization and contact networks in Eastern Macedonia during the Late Bronze Age: A cultural crossroad under investigation 

by Ioannis Soukantos, Ephorate of Antiquities of Lesvos.

Friday, November 24, 2023, at 19.00 (Athens), at the Swedish Institute at Athens (Mitseon 9, Acropolis Metro station). 

The lecture will be held in Greek. 

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

Fragments of ideology in the society of Prehistoric Thera (lecture in Greek)

by Christos G. Doumas (Director of the Akrotiri excavations), who will present the recent excavations carried out at Akrotiri, Thera.

Friday, October 27, 2023, at 19.00, at the Swedish Institute at Athens (Mitseon 9, Acropolis Metro station). 

The lecture will also be the 2023 Aegeus Annual Meeting.