Lectures in ancient Greek religion in memory of Martin P. Nilsson

Mar­tin Pers­son Nils­son (1874–1967) was a Swedish philol­o­gist, and a scholar of the Greek and Ro­man re­li­gious sys­tems. In his pro­lific stud­ies, he com­bined the lit­er­ary ev­i­dence with the ar­chae­o­log­i­cal ev­i­dence, link­ing his­toric and pre­his­toric ev­i­dence for the evo­lu­tion of the Greek mytho­log­i­cal cy­cles. In 1909 he was ap­pointed the first Pro­fes­sor of An­cient Greek, Clas­si­cal Ar­chae­ol­ogy and An­cient His­tory at Lund Uni­ver­sity.

Nils­son is per­haps the most in­flu­en­tial Swedish clas­si­cist of all times. His best-known work in Ger­man is Geschichte der griechis­chen Re­li­gion in the Hand­buch der Al­ter­tum­swis­senschaft. He had pre­vi­ously pub­lished it un­der the ti­tle Den grekiska re­li­gio­nens his­to­ria (1922). His best-known work in Eng­lish is Mi­noan-Myce­naean re­li­gion, and its sur­vival in Greek re­li­gion.

Lec­tures in an­cient Greek re­li­gion in mem­ory of Mar­tin P. Nils­son are or­ga­nized bian­nu­ally at the Swedish In­sti­tute.

2023 Re­naud Gagné, ‘How to write a fes­ti­val? The rit­ual archive of an­cient Greek re­li­gion’

2021 Nicole Be­lay­che, ‘“On the gi­ant’s shoul­ders”: The Eleusin­ian Mys­ter­ies in the Ro­man pe­riod. Be­tween his­to­ri­og­ra­phy, lit­er­ary tra­di­tions and epig­ra­phy’

2018 An­ge­los Chan­i­o­tis, ‘The sound of an­cient re­li­gion’

2017 A cel­e­bra­tion of the work of Mar­tin P. Nils­son. A one-day in­ter­na­tional sym­po­sium: Jon Mikalson, ‘Mar­tin P. Nils­son and the Geschichte, vol. 1’; Efty­chia Stavri­anopoulou, ‘Hel­lenis­tic re­li­gion(s): Re­vis­it­ing Mar­tin P. Nilsson’s Geschichte der griechis­chen Re­li­gion II: Die hel­lenis­tis­che und römis­che Zeit’; Vin­ciane Pirenne-Delforge, ‘To be ‘pop­u­lar’ or not to be ... Nilsson’s Greek folk re­li­gion and af­ter­wards’; Matthew Haysom, ‘Nils­son in the Bronze Age: The place of pre­his­tory in the his­tory of Greek re­li­gion’

2014 Vin­ciane Pirenne-Delforge, ‘Search­ing for “pop­u­lar re­li­gion” 70 years af­ter Mar­tin P. Nilsson’

2012 Henk S. Ver­snel, ‘Im­pli­ca­tions and com­pli­ca­tions of poly­the­ism: Three Greek test cas­es’

2010 Jan N. Brem­mer, ‘The agency of stat­ues: From Homer to Late An­tiq­ui­ty’

2008 Stella Geor­goudi, ‘Blood, dirt and pu­rity. Sac­ri­fice and pu­rifi­ca­tion in the Greek world’

2006 Gun­nel Ekroth, ‘The wild, the in­no­cent and the do­mes­ti­cated. They all died in a Greek sanc­tu­ary’

2003 Pet­ros Themelis, ‘The cults on Mount Ithome at an­cient Messene’

2001 Robert Parker, ‘The prob­lem of the Greek cult epiteth’

1999 François de Poli­gnac, ‘Rit­ual con­texts and the de­f­i­n­i­tions of “pub­lic space” in early Greece’

1997 Chris­tiane Sourvi­nou-In­wood, ‘Hy­las, the Nymphs and oth­ers. Myth, rit­ual and eth­nic­i­ty’

1994 François Lis­sar­rague, ‘Im­ages and rit­u­als: Re­li­gious as­pects in At­tic vase-paint­ing’

1993 Fritz Graf, ‘Signs for the gods. Rit­ual and com­mu­ni­ca­tion in an­cient Greece’

1992 Wal­ter Burk­ert, ‘Ikono­gra­phie und Rit­ual im dion­y­sis­chen Bere­ich’

1991 Michael H. Jame­son, ‘Greek re­li­gion: The pub­lic record’

1990 Kevin Clin­ton, ‘Myth and cult: The iconog­ra­phy of the Eleusin­ian Mys­ter­ies’

Gustav Karlsson Lectures on Byzantine Culture and Literature

Gus­tav Karls­son (1909–1995) was a Swedish clas­si­cist and Byzan­ti­nol­o­gist who do­nated his li­brary to the In­sti­tute.

Held since 2009, the Gus­tav Karls­son lec­tures are or­ga­nized bian­nu­ally in or­der to en­hance the sta­tus of Byzan­ti­nol­ogy as an aca­d­e­mic topic in Swe­den.

2024, 19-Nov, Aglae Piz­zone (Uni­ver­sity of South­ern Den­mark), ‘Ques­tions of metho­dos: the re­cep­tion of Byzan­tine rhetor­i­cal the­ory in Early Mod­ern Eu­rope’

2023, 5-Dec, Siren Çelik (Mar­mara Üniver­sitesi), ‘Daily Life in Late Byzan­tine Let­ters (14th-15th Cen­turies)’

2022, 20-Dec, Stratis Pap­paioan­nou (Uni­ver­sity of Crete), ‘Read­erly Plea­sures in Byzan­tium’

2021, 11-Nov, In­gela Nils­son (Up­p­sala Uni­ver­sity) ‘A Man of Let­ters, A Man of War: John Ax­ouch at the Kom­nen­ian Court’

2019, 1-Nov, Bau­jke Van Den Berg (Cen­tral Eu­ro­pean Uni­ver­sity), ‘From An­cient Mod­els to Byzan­tine Lit­ter­a­ture: Study­ing Clas­sics in Byzan­tium’

2016, 26-Jan, Arja Kar­avieri (Stock­holms Uni­ver­sity) ‘Beauty in the works of God and in the works of men: Early Chris­t­ian Views on the Works of Art’

2013, 21-Nov, Adam Gold­wynn (Up­p­sala Uni­ver­sity), ‘Dou­ble, Dou­ble, Toil and Trou­ble: An Ecofem­i­nist Read­ing of Witches in Byzan­tine Ro­mances’

2011, 10-Nov, David West­berg (Up­p­sala Uni­ver­sity), ‘The Rhetoric of Early Pales­tin­ian Monas­ti­cism: Clas­si­cal Paideia in the Wilder­ness’

2009, 20-Nov , In­gela Nils­son (Up­p­sala Uni­ver­sity), ‘Court Cer­e­mo­nial, Lit­er­ary Let­ters: A Twelfth Cen­tury Poet and his Rhetor­i­cal Per­sona’

Human-Environment Interaction in the Peloponnese over 5000 Years: An Integrated History

Kursen bel­yser sam­spelet mel­lan män­niska, miljö och kli­mat på Pelo­pon­nesos, Grekland. His­toriska käl­lor och arke­ol­o­giskt ma­te­r­ial kom­bin­eras med miljö- och kli­ma­trekon­struk­tioner till ett tvärveten­skapligt an­greppssätt som ger en ökad förståelse av kop­plin­gen mel­lan miljöhis­torisk och kul­turhis­torisk förän­dring från stenåldern till och med den romer­ska pe­ri­o­den (6800 f.Kr.– 300 e.Kr.)...

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