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. 

Möjlighet till fältarbete i Pergamos, en arkaisk till senromersk befäst plats nära Kavalla i norra Grekland den 14 juni till 5 juli 2026. Upp till fyra platser erbjuds och projektet står för resor, boende och traktamente. Deadline för ansökan är 15 december.

För frågor kontakta patrik.klingborg@antiken.uu.se

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 

Opuscula. Annual of the Swedish Institutes at Athens and Rome 18, 2025.

ISBN 978-91-977799-7-5
Soft cover
274 pages
Published 2025
Language: English

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

Cecilie Brøns, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek (Copenhagen), will give a paper entitled

The Scent of Graeco-Roman Sculpture.

The lecture takes place on Tuesday, December 2, 2025, at 19h Athens time (18h Rome) 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 Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul welcome you to the 2025 Gustav Karlsson Lecture on Byzantine Culture and Literature.

Dr. Emir Alışık, Koç University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (ANAMED), will give a paper entitled 

Once and Future Ruins
Constantinopolitan Afterlives in the Fifteenth-Century Italian Imagination.

The lecture takes place on Friday, November 21, 2025, at 18:00 (Athens) in a hy­brid for­mat with live pres­ence at the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul, Istiklal Caddesi 247, and on­line via Zoom. 

Silvia Negro, Scuola Archeologica Italiana di Atene, will give a paper entitled

The Cult of Apollo Zoster at Halai Aixonides in the 5th and 4th Centuries BC. 

The seminar takes place on Tuesday, November 18, 2025, at 17.00 (Athens) in a hy­brid for­mat with live pres­ence at the Swedish In­sti­tute at Athens, Mitseon 9, and on­line via Zoom.