Elisavet Sioumpara, Hellenic Ministry of Culture, will give a paper entitled

Where was the cult of the Roman Emperor in Athens? New evidence for the Athenian Sebasteion on the Acropolis.

The seminar takes place on Tuesday, March 31, 2026, at 17.00 (Athens) in a hy­brid for­mat with live pres­ence at the Swedish In­sti­tute at Athens, Mitseon 9, and on­line via Zoom. 

The Finnish Institute at Athens, the Swedish Institute at Athens, the Corfu Studies Society-Solomos Museum, and Asini Publications invite you to the presentation of the books Aigaion, by the Finnish-Swedish author Willy Kyrklund and ‘Under the tall Venetian houses’ Finnish travellers in Corfu by Maria Martzoukou.

Speakers of the event: Dr. Björn Forsén (University of Helsinki), Maria Martzoukou (translator), Vasilis Sabatakakis (Lund University) and Dimitris Bacharas (Asini Publications). The event is in Greek.

Monday, March 30, 2026, at 6:30 p.m., at the Finnish Institute at Athens, Zitrou 16, Makrygianni.

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.

The Swedish Institute at Athens invites you to attend its Annual Meeting on Friday, March 27, 2026, at 7 p.m., at the auditorium "Dimitrios Pantermalis" of the Acropolis Museum, Dionysiou Areopagitou 15. 

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

Domestic structure and kinship relations through an archaeological approach: The case of the Strong Building and the Minoan settlement of Kato Zakros

by Maria Kyritsi (Dr of Archaeology).

Friday, March 6, 2026, at 19.00 (Athens), at the Swedish Institute at Athens (Mitseon 9, Acropolis Metro station). 

The lecture will be held in English.