The Greek Movie Days is a yearly event organized by the Swedish institute at Athens, the Greek Film Centre as well as the Greek House of Culture and the Greek School in Stockholm. The event is organized under the auspices of the Greek Embassy in Stockholm with the object of highlighting new and exciting Greek films.

As a result of the current pandemic, this year’s event will take place on the web at drakenfilm.se, the leading streaming service for quality film in Sweden. The films will premiere on the 22d, 29^th of November and on the 6^th of December.

Τhe Swedish Institute at Athens and Metaixmio Editions invite you to the on-line discussion: 

Modern history and crime fiction

Thursday, November 26, at 5.30 pm, at Thessaloniki International digital Book Fair.

The discussion will be in the company of the writer Grigoris Azariadis and the books’ translator Grigoris Kondilis.

The Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum (CVA) is a series quality catalogues of mostly ancient Greek painted pottery in collections around the world. The series started in 1922 and since then almost 400 have appeared.

CVA Sweden volume 5 have now appeared. It can be ordered on https://vitterhetsakad.bokorder.se/sv-SE/article/3966/corpus-vasorum-antiquorum-5, price 233 Swedish crowns.

Several of the previous are in print and can be ordered on http://www.vitterhetsakad.se/publikationer/serier/Corpus_Vasorum_Antiquorum

Opuscula. Annual of the Swedish Institutes at Athens and Rome is published annually by the Swedish Institutes at Athens and Rome. First issued in 2008 (no. 1), Opuscula replaces the annuals Opuscula Atheniensia and Opuscula Romana published by the Swedish Institute at Athens and the Swedish Institute in Rome respectively.

Praktik på Svenska institutet i Athen

Svenska institutet i Athen utlyser möjlighet till praktik under 3-6 veckor, VT 2021. 

Behörig att söka praktikplatserna är den som är student (eller nyligen har avlagt examen) i Antikens kultur och samhällsliv eller annat ämne relevant för institutets verksamhet.

Ansökan senast den 1 december.

The Swedish Institute welcome Dr Jens Mangerud as the new Head Librarian of the Nordic Library at Athens.

Jens holds his doctorate from the University of Oslo in the field of Ancient Greek Papyrology and has worked as a Senior Academic Librarian at the University of Oslo Library where he was the Subject Specialist for Ancient Greek and Latin. He has also managed and been involved in the digitalization of the University Library’s papyrus collection. 

Invitation to the workshop

NEW CURRENTS IN ANCIENT WATER STUDIES

November 10, 2020

The digital workshop New Currents in Ancient Water Studies is arranged in cooperation between the Swedish Institute at Athens and the Frontinus Gesellschaft. The event aims to present ongoing projects studying the water supply in the ancient world from the Levant and North Africa to the northern provinces of the Empire and Rome itself.

Join us live, on Saturday 26 September 2020 from 15.00 to 21.00, on a unique online journey from one European country to another via an interactive map and discover the fascinating world of languages through an exciting digital scavenger hunt.