Welcome to a symposium and book release in honour of Martin P. Nilsson on Tuesday, December 3, 2024, at Lund University, lecture hall LUX:C121 (LUX Building, Helgonavägen 3). 

The Swedish Institute at Athens and the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul welcome you to the 2024 Gustav Karlsson Lecture on Byzantine Culture and Literature.

Dr. Aglae Pizzone, University of Southern Denmark, will give a paper entitled 

Questions of methodos: the reception of Byzantine rhetorical theory in Early Modern Europe.

The lecture takes place on Tuesday, November 19, 2024, at 19:00 (Athens) in a hy­brid for­mat with live pres­ence at the Swedish In­sti­tute at Athens, Mit­seon 9, and on­line via Zoom. 

Hannah Smagh, Pennsylvania State University, will give a paper entitled

The Sacred Home: Rethinking Household Religion in Ancient Greece.

The seminar takes place on Wednesday, November 13, 2024, at 17.00 (Athens) only online via Zoom. 

The Swedish Institute at Athens and the Finnish Institute at Athens are very pleased to invite you to an evening presenting the poetry of and paying tribute to the Swedish-speaking Finn Edith Södergran.

Wednesday 6 November 2024, at 7 p.m. at the Swedish Institute at Athens (Mitseon 9)

Föreningen Svenska Atheninstitutets Vänner utlyser härmed ett stipendium om 10 000 kronor.

Stipendiet erbjuder studenter på grundnivå och avancerad nivå i ämne med koppling till det antika eller moderna Grekland möjlighet att besöka Grekland i syfte att förkovra sig, samt bredda eller fördjupa sina studier. Stipendiet är i första hand avsett att användas för resa till och uppehälle i Grekland under en tidsperiod om minst en vecka.

All welcome to the workshop 

To Embrace and to Reject: Cultural Memories in Roman Macedonia (ca. 1st Century BC – 3rd Century AD).

The workshop takes place on Thursday, 21 and Friday, 22 November, 2024, in a hy­brid for­mat with live pres­ence at the Swedish In­sti­tute at Athens, Mit­seon 9, and on­line via Zoom.

It is co-organized by Georgia Galani (Swedish Institute at Athens) and Panagiotis Tselekas (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki).

Welcome to the release of the children’s book about the Piraeus lion, a copy of whose statue stands in the entrance hall of the Historical Museum in Stockholm.

Listen to the author Erik Magntorn read from the book and paint together with the illustrator Martine Castoriano.

Saturday, October 26, 2024, 12.15 – 13.15

Prof. Edward M. Harris, Durham University & University of Edinburgh, will give a paper entitled

Suppliants, Law and Religion: The Traditions about Cylon’s Attempt at Tyranny.

The seminar takes place on Tuesday, October 22, 2024, at 17.00 (Athens) in a hybrid format with live presence at the Swedish Institute at Athens, Mitseon 9, and online via Zoom.