We are pleased to invite interested colleagues to an evening seminar discussing joyful learning about cultural heritage with focus on sustainability.

Warmly welcome on Monday the 20^th or Wednesday the 22^nd of May at 6 p.m.! (The same seminar will be given twice.)

The Director and the staff of the Swedish Institute at Athens wish you a...

Happy Easter

Glad Påsk

Καλό Πάσχα

Filippo Lepori, Uppsala University, will give a paper entitled

Why Does Zeus Care About Burnt Thighbones Only?
Burnt Animal Bones at Thysia Sacrifice Between the Homeric Poems and Zooarchaeological Evidence from the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age.

The seminar takes place on Tuesday, May 14, 2024, at 17.00 (Athens) 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 Retracing Connections Research Programme invite you to the second Retracing Connections online research dialogue between speaker Fotini Kondyli (Virginia/Athens) and moderator Milan Vukasinovic (Uppsala), on the topic of

Layers of Urban History: From Modern to Byzantine Athens through the Athenian Agora Excavations Archives.

The Dialogue takes place online via Zoom on Tuesday, May 7, 2024, at 18.00 (Athens).

The Swedish Institute at Athens and  Eurasia Publications, invite you to the presentation of the book by Ralph Waldo Emerson, translated by Michalis Katsimitsis,

SWEDENBORG, THE MYSTIC

on Wednesday, April 24, 2024 at 7 p.m. at the Swedish Institute at Athens (Mitseon 9). 

Riccardo di Cesare, Università degli Studi di Foggia, and Germano Sarcone, Scuola Normale Superiore, will give a paper entitled

The sanctuary of the Archaic acropolis at Hephaestia (Lemnos): new data on cult and ritual practices in their context.

The seminar takes place on Tuesday, April 23, 2024, at 17.00 (Athens) in a hybrid format with live presence at the Swedish Institute at Athens, Mitseon 9, and online via Zoom. 

The Swedish Institute at Athens in collaboration with the Embassy of Sweden at Athens, the Swedish Film Institute, The Greek Federation of Film Societies and the STUDIO new star art cinema invite you to the Swedish Contemporary Film Festival that is to be held from April 17-24, 7 p.m. at the theater STUDIO new star art cinema.

The Swedish Institute at Athens and Entefktiriou publications invite you to a poetry evening on the occasion of the presentation of the anthology of poems by Karin Boye, entitled Στον πυθμένα των πραγμάτων, (free translation: At the bottom of things). The book presentation takes place on Monday, April 15, 2024, at 7.00 p.m., at the Swedish Institute at Athens, Mitseon 9.