Jill Hillditch (UvA) From ritual centre to maritime sanctuary: the case of Keros in the Aegean Early Bronze Age Wednesday, December 11, 17.15-19.00 Location: Drift 25 – 005 The Cycladic island of Keros and the adjacent islet of Dhaskalio have been the subject of numerous archaeological investigations since the 1960s, in an attempt to understand…

Tuesday, November 26, 17.15-19.00 Location: Drift 25 – 005             This talk will focus on the question of using digital approaches to map out human experiences over time. ‘Deep-mapping the Asklepieion of Pergamon’ is a project that centers on the wide variety of spatial narratives at a sanctuary by mapping…

Jean Vanden Broeck-Parant is a former postdoctoral researcher at Utrecht University and currently teaching at Louvain-la-Neuve. He will speak online in our seminar about his recent research on the building blocks of Greek sanctuaries and the logistics of quarrying, transportation and architectural use, including his own fieldwork and research at the stone quarries of Naxos…

Conference, 23–26 June 2022 Conference Center Soeterbeeck, Ravenstein, The Netherlands For the history of Greece, one of the main ‘anchor’ dates is 480 BCE. In that year, the Persian armies led by king Xerxes occupied large parts of Greece. For the history of Greece, both before and after the Persian wars, the watershed of 480…

Tuesday, April 13 16.00 Josine Blok The explosive growth of studies of citizenship in ancient Greece of the past twenty, thirty years has given us a wealth of new evidence and exciting viewpoints. But the results are also quite bewildering – the variety of civic practices in ancient Greece and of the academic approaches to…

Sacrality and The Greek Polis invites you to join an online guest lecture hosted by Utrecht University on January 27th 16:00-17:30 CET. Utrecht has asked Dr. Jessica Paga (College of William & Mary) to speak about her newest book release titled, Building Democracy in Late Archaic Athens. Jessica’s lecture will discuss monumental structures and their…