Events

Future programme 2026

  • To Be Announced

Previous events

  • 8 November 2018
    Dr. Michael Boyd (Cambridge), Dhaskalio, from Ritual Centre to Centre of Power

    12 March 2019
    Robin Barber, ‘The Cyclades in Greek art’

  • 17 October 2017
    DOUGLAS FORSYTH (St Andrews), Cycladic Vineculture and Wine-making in Ancient and Modern Times: A wine-tasting event.

    16 November 2017
    DR SCOTT TIMPANY (Archaeology program leader, UHI), Woodlands under the Waves: Investigating submerged forests in the Northern and Western Isles of Scotland. – Jointly with the Archaeological Society

    6 February 2018
    DR ABIGAIL GRAHAM (University of Warwick), Reinscribing History: Does the condemnation of monument remove a memory or immortalise a failure?                                                      Kindly supported by the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies.

    27 February 2018
     DR DAWN HOLLIS (St Andrews), ‘The plain and truest proof of its own nature’: The Perception and Reception of Mount Etna from Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century.
    Co-organised with the Archaeological Society of St Andrews

    6 March 2018
     PROF IOANNIS XYDOPOULOS (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), The Macedonian expansion in the 7th and 6th centuries BC.

  • 27 September 2016
    Opening Party

    8 November 2016
    Public lecture by Chris White ‘Abducting a General – Patrick Leigh Fermor and the Second World War’ (jointly with the Archaeology Society)
    http://www.abductingageneral.info/

    24 January 2017
    Public lecture by Roderick Beaton ‘Why did the Greek Revolution break out in 1821?’ (sponsored by the SPHS)
    http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/classics/people/academic/beaton/index.aspx

    7 February 2017
    Public lecture by Elizabeth Fowden ‘King Solomon, Perikles and the Parthenon Mosque’ (sponsored by the School of Classics)
    http://www.ames.cam.ac.uk/directory/fowdenkeyelizabeth

    21 February 2017
    Public lecture by Alex Long ‘Immortality in early Greek poetry and philosophy’
    http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/classics/staff/agl10/

    28 March 2017
    Film showing Uranya (2006), followed by live Q&A with the director Costas Kapakas – N.B. Venue: School II, United College (St Salvators)
    http://www.clproductions.gr/directors/kapakas

  • 13 October 2015
    Opening party – starting at 5.30pm

    27 October 2015
    Lecture: “The Animal World of the Caeretan Hydriai”
    Dr Sian Lewis (University of St Andrews)

    24 November 2015
    Lecture: “The Past as Memory, the Present as Aesthetics, the Future as Ethics: C.P.Cavafy in Queer Time”
    Dr Dimitris Papanikolaou (University of Oxford)

    23 February 2016
    Lecture: “Oresteia in 2015″
    Dr Rosie Wyles (University of Kent)
    Co-sponsored by the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies

    1 March 2016
    Lecture: “The Scottish-Hellenic Connection: The Third Marquess of Bute (1847-1900)”
    Dr Ruth Macrides (University of Birmingham)
    Joint lecture with the Archaeology Society

    29 March 2016
    Lecture: “Greek Wines: Ancient and Modern”
    Mr Mark Savage M.W.

    19 April 2016
    Lecture: “The Spectre of Comparisons: The Greek Crisis, Antiquity and the Politics of the Past”Prof. Dimitris Tziovas (University of Birmingham)

  • 30 September 2014
    Opening Party: Greek food and music, memberships, and all round fun!

    14 October 2014
    ‘Skeletal variation in modern Greeks: Applications in forensic casework’
    Dr Elena Kranioti, Edinburgh Unit for Forensic Anthropology, School of History, Classics and Archaeology, Edinburgh

    3 December 2014
    Film screening: All Cats Are Brilliant
    Followed by discussion with the director Constantina Voulgaris

    10 February 2015
     ‘From Basileus to Padishah: Alexander in the Ottoman Empire’
    Dr Dimitri Kastritsis, School of History, St Andrews

    24 February 2015
     ‘Plato’s Women Readers’
    Dr Crystal Addey, School of Classics, St Andrews

    21 April 2015
     ‘Stuff and “Nonsense”: Women’s Things and the Reconfiguration of Deliberation in Aristophanes’
    Dr Jon Hesk, School of Classics, St Andrews

    30 April 2015
     ‘The Pavlopetri Underwater Archaeology Project: new research at the oldest submerged town in the world’
    Dr Jon Henderson, Department of Archaeology, Nottingham [joint lecture with the Archaeology Society]

  • 1 October 2013
    Welcome party and registration

    8 October 2013
     ‘Sacred Architecture in Medieval Thessaly’
    Prof. Yannis Varalis, Thessaly

    22 October 2013
     ‘Monuments and Maidens: The Allegory of Greek Form’
    Dr Vassiliki Kolocotroni, Glasgow

    29 October 2013
    Greek dance seminar

    12 November 2013
    Greek film night
    A Touch of Spice / ΠΟΛΙΤΙΚΗ Κουζίνα (2003)

    26 November 2013
    ‘Fifty Years after the 1963 Nobel Prize: George Seferis, Music and Greekness’
    Dr Polina Tambakaki, KCL

    3 December 2013
    ‘The Sweetness of Tears in Greek and Scottish Music’
    Prof. Margaret Alexiou, Harvard / Edinburgh
    Sponsored by the School of Classics
    Followed by Christmas celebration with traditional sweets

    13 February 2014
    ‘The Social Dynamics of Dedication: The Delian Inventories of the Third Century’
    Dr Christy Costantakopoulou, Birkbeck [SPHS-sponsored]

    29 March 2014
    ‘A Greek Day in Edinburgh’
    Organised by Dr Robin Barber, and supported by all Scottish-Hellenic Societies

    13 April 2014
    Greek dance seminar 2

    1 May 2014
    ‘The Fate of Towns and Cities in Early and Middle Byzantine Greece’
    Dr Archie Dunn, Birmingham [Joint Lecture with the Archaeology Society]

  • 2 May 2013
    Knossos and Crete in the Roman Empire
    Dr Rebecca Sweetman (St Andrews)

    27 November 2012
    Grecanici: Greek Diaspora or Autochthonous populations?
    Dr. Stavroula Pipyrou (St Andrews)

  • 11 October 2011
     Opening Party & Membership registration
    5:30-7:00 in the Classics Library

    1 November 2011
     The Making of “Body Bags”
    Prof. Robert Crawford (St. Andrews)

    29 November 2011
     Emotions in Early Plato
    Prof. Robert Zaborowski (University of Warmia and Mazury) *Co-Sponsored by St Andrews Classics Department

    8 December 2011
    Knossos & Crete in the Roman Empire
    Dr. Rebecca Sweetman (St. Andrews) **Joint talk with Archaeology Society, School 1, 8:00 pm

    17 April 2012
     C.P. Cavafy and the Not-So-Naughty Nineties
    Prof. David Ricks (Kings College London)

    8 May 2012
     The Role of Greek Linguistic and Cultural Analysis in Queer Readings of the Bible
    Dr. Keith Sharpe

  • 5 October 2010
     Opening Party & Membership registration

    16 November 2010
     An Empire of Pleasure? Concubinage and the Royal Harem in Ancient Persia
    Dr. Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones (Edinburgh)

    7 December 2010
     Warfare in the Byzantine World
    Dr. Frank Trombley (Cardiff)

    22 February 2011
     Heroic Manoeuvres in the Dark: Vision and Perception in Iliad 10.
    Dr. Jon Hesk (St. Andrews)

    15 March 2011
     Sir James Frazer, Greece and Pausanias
    Prof. Robert Fraser (Open University)

    12 April 2011
     The new Prometheus: why Byron went to fight in the Greek Revolution
    Prof. Roderick Beaton (King’s College) *SPHS speaker for 2011

    10 May 2011
     The Crying Game: Tears in Greek and Roman Oratory
    Prof. Jon Hall (University of Otago) **Co-Sponsored by St Andrews Classics Department

  • 20 October 2009
     Opening Party & Membership registration

    3 November 2009
     ‘To the Island’. Writer Meaghan Delahunt will read from her work and discuss the importance of Greece to her creative life
    Meaghan Delahunt (University of St Andrews)

    1 December 2009
    God’s Chronicle and Man’s Story: Christian and Secular Narrative in Byzantium
    Emmanuel C. Bourbouhakis (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg)

    9 February 2010
     New Year’s Party

    6 March 2010
     Vestigia Dei: Divine Feet, Footprints and Footwear as signs of divine visitation
    Georgia Petridou (University of St Andrews)

    23 March 2010
     The Role of Byzantium in the Ottoman World
    Dimitris Kastritsis (University of St Andrews)

  • 9 October 2007
     Opening Party & Membership registration

    16th October 2007
    Who needed Pausanias’ Periegesis? The significance of a description of Greece in the second century AD.
    Dr. Maria Pretzler (Swansea University)

    30 October 2007
     Greek Dancing

    20 November 2007
     The Constantinople Water Supply
    Professor Jim Crow (University of Edinburgh)

    11 December 2007
    Greek Movie

    19 February 2008
    Demosthenes and Athnian Politics
    Dr. Polly Low (University of Manchester)

    11 March 2008
    Greek Movie

    25 March 2008
    Greek Dancing

    15 April 2008
    Eastern Approaches: Byzantium and Armenia 600-1045.
    Dr. Tim Greenwood

  • 10 October 2006
     Opening Party & Registration

    17 October 2006
     Late Antique and Byzantine Constantinople in the light of recent archaeological work
    Professor Paul Magdalino (University of St Andrews)

    21 November 2006
     Crossing National Borders: Greek Literature today
    Professor Dimitris Tziovas (University of Birmingham)

    28 November 2006
     Greek Movie

    12 December 2006
     Between the cultural landscape and the excavation trench: site-wide geophysical usrveys in Greece
    Dr. Michael Boyd (University of Sheffield)

    20 February 2007
     True Portraiture? Reconstructing Ancient Faces
    Dr. John Prag (University of Manchester)

    27 February 2007
     Greek Movie/Dancing

    13 March 2007
     The psychology of victimhood in classical Athenian judicial curses
    Dr. Ralph Anderson (University of St Andrews)

    10 April 2007
     Greek Dancing

    17 April 2007
     Private History: Documenting War in Film (movie & discussion)
    Professor Dina Iordanova (University of St Andrews)

  • 4 October 2005
     Opening Party & Registration

    18 October 2005
     Greek Athletics in the Roman Empire
    Dr. Jason König (University of St Andrews

    25 October 2005
     Greek Dancing

    15 November 2005
     The Villa Dionysos at Knossos
    Sara Paton (British School at Athens)

    29 November 2005
     Greek Movie

    6 December 2005
     The Ancient Churches of Syria
    Professor Hugh Kennedy (University of St Andrews)

    13 December 2005
     Greek Dancing

    21 February 2006
     The Temple of Apollo at Delphi: Fourth-Century Developments and Meanings?
    Dr. Judith Barringer (University of Edinburgh)

    28 February 2006
     Greek Movie

    14 March 2006
     Living in the mountains: ancient Arkadia
    Professor James Roy (University of Nottingham)

    11 April 2006
     Byzantine Travellers
    Dr. Ruth Macrides (Birmingham University)

    18 April 2006
     Greek Movie

  • 5 October 2004
     Opening Party & Registration

    12 October 2004
     Happy Families: Athenian vase-painting and social history
    Dr. Sian Lewis (University of St Andrews)

    26 October 2004
     Greek Dancing

    23 November 2004
     The undesirability of the desirable: antiquities collections
    Dr. Neil Brodie (University of Cambridge)

    30 November 2004
     Superficial Spartans: Intensive Survey in Lconia, Greece
    Professor Chris Mee (University of Liverpool)

    14 December 2004
     Greek Dancing

    15 February 2005
     Between two worlds: Greek Painting in the 19 & 20 centuries [AD]
    Dr. Robin Barber (History of Art, University of Edinburgh)

    8 March 2005
     A continent as big as China: Hellenism in the life and work of George Seferis
    Professor Roddy Beaton (Kings College London)

    19 April 2005
     Drinking in Ancient Greece
    Clare Kelly (University of Leicester)

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