In 2023, the Swedish Institute at Athens celebrated it’s 75th anniversary. Thanks to a generous grant from the Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation, the Institute was able to announce four research grants to celebrate this: two grants to Swedish researchers and two to Greek colleagues, to also celebrate 75 years of excellent cooperation between our countries. The four researchers will present the work made possible by the grants on Thursday, December 5, 2024, at 17:00-19:45, at the Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities in Stockholm. It will be an exciting journey that takes us from metalwork in prehistoric times to the architecture of the modern excavation site, via the sanctuary of the goddess Hera on Samos and the sharp sickle of the god Kronos.  

Welcome to the Autumn 2024 series of the Athens Greek Religion Seminar.

All seminars will take place at 17h (Athens) in a hybrid format with live presence at the Swedish Institute at Athens and online via Zoom.

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.

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)

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