Hellenic Studies Seminar Series
Institute for Hellenic Culture and the Liberal Arts
In Spring 2024, IHCLA launched an annual interdisciplinary Hellenic Studies seminar series. The series invites ACG faculty, visiting fellows, and guest speakers to present their research on a wide range of topics in Hellenic Studies spanning antiquity to the present. Areas of focus include archaeology and art history, classics, as well as Byzantine and Modern Greek studies. The seminar brings together scholars and students of Hellenic Studies in a collegial and intellectually engaging environment that fosters dialogue and collaboration.
Seminars are held once a month during Fall and Spring terms on our Aghia Paraskevi campus and can also be attended via Zoom.
For past seminars, see below:
Mr. Byzantoine: Antonis Benakis and Byzantium
Anastasia Drandaki, Associate Professor of Byzantine Art and Archaeology, University of Athens and Academic Advisor, Benaki Museum
November 7, 2025
Traveling to Ancient Platea: Interpreting a Landscape of Liberation between Hellenism and Philhellenism
Scarlett Kingsley, Visiting Associate Professor in Classics, Deree – The American College of Greece
October 8, 2025
Local and Global Perspectives on Ancient Sparta
Daphne D. Martin, Visiting Fellow, Institute for Hellenic Culture and the Liberal Arts, Deree – The American College of Greece
May 27, 2025
Attic-style relief stelai in the Black Sea region
Jane Rempel, Assistant Professor in Classics, Cambridge University
April 8, 2025
Charismatic Leadership, Populism, and the Future of Democracy in the Age of Trump
Takis S. Pappas, Independent Scholar and Author
April 1, 2025
Modern Antiquity: Beyond the Battles of the Ancients and Moderns
Georgia Giannakopoulou, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Deree – The American College of Greece
February 6, 2025
Contextualizing Pharmacological Substances from Asia in Byzantine Medical Works
Petros Bouras-Vallianatos, Associate Professor of History of Science, University of Athens
December 5, 2024
The Greek and Turkish Communities of Smyrna: Interaction or Coexistence
Feryal Tansuğ, Deree – The American College of Greece and Bahçeşehir University
October 15, 2024
Adam’s Lament and Eve’s Blame: Performing Gender in Byzantium
Kallirroe Linardou, Assistant Professor, Athens School of Fine Arts
May 29, 2024
Greece in the Metapolitefsi: Political Democratization and Economic Globalization
Kostas Kostis, Professor of Economic and Social History, University of Athens and Director of the National Bank of Greece Cultural Foundation
March 19, 2024
Odysseus through the Looking Glass: On Knowing One’s Self in Homer
Tobias Myers, Associate Professor of Classics, Deree – The American College of Greece
February 26, 2024