We are happy to share with you the online registration of the 15th session of our TEXNH-series, which took place on May 28. After a short introduction by NIA-director Prof. Ann Brysbaert, Dr. Natacha Massar (Curator of Greek Antiquities, Royal Museums of Art and History, Brussels) “Craftspeople and War in Ancient Economies“. The series is […]
It is our pleasure to share the video registration of the hybrid lecture, delivered by Prof. em. Mark Janse (Affiliated Researcher at the Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages & Linguistics, University of Cambridge), which took place on Wednesday 23 April: “Axenitika and Misiotika. Two Cappadocian dialects still spoken in Greece” In his lecture, Prof. […]
The study of death in social anthropology as well as in archaeology has been a foundational topic from the beginning of these disciplines. Indeed, death rituals, the treatment of the dead, tombs and the materiality surrounding all different phases are necessary in understanding human social life. An important aspect of death are perceptions of humans […]
We were deeply saddened to learn of the recent passing of Dr. Ben Slot, former National Archivist and a leading authority on the Eastern archives housed in the National Archives of The Hague. His work encompassed vital historical sources, including those related to the Dutch East India Company (VOC) and the Levant trade, as well […]
Τhe 2nd annual lecture of the series ‘Byzantine Talks NIA’ is now available on the YouTube-channel of our Institute. NIA Librarian, Ms. Sotiria Nikolou opened the event with a brief welcome. In her short introduction, Ms. Nikolou referred -among other things- to the goal of the establishment of this series, which has as a main […]
We are happy to host and support the conference “Philosophy of Technology. A Chinese-Continental Perspective” that is organized by the Department of Philosophy of the University of Patras and will take place on 14 September at the NIA. Yuk Hui, Fabian Heubel, Kejun Xia and Susanna Lindberg will be discussing about Cosmotechnics, Planetary Technonature, Logos […]
We are pleased to announce the programme for the upcoming symposium ‘Records and Religious Knowledge in ancient Greece’, to be held at the Netherlands Institute in Athens on 11th of April 2024. The symposium aims to explore how epigraphic documents organised, displayed and disseminated religious knowledge in the ancient Greek world. In the famously oral […]
The Netherlands Institute at Athens is happy to share the recording of its Annual Open Meeting, which took place on Wednesday, October 11, 2023 at 7 p.m. at the premises of the Netherlands Institute at Athens. After the annual report by NIA-Director Prof. Dr. Ann Brysbaert “The Activities of the Netherlands Institute at Athens 2022” […]
It is with great pleasure that we share the announcement of the conference “HYDOR: Water Resources and Management in the Aegean Bronze Age”, the XXth international Aegean Conference, which will take place from 11-16 June at the University of Amsterdam in The Netherlands. Water is arguably the most important substance of human life. However, in […]