Netherlands Institute at Athens

The Netherlands Institute at Athens (NIA) is one of the twenty foreign 'archaeological schools' operating in Athens. Under the aegis of the Institute, scholars and students from the Netherlands conduct archaeological research in Greece. The NIA functions as an interuniversity, academic institute, that coordinates, stimulates and facilitates educational and research programs in cooperation with universities and research centres in the Netherlands and Greece. It also has a broad and high quality academic network in both countries.

The NIA is one of the Dutch Scientific Institutes Abroad (NWIB).

11/04/2022 -

16 April: “Graphic Wanderings: Finding Stories in Urban Space”, walkshop by UvA PhD researcher Tânia A. Cardoso during Athens Comicdom Festival 2022 (with the support of the NIA)

Athens Comics Library in collaboration with the Netherlands Institute at Athens and Comicdom Con Athens is inviting you to a very unique “walkshop” that aims to develop creative approaches to urban space. Gain the confidence to explore and draw on the streets, create your story and share your artwork with others. Learn to explore your […]

Photograph with the courtesy of the artist, Artemis Alcalay

28/03/2022 -

Registration opened for online International Workshop “Jewish Responses to Persecution and Rescue Efforts During the Holocaust” (10-11 May)

On 10-11 May 2022, the Netherlands Institute at Athens, the Research Institute for Culture, Cognition, History and Heritage of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and the Workshop on the Study of the Jews of Greece will hold a two-day international workshop on “Jewish Responses to Persecution and Rescue Efforts During the Holocaust”. Our aim is to […]

15/03/2022 -

Now available: Pharos XXIV (2018-2020). Current and all previous volumes (as of 2010) freely available through Open-Access!

A couple of weeks ago, the latest issue of our Pharos magazine arrived at the NIA. In Volume XXIV (2018-2020) of our Journal of the Netherlands Institute at Athens, extensive attention is paid to the following topics: Crusaders and Byzantines in Central Greece. The archaeology and topography of a Late Medieval frontier (Dionyisios Kalantzis-Papadopoulos) The Mycenaean […]

11/02/2022 -

Ann Brysbaert is the new director of the Netherlands Institute at Athens

The NIA is happy to announce that Prof. dr. Ann Brysbaert has been appointed as Director of the Netherlands Institute at Athens by the Executive Board of the University of Amsterdam. From 1 March 2022 onwards, she succeeds dr. Winfred van de Put who returns back to the Netherlands after having served 7.5 years as […]

Call for Paper 5th Annual Meeting of the Necropoleis Research Network (NRN), 12-13 October 2022.

The NIA is happy to share the Call for Papers for the 5th Annual Meeting of the Necropoleis Research Network (NRN), which it co-organizes and that will take place in Athens, at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens on Wednesday 12th and Thursday 13th of October 2022. The Necropoleis Research Network brings together people […]