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 […]
Enige dagen geleden bereikte ons het droevige nieuws van het overlijden van Ben Slot, voormalig Rijksarchivaris en groot kenner van de Oosterse archieven van het Nationaal Archief in Den Haag. Daartoe behoorden de bronnen voor de geschiedenis van de VOC en de Levantse handel, belangrijk materiaal met betrekking tot de Griekse geschiedenis en de Grieks-Nederlandse […]
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 […]
Royal Museums of Art and History, inv. R.308: cup, c. 490-480 BC, attributed to the Foundry Painter.
The Netherlands Institute at Athens, in collaboration with the Royal Museums of Art and History Brussels, The National Archaeological Museum Athens, The Archaeological Research Unit of the University of Cyprus, The École française d’Athènes and The University College Roosevelt (NL) are very pleased to announce a lecture by Dr. Natacha Massar (Curator of Greek Antiquities, […]
Foto: Sergio Remon Alvarez
De nieuwe aanvraagronde voor NIA-beurzen is geopend! De deadline voor deze ronde verstrijkt op 15 september 2025 om 23.59 Griekse tijd (22.59 Nederlandse tijd). Alle noodzakelijke informatie met betrekking tot de voorwaarden en de procedure is hier te vinden. Houd er rekening mee dat de NIA-gastenverblijven vanwege onderhoudswerkzaamheden van 1 september tot en met zondag […]
Het NWIB Visiting Professors Programma biedt UD’s, UHD’s en hoogleraren van aangesloten universiteiten een unieke kans om ongestoord te kunnen werken in een inspirerende en stimulerende omgeving. Via dit programma kun je drie maanden naar één van de vijf Nederlandse Wetenschappelijke Instituten in het Buitenland (NWIB) om daar onderzoek te doen, lezingen te geven en […]
The Netherlands Institute at Athens, in collaboration with the Royal Museums of Art and History Brussels, The National Archaeological Museum Athens, The Archaeological Research Unit of the University of Cyprus, The École française d’Athènes and The University College Roosevelt (NL) are very pleased to announce a lecture by Dr. Carlotta Gardner, Fitch 2024 Research and […]
(Picture: Votives from the Athena Lindia Sanctuary in Rhodes at the National Museum of Denmark. Photo: John Lee) We are happy to share this open Call for Papers for a Conference that the NIA organizes in cooperation with our colleagues from the Danish Institute at Athens and the Finnish Institute at Athens and which […]
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 […]