Dates: May 17 - 27, 2024 

Rising sophomores from Princeton University will spend eight full days in Athens, studying contemporary Greek culture, while experiencing different aspects of life in the city. The approach will be interdisciplinary, with a focus on issues of identity formation and nation-making. Topics of study and research…

Dates: July 10-11, 2024

The impact of Greek colonization on indigenous societies across the Mediterranean and the Black Sea has been debated since at least the 19th century. Traditionally, many interpretations saw the Greek presence as a key push factor for developments taking place within local communities (e.g. emergence of urban…

Brooke Holmes, Princeton University

Dates: July 12-13, 2024

This two-day workshop considers the reception of Mediterranean, and especially Greek and Roman antiquity in modern and contemporary artists, archaeologists, and thinkers who ground their work in the material remains, local sites, and layered histories of the ancient Greco…

Date: June 13, 2024

Speaker: Jack Tannous, Princeton University

Abstract: In the late antique and medieval period, the overwhelming majority of Christians could not read or had a very basic literacy. In this talk, Jack Tannous will explore the different ways that these Christians gained religious knowledge apart from reading…

Dates: June 10-13, 2024

Led by Jennifer Rampling, Associate Professor of History, Princeton University, the group will discuss Byzantine Greek, Coptic, Syriac, Arabic, and Latin alchemical sources, and the lines of transmission between them.