Videocasts

Below you will find links to video recordings of a selection of lectures held at the Danish Institute at Athens

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2022

Acropolis Museum
Annual Meeting 2022 at the Acropolis Museum
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2019

Hatzi-Yavrouda of Kos, an exceptional storyteller Lecture in English by Birgit Olsen

A Fortunate Man 3.0 Lecture in English by Jan Aage Rasmussen

Annual Open Meeting at The Acropolis Museum 3 May Report by Kristina Winther-Jacobsen and lecture by Marie-Louise Nosch

Scandinavian values and activism in the Greek case 1967-1974 Lecture by Poul Smidt

The botanical exploration of Greece Lecture by Arne Strid

Discussion in Greek on Nicolas Calas as an art critic and curator

Presentation of The Greek Institute in Denmark by Trine Stauning Willert and lecture by Yiannis Papadakis on “Greek and Greek Cypriot Immigrants in Denmark:
Belonging, Emplacement and the Welfare State”

Rogue Democracy: Debating the end(s) of representative democracy Lecture in English by Mikkel Thorup

Pre-Columbian textiles and contemporary weaving in Peru: ancient traditions survived in living crafts Lecture in English by Lene Bjerregaard

Burial complexes of Koina in the Rhodian necropolis Lecture in English by Vaso Patsiada

2018

Papachristodoulou-Karika plot in the necropolis of Rhodes: A place of burials, assemblies and ceremonies, and disposal Lecture in English by Anastasia Dreliossi-Herakleidou and Lisa Betina

A monumental public building at the foot of the Rhodian Acropolis Lecture in Greek and English by Maria Michalaki-Kollia and Stella Skaltsa

Walking on old trails thinking about Pikionis, Acropolis, and places in Denmark – Urban transformations, public spaces, and more Lecture in English by Lars Gemzøe

Just Facade? The relationship between sculpture and architecture in the Roman East Lecture in English by Jane Fejfer

Book Launch of Communities in Transision. The Circum-Aegean Area During the 5th and 4th Millenia BC. MoDIA 20
Presented by Lasse Sørensen

A ceramic sidelight on the archaeology of Cyprus in the Roman Period: Old questions – new suggestions Lecture in English by John Lund

Translators on tightropes: Translating Greek drama into Danish Lecture in English by Marcel Lysgaard Lech

Annual Meeting 2018 Report by director Kristina Winther Jacobsen and lecture by Dr Bjørn Loven

To the Victor goes the Palm – The International Successes of Danish Cinema Lecture in English by Palle Schanz Lauridsen

2017

The international promotion of human rights by the Danish government during the Greek Junta (part 1) Workshop in English with Effie Pedaliou and Kristine Kjærsgaard and discussion moderated by Evanthis Hatzivassiliou

The international promotion of human rights by the Danish government during the Greek Junta (part 2) Workshop in English with Effie Pedaliou and Kristine Kjærsgaard and discussion moderated by Evanthis Hatzivassiliou

Public space and urban networks in the ancient world. Hellenistic and Roman Messene as a case study Lecture in English by Christopher Dickenson (presented 7 November 2017)

The Continuation of a Civic Obligation: The Athenian Trierarchy in the Late Third Century Lecture in English by Christian Ammitzbøll Thomsen (presented 31 October 2017)

Book launch: Petras-Siteia. The Pre- and Proto-Palatial cemetery in Context (presented 28 September 2017)

On urban network evolutions: The case of the Decapolis city Gerasa in Jordan Lecture in English by Rubina Raja (presented 12 September 2017)

The will of the people and the future of Europe Seminar in English with Peter Hallward and Panagiotis Sotiris (took place 11 September 2017)

Bars, coins and scrap: Seaborne connections and urbanising metals Lecture in English by Thomas Birch (presented 6 June 2017)

A new Macedonia? Redefining urban development in Hellenistic North Syria Lecture in English by Michael Blömer (presented 16 May 2017)

Annual Meeting 2017 Report in English on the activities of the Danish Institute at Athens in 2016 presented by the Director of the Institute Dr Kristina Winther-Jacobsen and lecture in English by Dr Søren Handberg with the title Lovely Kalydon (28 April 2016 at the Acropolis Museum)

Anomalocivitas: On urban evolutions Lecture in English by Søren M. Sindbæk (presented 21 March 2017)

Globalization of Greek Tragedy Lecture in English by Christian Dahl (presented 28 February 2017)

Modernity and legacies: representations of classical antiquity in Star Trek, 1966-1969 Lecture in English by Evanthis Hatzivassiliou (presented 14 February 2017)

2016

A World of Colour: Textiles and Polychromy in Ancient Art and Architecture. Lecture in English by Cecilie Brøns (presented 29 November 2016)

DNA in European Prehistory: The story so far, and the next chapter. Mini seminar with Eske Willerslev and Kristian Kristiansen (took place 15 November 2016)

Painting Marble Skin. Lecture in English by Amalie Skοvmøller (presented 11 October 2016)

Supplying the Ottoman army. The experience of a local contractor. Lecture in English by Mogens Pelt (presented 28 September 2016)

The implementation of the natural sciences in the study of ancient polychromy. Lecture in English by Peter Fink-Jensen and Luise Ørsted Brandt (presented 14 June 2016)

Focus on Fortifications. Book Launch by Dr Rune Frederiksen, Dr Silke Müth, and Dr Manolis Korres (presented 9 June 2016)

Annual Meeting 2016. Report in English on the activities of the Danish Institute at Athens in 2015 presented by the Director of the Institute Dr Kristina Winther-Jacobsen (8 April 2016 at the Acropolis Museum)

2014

Anders Lassen’s War in Greece. Lecture in English by writer, translator and journalist, M.A. Thomas Harder (presented 29 October 2014)

Annual Meeting 2014: Report on the activities of the Danish Institute at Athens in 2013. Lecture in English by the Director of the Institute Dr Rune Frederiksen (presented 4 April 2014 at the Acropolis Museum)

The Ritual Use of Textiles in Greek Sanctuaries in the 1st Millennium BC. Lecture by PhD Fellow
Cecilie Brøns, Centre for Textile Research, University of Copenhagen and the Danish National Museum (presented 8 May 2014)

2013

Mining the Hinterland. Ceramic Assemblages and Material Connections in Roman Cyprus. Lecture by associate professor Kristina Winther-Jacobsen, SAXO-Institute, University of Copenhagen (presented 6 November 2013)

In the Wake of the Vikings – The Sea Stallion Project. Lecture by Louise K. Henriksen, curator at the Viking Ship Museum (presented 5 June 2013)